Lijuan Jiang: The Plant Cell First Author

Lijuan Jiang, co-first author of “Methylation of a MITE insertion in the MdRFNR1-1 promoter is positively associated with its allelic expression in apple in response to drought stress”

Current Position: Post-doctoral in Yangzhou University

Education: PhD’s degree in Northwest A&F University

Non-scientific Interests: Playing badminton, Jogging

Brief bio:

I joined Prof. Qingmei Guan’s lab in the College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University for graduate study since 2015, and my PhD thesis focused on the characterization and functional identification of drought-tolerant related genes in apple. In this research, I was responsible for part of the transgenic work and drought treatment of transgenic plants.

Drought stress seriously affects the growth and fruit yield of apples. Plants respond to drought stress through a variety of mechanisms, the redox regulatory pathway is important for plant responses to drought stress. Through reverse genetics, we characterized MdRFNR1 that contributed to drought tolerance through redox regulatory pathway in apple, and then we identified and analyzed the mechanism of natural variation of Malus RFNR1 in drought tolerance of apple.

I have finished the PhD work, next I will continue my research on the mechanism of stress tolerance in fruit trees, and I hope my research will be useful for breeding drought-tolerant plants by genetic engineering in the future.

姓名：姜丽娟

目前职位：扬州大学博士后

教育经历：西北农林科技大学，农学博士

个人兴趣：羽毛球，跑步

个人简介：我于2015年进入西北农林科技大学园艺学院管清美教授课题组进行研究生学习，我的博士研究方向是苹果抗逆基因的鉴定与功能验证，我在本研究中负责部分转基因工作及对转基因植物抗旱表型的鉴定。

干旱胁迫对于苹果的生长发育及产量影响重大，植物通过多种机制应对干旱胁迫，氧化还原途径是植物耐旱机制的重要组成部分。我们通过反向遗传学的方法鉴定到通过氧化还原途径影响苹果抗旱的基因—MdRFNR1，最终发现并解析了苹果RFNR1自然变异参与苹果抗旱的机制。

博士毕业后我将继续从事果树抗逆的机制研究，希望我的研究将来能对基因工程的抗逆育种有所帮助。