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Liuling Yan
Oklahoma State University
Assistant Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
Address: 368 Noble Research Center, OSU, Stillwater, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-9608 Fax: 405-744-5269
Email: liuling.yan@okstate.edu
URL: http://www.pss.okstate.edu/faculty/yan.htm
Ph.D., Plant Molecular Genetics, Victoria University, 1999  
Postdoctoral: Agronomy and Range Science , University of California-Davis, 1999-2004
Research Emphasis: Wheat molecular genetics and breeding
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Research Description:

Wheat and barley vernalization mechanism; Plant flowering pathway; Cloning and characterization of the genes responsible for agriculturally important traits in crops; Molecular breeding and improvement of wheat in Oklahoma and the southern Great Plains.

 
Recent Publications:

Yan L, Fu D, Li C, Blechl A, Tranquilli G, Bonafede M, Sanchez A, Valarik M, Dubcovsky J (2006) The wheat and barley vernalization gene VRN3 is an orthologue of FT. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 103:19581-19586.

Dubcovsky J, Loukoianov A, Fu D, Valarik M, Sanchez A, Yan L. (2006) Effect of photoperiod on the regulation of wheat vernalization genes VRN1 and VRN2. Plant Molecular Biology 60: 469-480.

Yan L, Zitzewitz J, Skinner J, Hayes P, Dubcovsky J (2005) Molecular characterization of the duplicated AP1 genes in barley. Genome 48: 905-912.

Loukoianov A, Yan L, Blechl A, Sanchez A, Dubcovsky J (2005) Regulation of VRN-1 vernalization genes in natural and transgenic wheat. Plant Physiology 138: 1364-1373.

Zitzewitz J, Szűcs P, Dubcovsky J, Yan L, Francia E, Pecchioni N, Casas A, Chen T. Hayes P, Skinner J (2005) Structural and functional characterization of barley vernalization genes. Plant Molecular Biology 59: 449-467.
 
Selected Additional Publications:

 Dubcovsky J, Chen C, Yan L (2005) Molecular characterization of the allelic variation at the VRN-H2 vernalization locus in barley. Molecular Breeding 15:395-407.

Fu D, Szűcs P, Yan L, Helguera M, Skinner J, Zitzewitz J, Hayes P, Dubcovsky J (2005) Large deletions within the VRN-1 first intron are associated with spring growth habit in barley and wheat. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 75: 54-65.

Yan L, Loukoianov A, Blechl A, Tranquilli G, SanMiguel P, Ramakrishna W, Bennetzen J, Echenique V, Dubcovsky J (2004) The wheat VRN2 gene is a flowering repressor down-regulated by vernalization. Science 303: 1640-1644. This is a full size of research article and is commented by Jean Marx, 2004. Remembrance of Winter Past. Science 303: 1607.

Yan L, Helguera M, Kato K, Fukuyama S, Sherman J, Dubcovsky J (2004) Allelic variation at the VRN-1 promoter region in polyploid wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 109: 1677-1686.

Sherman JD, Yan L, Talbert L, Dubcovsky J (2004) A PCR marker for growth habit in common wheat based on allelic variation at the Vrn-A1 gene. Crop Science 44: 1832-1838.