2012年于香港中文大学博士毕业

先后主持国家自然科学基金青年基金、面上基金、国家转基因重大专项子课题、国家重点研发计划子课题、江苏省自然科学基金青年基金等科研项目10余项；参与国家自然科学基金国际合作与交流重点课题等多个项目

在Science Signaling、Molecular Plant、Nature Communications、Cell Research、BBA-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms、Plant Physiology、New Phytologist、Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry等国内外主流期刊发表论文40余篇。以第一作者发表的SCI论文中有6篇单篇引用超过20次，其中2篇单篇引用超过100次。Li QF#*, Lu J#, Zhou Y, Wu F, Tong HN, Wang JD, Yu JW, Zhang CQ, Fan XL, Liu QQ*. Abscisic Acid Represses Rice Lamina Joint Inclination by Antagonizing Brassinosteroid Biosynthesis and Signaling. International Journal of Molecular Science, 2019, 20(19), 4908.

Li QF, Yu JW, Lu J, Fei HY, Luo M, Cao BW, Huang LC, Zhang C, Liu Q*. Seed-specific expression of OsDWF4, a rate-limiting gene involved in BR biosynthesis, improves both grain yield and quality in rice. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2018, 66(15):3759-3772.

Li QF, Lu J, Yu JW, Zhang C, He JX, Liu QQ*. The brassinosteroid-regulated transcription factors BZR1/BES1 function as a coordinator in multisignal-regulated plant growth. BBA-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 2018, 1861(6):561-571.

Zhao DS#, Li QF#, Zhang CQ#, Zhang C, Yang QQ, Pan LX, Ren XY, Lu J, Gu MH, Liu QQ*. GS9 acts as a transcriptional activator to regulate rice grain shape and appearance quality. Nature Communications, 2018, 9(1):1240. (# contributed equally to this work)

Li QF, Liu X, Zhang C, Jiang L, Jiang M, Zhong M, Fan X, Gu M, Liu Q*. Rice soluble starch synthase I: allelic variation, expression, function and interaction with Waxy. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018, 9: 1591.

Li QF, He JX*. BZR1 interacts with HY5 to mediate brassinosteroid- and light-regulated cotyledon opening in Arabidopsis in darkness. Molecular Plant, 2016, 9(1): 113-125.

Li QF, Wang C, Jiang L, Li S, Sun SSM, He JX*. An interaction between BZR1 and DELLAs mediates direct signaling crosstalk between brassinosteroids and gibberellins in Arabidopsis. Science Signaling, 2012, 5(244): ra72.

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