Liquan JING, male, is born in 1985. He is a member of the Communist Party of China and a member of  the 15th Group of Science and Technology Mayors of Jiangsu Province, PhD in crop science, postdoctor in biology, associate professor, and master’s supervisor. He has visited Nottingham University, UK in 2013, thus financed by the High-level Talents Introduction Fund of Yangzhou University in 2016. Four years later, JING was funded by the Jiangsu Province Scholarship Fund to visit University of Queensland in Australia as a visiting scholar. He has become an evaluation expert of the National Natural Science Foundation of China since 2022.  

     His research mainly focuses on the research and teaching of crop quality and yield formation mechanism and its regulation.

     In recent years, Liquan JING focuses on the study of the mechanism and regulation of rice quality in response to environmental changes. It has been supported by 14 scientific research projects, including three national, three provincial, and two university projects. Research results were published in TOP journals at home and abroad, including Food Hydrocolloids, Science of the Total Environment, Environmental Pollution, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, and Acta Ecologica Sinica. At the same time, Liquan JING is a reviewer of several international journals such as European Journal of Agronomy, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Ecosystem Health and Sustainability,  and Food Research International.

 Enrollment specialty: Crop Science, Agronomy, and Agronomy and Seed Industry (an alternative of combined training with Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences). 

     Research Fields: Rice quality formation mechanism, strategy  and its principle for crops to adapt to climate change based on biological collaboration.

  Team advantages: Top research platform, harmonious working environment, adequate funds, and competitive living allowances. 

Chaired high-level research projects:

1.   江苏省自然科学基金项目: 大气CO₂浓度升高与稻田伴生浮萍协同调控水稻产量形成的碳氮代谢机理, BK20251910, 2025.09.01-2028.08.31;

2.   国家自然科学基金面上项目：基于淀粉粒结构解析高CO₂浓度显著改善杂交稻食味品质的机制，32172102，2022.01-2025.12；

3.   大学生创新创业训练计划校重点项目(指导教师)：高CO₂浓度及高温对稻米品质的影响，X20190562，2019.05-2021.06；

4.   国家自然科学基金青年基金：稻米品质形成对高CO₂浓度和高温的应答及其生理机制，31701352，2018.01-2020.12；

5.     江苏省高等学校自然科学研究面上项目：稻米淀粉理化特性对高CO₂浓度和高温响应的研究，17KJB210007，2017.07-2019.06；

6.     扬州大学科技创新培育基金项目：稻米品质形成对高CO₂浓度和高温的应答及其生理机制，2016CXJ092，2017.01-2018.01；

7.     中国博士后科学基金资助项目：稻米品质形成对高CO₂浓度和高温的响应及其生理机制，2015M581870，2015.10-2016.09；

8.     江苏省博士后科研资助计划：开放式空气中CO₂浓度及温度增高对稻米品质形成的影响及机理，1501077C，2015.08-2016.06；

9.     江苏省普通高校研究生（博士）科研创新计划：超高产夏玉米强弱势粒灌浆动态对氮肥的响应及其机理，CXZZ13-0906，2013.05-2014.04。

Participated in research projects: 

1.  国家自然科学基金：高CO₂浓度导致稻米锌营养变劣的机理及其调控，31671618， 2017.01-2020.12；

2.   国家自然科学基金：CO₂浓度和温度互作对水稻开花和灌浆过程的影响机制及其调控，31571597，2016.01-2019.12；

3.   国家自然科学基金青年基金：重金属和抗生素复合污染的微生物生态效应及其对硝化细菌群落作用机制，31500425，2016.01-2018.12；

4.   国家自然科学基金：糯玉米籽粒产量和淀粉糊化特性对水分胁迫响应的基因型差异及调控效应，31271640，2013.01-2016.12；

5.  江苏省三新工程：夏玉米“两晚一增”高产栽培技术集成与示范，SXGC(2013)339， 2013.05-2014.06；

6.  国家自然科学基金青年基金：糯玉米淀粉糊化和回生特性对灌浆结实期高温胁迫的响应及其机理，31000684，2011.01-2013.12；

7.  国家自然科学基金：糯玉米淀粉回生特性的基因型差异及其栽培调控效应研究，30971731，2010.01-2012.12；

8.  江苏省三新工程：玉米超高产栽培技术集成与示范，SX(2010)086，2010.06-2011.05。 

Published papers as the first auther：

1. 1.  Liquan Jing, Xi Gong, Yang Cai, Yu Su, Yu Su, Mohamed Ait-El-Mokhtar, Mingxing Lu, Zhuo Wang, Lianxin Yang*, Qing Han*, Yunxia Yang*. Effects of elevated atmospheric CO₂ on hybrid rice (Oryza sativa L.) starch granules: Structural, functional changes and their underlying causes. Carbohydrate Polymers, 2026, 371: 124419.（IF₂₀₂₅: 12.5, 一区TOP）.
   

