Professor Jianhua ZHANG

	Address	(Office):	FSC701A, HKBU
	Phone	(Office):	(852) 3411 7011
	Email		jzhang@hkbu.edu.hk
	Web		http://biol.hkbu.edu.hk/?page_id=7232

 

Education

	1988	Ph.D.	University of Lancaster, UK
	1982	B.Sc.	Jiangsu Agricultural College (now the Yangzhou University), China

 

Position

• Dean of the Faculty of Science, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
• Chair Professor of the Department of Biology, HKBU

 

Research Interests

• Plant physiology and molecular biology under environmental stresses.
• Crop production under water-limited condition.  

 

Representative Publications

• Wang, G.Q., Li, H.X., Feng, L., Chen, M.X., Meng, S., Ye, N. H., *Zhang J. 2019. Transcriptomic analysis of grain filling in rice inferior grains under moderate soil drying. Journal of Experimental Botany 70: 1597- 1611. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erz010.
• Wang G, Li H, Wang K, Yang J, Duan M, *Zhang J, Ye N. 2019. Regulation of gene expression involved in the remobilization of rice straw carbon reserves results from moderate soil drying during grain filling. The Plant Journal online doi: 10.1111/tpj.14565.
• Miao R, Wang M, Yuan W, Ren Y, Li Y, Zhang N, *Zhang J, Kronzucker HJ, Xu W. 2018. Comparative Analysis of Arabidopsis Ecotypes Reveals a Role for Brassinosteroids in Root Hydrotropism. Plant Physiology 176(4), 2720-2736. doi: 10.1104/pp.17.01563.
• Ye N-H; Wang F, Shi L; Chen M-X, Cao Y-Y, Zhu F-Y, Wu Y-Z, Xie L-J, Liu T, Su Z-Z. Xiao S, Zhang H, Yang J, Gu Y-H, Hou X, Hu Q-J, Yi H-J, Zhu C-X, *Zhang J, Liu Y-G. 2018. Natural variation in the promoter of rice Calcineurin B-like Protein10 (OsCBL10) affects flooding tolerance during seed germination among rice subspecies. The Plant Journal 94, 618-625. doi: 10.1111/tpj.13881.
• Gao B, Chen M, Li X, Liang Y, Zhu F, Liu T, Zhang D, Wood AJ, Oliver MJ, *Zhang J. 2018. Evolution by duplication: paleopolyploidy events in plants reconstructed by deciphering the evolutionary history of VOZ transcription factors. BMC Plant Biology 18, 256. doi: 10.1186/s12870-018-1437-8.
• Yang J, *Zhang J. 2006. Grain filling of cereals under soil drying. New Phytologist 169, 223-236. (Invited Tansley Review).
• *Zhang J, Jia W, Yang J, Ismail AM. Role of ABA in integrating plant responses to drought and salt stresses. Field Crops Research 97, 111-119. (Invited Review).
• Kang S, *Zhang J. 2004. Controlled alternate partial rootzone irrigation: its physiological consequences and impact on water use efficiency. Journal of Experimental Botany 55, 2437-2446. (Invited Review).
• Yang J, *Zhang J. Grain-filling problem in 'super' rice. Journal of Experimental Botany 61, 1-5. (Invited Review).
• *Zhang J. 2011. China’s success in increasing per capita food production. Journal of Experimental Botany 62, 3707-11. (Invited Review).