Qi Zheng

Dr. Qi Zheng


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Academic Career Length

12Years (2015-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

Representative Publications

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7 January 2021 in BMC Plant Biology
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PHPan Hu
Pan Hu
QZQi Zheng
Qi Zheng
QLQiaoling Luo
Qiaoling Luo
WTWan Teng
Wan Teng
HLHongwei Li
Hongwei Li
ZLZhensheng Li
Zhensheng Li
Background: Soil salinization is a major threat to wheat production. It is essential to understand the genetic basis of salt tolerance for breeding and selecting new salt-tolerant cultivars that have the potential to increase wheat yield. Result: In this study, a panel of 191 wheat accessions was subjected to genome wide association study (GWAS) to identify SNP markers linked with adult-stage characters. The population was genotyped by Wheat660K SNP array and eight phenotype traits were investigated under low and high salinity environments for three consecutive years. A total of 389 SNPs representing 11 QTLs were significantly associated with plant height, spike number, spike length, grain number, thousand kernels weight, yield and biological mass under different salt treatments, with the phenotypic explanation rate (R2) ranging from 9.14 to 50.45%. Of these, repetitive and pleiotropic loci on chromosomes 4A, 5A, 5B and 7A were significantly linked to yield and yield related traits such as thousand kernels weight, spike number, spike length, grain number and so on under low salinity conditions. Spike length-related loci were mainly located on chromosomes 1B, 3B, 5B and 7A under different salt treatments. Two loci on chromosome 4D and 5A were related with plant height in low and high salinity environment, respectively. Three salt-tolerant related loci were confirmed to be important in two bi-parental populations. Distribution of favorable haplotypes indicated that superior haplotypes of pleiotropic loci on group-5 chromosomes were strongly selected and had potential for increasing wheat salt tolerance. A total of 14 KASP markers were developed for nine loci associating with yield and related traits to improve the selection efficiency of wheat salt-tolerance breeding. Conclusion: Utilizing a Wheat660K SNPs chip, QTLs for yield and its related traits were detected under salt treatment in a natural wheat population. Important salt-tolerant related loci were validated in RIL and DH populations. This study provided reliable molecular markers that could be crucial for marker-assisted selection in wheat salt tolerance breeding programs.

20 August 2018 in Theoretical and Applied Genetics
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LLLiqin Liu
Liqin Liu
QLQiaoling Luo
Qiaoling Luo
HLHongwei Li
Hongwei Li
BLBin Li
Bin Li
ZLZhensheng Li
Zhensheng Li
QZQi Zheng
Qi Zheng

22 January 2018 in Planta
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LLLiqin Liu
Liqin Liu
QLQiaoling Luo
Qiaoling Luo
WTWan Teng
Wan Teng
BLBin Li
Bin Li
HLHongwei Li
Hongwei Li
QZQi Zheng
Qi Zheng

29 September 2020 in Theoretical and Applied Genetics
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QZQi Zheng
Qi Zheng
QZQi Zheng
Qi Zheng
PHPan Hu
Pan Hu
LLLiqin Liu
Liqin Liu
GYGuotang Yang
Guotang Yang
ZLZhensheng Li
Zhensheng Li

6 March 2021 in Theoretical and Applied Genetics
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GYGuotang Yang
Guotang Yang
WBWillem H. P. Boshoff
Willem H. P. Boshoff
HLHongwei Li
Hongwei Li
ZPZacharias A. Pretorius
Zacharias A. Pretorius
QLQiaoling Luo
Qiaoling Luo
QZQi Zheng
Qi Zheng

2 August 2022 in Theoretical and Applied Genetics
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HJHongwei Jia
Hongwei Jia
HFHang Feng
Hang Feng
GYGuotang Yang
Guotang Yang
HLHongwei Li
Hongwei Li
SFShulan Fu
Shulan Fu
QZQi Zheng
Qi Zheng