Recognizing Plant Physiology authors: Xue-Rong Zhou

Xue-Rong Zhou, first author of Reorganization of acyl flux through the lipid metabolic network in oil-accumulating tobacco leaves

Current Position: Senior Principal Research Scientist

Education: Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China; M.Sc. in Molecular Genetics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; B.Sc. in Biology, East China Normal University, China

Non-scientific Interests: fishing, gardening

Brief bio: I joined CSIRO in 1999. Since 2001, I am dedicated in metabolic engineering of plant oil for nutritional and industrial applications, biochemical analysis of fatty acid biosynthesis, lipid synthesis and analysis, lipidomics. The new oil crop traits I am involved in developing include the canola producing fish-oil level DHA and the super high oleic safflower oil that has been approved to release in Australia.

 

姓名: 周雪荣

教育:博士,中国科学院植物病毒学专业;硕士, 上海交通大学分子遗传学专业;学士,华东师范大学生物学专业

简历:1999年加入澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织工作。自2001年,致力于植物油脂代谢工程,脂肪酸合成的生化分析,脂质合成及分析,脂组学。产生的新型油脂品质代表有在油菜中生产鱼油水平的DHA, 超高油酸的红花油。