Hui Xia
Title: Professor
Address: Room 402, Institute of Water-saving and Drought-resistance Rice Green Industry (Building No. 38), South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou.
Contact Tel: 13826652114
Email:xiah1981@scau.edu.cn
RESEARCH INTEREST
Focusing on basic and applied researches on the water-saving and drought-resistance rice (WDR), including the domestication of upland rice, genetic and molecular bases of rice drought resistance, and the molecular design breeding of WDR.
EDUCATION
(1) September 2004 to June 2011, Fudan University, Botany, PhD
(3) September 2000 to June 2004, Fudan University, School of Life Sciences, Bachelor's degree
WORK EXPERIENCE
(1) 2024-04 to present, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Professor
(2) 2021-12 to 2024.03, Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Researcher
(3) 2013-11 to 2021-11, Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Associate Researcher
(4) 2011-8 to 2013-10, Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Postdoctoral position
AWARDS AND HONORS
Shanghai Oriental Youth Talent (2022)
PUBLICATIONS
Yan M, Feng HM, Gu M, et al. (2025) Variation in the promoter of OsNPF7.1 contributes to nitrate uptake, remobilization, and grain yield in upland rice. Journal of Genetics and Genomics,52: 954-957. (Contributing author)
Li ZM, Wang L, Liu Y, et al. (2025) WDR6K, a designed SNP array for the research and improvement of rice drought-resistance. Plant Stress, 15：100800. (Contributing author)
Zhou HL, Wang L, Yue YX, et al. (2024) Independent genetic differentiation between upland and lowland rice ecotypes within japonica and indica subspecies during their adaptations to different soil‐nitrogen conditions. Journal of Systematic and Evolution, 62(5):915-927. (Contributing author)
Wang L, Ma XS, Liu Y, et al. (2024) Flexibility of parental‑like or maternal‑like gene expression under diverse environments contributes to combined drought avoidance and drought tolerance in a water‑saving and drought‑resistance rice hybrid. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 137.221. (Contributing author)
Luo Z, Xia H, Bao ZG, et al. (2022) Integrated phenotypic, phylogenomic, and evolutionary analyses indicate the earlier domestication of Geng upland rice in China. Molecular Plant, 15: 1506-1509. (Co-First and Co-Contributing author)
Xia H, Zhang XX, Liu Y, et al. (2022) Blue Revolution for Food Security under Carbon Neutrality: A Case from the Water-saving and Drought-resistance Rice. Molecular Plant,15: 1-4. (First author)
Luo Z, Xiong J, Xia H, et al. (2020) Transcriptomic divergence between upland and lowland ecotypes contributes to rice adaptation to a drought-prone agroecosystem. Evolutionary Applications, 13: 2484-2496. (Co-First and Co-Contributing author)