Recognizing Plant Physiology authors: Ruohan Xie

Ruohan Xie, first author of Seasonal zinc storage and a strategy for its use in buds of fruit trees

Current Position: PhD student, College of Environmental & Resource Science, Zhejiang University, China

Education: Ph.D. in College of Environmental & Resource Science of Zhejiang University, China; Visiting scholar in Department of Plant Sciences of UC Davis, USA; Bachelor in College of resources and environmental sciences of Nanjing Agricultural University, China

Non-scientific interest: painting, reading, ACG, psychology

Brief bio:  From the early years in Nanjing Agricultural University, where I experienced my first “plant nutrition” course, I realized that plants were very important to human beings and fascinating organisms to study. Later, I was lucky enough to continue exploring the plant kingdom by being a graduate student in Zhejiang University. I started my scientific research from investigating the phytoremedation of heavy metal polluted soils and tried to understand the translocation and detoxification of cadmium in sedum alfredii, a hyperaccumulator native to China. Presently, my Ph.D. thesis mainly focused on the zinc nutrition in fruit crops, a very important but not well understood topic. I work on the mechanisms of zinc homeostasis during the seasonal cycles of deciduous plant growth and dormancy, and explore how do woody plants respond to zinc shortage. This is an interesting journey, the best thing I obtained is to learn how to see the big world through a tiny plant. I decide to pursue it as a career after my graduation, and try my best to expand the boundary of human knowledge of plant science.

 

姓名：谢若瀚

目前职位：博士研究生，浙江大学环境与资源学院

教育背景：

浙江大学，植物营养，博士

加州大学戴维斯分校，植物科学，访问学者

南京农业大学，农业资源与环境，学士

非科研兴趣：绘画，阅读，游戏动漫，心理学

简介：

在南京农业大学就读本科期间，我接触了人生的第一堂《植物营养学》课程，也是我第一次意识到植物对人类的重要性，研究植物是一件迷人的事情。随后，我考上浙江大学环境与资源学院植物营养专业，并开始了我的科研生涯。早期我主要从事重金属污染环境植物修复领域的研究，致力于探索我国原生锌镉超积累植物东南景天对重金属的转运与解毒过程。目前，我的博士课题主要围绕果树作物体内锌元素的动态平衡机制展开，研究锌在果树中的迁移转化规律及果树对缺锌逆境的响应机制。在不久的将来，我即将博士毕业并真正踏上植物研究的科学求索之路，期待今后能尽自己最大的努力去扩展人类对植物认知的边界。