Zhang Wei

Personal profile

Zhang Wei, male, born in 1985, Ph.D, researcher, Master’s supervisor.

Academic Education & Work Career

Academic Education

Work Career：

Main Research directions

1. Development and utilization of haploid breeding technology for triticeae crops

2. Germplasm innovation and genetic dissection of FHB resistance in wheat

Overview of Teaching and Research

Dr. Zhang teaches the course of “Genetics” for undergraduate students. His research focuses on germplasm innovation of triticeae crops including wheat, barley, oat, etc. He develops novel germplasm tolerant to biotic or abiotic stress and analyzes the corresponding biological mechanism via cytogenetics, genomics, rapid breeding and genome editing techniques. He has participated in multiple projects founded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) and U.S. Wheat and Barley Scab Initiative (USWBSI). He has published more than 10 papers in Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Bioresource Technology, Biotechnology for Biofuels, BMC plant Biology and other academic journals.

Teaching and Research Projects

1. Dissecting the genetic basis of minor crops germplasm, National Natural Science Foundation of China, sub-project, 2023-2026.

2. Developing wheat germplasm resistant to scab and mapping of corresponding resistance genes, Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province, 2023-2025.

3. Development and utilization of novel wheat germplasm resistant to scab, atural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province, 2023-2024.

4. Resistance to Fusarium Head Blight in Wheat and its Relatives, U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative, 2020-2021, participated.

5. Enabling US wheat for homoeologous recombination based gene introgression, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, 2016-2018, participated.

6. Enriching and understanding the wheat genome by inducing homoeologous recombination,USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, 2013-2018, participated.

Presentative papers

1. First Author. Cytogenetic and genomic characterization of a novel tall wheatgrass- derived Fhb7 allele integrated into wheat B genome. Theor Appl Genet. 2022;135(12):4409-4419.（SCI）

2. First Author. Chromosome engineering-mediated introgression and molecular mapping of novel Aegilops speltoides-derived resistance genes for tan spot and Septoria nodorum blotch diseases in wheat. Theor Appl Genet. 2019;132(9):2605-2614.（SCI）

3. First Author. Molecular cytogenetic and genomic analyses reveal new insights into the origin of the wheat B genome. Theor Appl Genet. 2018;131(2):365-375.（SCI）

4. First Author. Meiotic homoeologous recombination-based mapping of wheat chromosome 2B and its homoeologues in Aegilops speltoides and Thinopyrum elongatum. Theor Appl Genet. 2018;131(11):2381-2395.（SCI）

5. First Author. Meiotic homoeologous recombination-based alien gene introgression in the genomics era of wheat. Crop Sci.2017;57:1189-1198. （SCI）

6. First Author. Three lignocellulose features that distinctively affect biomass enzymatic digestibility under NaOH and H₂SO₄ pretreatments in Miscanthus. Bioresour Technol. 2013;130:30-37.（SCI）

7. First Author. Hemicelluloses negatively affect lignocellulose crystallinity for high biomass digestibility under NaOH and H₂SO₄ pretreatments in Miscanthus. Biotechnol Biofuels. 2012;5(1):58.（SCI）

Monographs and textbooks

1. Alien introgression and breeding of synthetic wheat (In): Advances in breeding techniques for cereal crops, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing limited, 2019.06, Coedit.

Honors and Awards

1. “Excellent graduate”, Changchun University of Technology, 2008

2. “Oligo-FISH workshop fellowship”, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016

3. “Gamma Sigma Delta, The Honor Society of Agriculture”, North Dakota State University, 2017

Contact information

Address：No.81 Longcheng Street, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Postcode：030031

Email： w.zhang@sxau.edu.cn