Personnel professionnel

Yong-Bi Fu, Ph.D.

Chercheur en diversité génétique
Ressources phytogénétiques du Canada
Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Centre de recherches de Saskatoon
107 Science Place
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan  S7N 0X2

Tél.: 306-956-7642
Fax: 306-956-7246
Courriel: Yong-Bi Fu

Activités de recherche

Généralités

• Caractérisation moléculaire des collections de matériel génétique conservées par Ressources phytogénétiques du Canada (RPC), l'accent étant mis actuellement sur le lin et l'avoine.

Lin

• Caractérisation moléculaire de 2 800 spécimens de lin à l'aide de marqueurs RAPD.
   
• Évaluation par des marqueurs RAPD de la diversité génétique des cultivars canadiens et de certains cultivars étrangers de lin.
   
• Évaluation du changement de diversité du lin canadien multipliant des programmes sur des années.
   
• Analyse par des marqueurs RAPD des profils de variation dans le fonds génétique mondial du lin.
   
• Inférence des rapports génétiques parmi des cultivars, des landraces, et le lin sauvage.
   
• Analyse par des marqueurs RAPD de l'intégrité génétique des spécimens de lin régénérés.
   
• Développement et évaluation de la collection de lin de base.
   
• Analyse par des marqueurs RAPD de la parenté génétique entre 300 spécimens de lin russes.
   
• Analyse de séquences d’ADN d’espèces cultivées et sauvages de lin. 

Avoine

• Analyse, à l’aide du marqueur moléculaire AFLP, de la diversité génétique de l’avoine et de ses espèces indigènes.
   
• Analyses, à l’aide des marqueurs moléculaires SSR et AFLP, du fonds génétique de l’avoine au Canada.
   
• Établissement d'une collection provisoire d'avoine de base de 500 à 1000 spécimens.
   
• Évaluation moléculaire de la collection provisoire d'avoine.

Propre au blé, à l’orge et aux plantes indigènes

• Analyse, à l’aide du marqueur moléculaire AFLP, de l’intégrité génétique des cultivars canadiens.
   
• Évaluation, à l’aide des marqueurs moléculaires SNP et SSR, des cultivars canadiens de blé dur de printemps.
   
• Analyses, à l’aide du marqueur moléculaire AFLP, de la diversité génétique du fétuque de Hall de montagne, du boutelou gracieux et du schizachyrium à balais.

 

Personnel de recherche  

• Gregory W. Peterson – Technicien de recherche
• Jie Qiu

Collaborateurs de recherche

• Ken W Richards – PGRC, AAFC, Saskatoon
• Walter Willms – AAFC, Lethbridge
• John Wilmshurst – Parks Canada, Winnipeg
• Bruce Coulman – University of Saskatchewan
• Yuguang Bai – University of Saskatchewan
• James Chong – AAFC, Winnipeg
• Daryl Somers – AAFC, Winnipeg
• Ming-Li Wang – USDA, Griffin
• Malcolm Morrison – AAFC, Ottawa
• Richard Tarn – AAFC, Fredericton
• John Clarke – AAFC, Swift Current
• Darcy Henderson – Environment Canada
• Robin Allaby – The University of Warwick HRI, UK
• Iftikhar Ahmad Khan – University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan
• Bushra Mirza - Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
• Ming Li – Northeast Agriculture University, China
• François Balfourier - UMR INRA/UBP, France

Publications choisies

• Fu YB and Williams D. 2008. AFLP variation in 25 Avena species. Theoretical and Applied Genetics (in press).
   
• Mirza B, Shoaib M, Ahmad M and Fu YB. 2007. Genetic diversity in Pakistani populations of Avena fatua revealed by seed storage protein polymorphism. Communications in Biometry and Crop Science 2: 41-48.
   
• Fu YB, Peterson GW and Morrison MJ. 2007. Genetic diversity of Canadian soybean cultivars and exotic germplasm revealed by simple sequence repeat markers. Crop Science 47: 1947-1954.
   
