Song Weining
Professor in plant genomics, College of Agronomy
B.Ag.Sc. Hunan Agricultural University, 1982
M.Ag.Sc. University of Adelaide, 1987
Ph.D. University of Adelaide, 1994.
 

2006-present: Professor in plant genomics, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, China; focusing on plant genomics and crop improvement.
2002-2006: Senior scientist, Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel; working on the cloning and characterization of drought tolerant genes derived from wild barley and wheat from middleeast, the transformation and expression of drought tolerant genes from wild barley in Arabadopsis, as well as identification and cloning of salt tolerant genes in Fungus from the dead sea.
1997-2002: Head of molecular biology lab, Leslie Research Centre, Queensland State Government, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia. Working on the molecular genetics of cereal crops, including molecular marker analysis, gene cloning and function characterization.
1996-1997: Centre for Conservation Genetics, University of Southern Cross, Lismore, NSW, Australia.
1992-1996: Queensland Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, QLD, Australia.
Professor Song has given a number of invited lectures including "Cereal Genome Analysis: From Molecular Biology to Agriculture” in Department of Crop and Soil Science, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington State, USA; and "Advances in Genomics” in Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan, China
Professor Song has published 18 papers in international journals and 22 papers in national and international conference on molecular biology and crop improvements. Most of his research focuses on genome analysis and the application of molecular biology to crop improvements.
 

Funding sources:
Education Ministry
Ministry of Agriculture
Ministry of Science and Technology
Northwest A&F University
 

Recent publications:
Chen, Y. H., Weining, S. and Daggard, G. (2003) Preparation of total RNA from a very small wheat embryo suitable for differential display. Annals of Applied Biology 143: 261-264 (corresponding author)
Chen, Y. H., Weining, S. and Daggard, G. (2004) Anchor primer associated problems in differential display reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. Analytical Biochemistry 329, 145-147 (corresponding author)
Chen, G., Sagi, M., Weining, S., Krugman, T., Fahima, T., Korol, A. B. and Nevo, E. (2004) Wild barley eibi1 mutation identifies a gene essential for leaf water conservation. Planta 219, 684-693
Jin Y., Weining, S., and Nevo, E. (2005) A MAPK gene from a Dead Sea fungus confers stress tolerance to lithium salt and freezing-thawing: Prospects for saline agriculture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102, 18992-18997
Hu, Y., Zhu, J., Liu, F., Zhang, Z., Chai Y., Weining, S. (2008) Genetic Diversity among Chinese Landraces and Cultivars of Broomcorn Millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) Annals of Applied Biology 153，357–364 (corresponding author)
Weining, S. and Liu D. (2009) Isolation of nucleic acids from plants. In: Handbook of Nucleic Acid Purification. Ed. Liu, D. Taylor & Francis CRC Press (corresponding author)
Lei, C., Su, R., Bower, M., Edwards, C., Wang, C., Weining, S., Liu, L., Xie, M., Li, F., Liu, R., Zhang, Y., Zhang, C. and Chen, H. (2009) Multiple maternal origins of native modern and ancient horse populations in China. Animal Genetics, 40, 933–944
 

Patents:
"Transgenic Plants Containing A Drought Resistant Dehydrin Gene” (US patent application No. 60/580.726; International patent application No. PCT/IL2005/000656)
"Salt Stress Tolerant Organisms Expressing a MAP Kinase Homologue” (US patent application No. 60/607.573; International patent application No. PCT/IL2005/000953)
 

Contact:
Song Weining, PhD
Professor of Plant Genomics
College of Agronomy
Northwest A&F University
3 Taicheng Rd
Yangling, Shaanxi 712100
China
E-mail: sweining2002@yahoo.com
Phone: 86 29 87082984
Fax: 86 29 87082203