Chenwu Xu-Agricultural College of Yangzhou University

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Family Name	Xu	Given name	Chenwu
Gender	Male	Date of birth	1965-09-18
Title	Dr. and Professor
Telephone No.	+86-514-8797-9358
Cell phone No	+86-1351-174-0242
Email	cwxu@yzu.edu.cn
Fax	+86-514-8799-6817
Organization and contact information	N601 Nongmu Building, Wenhui Road Campus, Yangzhou University College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University Yangzhou 225009, Jiangsu Province, China
Academic duties	Associate Editor, BMC Evolutionary Biology Associate Editor, Acta Agronomica Sinica
Research Interests	Crop Quantitative Genetics and Molecular Evolution Maize Germplasm Resources Innovation and utilization
Grants	National Key Technology Research and Development Program of MOST (2016YFD0100303) National Natural Science Foundation of China (91535103, 31391632) National High-tech R&D Program (863 Program) (2014AA10A601-5) The Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
Selected publications	Wang X, Xu C, Wu R, Brian Larkins. Genetic Dissection of Complex Endosperm Traits, Trends in Plant Science, 2009, 14 (7): 391-398 Yin Z, Zhang Z, Deng D, Chao M, Gao Q, Wang Y, Yang Z, Bian Y, Hao D, Xu C. Characterization of Rubisco activase genes in maize: an alpha-isoform gene functions alongside a beta-isoform gene. Plant Physiology, 2014,164: 2096-2106 Yang Z, Zhou Y, Huang J, Hu Y, Zhang E, Xie Z, Ma S, Gao Y, Song S, Xu C, Liang G. Ancient horizontal transfer of transaldolase-like protein gene and its role in plant vascular development. New Phytologist, 2015, 206：807-816 Yang Z, Wang Y, Zhou Y, Gao Q, Zhang E, Zhu L, Hu Y, Xu C. Evolution of land plant genes encoding L-Ala-D/L-Glu epimerases (AEEs) via horizontal gene transfer and positive selection, BMC Plant Biology, 2013, 13: 34 Tang Z, Wang X, Zhang M, Zhang Y, Deng D, Xu C. The maternal cytoplasmic environment may be involved in the viability selection of gametes and zygotes, Heredity, 2013, 110: 331–337 Tang Z, Wang X, Hu Z, Yang Z, Xu C. Genetic dissection of cytonuclear epistasis in line crosses, Genetics, 2007, 177: 669-672