• Qiu J, Fu YB, Bai Y and Wilmshurst JF. 2007. Patterns of amplified fragment length polymorphism in natural populations and corresponding seed collections of plains rough fescue. Canadian Journal of Botany 85: 484-492.
   
• Fu YB, Chong J, Fetch T and Wang ML. 2007. Microsatellite variation in germplasm accessions of the wild oat Avena sterilis L. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 114: 1029-1038.
   
• Fu YB and Thompson D. 2006. Genetic diversity of bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata) in the Thompson River valley of British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Botany 84: 1122-1128.
   
• Fu YB, Richards KW and Peterson GW. 2006. Genetic variability in multiple accessions of two Canadian heritage crop cultivars as revealed by AFLP markers. Communications in Biometry and Crop Science 1: 1-10.
   
• Fu YB, Clarke JM, Richards KW and Sadasivaiah RS. 2006. Genetic diversity of Canadian wheat cultivars as revealed by simple sequence repeat markers. World Journal of Agricultural Sciences 2: 239-248.
   
• Fu YB, Qiu J, Peterson GW, Willms WD and Wilmshurst JF. 2006. Characterization of microsatellite markers for rough fescue species (Festuca spp). Molecular Ecology Notes 6: 894-896.
   
• Xie CY, Fu YB and Yanchuk A. 2006. Accuracy of ranking individuals in field tests of different designs: a computer simulation. Silvae Genetica 55: 70-77.
   
• Fu YB, Legge WG, Clarke JM and Richards KW. 2006. Genetic variation and relationships of pedigree-known oat, wheat, and barley cultivars via bulking and single-plant sampling. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 53: 1153-1164.
   
• Fu YB. 2006. Redundancy and distinctness in flax germplasm as revealed by RAPD dissimilarity. Plant Genetic Resources 4: 117-124.
   
• Fu YB, Gugel R and Katepa-Mupondwa F. 2006. Genetic diversity of Sinapis alba germplasm as revealed by AFLP markers. Plant Genetic Resources 4: 87-95.
   
• Fu YB. 2006. Impact of plant breeding on genetic diversity of agricultural crops: searching for molecular evidence. Plant Genetic Resources 4: 71-78.
   
• Diederichsen A and Fu YB. 2006. Phenotypic and molecular differentiation of flax intraspeicifc classifications. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 53: 77-90.
   
• Fu YB, Peterson GW, Yu J-K, Gao LF, Jia JZ and Richards KW. 2006. Impact of plant breeding on genetic diversity of the Canadian hard red spring wheat germplasm as revealed by EST-derived SSR markers. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 112: 1239-1247.
   
• Allaby R, Peterson GW, Merriwether A and Fu YB. 2005. Evidence of the domestication history of flax (Linum usitatissimum) from genetic diversity of the sad2 locus. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 112: 58-65.
   
• Fu YB, Peterson GW, Clarke JM, Richards KW and Somers DJ. 2005. Allelic reduction and genetic shift in the Canadian red hard spring wheat germplasm released from 1886 to 2004. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 110: 1505-1516.
   
• Fu YB, Peterson GW, Williams D, Richards KW and Mitchell Fetch J. 2005. Patterns of AFLP variation in a core subset of cultivated hexaploid oat germplasm. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 111: 530-539.
   
• Fu YB, Thompson D, Wilms W and Mackay M. 2005. Long-term grazing effects on genetic variability in mountain rough fescue. Rangeland Ecology and Management 58: 637-642.
   
• Rozhmina TA, Diederichsen A, Fu YB, Richards KW and Zhuchenko AA. 2005. Issledovanie genetičeskogo polimorfisma obrazcov “Nacional’noj kollekcii russkogo l’na” s ispol’zovaniem RAPD-metoda [Investigation of genetic polymorphism of accessions from the “National Collection of Russian Flax” by application of the RAPD-method]. (In Russian) Dostiženija nauki i technika APK, 10 (October 2005), 11-13.
   
