Qin Lixia

Personal profile

Qin Lixia, female, born in 1986, doctor, senior research fellow (professor), master supervisor.

Academic Education & Work Career

Academic Education

Work Career：

Main Research directions

1. Crop Science

2. Agronomy and Seed Industry

Overview of Teaching and Research

She has been mainly engaged in research work in the fields of application basis of crop biotechnology and molecular regulation mechanism of crop stress response. She successively presided over 5 projects, including National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Project), Talent Funding Projects of Outstanding Young Agricultural Scientists from Ministry of Agriculture, Talent Funding Projects of Top Young Innovative Talents of Shanxi Province, etc. Besides, She participated in more than 10 projects such as National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Projects), Project of Transgenic Research from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, and Science and Technology Project of Shanxi Province, etc. She has published more than 20 papers in international and national academic journals, including 10 papers indexed by Science Citation Index Database (SCI). She obtained a national patent, and formulated 2 Local Standard of Shanxi Province. Moreover, she has been awarded the first prize and second prize of Excellent Academic Papers of Shanxi Province.

 Teaching and Research Projects

1. Studise on the role of GhADF1 in response to drought stress in cotton, 2017 to 2019, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth Program), Preside over.

2. Talent Funding Projects of Outstanding Young Agricultural Scientists, 2018.01 to 2018.12, Ministry of Agriculture, Preside over.

3. Talent Funding Projects of Top Young Innovative Talents of Shanxi Province, 2018 to 2020, Preside over.

4. Studise on the mechanism of GhADF1 in response to drought stress in cotton, 2015 to 2017, Science and Technology Research Fund of Shanxi Province for Youth, Preside over.

5. Studise on the enzymatic properties of AGP-galactosyltransferase and its function in fiber development in cotton, 2014 to 2017, National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program), Participant.

6. Studise on the function of GT43/GT47 family genes involved in xylan synthesis during the secondary wall thickening of cotton fibers, 2017 to 2020, National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program), Participant.

7. Studise on the mechanism of cupruloprotein (BCP) regulating cotton fiber development, 2015 to 2018, National Natural Science Foundation of China (General Program), Participant.

8. Analysis effects of key genes of phenylpropane metabolic pathway on transformation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens in upland cotton, 2017.01 to 2017.12, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Emergency Management), Participant.

9. Cultivation of new varieties of transgenic cotton with drought, salt and alkali resistance and insect resistance in the cotton region of Yellow River Basin, 2016 to 2020, Project of Transgenic Research from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Sub-project, the 13th five-year plan), Participant.

10. Cultivation of new varieties of transgenic cotton with drought, salt and alkali resistance and insect resistance in the cotton region of Yellow River Basin, 2013 to 2015, Project of Transgenic Research from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Sub-project, the 12th five-year plan), Participant.

11. Application development and breeding of new varieties of transgenic cotton with compound characters of disease resistance, insect resistance and stress resistance. 2014 to 2016, Science and Technology Project of Shanxi Province, Participant.

12. Analysis effects of key gene, Gh4CL, of phenylpropane metabolic pathway on transformation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens in upland cotton, Science and Technology Research Fund of Shanxi Province for Youth, Participant.

Presentative papers

1. First Author. Down-regulation of GhADF1 in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) improves plant drought tolerance and increases fiber yield. Crop Journal, 2022, 10(4): 1037-1048（SCI）

2. First Author. The cotton galactosyltransferase 1 (GalT1) that galactosylates arabinogalactan proteins participates in controlling fiber development. Plant Journal, 2017, 89(5): 957-971（SCI）

3. First Author. Phosphorylation of serine residue modulates cotton Di19-1 and Di19-2 activities for responding to high salinity stress and abscisic acid signaling. Scientific Reports, 2016, 6: 20371（SCI）

4. First Author. Arabidopsis drought -induced protein Di19-3 participates in plant response to drought and high salinity stresses. Plant Molecular Biology, 2014, 86(6): 609-625（SCI）

5. First Author. Cotton GalT1 encoding a putative glycosyltransferase is involved in regulation of cell wall pectin biosynthesis during plant development. PLoS One, 2013, 8(3): e59115 （SCI）

6. First Author. Cotton GhHyPRP3 encoding a hybrid proline-rich protein is stress inducible and its overexpression in Arabidopsis enhances germination under cold temperature and high salinity stress conditions. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2013, 35(5): 1531-1542（SCI）

Monographs and textbooks

1.     Quinoa, China Agricultural Science and Technology Press, 2022.1, Associate Editor

Achievement, patent and regulation

Achievement

1. Arabidopsis drought-induced protein Di19-3 participates in plant response to drought and high salinity stresses, the first prize of the 18th Excellent Academic Paper of Shanxi Province.

2. Phosphorylation of serine residue modulates cotton Di19-1 and Di19-2 activities for responding to high salinity stress and abscisic acid signaling, the second prize of the 19th Excellent Academic Paper of Shanxi Province.

Patent

1. An efficient cleft grafting of dicotyledonous seedlings and young twigs. Patent NO.: ZL201710780422.9, Second accomplisher.

2. A method and application of construction RNA interference vector of cotton fiber specific arabinogalactan protein glycotransferase GhGalT1 gene. Patent NO.: ZL20160558997.1, Second accomplisher.

Regulation

1. Technical specification for identification of drought resistance of transgenic cotton, Local Standard of Shanxi Province, DB14T1618-2018, Fourth accomplisher.

2. Technical specification for identification of salt tolerance of transgenic cotton. Local Standard of Shanxi Province, DB14T1619-2018, Fourth accomplisher.

Honors and Awards

1. “Outstanding Young Agricultural Scientist”, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, 2018

2. “Top-notch Young Innovative Talents”, Shanxi Province, 2018

3. “Excellent Youth Post Expert”, Shanxi Province, 2018

4. “Outstanding Youth of Sanjin Talents" in the field of Science and Technology, Shanxi Province, 2018

Contact information

Address: the No. 81 of Longcheng Street, Xiaodian District, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China

Postcode: 030031

Email: Email：lxqin@sxau.edu.cn

Tel: 0351-2727448