Yong-Bi Fu

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Research Scientist

Crop Genetic Diversity

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
107 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK

Current research and/or projects

  • Molecular characterization of oat and barley germplasm collections
  • Molecular inference of flax domestication and molecular analysis of wild oat species
  • Molecular investigation of genetic erosion in Canadian crop gene pools, focusing on wheat and barley
  • Molecular diversity analysis of native and endangered plant species, focusing on plains rough fescue and blue grama

Research and/or project statements

  • Plant population and conservation genetics
  • Crop genetic diversity and domestication
  • Molecular characterization and conservation of plant germplasm
  • In situ conservation and utilization of native plants
  • Molecular markers and DNA sequence analysis

Professional activities / interests

  • Professeur auxiliaire, Département de phytotechnie, Université de la Saskatchewan
  • Membre du Comité éditorial sur la biodiversité
  • Corédacteur, Communications in Biometry and Crop Science

Education and awards

Nanjing Forestry University 1979-1983, BSc

Lakehead University 1988-1990, MSc

University of Toronto 1990-1994, PhD

University of British Columbia 1994-1998, postdocal researcher

Additional links

https://pgrc.agr.gc.ca/staff/fu_e.html

https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=rgUyjaUAAAAJ&hl=en

Key publications

  1. Fu YB and Tinker NA (2017) An update on PGRC oat germplasm research. Oral presentation by Nick Tinker at AAFC / USDA Oat Forum, Cornell, Ithaca, New York, November 13-14, 2017

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  2. Zeng, F., Biligetu, B., Coulman, B., Schellenberg, M.P., Fu, Y.B. (2017). RNA-seq analysis of plant maturity in crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum L.). Genes, [online] 8(11), http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes8110291

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  3. Fu YB (2017) Searching for a roadmap for conserving plant genetic resources. Invited by Dr. Luis Fernando Flores Lui, President of the Organizing Committee, XI International Symposium on Genetic Resources for the Americas and the Caribeean. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, October 15-18, 2017

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  4. Fu, Y.-B., Yang, M.-H., Zeng, F., Biligetu, B. (2017). Searching for an accurate marker-based prediction of an individual quantitative trait in molecular plant breeding, 8 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.01182

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  5. Fu YB (2017) Evidence for congruent three-genome phylogenetic signals for four botanical sections of the flax genus Linum. 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution, Austin, Texas, USA, July 2nd – 6th, 2017

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  6. Yang, M.H., Fu, Y.B. (2017). An R version of FPTest for testing differences in allelic count. Conservation Genetics Resources, [online] 9(2), 313-318. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12686-016-0644-6

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  7. Fu YB (2017) Towards a better monitoring of seed ageing under ex situ seed conservation. EUCARPIA Genetic Resources 2017, Montpellier, France, May 8-11, 2017

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  8. Zeng, F., Biligetu, B., Coulman, B., Schellenberg, M.P., Fu, Y.B. (2017). RNA-Seq analysis of gene expression for floral development in crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum L.). PLoS ONE, [online] 12(5), http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177417

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  9. Fu, Y.B., Yang, M.H., Horbach, C., Kessler, D., Diederichsen, A., You, F.M., Wang, H. (2017). Patterns of SSR variation in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) seeds under ex situ genebank storage and accelerated ageing. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, [online] 64(2), 277-290. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10722-015-0349-9

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  10. Fu YB, and Yang MH. 2016. Genotyping-by-sequencing and its application to oat genomic research. In: Sebastian Gasparis (ed) Oat – Methods and Protocols. Springer Science+Business Media New York, pp 169-187

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  11. Fu YB (2017) Evidence for congruent three-genome phylogenetic signals for four botanical sections of the flax genus Linum. . Invited by Dr. Sylvie Cloutier, AAFC, for Flax Genomics Workshop at Plant and Animal Genome Conference at San Diego, January 13-18, 2017

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  12. Fu YB (2017) Evidence for congruent three-genome phylogenetic signals for four botanical sections of the flax genus Linum. . Invited by Dr. Sylvie Cloutier, AAFC, for Flax Genomics Workshop at Plant and Animal Genome Conference at San Diego, January 13-18, 2017

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  13. You, F.M., Li, P., Ragupathy, R., Kumar, S., Zhu, T., Luo, M.-C., Duguid, S.D., Rashid, K.Y., Booker, H.M., Deyholos, M.K., Fu, Y.B., Sharpe, A.G., and Cloutier, S. (2016). "The Draft Flax Genome Pseudomolecules.", 66th Flax Institute of the United States, Holiday Inn, Fargo, North Dakota, USA, March 31-April 1, 2016, pp. 17-24.

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  14. You FM, Li P, Ragupathy R, Kumar S, Zhu T, Luo M-C, Duguid SD, Rashid K, Booker H, Deyholos M, Fu Y-B, Sharpe A, Cloutier S (2016) The draft flax genome pseudomolecules. 66th Flax Institute of the United States, Fargo, North Dakota, March 31-April 1, 2016.

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  15. Ahmed, Z., Yang, H., Fu, Y.B. (2016). The associative changes in scutellum nuclear content and morphology with viability loss of naturally aged and accelerated aging wheat (Triticum aestivum) seeds. Frontiers in Plant Science, [online] 7(September2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.01474

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  16. Fu YB (2016) A new lab guide on genotyping-by-sequencing for plant genetic diversity. The oral presentation at EUCARPIA Zurich 2016/08/28 - 2016/09/01

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  17. Yan, H., Bekele, W. A., Wight, C. P., Peng, Y., Langdon, T., Latta, R. G., Fu, Y.-B., Diederichsen, A., Howarth, C. J., Jellen, E. N., Boyle, B., Wei, Y., and Tinker, N. A., 2016: High-density marker profiling confirms ancestral genomes of Avena species and identifies D-genome chromosomes of hexaploid oat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 129, 2133–2149.

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  18. Fu, Y.B., Dong, Y., Yang, M.H. (2016). Multiplexed shotgun sequencing reveals congruent three-genome phylogenetic signals for four botanical sections of the flax genus Linum. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, [online] 101 122-132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.05.010

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  19. Fu YB (2016) Genotyping-by-Sequencingfor Genetic Diversity Analysis. The oral presentation at Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution - 2016 Annual Meeting St. John 2016/07/07 - 2016/07/11

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  20. Fu YB, Cloutier S, Tinker N (2016) Molecular characterization of plant germplasm in Plant Gene Resources of Canada: some lessons learnt for DivSeek. DivSeek Workshop. Saskatoon, Sk, 18 June 2016

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Contact

Research facility

Saskatoon Research and Development Centre
107 Science Place
Saskatoon, SK S7N 0X2
Canada

Expertise

Agriculture›Genomics›Cereal

Affiliations

  • Adjunct Professor, University of Saskatchewan, Department of Plant Sciences
  • Editorial board member for Diversity, Sci and BMC Genomics
  • Associate Editor for Frontiers in Plant Science

Language

English