Chief Scientist: Professor Tiegang LU

Researchers:

Professor: Tiegang LU, Hao LIN, Lifang NIU, Xiaofeng GU, Xiao HAN, Jinxia WU

Associate Professor :Zhiguo ZHANG, Xuehui SUN, Qian ZHANG

Assistant Professor : Yingying MENG

Research Goals:

1) To clone abiotic stress tolerant genes and produce abiotic stress tolerant rice plants by molecular breeding;

2) To uncover molecular mechanisms of Kranz structure formation and bundle sheath cell patterning in C4 maize and foxtail millet by comparison with C3 rice; to clone and analysis bundle sheath cell-specific promoters; to produce photosynthesis efficient and abiotic stress tolerant rice by specific gene regulation in bundle sheath cells.