Areas of Focus
- Plant Nutritional Physiology and Molecular Biology
- Iron Nutrition and Metabolism in Plants
- Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants
Work Experience
- 2008 - Present: Professor at Zhejiang University
- 2012-2013 - Visiting Researcher at Purdue University, USA
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2003 - BSc in Applied Chemistry from Zhejiang University
- 2008 - PhD in Plant Nutrition from Zhejiang University, Supervisor: Professor Shaojian Zheng
- Recipient of Zhejiang Outstanding Youth Fund
- Recipient of National Excellent Youth Fund
Publications
- Excessive iron deposition in root apoplast is involved in growth arrest of roots in response to proton stress, XZ Fang, XL Xu, ZQ Ye, D Liu, KL Zhao, DM Li, XX Liu, CW Jin
- Beyond iron-storage pool: functions of plant apoplastic iron during stress, XX Liu, XF Zhu, SJ Zheng, CW Jin
Awards
- Zhejiang University Outstanding Graduate (2008)
- National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Nomination (2010)