• Fu YB, Coulman BE, Ferdinandez YSN, Cayouette J and Peterson PM. 2005. Genetic diversity of fringed brome (Bromus ciliatus) as revealed by amplified fragment length polymorphism. Canadian Journal of Botany 83: 1322-1328.
   
• Khan IA, Awan FS, Ahmad A, Fu YB and Iqbal A. 2005. Genetic diversity of Pakistan wheat germplasm as revealed by RAPD markers. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 52: 239-244.
   
• Fu YB. 2005. Geographic patterns of RAPD variation in cultivated flax. Crop Science 45: 1084-1091.
   
• Ferdinandez YSN, Coulman B and Fu YB. 2005. Detecting genetic changes over seed increases in an awned selnder wheatgrass population using AFLP markers. Crop Science 45: 1064-1068.
   
• Fu YB, Phan AT, Coulman B and Richards KW. 2004. Genetic diversity in natural populations and corresponding seed collections of little bluestem as revealed by AFLP markers. Crop Science 44: 2254-2260.
   
• Fu YB, Kibite S and Richards KW. 2004. AFLP analysis of 96 Canadian oat cultivars released between 1886 and 2001. Canadian Journal of Plant Science 84: 23-30.
   
• Fu YB, Ferdinandez YSN, Phan AT, Coulman B and Richards KW. 2004. AFLP variation in four blue grama sources. Crop Science 44: 283-288.
   
• Fu YB. 2003. Applications of bulking in molecular characterization of plant germplasm: A critical review. Plant Genetic Resources 1: 161-167.
   
• Fu YB, Whitwill S, Ferdinandez YSN, Coulman BE and Richards KW. 2003. Bulking generated considerable bias in detection of AFLP variations in oat, fringed brome and smooth bromegrass. Molecular Ecology Notes 3: 476-478.
   
• Fu YB. 2003. On implementation of incomplete block designs in forest genetic field trials. Forest Genetics 10: 23-33.
   
• Fu YB, Peterson GW, Scoles G, Rossnagel B, Schoen DJ and Richards KW. 2003. Allelic diversity changes in 96 Canadian oat cultivars released from 1886 to 2001. Crop Science 43: 1989-1995.
   
• Phan AT, Fu YB and Smith SR Jr. 2003. RAPD variations in selected and unselected blue grama populations. Crop Science 43: 1852-1857.
   
• Fu YB, Rowland GG, Duguid SD and Richards KW. 2003. RAPD analysis of 54 North American flax cultivars. Crop Science 43: 1510-1515.
   
• Fu YB, Guerin S, Peterson G, Carlson JE and Richards KW. 2003. Assessment of bulking strategies for RAPD analyses of flax germplasm. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 50: 743-746.
   
• Fu YB, Guerin S, Peterson G, Diederichsen A, Rowland G and Richards KW. 2003. RAPD analysis of genetic variability of regenerated seeds in the Canadian flax cultivar CDC Normandy. Seed Science and Technology 31: 207-211.
   
• Joyce D, Ford R and Fu YB. 2002. Spatial patterns of tree height variations in a black spruce farm-field progeny test and neighbors-adjusted estimation of genetic parameters. Silvae Genetica 51: 13-18.
   
• Fu YB, Peterson G, Diederichsen A and Richards KW. 2002. RAPD analysis of genetic relationships of seven flax species in genus Linum L. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 49: 253-259.
   
• Fu YB, Diederichsen A, Richards KW and Peterson G. 2002. Genetic diversity within a range of cultivars and landraces of flax (Linum usitatissimum L) as revealed by RAPDs. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 49: 167-174.
   
• Fu YB. 2000. Effectiveness of bulking procedures in measuring population-pairwise similarity with dominant and co-dominant genetic markers. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 100: 1284-1289.
   
• Fu YB, Yanchuk AD and Namkoong G. 2000. Incomplete block designs for genetic testing: accuracy of ranking families and individuals. Forest Genetics 7: 287-293.
  
