Title: Mechanisms for Waterlogging Tolerance in Barley
Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Zhou Meixue
Time: 15th/May/2014 09:00 am-11:00 am
Venue: A435 (seminar room of crop science)
Introduction: Associate Professor Zhou Meixue is now working in Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture. His research interests include i) cereal quality improvement; 2) physiological mechanisms for stress tolerance; and 3) identifying molecular markers associated with the resistance of various stresses and diseases in barley. Over the last 14 years he has published over 90 peer reviewed paper in high impact factor journals like PNAS、Plant Physiology、Plant Cell and Environment、BMC Genomics、PLoS One etc, made 60 presentations at various national and international conferences, and attracted over $9M in competitive research funding. His work has been cited for over 2033 times and current h-index is 24.