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Jinguo HU
Last name : HU
First name : Jinguo
Entrance year : 2024
Occupation : Retired
Birthdate : 1954/12/30
Language : Chinese (Simplified), English (USA)
Address : 2124 Muller Dr. 95776 Woodland / United States
Main fields of interest :
  • Agronomy
Professional experience : I worked as a molecular geneticist at the USDA Sunflower Research Unit in Fargo, North Dakota for six years and developed DNA-based markers associated with important agronomic traits in sunflower and I am the lead editor of book entitled "Genetics, Genomicis and Breeding of Sunflower".
Education : 1989 Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of California at Davis, Davis, California, USA. 1982 M.S. in Crop Genetics and Breeding, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Selected publications : Hu, J., Seiler, G. and Kole, C. eds., 2010. Genetics, genomics and breeding of sunflower. CRC press. Hu, J. and Vick, B.A., 2003. Target region amplification polymorphism: a novel marker technique for plant genotyping. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, 21, pp.289-294. Yue, B.I.N.G., Vick, B.A., Cai, X.I.W.E.N. and Hu, J., 2010. Genetic mapping for the Rf1 (fertility restoration) gene in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) by SSR and TRAP markers. Plant Breeding, 129(1), pp.24-28. Yue, B., Radi, S.A., Vick, B.A., Cai, X., Tang, S., Knapp, S.J., Gulya, T.J., Miller, J.F. and Hu, J., 2008. Identifying quantitative trait loci for resistance to Sclerotinia head rot in two USDA sunflower germplasms. Phytopathology, 98(8), pp.926-931.