Dr. Bingru Huang

Contact Information

Mailing Address

Rutgers University
Department of Plant Biology & Pathology
Foran Hall/ Cook Campus
59 Dudley Rd.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
huang@aesop.rutgers.edu

Campus Location

Office: Room 301 Foran Hall, 732-932-9375 ext. 302
Lab: Room 301 Foran Hall, 732-932-9375 ext. 300

Research Interests

My research program focuses on understanding mechanisms of turfgrass tolerance to environmental stresses, with emphasis on heat and drought stress, at whole-plant, cellular, and molecular levels. Research projects include the following areas:

1. Water relations and gas exchange
2. Carbohydrate metabolism
3. Antioxidant metabolism
4. Hormonal regulation
5. Protein identification
6. Gene identification
7. Gene transformation.

Publications

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Teaching - Current Courses

1. Plant Physiology (11:776:382) - undergraduate course offered on even years
2. Advanced Plant Physiology (16:765:502) - graduate course offered on odd years

Advising

All undergraduate students in turfgrass science

Current lab personnel

1. Graduate students
   Tim Sibicky, MS/Ph.D. in progress
   Guillaume Gregoroire, Ph.D. in progress
   Emily Merewitz, Ph.D. in progress
   Yan Xu, Ph.D. in progress
2. Post-doctoral researchers & Visiting Scientists
   Yan Zhang, 2008 - present (post doc.)
   Aifang Yang, 2007 - present (visiting scholar)
   Chenping Xu, 2007 - present (post doc.)
3. Technicians
   Emily Merewitz, 2005 - present

Past lab personnel

1. Post doctoral researchers
   Cuiyue Liang, 2007 (visiting student)
   Jiag Tian, 2006 - 2007 (post doc.)
   Maham M., 2006 - 2007 (post doc.)
   Xuju Bian, 2006 (visiting scientist)
   Jichen Xu, 2003 - 2006
   Shimon Rachmilevitch, 2004 - 2006
   Jinpeng Xing, 2004 - 2006
   Ricardo Cespeds, 2003 - 2005
   Yali He, 2003 - 2005
   Zhaolong Wang, 2002-2004
   Eleni Abraham, 2002 - 200
   Jane Larkindale, 2002-2003
   Xuaozhong Lui, 2002-2003
   Eric Lyons, 2003 - 2004
   Zhaolong Wang, 2001- 2003
   Sor Amoyo, 2001 (visiting student)
   Qingzhang Xu, 1998 - 2002
   Hongwen Gao, 1997 - 1999
   Bin Wang, 1997 - 1998
2. Graduate students
   Michelle Dacosta, Ph.D. 2006
   Steve McCann, Ph.D. 2007
   John Pote, Ph.D. 2005, incomplete
   Daolin Fu, Ph.D., 2003
   Jinmin Fu, Ph.D., 2003.
   Yiwei Jiang, 1998 - 2001
   Xiaozhong Liu, 1997 - 2000
   Tina Yu, 1998 - 2001
3. Technicians
   Suli Hu, 2002 - 2005
   Yanling Liu, 2003 - 2005

Rutgers Affiliations

1. Center for Turfgrass Science
2. Rutgers Plant Biology Graduate Program

Other Affiliations

1. American Society of Horticulture Science
2. International Turfgrass Society
3. American Society of Plant Biologist
4. American Society of Agronomy
5. Crop Science Society of America

Dr. Bingru Huang joined the department in 2000 and is currently a professor in turfgrass stress physiology.