Shimin Zuo-Agricultural College of Yangzhou University

PUBLISHED: December 17, 2018READING:

Family Name	Zuo	Given name	Shimin
Gender	Male	Date of birth	03/04/1980
Title	Dr. and Professor
Telephone No.	+86-514-87972136
Cell phone No.	+86-13511769025
Email	smzuo@yzu.edu.cn shuidao@yzu.edu.cn
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Organization and contact information	Department of Crop genetics and breeding, Agricultural college, Yangzhou University Address: N117# Agronomy building, 48 Wenhui road (east), Yangzhou 225009, P. R. China
Academic duties	Member of the 13th Youth committee of Chinese Society of Plant Pathology.
Research Interests	1. Rice breeding towards disease resistance and abiotic stress tolerance via conventional and modern technologies (i.e. marker-assisted selection, gene transformation and genome editing) 2. Molecular mechanism of rice resistance to sheath blight disease, one of the three most serious rice diseases worldwide3. Molecular interaction of R.solani (the causagent of rice sheath blight) and host plants
Grants	The on-going projects / grants in our Lab: 1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 31571748 and 31672013), the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation for Young teacher (151026) and the key project of University natural science of Jiangsu (14KJA21003) Objects in these projects are to isolate QTLs conferring rice sheath blight resistance as well as to elucidate its molecular mechanism, and to investigate the issues associated with breeding utilization of sheath blight resistance QTLs. 2. National Transgenic projects (2012ZX08009001 and 2014ZX08001-003B). Objects in the two projects are to develop new rice lines or varieties with strong resistance to rice sheath blight and rice black streak dwarf virus disease through transgenic technology. 3. Jiangsu natural science foundation (SBK201320002), Jiangsu Key Research Plan (BE2015363 and BE2015341), and Jiangsu Agriculture Science and Technology Innova-tion Fund (CX(12)1003). Objects in these projects are to develop new rice lines or varieties with strong disease resistance through integrating with marker assisted selection and conventional breeding technology. 4. National Science & Technology Pillar Program (2015BAD01B01). Object in this project is to identify associational markers /QTLs with rice salt tolerance through GWAS strategy and to develop new rice lines with salt tolerance.
Selected publications	1. Xue X, Cao ZX, Zhang XT, Wang Y, Zhang YF, Chen ZX, Pan XB, Zuo SM, Overexpression of OsOSM1 enhances resistance to rice sheath blight, Plant Disease, 2016, 100（8）：1634-1642 2. Zhang YF, Ma YY, Chen ZX, Zou J, Chen TX, Li QQ, Pan XB, Zuo SM, Genome Wide Association Studies Reveal New Genetic Targets for Five Panicle Traits of International Rice Varieties, Rice Science, 2015, 22(5): 217−226 3. Chen XW, Zuo SM (equal contribution), Schwessinger B, Chern MS, Canlas PE, Ruan DL, Zhou XG, Wang J, Daudi A, Petzold CJ, Heazlewood JL, Ronald PC, An XA21-associated kinase (OsSERK2) regulates immunity mediated by the XA21 and XA3 immune receptors, Mol Plant, 2014, 7(5):874-892 4. Chen ZX, Zhang YF, Feng F, Feng MH, Jiang W, Ma YY, Pan CH, Hua HL, Li GS, Pan XB, Zuo SM, Improvement of japonica rice resistance to sheath blight by pyramiding qSB-9TQ and qSB-7TQ, Field Crops Research, 2014, 161:118-127. 5. Zuo SM, Zhu YJ, Yin YJ, Wang H, Zhang YF, Chen ZX, Gu SL, Pan XB, Comparison and confirmation of quantitative trait loci conferring partial resistance to rice sheath blight on chromosome 9, Plant Dis, 2014, 98(7): 957-964. 6. Zuo SM, Zhou XG, Chen MS, Zhang SL, Schwessinger B, Ruan DL, Yuan C, Wang J, Chen XW, Ronald PC, OsSERK1 regulates rice development but not immunity to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae or Magnaporthe oryzae. J Integr Plant Biol, 2014, 56(12):1179-1192 7. Zuo SM, Zhang YF, Yin YJ, Li GZ, Zhang GW, Wang H, Chen ZX, Pan XB. Fine-mapping of qSB-9TQ, a gene conferring major quantitative resistance to rice sheath blight. Mol Breed, 2014, 34:2191-2203 8. Zuo SM, Yin YJ, Pan CH, Chen ZX, Zhang YF, Gu SL, Zhu LH, Pan XB*: Fine mapping of qSB-11LE, the QTL that confers partial resistance to rice sheath blight. Theor Appl Genet, 2013, 126:1257–1272