Lyu Quan

Prof.  Lyu Quan

Organization: Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry

Research category: Forest Protection

Research field: Forest pathology

E-mail: luquan@caf.ac.cn

Main work

Quan Lyu, professor, doctoral supervisor, the chief expert at the Ecology and Nature Conservation Institute, Chinese Academy of Forestry. He has obtained the Master's in Forest Protection from Beijing Forestry University in 1998, the PhD from plant pathology and microbiology of the University of Leuven in Belgium and Forest Protection of Chinese Academy of Forestry in 2007. At present, he mainly engages in researches on the population differentiation of forest pathogens and complex detrimental mechanisms with pests as well as control techniques. Recently he coordinates National Key R&D Program of China, Key Projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), General Program of NSFC, and Key Programs of the Chinese Academy of Forestry, etc. A total of 93 papers have been published, edited, or participated in 6 books, and cultivated 18 graduate students. Additionally, He also serves as the council member of the Forest Pathology of the Chinese Society of Forestry (CSF), the member of the Beijing Society for Plant Pathology (BSPP), and the guest editor of Frontiers in Microbiology and Frontiers in Forests and Global Changes.

Key research projects

  • Research on persistent active defense technology system and products against invasive alien diseases and insects in forest ecosystem 2023.

  • Effects and mechanism of endophytes and immune inducers on tree resistance 2023;

  • Physiological and molecular mechanisms of two induced resistance in conifers stimulated by the ophiostomatoid fungi 2023;

  • Mycobiome assembly in symbiotic associations of bark beetles and decoupling the symbioses 2021;

  • Development of wearable real-time detection technology for pine wood disease 2021;

  • Species specific symbiosis between fungi and Ips beetles and the complementary co-metabolism mechanism 2018;

  • Ecological adaptation and molecular basis of major forest diseases spreading epidemic 2017;

  • Mechanism of synergistic differentiation between Ips typographus and ophiostomatoid fungi 2016.

Published articles & books

  • Wang Z. Liu Y, Wang H, Roy A, Liu H, Han F, ...Lyu Q*. 2023. Genome and transcriptome of Ips nitidus provide insights into high-altitude hypoxia adaptation and symbiosis. iScience, 26(10), 107793;

  • Zhou Q, Liu Y, Wang Z, Wang H, Zhang X, Lyu Q*. 2022. Rapid on-site detection of the Bursaphelenchus xylophilus using recombinase polymerase amplification combined with lateral flow dipstick that eliminates interference from primer-dependent artifacts. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13, 856109;

  • Wang Z, Liu Y, Wang H, Meng X, Liu X, Decock C, Lyu, Q*. 2020. Ophiostomatoid fungi associated with Ips subelongatus, including eight new species from northeastern China. IMA fungus, 11(1), 1-29;

  • Wang Z, Liu Y, Wang T, Decock C, Chu B, Zheng Q, Lyu Q*, Zhang X. 2020. Grosmannia tibetensis, a new ophiostomatoid fungus associated with Orthotomicus sp. (Coleoptera) in Tibetan subalpine forests. Mycoscience, 61(6), 282-292;

  • Wang HM, Wang Z, Liu F, Wu C., Zhang SF, Kong XB, Lyu Q*, Zhang, Z. 2019. Differential patterns of ophiostomatoid fungal communities associated with three sympatric Tomicus species infesting pines in south-western China, with a description of four new species. MycoKeys, 50, 93;

  • Wang HM, Lun YY, Lyu Q*, Liu HX*, Cony Decock, Zhang XY. 2018. Ophiostomatoid fungi associated with pines infected by Bursaphelenchus xylophilus and Monochamus alternatus in China, including three new species. MycoKeys, 39: 1-27;

  • Liu XW, Wang HM, Lyu Q*, Decock C, Li YX, Zhang XY. 2017. Taxonomy and pathogenicity of Leptographium species associated with Ips subelongatus infestations of Larix spp. in northern China, including two new species. Mycological Progress, 16(1): 1-13.