Liuling Yan
Assistant Professor
Wheat Molecular Genetics and Breeding

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Liuling Yan
Oklahoma State University
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
368 Agricultural Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078-6028

Office Location: 469 Agricultural Hall
Phone Number: 405-744-9608
Location: 313 NRC Phone: 405-744-5764
Location: 347 NRC Phone: 405-744-6928
FAX Number: 405-744-5269

liuling.yan@okstate.edu
 
 

Education

BS: Agronomy, Yangzhou University, China, 1984
MS: Wheat Applied Physiology, Yangzhou University, China, 1987
PhD: Plant Moledular Biology, Victoria University, Australia, 2000

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Curriculum Vitae

Academic Areas

Plant Molecular Genetics, Applied Genomics

Research Interests

Genetic basis and molecular mechanism of vernalization in wheat and barley, flowering pathways of plants including biofuel grasses, cloning and characterization of the genes responsible for agriculturally important traits in crops, molecular improvement of wheat in the southern Great Plains.

Recent Publications (since 2000)

  • Yan, L., D. Fu, C. Li, A. Blechl, G. Tranquilli, M. Bonafede, A. Sanchez, M. Valarik & J. Dubcovsky (2006) The wheat and barley vernalization gene VRN3 is an orthologue of FT. A cover story at Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 103:19581-19586.
  • Dubcovsky, J., A. Loukoianov, D. Fu, M. Valarik, A. Sanchez & L. Yan (2006) Effect of photoperiod on the regulation of wheat vernalization genes VRN1 and VRN2. Plant Molecular Biology 60: 469-480.
  • Yan, L., J. Zitzewitz, J. Skinner, P. Hayes & J. Dubcovsky (2005) Molecular characterization of the duplicated AP1 genes in barley. Genome 48: 905-912.
  • Loukoianov, A., L. Yan, A. Blechl, A. Sanchez & J. Dubcovsky (2005) Regulation of VRN1 vernalization genes in natural and transgenic wheat. Plant Physiology 138: 1364-1373.
  • Zitzewitz, J., P. Szűcs, J. Dubcovsky, L. Yan,  E. Francia, N. Pecchioni, A. Casas, T. Chen. P. Hayes & J. Skinner (2005) Structural and functional characterization of barley vernalization genes. Plant Molecular Biology 59: 449-467.
  • Dubcovsky, J., C. Chen & L. Yan (2005) Molecular characterization of the allelic variation at the VRN-H2 vernalization locus in barley. Molecular Breeding 15:395-407.
  • Fu, D., P. Szűcs, L. Yan, M. Helguera, J. Skinner, J. Zitzewitz, P. Hayes & J. Dubcovsky (2005) Large deletions within the VRN-1 first intron are associated with spring growth habit in barley and wheat. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 75: 54-65.
  • Yan, L., A. Loukoianov, A. Blechl, G. Tranquilli, P. SanMiguel, W. Ramakrishna, J. Bennetzen, V. Echenique & J. Dubcovsky (2004) The wheat VRN2 gene is a flowering repressor down-regulated by vernalization. A full size of research article at Science 303: 1640-1644.
  • Yan, L., M. Helguera, K. Kato, S. Fukuyama, J. Sherman & J. Dubcovsky  (2004)  Allelic variation at the VRN-1 promoter region in polyploid wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 109: 1677-1686.
  • Sherman, J., L. Yan, L. Talbert & J. Dubcovsky (2004) A PCR marker for growth habit in common wheat based on allelic variation at the VRN-A1 gene. Crop Science 44: 1832-1838.
  • Yan, L., A. Loukoianov, G. Tranquilli, M. Helguera, T. Fahima & J. Dubcovsky (2003) Positional cloning of wheat vernalization gene VRN1.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 100: 6263-6268.
  • Yan, L., V. Echenique, C. Busso, P. SanMiguel, W. Ramakrishna, J. Bennetzen, S. Harrington & J. Dubcovsky (2002) Cereal genes similar to Snf2 define a new subfamily that includes human and mouse genes.  Molecular Genetics and Genomics 268: 488-499.
  • Yan, L., R. Fairclough & M. Bhave (2001) Characterization of waxy proteins and waxy genes of T. timopheevi and T. zhukovskyi and implications for evolution of wheat. Genome 44: 582-588.
  • Dubcovsky, J., W. Ramakrishna, P. SanMiguel, C. Busso, L. Yan, B. Shiloff & J. Bennetzen (2001) Comparative sequence analysis of colinear barley and rice bacterial artificial chromosomes.  Plant Physiology 125: 1342-1253.
  • Yan, L., M. Bhave, R. Fairclough, C. Konik, S. Rahman & R. Appels (2000) The genes encoding granule-bound starch synthases at the waxy loci of the A, B and D progenitors of common wheat. Genome 43: 264-272.
  • Yan, L. & M. Bhave (2000) Sequences of the waxy loci of wheat: Utility in analysis of waxy proteins and developing molecular markers. Biochemical Genetics 38: 391-411.
  • Yan, L., R. Fairclough & M. Bhave (2000) A novel starch granule-bound protein in endosperm of wheat.  Journal of Cereal Science 32 (3) 245-258.
  • Li, Z., X. Chu, G. Mouille, L. Yan, B. Kosar-Hashemi, S. Hey, J. Napier, P. Shewry, B. Clarke, R. Appels, M. Morell & S. Rahman (1999) The localization and expression of the class II starch synthases of wheat. Plant Physiology 120:1147-1155.