2. 2. Liquan Jing, Yu Su, Yihan Zhao, Yang Cai, Mingyue Sun, Fucheng Zhao, Jianye Huang, Lianxin Yang*, Yunxia Wang*. Duckweed (Lemna minor L.) growth in paddy fields improved the  appearance quality of rice but greatly deteriorated its taste. Field Crops Research, 2025, 333: 110099.（IF₂₀₂₅: 6.4, 一区TOP）.

3. 3. Liquan Jing, Yu Su, Yihan Zhao, Shaowu Hu, Yulong Wang, Jianye Huang, Yunxia Wang*, Lianxin Yang*. Elevated atmospheric CO₂ concentration enhances the cooking and eating quality of hybrid rice by modifying starch granule structure. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2025, 215: 144491. （IF₂₀₂₅: 8.5, 二区TOP）.   

4. 4.  李凡, 赵一函,王训康,苏禹,赵福成,侯俊峰,王云霞,杨连新,景立权*.长期定位配方施肥对水稻产量和品质的影响.江苏农业科学,2025,53(1):146-156.

5. 5. Liquan Jing, Xunkang Wang, Yihan Zhao, Fan Li, Yu Su, Yang Cai, Fucheng Zhao, Guichun Dong, Lianxin Yang*, Yunxia Wang*. Impact of duckweed (Lemna minor L.) growing in paddy fields on rice yield and its underlying causes. Agronomy, 2024, 14: 726.  (IF₂₀₂₅: 3.4, 二区).

6. 6. Liquan Jing, Ning Zhou, Shangkun Lai, Yunxia Wang*, Jianguo Zhu, Yulong Wang, Lianxin Yang*. Interactions between elevated atmospheric CO₂ and temperature on rice yield are highly dependent on growth season temperature. Field Crops Research, 2024, 307: 109270.（IF₂₀₂₅: 6.4, 一区TOP）.

7. 7. 景立权,李凡,赵一函,王训康,赵福成,赖上坤,孙小淋,王云霞,杨连新*. 稻田伴生浮萍碳、氮汇及对水稻产量影响的研究进展.中国农业科学,2023, 56(23): 717-4728.(综述)

8. 8. Liquan Jing, Chen Chen, Shaowu Hu, Shupeng Dong, Yue Pan, Yunxia Wang, Shangkun Lai, Yulong Wang, Lianxin Yang*. Effects of elevated atmosphere CO₂ and temperature on the morphology, structure and thermal properties of starch granules and their relationship with cooked rice taste. Food Hydrocolloids, 2021, 112: 106360. （IF₂₀₂₅: 12.4, 一区TOP）.

9. 9. 景立权,户少武,卢琦,牛玺朝,王云霞,朱建国,王余龙,杨连新*.阴晴天条件下高CO₂浓度对杂交稻光合作用影响的FACE研究.应用生态学报, 2019, 30(3): 884-892.

Othes: 

1.   Shaowu Hu, Wang Chen, Kaicheng Tong, Yunxia Wang, Liquan Jing, Yulong Wang, Lianxin Yang. Response of rice growth and leaf physiology to elevated CO2 concentrations: A meta-analysis of 20-year FACE studies. Science of the Total Environment. 2022, 807: 151017. （1区TOP期刊, IF2021: 7.963）

2.   Bo Gao, Shaowu Hu, Liquan Jing, Yuxia Wang, Jianguo Zhu, Kai Wang, Hongyang Li, Xingxing Sun, Yulong Wang, Lianxin Yang. Impact of Elevated CO2 and Reducing the Source-Sink Ratio by Partial Defoliation on Rice Grain Quality-A 3 Year Free-Air CO2 Enrichment Study. Fronter in Plant Science. 2021,12: 788104. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.788104（2区期刊, IF2021: 5.753）

3.   Ying Su, Mingxing Lu, Liquan Jing, Leiqian, Ming Zhao, Yuzhou Du, Huaijian Liao. Nutritional properties of larval epidermis and meat of the edible insect clanis bilineata tsingtauica (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae). Foods, 2021, 10: 2895.（2区 期刊, IF2021: 4.350）