Jinpeng Zhang

Jinpeng Zhang

Center for Crop Germplasm Resources

Institute of Crop Sciences

No.12 Zhongguancun South Street

Beijing, 100081, China

Tel:86-10-62189650

Fax:86-10-62189650

Email: zhangjinpeng@caas.cn

Educations

l  Ph.D. 2006 Genetics, China Agricultural University

l  M.S. 1999 Plant Physiology, South China Agricultural University

l  B.S. 1996 Agronomy, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University

Working Experience

l  2019-now, Professor, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

l  2011-2018, Associate Professor, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

l  2009-2010, Assistant Professor, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Research Interests

l  Collecting and introduction of wheat germplasms

l  Phenotyping, genotyping and gene discovery of wheat germplasms

l  Pre-breeding of wheat germplasm using wild relatives and landraces

Academic Qualifications

l  Winner of the Second Prize of The State Technological Invention Award

l  Winner of the Second Prize of Shaanxi Province Science and Technology Progress Award

l  Chief Scientist of the Innovation Team of Exploring and Pre-breeding of Elite Wheat and Barley Germplasm Resources

l  Committee Member of Genetic Resources Branch, China Association of Agricultural Science Societies

Selected Publications (*corresponding authors)

1.       Yueming Ren, Mengzhen Luo, Yajun Feng, Qifan Chen, Chao Ma, Wenxuan Liu, Fu Guo, Qianwen Liu, Muhammad Amjad, Ranran Jia, Xinpei He, Xiang Ji, Yanlong Zhao, Weixiu Kong, Mengqing Guo, Luna Tao, Zheng Yang, Kai Han, Guihong Yin, Sunish K. Sehgal, Yue Zhao*, Jinpeng Zhang*, Huanhuan Li*. 2025. Homoeologous recombination-based transfer and cytological mapping of the novel powdery mildew resistance gene Pm7C from Aegilops caudata. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 138:228.

2.       Bohui Han, Xiao Wang, Yangyang Sun, Xilu Kang, Meng Zhang, Jiawen Luo, Haiming Han, Shenghui Zhou, Yuqing Lu, Weihua Liu, Xinming Yang, Xiuquan Li, Jinpeng Zhang*, Lihui Li*. 2024. Pre-breeding of spontaneous Robertsonian translocations for density planting architecture by transferring Agropyron cristatum chromosome 1P into wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 137:110.

3.       Yangyang Sun, Haiming Han, Xiao Wang, Bohui Han, Shenghui Zhou, Meng Zhang, Weihui Liu, Xiuquan Li, Xiaomin Guo, Yuqing Lu, Xinming Yang, Jinpeng Zhang*, Xu Liu*, Lihui Li*. 2022. Development and application of universal ND-FISH probes for detecting P-genome chromosomes based on Agropyron cristatum transposable elements. Molecular Breeding 42: 48.

4.       Xiao Wang, Bohui Han, Yangyang Sun, Xilu Kang, Meng Zhang, Haiming Han, Shenghui Zhou, Weihua Liu, Yuqing Lu, Xinming Yang, Xiuquan Li, Jinpeng Zhang*, Xu Liu*, Lihui Li*. 2022. Introgression of chromosome 1P from Agropyron cristatum reduces leaf size and plant height to improve the plant architecture of common wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 135(6):1951-1963.

5.       Jinpeng Zhang, Qifu Yao, Ruixin Li, Yuqing Lu, Shenghui Zhou, Haiming Han, Weihua Liu, Xiuquan Li, Xinming Yang, Lihui Li*. 2022. Identification of Genetic Loci on Chromosome 4B for Improving the Grain Number per Spike in Pre-Breeding Lines of Wheat. Agronomy 12: 171.

6.       Yangyang Sun, Mingjie Lyu, Haiming Han, Shenghui Zhou, Yuqing Lu, Weihua Liu, Xinming Yang, Xiuquan Li, Jinpeng Zhang*, Xu Liu*, Lihui Li*. 2021. Identification and fine mapping of alien fragments associated with enhanced grain weight from Agropyron cristatum chromosome 7P in common wheat backgrounds. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 134: 3759-3772.

