Education/Work Experience: Received bachelor (1986), master (1989) and Ph.D (1997) degrees on plant breeding and genetics from former Zhejiang Agricultural University (ZAU; from 1998 ZAU became part of the present Zhejiang University). Worked as research associate (1989.8-1992.8), assistant professor (1992.9-1995.8), associate professor (1995.9-1998.8) in former Zhejiang Agricultural University, and as associate professor (1998.9-199.11) and full professor (1999.12 - present) in Zhejiang University.Served as a plant breeder/genetcists (P4) in the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture in the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria (2003.5-2010.4). Visiting scholar in USDA/ARS in Beaumont, Texas (1995.9-1996.2), Crop Biotechnology Centre of Texas A&M University (1996.2-1996.5), visiting professor in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Ottawa (2000.12-2001.2; 2001.12-2002.3).

Contact Email: qyshu@zju.edu.cn; RsearchID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-4859-2008

We are an international family: Welcome to our group! We are building a group to educate new generations of crop scientists and entrepreneurs in China and abroad. Our group is rather internationalized in the sense of research collaboration, people working in the laboratory (we have attracted foreign students and fellows from countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Please learn what we have done and what we are doing by browsing different contents by opening the links given on the left.

International Collaboration: We are open for all kinds of collaborations with research groups and enterprises over the world as far as it is within our expertise and of mutual benefits. You are always welcome to drop by our group when you are visiting other groups in Zhejiang University, or stop over Hangzhou when you are visiting China. Hangzhou is one of the most beautiful cities on the earth, hence your every visit to Hangzhou and to our group will always be a memorable one.

No more new students: Due to age limit, I will no longer renroll new students for master and Ph.D. study.