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For my postdoctoral program:

Laboratory of Ecosystem Analysis and Regional Assessment (EARA),
College of Life Science, Beijing Normal University
19 Xinjiekouwai Street, Beijing, 100875, P.R.China
Phone: 86-10-58805291, Fax: 86-10-58808999
E-mail: xiongzheng1202@sina.com

For my current employment:

MOE Key Laboratory of Arid and Grassland Ecology,
College of Life Science, Lanzhou University
222 South Tianshui Street, Lanzhou, 730000, P.R.China
Phone: 86-931-3788894, Fax: 86-931-8912823,
E-mail: xiongyc@lzu.edu.cn

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Published SCI papers :

• You-Cai Xiong, Feng-Min Li* and Ting Zhang. 2006. Performance of wheat crops with different chromosome ploidy: root-sourced signals, drought tolerance and yield performance. Planta. 224(3) 710-718.
• You-Cai Xiong, Feng-Min Li*, Bing-Cheng Xu and Kenneth C. Hodgkinson. 2006. Hydraulic and Non-hydraulic Root-sourced Signals in Old and Modern Spring Wheat Cultivars in the Semiarid Area. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation. 25: 1-18.
• You-Cai Xiong, Feng-Min Li*, Ting Zhang, Chen Xia. 2007. Evolutional mechanism of non-hydraulic root-to-shoot signal during the anti-drought genetic breeding of spring wheat. Environmental and Experimental Botany. 59: 193-205.
• You-Cai Xiong, Geng-Mei Xing, Feng-Min Li, Shao-Ming Wang, Xian-Wei Fan, Zhi-Xiao Li and Ya-Fu Wang. 2006. Abscisic acid promotes accumulation of toxin ODAP in relation to free spermine level in grass pea seedlings (Lathyrus sativus L.). Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 44:161-169
• You-Cai Xiong, Geng-Mei Xing, Zheng Zheng, Ya-Fu Wang, Zhi-Xiao Li, Feng-Min Li*. 2005. Europium (Eu 3+ ) Improve Drought Tolerance but Decrease the ODAP Level in Grass Pea (Lathyrus Sativus L.) Seedlings. Journal of Rare Earths. 23:502-507.
• You-Cai Xiong, Geng-Mei Xing, Shao-Ming Wang, Kai-Rong Cui, Zhi-Xiao Li and Ya-Fu Wang. 2006. Dual role of abscisic acid on antioxidative defense in grass pea seedling (Lathyrus Sativus L.). Pakistan Journal of Botany. 38(2): (In press)
• You-Cai Xiong, Jian-Ping Ge, Guo-Jun Sun, and Feng-Min Li. 2006. Trigger timing of non-hydraulic root-sourced signal: A novel strategy to improve water use efficiency and dehydration tolerance in dryland wheat (Triticum aestivum). Planta. (In review)
• You-Cai Xiong and Feng-Min Li. 2006. The effect of rare earth element Eu 3+ on root-sourced signal behavior and drought tolerance in grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.). Journal of Rare Earths (In review)
• You-Cai Xiong and Feng-Min Li. 2006. Differential contribution of root system and drought tolerance to yield formation in spring what cultivars grown in varying soil moisture. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment (Submitted)
• You-Cai Xiong and Feng-Min Li. 2006. Drought tolerance is the critical determinant to improve yield performance of dryland spring wheat in northwestern China. Euphytica (Submitted)
• You-Cai Xiong, Tian-Ming Wang, Feng-Min Li, Dong-Xia Yue, Ming-Bo Yang, Hui Wang, Hui Wen and Jian-Ping Ge*. 2006. Eco-physiological role of sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) as an indicator of climatic change. Plant Ecology. (Submitted)
• You-Cai Xiong, Tian-Ming Wang, Feng-Min Li, Dong-Xia Yue, Ming-Bo Yang, Hui Wang, Hui Wen and Jian-Ping Ge*.2006. Non-hydraulic stomatal regulation of forest vegetation on increased streamflow in the Ziwuling mountain watershed of Loess Plateau. Plant Ecology. (Submitted)
• Shao-Ming Wang, Xia Zhang, Yu Li, Ling Zhang, You-Cai Xiong and Gang Wang*.2005. Spatial distribution patterns of the soil seed bank of Stipagrostis pennata (Trin.) de Winter in the Gurbantonggut Desert of north-west China. Journal of Arid Environment. 63: 203-222.
• Guo-Ju Xiao, Qiang Zhang, You-Cai Xiong, Mao-Zhi Lin, Jing Wang. 2006. Integrating rainwater harvesting with supplemental irrigation into rain-fed spring wheat farming. Soil & Tillage Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2006.06.001.
• Sheng-Mao Yang, S. S. Malhi, Jian-Rong Song, You-Cai Xiong, Wei-Yun Yue, Jian-Guo Wang and Tian-Wen Guo. 2006. Effects of 23 Annual Fertilizations Manuring on Crop Yield, N Uptake and Nitrate-N Accumulation in Soil in the Rainfed Region of China. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 76 (1) 81-94.
• An-Ning Suo, You-Cai Xiong, Tian-Ming Wang, Jian-Ping Ge. 2006. Hydrological response to deforestation in a typical mountain watershed of Loess Plateau. Journal of Hydrology (In press) .
• Tai-Chun Wang, You-Cai Xiong, Yu Li, Shao-Ming Wang and Gang Wang. 2006. Revegatation following soil disturbance created by Plateau zokors (Myospalax baileyi) in a Tibetan meadow: A 4-year history of recovery. Journal of Arid Environment.(Accepted).