7.       Huihui Ma, Jinpeng Zhang, Jing Zhang, Shenghui Zhou, Haiming Han, Weihua Liu, Xinming Yang, Xiuquan Li, Lihui Li*. 2019. Development of P genome-specific SNPs and their application in tracing Agropyron cristatum introgressions in common wheat. The Crop Journal 7:151-162.

8.       Shenghui Zhou, Jinpeng Zhang, Yonghe Che, Weihua Liu, Yuqing Lu, Xinming Yang, Xiuquan Li, Jizeng Jia, Xu Liu*, Lihui Li*. 2018. Construction of Agropyron Gaertn. genetic linkage maps using a wheat 660K SNP array reveals a homoeologous relationship with the wheat genome. Plant Biotechnology Journal 16:818-827

9.       Jinpeng Zhang, Weihua Liu, Yuqing Lu, Qunxing Liu, Xinming Yang, Xiuquan Li, Lihui Li*. 2017. A resource of large-scale molecular markers for monitoring Agropyron cristatum chromatin introgression in wheat background based on transcriptome sequences. Scientific Reports 7: 11942

10.    Dan Chen, Jinpeng Zhang, Weihua Liu, Xiaoyang Wu, Xinming Yang, Xiuquan Li, Yuqing Lu, Lihui Li*. 2016. Gene and protein expression profi ling analysis of young spike development in large spike wheat germplasms. Journal of Integrative Agriculture 15(4): 744-754.

11.    Yan Zhang, Jinpeng Zhang, Long Huang, Ainong Gao, Jing Zhang, Xinming Yang, Weihua Liu, Xiuquan Li, Lihui Li*. 2015. A high-density genetic map for P genome of Agropyron Gaertn. based on specific-locus amplified fragment sequencing (SLAF-seq). Planta 242:1335-1347.

12.    Jing Zhang, Jinpeng Zhang, Weihua Liu, Haiming Han, Yuqing Lu, Xinming Yang, Xiuquan Li, Lihui Li*. 2015. Introgression of Agropyron cristatum 6P chromosome segment into common wheat for enhanced thousand-grain weight and spike length. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 128:1827-1837.

13.    Jinpeng Zhang, Weihua Liu, Haiming Han, Liqiang Song, Li Bai, Zhihui Gao, Yan Zhang, Xinming Yang, Xiuquan Li, Ainong Gao, Lihui Li*. 2015. De novo transcriptome sequencing of Agropyron cristatum to identify available gene resources for the enhancement of wheat. Genomics 106:129-136.

14.    Jinpeng Zhang, Jun Wu, Weihua Liu, Xiang Lu, Xinming Yang, Ainong Gao, Xiuquan Li, Yuqing Lu, Lihui Li*. 2013. Genetic mapping of a fertile tiller inhibition gene, ftin, in wheat. Molecular Breeding 31:441-449.

15.    Dan Chen, Jinpeng Zhang, Jiansheng Wang, Xinming Yang, Weihua Liu, Ainong Gao, Xiuquan Li and Lihui Li*. 2012. Inheritance and Availability of High Grain Number Per Spike in Two Wheat Germplasm Lines. Journal of Integrative Agriculture 11(9):1409-1416.

16.    Jinpeng Zhang, Weihua Liu, Xinming Yang, Ainong Gao, Xiuquan Li, Xiaoyang Wu, Lihui Li*. 2011. Isolation and characterization of two putative cytokinin oxidase genes related to grain number per spike phenotype in wheat. Molecular Biology Reports 38:2337-2347.

17.    Yunling Peng, Jinpeng Zhang, Gaoyi Cao, Yuanhong Xie, Xihui Liu, Minhui Lu, Guoying Wang*. 2010. Overexpression of a PLDa1 gene from Setaria italica enhances the sensitivity of Arabidopsis to abscisic acid and improves its drought tolerance. Plant Cell Reports 29:793-802.

18.    Jinpeng Zhang, Tingsong Liu, Junjie Fu, Yun Zhu, Jinping Jia, Jun Zheng, Yinhe Zhao, Ying Zhang, Guoying Wang*. 2007. Construction and application of EST library from Setaria italica in response to dehydration stress. Genomics 90:121-131.