Yingying Cao

Research Scientist
Department of Plant Science
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
United States of America

Biography

"She completed her MS, Plant Breeding and Genetics in Cornell University and BS, Plant physiology in Lan Zhou University, China"

Research Intrest

Development of Genetic resources and tools for Setaria viridis: developing NMU mutagenized population and TILLING population, creating Setaria RIL populations, performing crosses, and BSA by sequencing for gene cloning, seed propagation and sequencing of Setaria accessions

List of Publications
Huang P, Shyu C, Coelho CP, Cao Y, Brutnell TP. Setaria viridis as a model system to advance millet genetics and genomics. Frontiers in plant science. 2016;7.
Huang P, Jiang H, Zhu C, Barry K, Jenkins J, Sandor L, Schmutz J, Box MS, Kellogg EA, Brutnell TP. Sparse panicle1 is required for inflorescence development in Setaria viridis and maize. Nature plants. 2017 Apr 18;3:17054.
Feldman MJ, Paul RE, Banan D, Barrett JF, Sebastian J, Yee MC, Jiang H, Lipka AE, Brutnell TP, Dinneny JR, Leakey AD. Time dependent genetic analysis links field and controlled environment phenotypes in the model C4 grass Setaria. PLoS Genetics. 2017 Jun 23;13(6):e1006841.

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