Prof. Yuesheng YANG

College of Life Sciences,
South China Agricultural University,
Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, China
Tel: +86-20-85280196 (O)
E-mail: ysyang@scau.edu.cn

Education

• Ph.D. (Crop Genetics and Breeding)

Faculty of Agronomy, Nagoya University, Japan, 1991

• M.S. (Plant Physiology)

Faculty of Sciences, Shizuoka University, Japan, 1988

• B.S. (Agronomy)

South China Agricultural University, China, 1982

Professional Biography

Dr. Yuesheng YANG worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Central Research Institute of Taiyo Chemical Co., Ltd, Japan from Apr. 1991 to Mar. 1992, and also as a postdoctoral fellow in the Genetic Engineering Lab in SCAU from May 1992 to Apr. 1994. He became an associate professor in the late 1994 and professor in the late 1999.

Area of Expertise

Plant cell engineering; ornamental and medicinal crop breeding; Polyploid and Hybrid vigor

Sellected Publications(*Corresponding author)

1. Li Qingling, Jiang Weizhen, Ren Yi, Chen Rong, Li Xinglian, Yang Yuesheng*, Wu  Hong*. In vitro cloning potential and phytochemical evaluations of aneuploid individuals produced from reciprocal crosses between diploid and triploid in Echinacea purpurea L.  Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae. 2017; 86(3): 3556. https://doi. org/10.5586/asbp.3556. 

2. Weizhen Jiang, Qingling Li, Xiaolu Chen, Rong Chen, Hong Wu, Yuersheng Yang*. A C-banded karyotype of mitotic chromosomes in diploid purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea L.). Hereditas, 2016, 153(1).

3. Qingling Li, Yuesheng Yang*, and Hong Wu. In vitro segregation of tetraploid and octoploid plantlets from colchicine-induced ploidy chimeras in Echinacea purpurea L. HortScience  2016 (May), 51:549-557

4. Rong Chen, Yuesheng Yang*, Hong Wu, A comparative study on rooting of in vitro regenerated shoots in haploid, diploid and tetraploid purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea L.). Biotechnology and Biotechnical Equipment, 2016, 30(1):44-48

5. Rong Chen, Weizhen Jiang, Qingling Li, Xinlian Li, Xiaolu Chen, Yuesheng Yang*, Hong Wu. Comparison of seven colchicine-induced tetraploid clones with their original diploid clones. Euphytica, 2016, 207(2): 387-399

6. Xiaolu Chen, Junjie Zhang, Rong Chen, Qingling Li, Yuesheng Yang*, Hong Wu. An uncommon plant growth regulator, diethyl aminoethyl hexanoate, is highly effective in tissue cultures of the important medicinal plant purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea L.) BioMed Research International. Volume 2013, Article ID 540316, 12 pages http://dx.doi.org/10. 1155/2013/540316

7. Qingling Li, Rong Chen, Xiaolu Chen, Yuesheng Yang*, Hong Wu (2013) Estimation of the cloning potential in six selected genotypes of purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea L.) Biotechnology and Biotechnical Equipment, 27(4), 3911-3917. http://dx.doi.org/10.5504 /bbeq.2013.0057

8. Dahanayake Nilanthi, Xiaolu Chen, Fucheng Zhao, Yuesheng Yang* and Hong Wu. Induction of tetraploids from petiole explants through colchicine treatments in Echinacea purpurea L. J. Biomed. Biotech., Article ID 343485, 7 pages, 2009. doi:10.1155/2009/343485

9. Fucheng Zhao, Dahanayake Nilanthi, Yuesheng Yang*, Hong Wu. Anther culture and haploid plant regeneration in purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea L.). Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture, 2006, 86(1):55-62

10. Yuesheng Yang, Yuzo Futsuhara, Inhibitory effects of volatile compounds released from rice callus on soybean callus growth: allelopathic evidence observed using in vitro cultures. Plant Science, 1991, 77:103-110.

11. Yuesheng Yang, Kiyomi Wada, Yuzo Futsuhara, Comparative studies of organogenesis and plant regeneration in various soybean explants. Plant Science, 1990, 72:101-108.