个人简介

杜艳芳，女，博士、校聘教授。2013年、2018年先后在华中农业大学植物科学技术学院获得学士和博士学位。2018年7月至2021年6月在华中农业大学和美国加州大学伯克利分校从事博士后研究，2021年9月入职山东农业大学生命科学学院，主要从事小麦穗部性状等产量构成要素的遗传基础研究。近年来，以第一或并列第一作者身份在PNAS., New Phytol., PLoS Genet., J ADV RES.等国际著名学术刊物上发表论文。主持国家自然科学基金青年基金和博士后科学基金等科研项目。

个人荣誉

第八届植物生物学女科学家学术交流会优秀女青年奖。

教学工作

承担本科生《植物学》和《植物学实验》等课程。

研究方向

小麦穗部产量性状的遗传基础和分子调控网络。

科研项目

1.国家自然科学基金青年项目：小麦穗长主效QTL-qSL-6的精细定位和功能验证（32201840），2023.01-2025.12，主持。

2.山东省自然科学基金青年项目：探索qSL-6 调控小麦穗长的分子机制（ZR2022QC048）,2023.01-2025.12，主持。

3.博士后科学基金面上资助项目：Fascicled Ear1 (Fas1)调控玉米花序建成（2019M662661），2020.01-2021.07，主持。

发表论文(^#，第一作者；^*，通讯作者)

1. Yanfang Du^#, Bi Wu^#, Yongzhong Xing^*, Zuxin Zhang^*, Conservation and divergence: Regulatory networks underlying reproductive branching in rice and maize, J. Adv. Res. 2022.

2. Yanfang Du^#; China Lunde^#; Yunfu Li^#; David Jackson; Sarah Hake^*; Zuxin Zhang^*; Gene duplication at the Fascicled ear1 locus controls the fate of inflorescence meristem cells in maize. PNAS. 2021, 118(7): 1-11.

3. Yanfang Du; Lei Liu; Yong Peng; Manfei Li; Yunfu Li; Dan Liu; Xingwang Li^*; Zuxin Zhang^*; UNBRANCHED3 Expression and Inflorescence Development is Mediated by UNBRANCHED2 and the Distal Enhancer, KRN4, in Maize. PLOS GENET. 2020, 10(1371): 1-19.

4. Yanfang Du; Lei Liu; Manfei Li; ShuangFang; Xiaomeng Shen; Jinfang Chu; Zuxin Zhang^*; UNBRANCHED3 regulates branching by modulating cytokinin biosynthesis and signaling in maize and rice. NEW PHYTOL. 2017, 214(2): 721-733.

5. Lei Liu, Yanfang Du, Xiaomeng Shen, Manfei Li, Wei Sun, Juan Huang, Zhijie Liu, Yongsheng Tao, Yonglian Zheng, Jianbing Yan, Zhang Zuxin^*. KRN4 Controls Quantitative Variation in Maize Kernel Row Number. PLOS GENET. 2015, 11(11): 0-e1005670.

6. Lei Liu, Yanfang Du, Dongao Huo, Man Wang, Xiaomeng Shen, Bing Yue, Fazhan Qiu, Yonglian Zheng, Jianbing Yan, Zuxin Zhang^*. Genetic architecture of maize kernel row number and whole genome prediction. THEOR APPL GENET. 2015, 128(11), 2243–2254.

7. Qiang Ning #, Yinan Jian #, Du Yanfang, Yunfu Li, Xiaomeng Shen, Haitao Jia, Ran Zhao, Jimin Zhan, Fang Yang, David Jackson*, Lei Liu*, Zuxin Zhang*. An ethylene biosynthesis enzyme controls quantitative variation in maize ear length and kernel yield. Nat. Commun. 12, 5832 (2021).

8. 赵然, 蔡曼君, 杜艳芳, 张祖新^*. 玉米籽粒形成的分子生物学基础，中国农业科学, 2019, 52(20): 3495-3506.

9. 李云富, 王静贤, 杜艳芳, 邹华文, 张祖新^*. 玉米开花期相关的indeterminate domain (idd)蛋白家族基因的鉴定. 作物学报, 2019, 045(004), 499-507.

10. Li Zhang, JinYang Liu, Huan Gu, Yanfang Du , JianFang Zuo , Zhibin Zhang, Menglin Zhang, Pan Li, Jim M Dunwell, Yangrong Cao, Zuxin Zhang , Yuan-Ming Zhang^*. Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens USDA 110- Glycine max Interactome Provides Candidate Proteins Associated with Symbiosis. JPR. 2018, 17(9), 3061–3074.

11. Lei Liu, Juan Huang, Lili He, Nian Liu, Yanfang Du, Rui Hou, Hewei Du, Fazhan Qiu, Zuxin Zhang^*. Dissecting the genetic architecture of important traits that enhance wild germplasm resource usage in modern maize breeding. MOL BREEDING. 2019, (39): 10.1007/s11032-019-1061-9.

12. Minliang Jin, Xiangguo Liu, Wei Jia, Haijun Liu, Wenqiang Li, Yong Peng, Yanfang Du, Yuebin Wang, Yuejia Yin, Xuehai Zhang, Qing Liu, Min Deng, Nan Li, Xiyan Cui, Dongyun Hao, Jianbing Yan^*. ZmCOL3, a CCT gene represses flowering in maize by interfering with the circadian clock and activating expression of ZmCCT.J INTEGR PLANT BIOL. 2018, 60(6), 465–480.

13. Haitao Jia^#, Manfei Li^#, Weiya Li^#, Lei Liu, Yinan Jian, Zhixing Yang, Xiaomeng Shen, Qiang Ning, Yanfang Du, Ran Zhao, David Jackson, Xiaohong Yang, Zuxin Zhang^*. A serine/threonine protein kinase encoding gene KERNEL NUMBER PER ROW6 regulates maize grain yield. Nat. Commun. 2020,11(1):988.