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Research Interests

Genetic architecture of adaptive traits and their interactions with the environments in A. thaliana;  Genetic diversity and population structure in A. thaliana. 

Projects

Genome-wide association mapping of adaptive traits in Arabidopsis thaliana

         See our proposal and yearly update on http://www.naturalvariation.org/hapmap

         (a) Mapping population Core360 ; Core 482

         (b) 250K SNP array Genotyping Cel_Files; Atsnptile1; Protocols

         (c) traits: flowering time, rosette sizes, and yield

         (d) Environments: simulated seasons in Spain and Sweden

The Scale of Population Structure in Arabidopsis thaliana

         isolation-by-distance    

         Genetic diversity BigUSsites; allUSsites; DiversityHotSpots_100km; DiversityHotSpots_US; Core360vsRandTable

Publications

Platt A., Horton M.*, Huang Y.*, Li Y.*, et al. 2009. The scale of population structure in Arabidopsis thaliana. (in preparation).

Li Y., Zou J.J, et al. 2008. Soybean defense responses to the soybean aphid. New Phytologist 179(1):185-195. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02443.x

Li Y. and Borevitz J. O. 2007. Genetic Variation in Arabidopsis thaliana. A chapter in the book “Genetic Variation: A Laboratory Manual”. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. P87

Li Y., Roycewicz1 P., Smith E., and Borevitz J. O. 2006. Genetics of local adaptation in the laboratory: flowering time quantitative trait loci under geographic and seasonal conditions in Arabidopsis. PlusOne, 1(1): e105. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000105.

Li Y., Hill C.B., Carlson, S., Diers B., Hartman G.L. 2007. Soybean aphid resistance genes in the soybean cultivars Dowling and Jackson map to linkage group M. Molecular Breeding, 19(1):25-34. DOI:10.1007/s11032-006-9039-9. Online http://www.springerlink.com/content/g02ur7824m617577/.

Hill C.B., Li Y., Hartman G.L. 2006. Soybean aphid resistance in soybean Jackson is controlled by a single dominant gene. Crop Science, 46: 1606-1608.

Hill C.B., Li Y., Hartman G.L. 2006. A single dominant gene for resistance to the soybean aphid in the soybean cultivar Dowling. Crop Science, 46: 1601-1605.

Li Y., Hill C.B., Hartman G.L. 2004. Effect of three resistant soybean genotypes on the fecundity, mortality, and maturation of soybean aphid (Homoptera : Aphididae). Journal of Economic Entomology, 97(3): 1106-1111.

Hill C.B., Li Y., Hartman G.L. 2004. Resistance of Glycine species and various cultivated legumes to the soybean aphid (Homoptera: Aphididae). Journal of Economic Entomology, 97(3): 1071-1077.

Hill C.B., Li Y., Hartman G.L. 2004. Resistance to the soybean aphid in soybean germplasm. Crop Science 44:98-106.

Protocols

Education

PhD in Physiological and Molecular Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 2001 -- 2005

MS in Plant Molecular Biology, Beijing Normal University & Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China, 1998 –2001                 

Henan Normal University, Henan, China, 1994-1998