Cheng-Jiang Ruan, a Ph.D. degree holder, is a Professor. His research interests include biotechnology, genetics, and plant breeding, and particularly, the development and domestication of perennial economic and oilseed crops. He has a special interest in studying energy crops for biodiesel and carbon sequestration, like kosteletzkya, which can grow on unproductive agricultural lands. He has developed several new sea buckthorn cultivars, aiming for high oil contents and resistance to dried shrink disease (DSD); determined oil content and major bioactive compounds in berries of sea buckthorn; developed and applied various DNA markers for identification of sea buckthorn genotypes and determination of relatedness, and identified several DNA markers that are associated with QTLs for DSD-resistance; used untargeted NMR and GC/LC-MS to unravel metabolic profiling of berry quality of sea buckthorn, and identified possible biomarkers for prediction of berry quality; and identified a series of key regulation factors involving in yield components, lipid biosynthesis and resistance to drought, waterlogging and disease for sea buckthorn, yellowhorn, and oil-tea camellia of woody-oil trees, which included key genes, transcription factors, miRNAs, and lncRNAs. In addition, he discovered and verified the independent regulation of curvature of unpollinated style branches in K. virginica flowers, which produce a mixed mating system in response to an unpredictable pollinator environment.
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Cheng-Jiang Ruan, a Ph.D. degree holder, is a Professor. His research interests include biotechnology, genetics, and plant breeding, and particularly, the development and domestication of perennial economic and oilseed crops. He has a special interest in studying energy crops for biodiesel and carbon sequestration, like kosteletzkya, which can grow on unproductive agricultural lands. He has developed several new sea buckthorn cultivars, aiming for high oil contents and resistance to dried shrink disease (DSD); determined oil content and major bioactive compounds in berries of sea buckthorn; developed and applied various DNA markers for identification of sea buckthorn genotypes and determination of relatedness, and identified several DNA markers that are associated with QTLs for DSD-resistance; used untargeted NMR and GC/LC-MS to unravel metabolic profiling of berry quality of sea buckthorn, and identified possible biomarkers for prediction of berry quality; and identified a series of key regulation factors involving in yield components, lipid biosynthesis and resistance to drought, waterlogging and disease for sea buckthorn, yellowhorn, and oil-tea camellia of woody-oil trees, which included key genes, transcription factors, miRNAs, and lncRNAs. In addition, he discovered and verified the independent regulation of curvature of unpollinated style branches in K. virginica flowers, which produce a mixed mating system in response to an unpredictable pollinator environment.
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