Professor and Vice Dean
Education Backgroud:
1991.09–1995.06: Bachelor’s Degree in Horticulture, Fujian Agricultural College.
1995.09–1998.06: Master’s Degree in Pomology, Fujian Agricultural University.
1998.09–2002.06: Doctoral Degree in Pomology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University.
Research Focus: Genetics and Breeding of Horticultural Plants.
International Experience:
2002.02–2003.02: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Iowa, USA.
2014.01–2015.01: Visiting Scholar, The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research.
Representative Publication:
(1) Huang, Fenna; Fu, Zhiyuan; Zeng, Lihui*; Morley-Bunker, Michael ; Isolation and characterization of GI and FKF1 homologous genes in the subtropical fruit tree Dimocarpus longan, Molecular Breeding , 2017, 37(7): 90.
(2) Fan Liang; Yiyong Zhang; Xiaodan Wang; Shuo Yang; Ting Fang; Shaoquan Zheng; Lihui Zeng *; Integrative mRNA and Long Noncoding RNA Analysis Reveals the Regulatory Network of Floral Bud Induction in Longan (Dimocarpus longan Lour.), Frontiers in Plant Science , 2022,13(923183) .
(3) Xiuqing Wei; Min Chen; Xijuan Zhang; Yinghao Wang; Liang Li; Ling Xu; Huanhuan Wang;Mengwei Jiang; Caihui Wang; Lihui Zeng*; Jiahui Xu; The Haplotype-resolved Autotetraploid Genome Assembly Provides Insights into the genomic evolution and fruit divergence in Wax apple (Syzygium samarangense (BI.) Merr.et Perry), Horticulture Research , 2023, 10(12), uhad214. doi: 10.1093/hr/uhad214. eCollection
(4) Ting Fang; Mengzhen Wang; Ruijie He; Qiaowen Chen; Dayi He; Xuerong Chen; Yongkang Li; Rui Ren; Weijun Yu; Lihui Zeng*; A 224-bp Indel in the Promoter of PeMYB114 Accounts for Anthocyanin Accumulation of Skin in Passion Fruit (Passiflora spp.), Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry , 2024, 72(17): 10138-10148.
(5) Wenqiu Wang; Sarah M. A. Moss; Lihui Zeng; Richard V. Espley; Tianchi Wang; Kui Lin-Wang; Bei-ling Fu; Kathy E. Schwinn; Andrew C. Allan; Xueren Yin; The red flesh of kiwifruit is differentially controlled by specific activation–repression systems, New Phytologist , 2022, 235: 630-645.
Research Projects:
(1) Studies on the Molecular Mechanism of LFY Homologous Gene Expression mutation in Sijimi Longan (Dimocarpus longan), National Natural Science Foundation of China (30971989).
(2) The mechanism of NtAGL6-1 gene regulating the development of single-petal and double-petal flowers in Chinese narcissus, National Natural Science Foundation of China (31601783).