Yongsheng Cao

Yongsheng Cao

Head of the Research Group of Crop Germplasm Resources Information

Center for Crop Germplasm Resources

Institute of Crop Sciences

No. 12 Zhongguancun South Street

Beijing, 100081, China

Tel:86-10-62186693

Fax:86-10-62156875

Email:caoyongsheng@caas.cn

Educations

·1985-1989, BS in Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China

Working Experience

·2023.01-now, Vice dean, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

·2019.05-2023.01，Director General, Research Institute of pomology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

·2016.05-2019.05, Director General, Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

·1989.7-now, Professor, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Research Interests

·CGR Information Management and System

·CGR Standards

·CGR Data Analysis and Mining

Academic Qualifications

·Member of the International Science and Technology Data Committee

·Member of the Standardization Technical Committee of the National Science and Technology Platform

·Editorial board members of journals such as Journal of Plant Genetic Resources, China Seed Industry, and Crop Journal

·Recipient of the State Council Government Special Allowance

Selected Publications (*corresponding authors)

Hao Wang, Shen Yan, Wenxi Wang, Yongming Chen, Jingpeng Hong, Qiang He, Xianmin Diao, Yunan Lin, Yanqing Chen, Yongsheng Cao*, Weilong Guo, Wei Fang, 2025. Cropformer: An interpretable deep learning framework for crop genomic prediction.  Plant Communications 6(3):101223.

Hao Wang, Xiangzheng Fu, Lijia Liu, Yi Wang, Jingpeng Hong, Bintao Pan, Yaning Cao, Yanqing Chen, Yongsheng Cao*, Xiaoding Ma, Wei Fang , Shen Yan, 2025. PhytoCluster: a generative deep learning model for clustering plant single-cell RNA-seq data.  aBIOTECH 6:189–201.

Yunan Lin, Yanqing Chen, Hao Wang, Jingpeng Hong, Ruonan Yang, Yongsheng Cao*, Shen Yan, Wei Fang, 2024. Global potential distributions and conservation status of rice wild relatives. Plants, People, Planet 6: 979–991.

Hao Wang, YuNan Lin, Shen Yan, JingPeng Hong, JiaRui Tan, YanQing Chen, YongSheng Cao* , Wei Fang .2023. NRTPredictor: identifying rice root cell state in single-cell RNA-seq via ensemble learning.  Plant Methods 19:119.

Members of Research Group

Wei Fang, Yanqing Chen, Shen Yan