Chief Scientist of the National ‘973’ Program,
Professor, PhD advisor, 
Vice-Dean, College of Plant Protection
Principle Investigator, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas
Email: huanglili@nwsuaf.edu.cn
Tel: 02987091312

Research Focus

I mainly focus on the plant diseases control caused by pathogenic fungi and bacteria. I have been working on biology and pathogenesis of pathogen, on the molecular mechanism of pathogen-host interactions, and the biological control for wheat and fruit trees. 

Selected Research Projects

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China–The mechanism of effector VmE02 inducing plant cell seath during Valsa mali - apple interaction (31671982), 2017.01-2020.12, ¥ 600,000.
2. The national basic research program of China (973 program)–Biology of virulence variation in important fungal pathogens of wheat. (2013CB127700), 2013.01-2017.08, ¥ 32,000,000.
3. National Natural Science Foundation of China–Mechanisms of suppressing plant immunity by an effector protein VmEP1 secreted by apple pathogenic fungus Valsa mali. (31471732), 2015.01-2018.12, ¥ 850,000.
4. National Natural Science Foundation of China–Gene expression and pathogenesis during the infection progress of apple pathogenic fungus Valsa mali. (31171796), 2012.01-2015.12, ¥ 640,000. 
5. Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest–Research and demonstration for prevention and disease control of apple tree valsa canker. (201203034), 2012.01-2016.12, ¥ 2,470,000.

Selected Publications

1 Genome sequence of Valsa canker pathogens uncovers a potential adaptation of colonization of woody bark, New Phytologist, 2015.
2 Candidate effector proteins of the necrotropic apple canker pathogen Valsa mali can suppress BAX-induced PCD, Frontiers in plant science, 2015.
3 Saccharothrix yanglingensis strain Hhs.015 is a promising biocontrol agent on apple Valsa canker, Plant Disease, 2015.
4 Comparison of cell death and accumulation of reactive oxygen species in wheat lines with or without Yr36 responding to Puccinia striiformisf.sp.tritici underlow andhigh temperaturesatseedling and adult-plant stages, Protoplasma, 2015.
5 Field detection of canker-causing bacteria on kiwifruit trees: Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae is the major causal agent, Crop Protection, 2015.
6 Transcriptome profiling to identify genes involved in pathogenicity of Valsa mali on apple tree, Fungal Genetics and Biology, 2014.
7 Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of the causative agent of valsa canker of apple tree Valsa mali var. mali, Current Microbiology, 2014.
8 Delimiting cryptic pathogen species causing apple Valsa canker with multilocus data, Ecology and Evolution, 2014.
9 Histological and cytological investigations of the infection and colonization of apple bark by Valsa mali var. mali, Australasian Plant Pathology, 2013.
10 A nested PCR assay for detecting Valsa mali var. mali in different tissues of apple trees, Plant Disease, 2012.

Academic Reports of Graduate Students on Academic Conferences

1. Yuxing Wu. 2015/08. Nanjing. A Mitogen-activated protein kinase gene (VmPMK1) is required for development, conidiation and pathogenicity of Valsa mali on apple tree. 
The 4th International Conference on Biotic-Plant Interactions.
2. Zhibo Zhao. 2014/06. Shanghai. Bacterial canker of kiwifruit in Shanxi Province of China. The 13th International Conference on Plant Pathogenic Bacteria.
3. Na Song. 2014/07. Shenyang. Functional analysis of six pectinases of Valsa mali. Annual Conference of Chinese Society of Plant Pathology and the 4th Sino-US Symposium on Plant Pathology.

Academic Awards of Graduate Students 

1. Zhiyuan Yin: National Scholarship for PhD Student, Foundation for the Author of Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of NWSUAF;
2. Hua Zhao: Outstanding Ph.D. thesis of Shaanxi Province; etc

Employment of Graduate Students

Doctors: Hua Zhao, Northwest A & F University; 
Xiwang Ke, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University; 
Rui Zang, Henan Agricultural University; etc.

Mastesr: Baoquan Huang, Agriculture Technical Extension Centre of Hanzhong; 
Jie Yang, Agriculture Technical Extension Centre of Xi'an; 
Zhe Song, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences; etc.