  Fu YB, Yanchuk AD and Namkoong G. 1999. Incomplete block designs for genetic testing: some practical considerations. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 29: 1871-1878.
  
  Fu YB, Yanchuk AD, Namkoong G and Clarke, GPY. 1999. Incomplete block designs for genetic testing: statistical efficiencies with missing observations. Forest Science 45: 374-380.
   
• Williams ER and Fu YB. 1999. Comment-enhanced heritabilities and best linear unbiased predictors through appropriate blocking of progeny trials. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 29: 1633-1634.
   
• Fu YB, Yanchuk AD and Namkoong G. 1999. Spatial patterns of tree height variations in a series of Douglas-fir progeny trials: implications for genetic testing. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 29: 714-723.
   
• Fu YB. 1999. Patterns of purging deleterious genes of synergistic interactions with different breeding schemes. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 98: 337-356.
   
• Fu YB, Clarke GPY, Namkoong G and Yanchuk AD. 1998. Incomplete block designs for genetic testing: statistical efficiencies of estimating family means. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28: 977-986.
   
• Fu YB, Namkoong G and Carlson JE. 1998. Comparison of breeding strategies for purging inbreeding depression via simulation. Conservation Biology 12: 856-864.
   
• Fu YB, Charlesworth D and Namkoong G. 1997. Point estimation and graphical inference of marginal dominance for two viability loci controlling inbreeding depression. Genetical Research 70: 143-153.
   
• Clarke GPY, Haines LM and Fu YB. 1997. Kriging and fields experiments. Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute Vol 57: 229-232.
   
• Ritland K, Fu YB and Lin JZ. 1996. Characterizing molecular quantitative variability for inbreeding depression. Plant Species Biology 11: 23-31.
   
• Fu YB and Ritland K. 1996. Multilocus marker-based inferences of epistasis for genes influencing inbreeding depression. Genetics 144: 339-348.
   
• Fu YB and Ritland K. 1994. Evidence for partial dominance of viability genes contributing to inbreeding depression in Mimulus guttatus. Genetics 136: 223-231.
   
• Fu YB and Ritland K. 1994. On estimating linkage of marker genes to viability genes controlling inbreeding depression. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 88: 925-932.
   
• Fu YB and Ritland K. 1994. Marker-based inferences about fecundity genes contributing to inbreeding depression in Mimulus guttatus. Genome 37: 1005-1010.
   
• Fu YB and Ritland K. 1994. Marker-based inferences about the genetic basis of flowering time in Mimulus guttatus. Hereditas 121: 267-272.
   
• Fu YB, Knowles P and Perry DJ. 1992. Pollen pool heterogeneity of jack pine (Pinus banksiana): a problem for estimating outcrossing rate? Theoretical and Applied Genetics 83: 500-508.
   
• Fu YB, Si ZW and Li S. 1988. A blue-staining fungus of the timbers of Hevea brasiliensis and Pinus massoniana. Forest Research (China) Vol 1(2): 232-241.
   
• Fu YB. 1987. An overview of the application of isozyme analysis to genetic breeding of forest trees in China. Commonwealth Forestry Review 66(4):201-208.
   
• Fu YB. 1987. Blue stain of the timber. Tropical Forestry (Science and Technology) No2 (1987):120-128.

Aide financière à la recherche

• Parks Canada
• Ducks Unlimited Canada
• Saskatchewan Flax Development Commission
• MII, AAFC 

Réalisations récentes, distinctions

• Le Saskatoon Volunteer Award dans le cadre du Programme d'action bénévole en milieu de travail
• Bourse de recherche postdoctorale du Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie
• Bourse d’études supérieures de l’Ontario (refusée)
• Prix Elizabeth Ann Wintercorbyn, Université de Toronto
• Bourse Mary H. Beatly, Université de Toronto
• Bourse de recherche doctorale de l’Université de Toronto

Associations professionnelles

• Crop Science Society of America
• Société canadienne d’agronomie
• Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution