Jie Liu

Employment

• Yazhouwan National Laboratory
  2024 - Present
• Washington University in St Louis
  2022 - 2024
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
  2019 - 2022
• Huazhong Agriculture University
  2017 - 2019

Education

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Projects & Funding

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Publications (29)

• Protein engineering fixes a major crop trade-off
  Nature 2026 DOI: 10.1038/d41586-026-00293-6
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• Optimizing thiamine pyrophosphate metabolism enhances crop yield and quality
  Nature Communications 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-66882-7
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• Population epigenetics: DNA methylation in the plant omics era
  Plant Physiology 2024 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiae089
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• Epiallelic variation of non-coding RNA genes and their phenotypic consequences
  Nature Communications 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45771-5
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• De Novo Domestication in the Multi-Omics Era
  Plant and Cell Physiology 2022 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcac077
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• Mechanistic basis for maintenance of CHG DNA methylation in plants
  Nature Communications 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-31627-3
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• Genetic variation in YIGE1 contributes to ear length and grain yield in maize
  New Phytologist 2022 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17882
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• Using precision phenotyping to inform de novo domestication
  Plant Physiology 2021 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiab160
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• F‐box protein CFK1 interacts with and degrades de novo DNA methyltransferase in Arabidopsis
  New Phytologist 2021 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17103
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• UVR8 interacts with de novo DNA methyltransferase and suppresses DNA methylation in Arabidopsis
  Nature Plants 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-020-00843-4
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• Crop breeding – From experience-based selection to precision design
  Journal of Plant Physiology 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2020.153313
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• The Kernel Size-Related Quantitative Trait Locus qKW9 Encodes a Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein That Aaffects Photosynthesis and Grain Filling
  Plant Physiology 2020 DOI: 10.1104/pp.20.00374
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• High-Throughput CRISPR/Cas9 Mutagenesis Streamlines Trait Gene Identification in Maize
  The Plant Cell 2020 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.19.00934
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• The Past, Present, and Future of Maize Improvement: Domestication, Genomics, and Functional Genomic Routes toward Crop Enhancement
  Plant Communications 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.xplc.2019.100010
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• An allele of Zm PORB 2 encoding a protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase promotes tocopherol accumulation in both leaves and kernels of maize
  The Plant Journal 2019 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14432
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• Genome assembly of a tropical maize inbred line provides insights into structural variation and crop improvement
  Nature Genetics 2019 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-019-0427-6
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• Large‐scale metabolite quantitative trait locus analysis provides new insights for high‐quality maize improvement
  The Plant Journal 2019 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.14317
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• Intraspecific variation of residual heterozygosity and its utility for quantitative genetic studies in maize
  BMC Plant Biology 2018 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-018-1287-4
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• Beyond pathways: genetic dissection of tocopherol content in maize kernels by combining linkage and association analyses
  Plant Biotechnology Journal 2018 DOI: 10.1111/pbi.12889
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• The Conserved and Unique Genetic Architecture of Kernel Size and Weight in Maize and Rice
  Plant Physiology 2017 DOI: 10.1104/pp.17.00708
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