Title：Research progress on wheat stripe rust

Speaker: Professor Xianming Chen

Time: 15:00-17:00, November 25, 2016

Venue: Meeting Room 2302, the Reserch Building, South Campus of NWAFU

Introduction of speaker:

Xianming Chen earned his B.S. degree in plant protection from Northwest Agricultural University in 1982 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in plant pathology from Washington State University (WSU) in 1987 and 1991, respectively. After working as a post-doctoral research associate at WSU from 1991 to 1997 and a post-doctoral plant geneticist with the USDA-ARS from 1997 to 2000, he was hired as a research plant pathologist in the USDA-ARS Wheat Genetics, Quality, Physiology, and Disease Research Unit and was appointed as an adjunct faculty in the WSU Department of Plant Pathology in 2000.

His research program focuses on the control of rusts of cereal crops.Chen’s research program has been highly successful in generating knowledge and developing resources and techniques for more effective control of stripe rusts of wheat and barley. His concepts and strategies for developing wheat and barley cultivars with durable resistance are widely adopted by wheat and barley breeders internationally. He has made important scientific contributions in the areas of disease epidemiology and forecasting; virulence and race identification of the wheat and barley stripe rust pathogens; molecular characterization and genomics of the pathogens; characterization, identification, and molecular mapping of resistance genes and mechanisms of plant resistance; and cultural and chemical control of rusts.

Chen has established and improved the systems for characterizing races of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici and P. striiformis f. sp. hordei.

Chen’s program supports the U.S. wheat and barley breeding programs in developing stripe rust-resistant cultivars.

Chen has authored or coauthored 137 peer-reviewed research articles, two extension articles, 79 technical publications, five book chapters, and 159 abstracts, and he is highly regarded as an international authority on stripe rust.

State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas
College of Plant Protection
November 23th, 2016