Li Yaqiong

Personal profile

Li Yaqiong, female, born in 1990, doctor, lecturer, master supervisor.

Academic Education & Work Career

Academic Education

Work Career：

Main Research directions

1. Mechanism of anthocyanin synthesis and accumulation in foxtail millet

2. Mechanism of response of minor crops to abiotic stress

Overview of Teaching and Research

Dr Li Yaqiong has been working for many years on investigating mechanism of plant response to abiotic stress. She presides over 4 high-level research projects including National Natural Science Foundation of China, and Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province, and has published 6 papers in international and national academic journals, 5 of which have been included by SCI.

She undertakes the teaching tasks of specialized courses for the undergraduates of agronomy specialty (functional agronomy direction), and the main courses are "Medicinal Plant Cultivation" and "Nutrition and Food Hygiene".

Teaching and Research Projects

1. Studies on the molecular mechanism of SiARP1, a bHLH transcription factor, regulating anthocyanin accumulation and trichome development in foxtail millet, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth), Preside over.

2. Researches on the function of a bHLH transcription factor regulating anthocyanin accumulation and trichome development in foxtail millet, Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province (General Program), Preside over.

3. Function analysis of bZIP transcription factors related to ABA signal transduction in foxtail millet. Excellent Doctor work award program of Shanxi Province, Preside over.

4. Studies on the molecular mechanism of anthocyanin Accumulation in foxtail millet induced by drought stress, Scientific and Technological Innovation Programs of Higher Education Institutions in Shanxi, Preside over.

Presentative papers

1. The sHSP22 Heat Shock Protein Requires the ABI1 Protein Phosphatase to Modulate Polar Auxin Transport and Downstream Responses, Plant Physiology, 2018, 176(3): 2406-2425. (SCI)

2. Loss of CDKC; 2 increases both cell division and drought tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana, Plant Journal, 2017, 91(5): 816-828. (SCI)

3. Cautionary Notes on the Usage of abi1-2 and abi1-3 Mutants of Arabidopsis ABI1 for Functional Studies, Molecular Plant, 2015, 8(2): 335-338. (SCI)

4. Uncovering the mechanism of anthocyanin accumulation in a purple-leaved variety of foxtail millet (Setaria italica) by transcriptome analysis. PeerJ. 2022; 10:e14099. (SCI)

5. Exogenous salicylic acid enhanced resistance of Foxtail Millet (Setaria italica) to Sclerospora graminicola. Plant Growth Regul 2023, 99, 35–44. (SCI)

6. Genome-wide identification of SNF1-related Kinase1 (SnRK1) genes in Setaria italica and analyzing its expression characteristics responding to sugar signal and abiotic stress. Plant Physiology Journal，2022, 58 (11): 2191–2208. (in Chinese with English abstract)

Contact information

Address：College of Agriculture, Shanxi Agricultural University, No.1 Mingxian Road, Taigu, Jinzhong, Shanxi, China

Postcode：030801

Email： li_yaqiong@126.com; yqli@sxau.edu.cn