Dr Chunji Liu

Research Scientist 
 Agriculture
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO)
Australia

Biography

Dr Chunji Liu is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Agriculture, an adjunct professor at the University of Western Australia and the University of Tasmania. He received his PhD degree in wheat genome mapping from the University of Cambridge, UK, which was followed by a postdoc on millet genome mapping at the John Innes Centre, UK. He joined CSIRO in 1993. His current research focuses on disease resistance and cereal genome structures and evolution.

Research Intrest

 wheat genome mapping

List of Publications
Chromosome-specific sequencing reveals an extensive dispensable genome component in wheat
Effects of drought-stress on Fusarium crown rot development in barley
A tomatinase-like enzyme acts as a virulence factor in the wheat pathogen Fusarium graminearum

Global Scientific Words in Agri and Aquaculture