农业部设施农业工程重点实验室-专题报告

暨“985工程”课程建设-《环境生理学》公开讲座

Title: Stress Physiology of Horticultural Crops - Salt and Drought Tolerances

园艺作物的逆境生理--耐盐性和耐旱性

Speaker:  Dr.  Genhua Niu （钮根华）

(Texas AgriLife Research Center at El Paso, Texas A&M University System)

Data:  14:00-16:00,  Nov. 28 (Mon.) , 2011  （11月28日下午2点-4点）

Place:  304 Meeting Room, Water College near to the CAU north gate

       水院304会议室（304永利登录入口东区北门附近）

Contact:  Dongxian He  (贺冬仙   TEL: 010-62737550)

Speaker Introduction:  http://elpaso.tamu.edu/research/niu.php

Dr. Genhua Niu is an Associate Professor in Urban Landscape and Water Conservation at the Texas AgriLife Research Center at El Paso and Department of Horticultural Sciences.  Her areas of special expertise are in environmental stress physiology, plant production in controlled environment, and photoautotrohic micropropagation. Her current research areas include screening drought and salt tolerant, low water use plant materials for urban landscape, quantifying growth and physiological responses of crops to drought and salt stresses, and determining the minimum water requirement for urban landscape plants (trees, shrubs, and ground covers) for maintaining a healthy landscape while conserving water.

Dr. Niu received a Ph.D. in Horticulture from Chiba University, Japan.  Prior to joining Texas AgriLife Research, she worked at Michigan State University on ornamental crop production under controlled environment, the USDA-ARS Alternate Crops and Systems Lab on modeling water stress and elevated carbon dioxide concentration effects on corn plant growth and development, and a private company on micropropagation and nursery crop production in South Carolina.

Selected Publications：

Niu, G., D.S. Rodriguez, E. Call, P. Bosland, A. Ulery, and E. Acosta. 2010. Responses of eight chile peppers to saline water irrigation.  Scientia Horticulturae 126: 215–222.

Niu, G., D.S. Rodriguez, K. Crosby, D. Leskovar, and J. Jifon. 2010. Rapid screening for relative salt tolerance among chile pepper genotypes. HortScience 45(8): 1192–1195.

Niu, G., D.S. Rodriguez, R. Cabrera, J. Jifon, D. Leskovar, and K. Crosby. 2010. Salinity and soil type effects on emergence and growth of pepper seedlings. HortScience 45(8): 1265–1269.

Niu, G., D.S. Rodriguez, and M. Gu. 2010. Salinity tolerance of Sophora secundiflora and Cercis canadensis var. Mexicana. HortScience 45(3): 424-427.

Miyamoto, S., G. Niu, I. Martinez. 2010. Salinity and specific ion effects on onion establishment in relation to disposal of desalting concentrates. Desalination and Water Treatment 16: 381-392.

Niu, G., D.S. Rodriguez, and T. Starman. 2010. Response of bedding plants to saline water irrigation. HortScience 45(4): 628-636.

Niu, G. and R.I. Cabrera. 2010. Growth and physiological responses of landscape plants to saline water irrigation – a review.  HortScience (in press).

Niu, G. and D.S. Rodriguez. 2009. Growth and physiological responses of four rose rootstocks to drought stress. Journal of American Society for Horticultural Science 134(2): 202-209.

Niu, G. and D.S. Rodriguez. 2008. Responses of growth and ion uptake of four rose rootstocks to chloride or sulfate dominated salinity. Journal of American Society for Horticultural Science 133(5): 633-669.

Niu, G., D.S. Rodriguez, and L. Aguiniga. 2008. Effect of saline water irrigation on growth and physiological responses of three rose rootstocks. HortScience 43(5): 1479-1484.

Niu, G., D.S. Rodriguez, and W. Mackay. 2008. Growth and physiological responses to drought stress in four oleander clones. Journal of American Society for Horticultural Science 133(2): 188-196. 

Yen, C. Y.T., T. Starman, Y.T. Wang, A. Holzenburg, and G. Niu. 2008. Timing of nutrient termination and reapplication for growth, flower initiation, and flowering of the nobile dendrobium orchid. Journal of American Society for Horticultural Science 133(4): 501-507.

Yen, C. Y.T., T. Starman, Y.T. Wang, and G. Niu. 2008. Effects of cooling temperature and during on flowering of the nobile dendrobium orchid. HortScience. 43(6):1765-1769.

Chinese career as：

1981-1984　   浙江大学生物环境工程专业本科毕业

1984-1987　   浙江大学生物环境工程专业硕士毕业

1987-1993　   浙江省农业科学院蔬菜研究所助理研究员

1994-1997　   日本Chiba University生物环境工程博士毕业

1997-1998     日本Chiba University博士后 

1998-2001　   美国Michigan State University博士后

2001-2003   　美国Southern Sun BioSystems Inc. 研究员

2003-2004   　美国农业部USDA-ARS研究员

2004-Present　 美国TEXA A&M University副教授