About Xiangdong Liu’s work
Based at South China Agricultural University, Xiangdong Liu held a Croucher Visitorship at the University of Hong Kong from September 1998 to March 1999.
Biography
Liu Xiangdong received his Ph.D. from South China Agricultural University in 1995. Since graduation, he has been engaged in rice genetics and breeding research and teaching in the College of Agronomy, South China Agricultural University. From 1994 to 1999, he visited the Department of Botany of the University of Hong Kong for six times to conduct research on rice reproductive development and genetics. In 2004, he went to the Royal Danish University of Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture to engage in research on plant cell biology. Liu‘s research focus is in rice seed resource protection and innovation, focusing on the key technologies and theoretical research on the creation and utilization of new tetraploid rice (Neo-tetraploid rice). In the creation of new germplasm and reproductive genetics of new tetraploid rice, more than 50 new germplasms of autotetraploid rice have been created, and new tetraploid rice has been cultivated, of which 2 have applied for the protection of new plant variety rights by the state. WE-CLSM (whole-mount eosin B-staining confocal laser scanning microscopy) technology was established.