Dr. Yuanling Chen

College of Life Sciences,

South China Agricultural University (SCAU)

Wushan, Tianhe, Guangzhou, China 510642

Tel: +86-20-38297231 (O)

E-mail: pcb2000@scau.edu.cn

Education

• Ph.D. (Crop Genetics and Breeding)

SCAU, 2004

• M.Agr. (Crop Genetics and Breeding)

SCAU, 1992

• B.Agr. (Crop Genetics and Breeding)

SCAU, 1989

Professional Biography

Dr. Yuanling Chen has been a faculty member in SCAU since 1992, and been offered an associate professor position since 2007. In 2005, through April to August, she joined as a senior research assistant in Prof. Clive Lo’s group in the University of Hong Kong. Later in 2016, she worked in Clemson University in the USA as a visiting scholar for one year, collaborated with Prof. Julia Frugoli. Dr. Chen focuses on genetic and molecular mechanism underlying plant development especially rice architecture patterning and floral development. She offers a Genetics course to undergraduates in every fall semester.

Area of Expertise

Plant architecture patterning; floral development; mutant creation; plant genetic transformation

Selected Publications

1. Deng W, Li R, Xu Y, Mao R, Chen S, Chen L, Chen L, Liu YG*, Chen Y*. 2020. A lipid transfer protein variant with a mutant eight-cysteine motif causes photoperiod- and thermo-sensitive dwarfism in rice. J Exp Bot. 71(4):1294-1305.

2. Li G, Liu YG*, Chen Y*. 2019. Genome-editing technologies: the gap between application and policy. Sci China-Life Sci. 62(11):1534-1538.

3.Lou S, Chen S, Zhao X, Chen L, Zhang J, Fu H, Liu YG*, Chen Y*. 2017. The far-upstream regulatory region of RFL is required for its precise spatial-temporal expression for floral development in rice. Plant Mol Biol. 93(1-2):185-195.

4.  Ma X, Zhu Q, Chen Y, Liu Y-G*. 2016. CRISPR/Cas9 Platforms for genome editing in plants: developments and applications. Mol Plant. 9(7):961-974.

5.  Ma X, Chen L, Zhu Q, Chen Y, Liu Y-G*. 2015. Rapid decoding of sequence-specific nuclease-induced heterozygous and biallelic mutations by direct sequencing of PCR products. Mol Plant. 8(8):1285-1287.

6.Li R, Xia J, Xu Y, Zhao X, Liu Y G*, Chen Y*. 2014. Characterization and genetic mapping of a photoperiod sensitive dwarf 1 locus in rice (Oryza sativa L.) Theor Appl Genet. 127(1):241-250.

7.Chen YL, Liang HL, Ma XL, Lou SL, Xie YY, Liu ZL, Chen L, Liu Y-G*. 2013. An efficient rice mutagenesis system based on suspension-cultured cells. J Integr Plant Biol. 55:122-130.

8.  Long Y, Zhao L, Niu B, Su J, Wu H, Chen Y, Zhang Q, Guo J, Zhuang C, Mei M, Xia J, Wang L, Wu H, Liu Y-G*. 2008. Hybrid male sterility in rice controlled by interaction between divergent alleles of two adjacent genes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 105(48):18871-18876.

9.  Liu Y-G* and Chen Y. 2007. High-efficiency thermal asymmetric interlaced PCR for amplification of unknown flanking sequences. BioTechniques. 43(5): 649-656.

10.Chen Y-L, Zhang Q-Y, Jian Y-Y, Yang Y-S, Liu K-D, Liu Y-G*. 2006. A rice panicle mutant created by transformation with an antisense cDNA library. J Integr Plant Biol. 48(11): 1300-1305.