　　Papers in Chinese Language

• 熊友才, 李凤民. 半干旱地区抗旱作物的育种方向和策略. 生物学通报, 2004.39(3): 4-6.
• 陈阿城, 熊友才, 张晟. 性别在进化中的角色. 生物学通报, 2005,40(1): 22-23. (通讯联系人)
• 王辉, 刘丽娟, 毕晓丽, 熊友才, 周睿, 洪军, 葛剑平. 基于MODIS的泾河流域植被动态年际变化研究. 植物生态学报（印刷中）
• 周 睿, 王 辉, 葛剑平, 熊友才, 吴记贵. 松山自然保护区各功能区植被动态及变化格局. 生物多样性, 2006, 14 (6): 470-478

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MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS

Landscape Eco-physiology:

　　Elucidation of landscape-control of water supply to plants in water-limited environments and model development of the effects of human activity on land uses and vegetation fragmentation. Development of models for predicting the ecological security pattern, and for determining the influence of land use regimes on these lifecycle processes. Development of critical thresholds suitable for adaptive management of forest landscapes. Coupling relationship between loess depths and vegetation distribution and cover. Ecological mechanism of biodiversity loss on affecting ecosystem function and structure in the direction of landscape genetics.

Plant Eco-physiology:

　　Under the evolvement from the wild plants to the forage grass to the crops, the element of natural selection is being gradually reduced, while the artificial selection pressure is increasing, consequently, constitutes a sound diversification gradient ranging from natural selection to artificial one. In this study, annual or perennial gramineae and leguminous plants/crops were chosen as experimental materials to explore the interaction between such attributes as the ability to compete for water resources, root-to-shoot resource distribution, root system efficiency, root-sourced signal and productivity formation. Meanwhile, the experimental methods involving plant physiology and biochemistry even molecular biology were employed to explain the mechanism of this interaction, and further consummate the plants/crops anti-drought theory framework on the basis of the ecology of ‘life history'. Exploring the drought resistance of plants/crops in terms of competition, selection and life history evolution, will probably widen current research field, and provide a new breakthrough to reveal fundamental biological process of drought resistance and its operative mechanism in plants/crops. This would provide new theory evidence for dryland agricultural development and ecological environmental construction in Loess Plateau.

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