Liu, Shuyu - Department of Soil and Crop Sciences

Shuyu Liu: Professor
Small Grain Breeding and Genetics
Office:: HPCT 237A
Email:: [email protected]
Phone:: (979) 321-5952

Graduate Education: M.S. Bioinformatics, University of Missouri - Columbia - coursework completed; M.S. Plant Breeding , Colorado State University, 1998; Ph.D. Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Missouri - Columbia, 2003
Courses Taught: SCSC 402 - Crop Stress Management Credits: 4 (3, 2) - Identification, measurement, biology, physiology and management of crop stress; limitations of specific environments to crop productivity; morphological and physiological crop stress response mechanisms. Prerequisites: SCSC 307, junior or senior classification, or approval of instructor.; SCSC 660 - Experimental Design in Agriculture Credits: 3 (3, 0) - Fundamental principles and procedures of experimental designs in agricultural sciences; emphasis includes factorial designs, predicting outputs, use of covariance, balanced and unbalanced experimental designs as related to common agricultural research projects under field, greenhouse or growth chamber culture; familiarization with computer programming of common statistical software. Prerequisite: STAT 651

Areas of Expertise

Small grain breeding and genetics

Professional Summary

Research

My research focuses on the breeding, genetic and genomic studies of important traits of wheat in the US Great Plains. Cultivar development for the central and South Texas on hard red wheat, for northeast of Texas on soft wheat, and oat is my major focus.

Traits include heat tolerance, resistance to diseases (leaf, stem and stripe rusts, powdery mildew), and arthropods (greenbug, hessian fly, and wheat curl mite) as well as good end-use quality. Both traditional and molecular breeding techniques are used to develop germplasm lines and cultivars with one or more target traits. Genomic techniques include gene/QTL mapping, molecular marker identification, validation and utilization, high throughput Kompetitive allele specific PCR (KASP) single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) screening, and gene cloning and editing. Association mapping, genomic selection, and gene functional analyses are being used to understand and improve those target traits. Wheat doubled haploid and speed breeding have been integrated into the breeding pipelines.

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