Personal Information

Yuan-Ming Zhang, Doctor,Professor of Nanjing Agricultural University.


Research

Statistical methodologies for mining novel genes in crop germplasm resource, i.e., epistatic association mapping in crop cultivars, and mixed linear model approach

Statistical methodologies for mapping epistatic QTL responsible for complex traits in

segregating population from the cross of two inbred lines

Statistical methodologies for mixed major-genes plus polygenes inheritance analysis of joint multiple generations

Molecular evolution of genes and gene family

Inheritance of complex traits in soybean


Academic Qualifications

  1. 2003.01-2005.01 Postdoc University of California, Riverside
  2. 2000.03-2001.12 Ph.D. Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU)
  3. 1989.09-1992.07 M.Sc. Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU)
  4. 1982.09-1986.07 B.Sc. Southwest Agricultural University


Experience

Ph D supervisor Professor 2004.1~Present Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU)Statistical Genomics


Books Published

  1. He X-H, Zhang Y-M*. 2008. Mapping epistatic quantitative trait loci underlying endosperm traitsusing all markers on the entire genome in random hybridization design. Heredity 101: 39-47
  2. Zhang Y-M*, Lu H-Y, Yao L-L. 2008. Multiple quantitative trait loci Haseman-Elston regression
  3. using all markers on the entire genome. Theor Appl Genet 117: 683-690
  4. Zhu C, Zhang Y-M*, Guo Z. 2008. Mapping quantitative trait loci for binary trait in the F2:3 design.Journal of Genetics 87(3): 201-207
  5. Qin H, Guo W, Zhang Y-M, Zhang TZ*. QTL Mapping of yield and fiber traits based on a four-way cross population in Gossypium hirsutum L. Theor Appl Genet 117: 883-894
  6. Lu H-Y, Li M, Yao L-L, Li G-J, Lin F, Zhang Y-M*. Multi-loci in silico mapping in inbred lines. Heredity 103: 346-354
  7. Dou BD*, Hou BW, Wang F, Yang JB, Ni ZF, Sun QX, Zhang Y-M*. 2010. Further mapping of quantitative trait loci for female sterility in wheat. Genetics Research 92(1): 63-70
  8. Liu G, Li M, Wen J, Du Y, Zhang Y-M*. 2010. Functional mapping of quantitative trait lociassociated with rice tillering. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 284: 263-271
  9. Li G-J, LI H-N, Cheng L-G, Zhang Y-M*. 2010. QTL Analysis for Dynamic Expression of Chlorophyll Content in Soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) Acta Agronomica Sinica 36(2): 242-248
  10. Zhang Y-M*. 2010. F2 designs for QTL analysis. In: Scott Rifkin (ed.). Methods in Molecular Biology QTL book. In press (Invited review)
  11. He X-H, Qin H, Hu Z, Zhang T, Zhang Y-M*. 2011. Mapping of epistatic quantitative trait loci in four-way crosses. Theor Appl Genet 122: 33-48
  12. Xu Y, Li H-N, Li G, Wang X, Cheng L, Zhang Y-M*. 2011. Mapping quantitative trait loci for seed size traits in soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.). Theor Appl Genet, 122: 581-594
  13. Lu H-Y, Liu X-F, Wei S-P, Zhang Y-M*. 2011. Epistatic association mapping in homozygous crop cultivars. PLoS ONE 6(3): e17773
  14. Li C, Zhang Y-M*. 2011. Molecular evolution of glycinin and 兝-conglycinin gene families in soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.). Heredity 106: 633-641
  15. Zhu X, Ai N, Zhang Y, Guo W, Zhang T-Z*. 2011. Relationships between differential gene expression and heterosis in cotton hybrids developed from the foundation parent CRI-12 and its pedigree-derived lines. Plant Science 180: 221-227
  16. Kuang F-L, Wang X, Zhou L, Zhang Y-M*. 2011. Linkage graph analysis: A linkage-group-based QTL synthesis analysis approach. China Sci Bull 56: 1092-1099
  17. Liu R, Wang B, Guo W, Qin Y, Wang L, Zhang Y, Zhang T*. 2011. Quantitative trait loci mapping for yield and its components by using two immortalized populations of a heterotic hybrid in Gossypium hirsutum L. Mol Breeding, online, DOI 10.1007/s11032-011-9547-0
  18. Li C, Li Q-G, Dunwell JM, Zhang Y-M*. 2011. Divergent evolutionary pattern of starch synthesis pathway genes in dicots and monocots. (Submitted)
  19. Li C, Zhang Y-M*. 2011. Gene duplication and accelerated evolutionary rate contribute to the higher ability of protein synthesis in dicots. (Submitted)
  20. He X-H, Zhang Y-M*. 2011. A complete solution for dissecting pure main and epistatic effects of QTL in triple testcross design. PLoS ONE, minor revision
  21. Zhang J, Yue C, Zhang Y-M*. 2011. Bias correction for the estimated QTL effects using the penalized maximum likelihood method. In revision


Funding

  1. 1973 Program (2006-2010; 2006CB101708, \200,000); (2011-2015; 2011CB109300, 850,000)
  2. The National Natural Science Foundation of China (30470998, 180,000; 30671333, 280,000;
  3. 30971848, 340,000; co-PI: 30900842, \80,000; 31000666, 50,000)
  4. Program for new century excellent talents in university in 2005 (2006-2008, NCET-05-0489,500,000)
  5. The Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (2007-2009,20060307008, 60,000; 2011-2013: 20100097110035, 80,000)
  6. Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK2005087, 80,000; BK2008335, 100,000)
  7. the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2010-2012: KYT201002, 500,000)
  8. State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement (2010-2012: 500,000)