牛小平，博士。2016年毕业于福建农林大学作物遗传育种专业。2017年3月--2022年7月先后于福建农林大学和广西大学从事博士后研究；2022年8月进入福建农林大学工作。主持国家自然科学基金青年项目、中国博士后面上项目、福建省自然科学基金面上项目、广西自然科学基金面上项目及福建农林大学科技创新专项基金等科研项目5项；近年来以第一作者或通讯作者在《Plant Disease》、《Industrial Crops and Products》、《International Journal of Biological Macromolecules》等杂志发表发表SCI论文10余篇。担任国际学术期刊 BMC Plant Biology、Frontiers in Plant Science、Scientific Reports、Plant Disease 等杂志评审人。

研究方向：植物环境适应机理研究；雌配子体发育机理研究。

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发表论文（代表作5篇）：

1. Yanhui Liu, Mohammad Aslam, Liang Yao, Man Zhang, Lulu Wang, Huihuang Chen, Youmei Huang, Yuan Qin*, Xiaoping Niu*. Genomic analysis of SBP gene family in Saccharum spontaneum reveals their association with vegetative and reproductive development. BMC Genomics. 2021, 22(1):767.

2. Xiaoping Niu, Meixia Chen*, Zeyuan She, Mohammad Aslam, Jianmin Qi, Yuan Qin*. Ectopic expression of Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L.) HcWRKY50 improves plants’ tolerance to drought stress and regulates ABA signaling in Arabidopsis. Agronomy. 2022, 12:1176.

3. Zeyuan She, Xiaoyi Huang, Mohammad Aslam, Lulu Wang, Maokai Yan, Rongjuan Qin, Yingzhi Chen, Yuan Qin*, Xiaoping Niu*. Expression characterization and cross-species complementation uncover the functional conservation of YABBY genes for leaf abaxial polarity and carpel polarity establishment in Saccharum spontaneum. BMC Plant Biology. 2022, 22(1):124.

4. Meixia Chen, Zeyuan She, Mohammad Aslam, Ting Liu, Zerong Wang, J Qi, Xiaoping Niu*. Genomic insights of the WRKY genes in kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L.) reveal that HcWRKY44 improves the plant's tolerance to the salinity stress. Front Plant Sci. 2022, 13:984233.

5. Yunfei Zhang, Tao Ye, Zeyuan She, Shupeng Huang, Lulu Wang, Mohammad Aslam, Rongjuan Qin, Xiangyu Wang, Yuan Qin, Xiaoping Niu*. Small Auxin Up RNA (SAUR) gene family identification and functional genes exploration during the floral organ and fruit developmental stages in pineapple (Ananas comosus L.) and its response to salinity and drought stresses. Int J Biol Macromol. 2023, 237:124061.