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Li Jiayang

Li Jiayang is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Li Jiayang rather than just read about it. In short: Li Jiayang (Chinese: 李家洋; born 1956) is a Chinese agronomist and geneticist. He is Vice Minister of Agriculture in China and President of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS).

Key takeaways

Li Jiayang belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Li Jiayang to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Li Jiayang from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Li Jiayang (Chinese: 李家洋; born 1956) is a Chinese agronomist and geneticist. He is Vice Minister of Agriculture in China and President of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). He is also Professor and Principal investigator at the Institute of Genetics and Development at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Education Li was educated at Anhui Agricultural University in China where he was award a Bachelor's degree in Agronomy in 1982. He continued his education in the United States where he was awarded a PhD in 1991 from Brandeis University for his research into the enzymes involved in the reduction of sulfate (ATP sulfurylase and adenosine 5'-phosphosulfate sulfotransferase) in the single-celled organism Euglena.

Career Following his PhD, Li completed postdoctoral research with Robert L. Last at Cornell University. He has been Professor of plant molecular genetics at the Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1994.

Awards and honours Li was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 2015. His nomination reads:

Professor Jiayang Li has made seminal contributions to establishing forward genetics approaches in rice and in using them to understand rice growth habit. He has identified and characterized key transcription factors and hormonal signals that determine rice architecture, and he has demonstrated that this fundamental knowledge can contribute to the development of improved rice varieties through marker assisted breeding. Li was also elected a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2001, a Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in 2004, a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the US in 2011, a Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2012, and a Foreign Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2013. In both 2016 and 2019, he became a laureate of the Asian Scientist 100 by the Asian Scientist.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Li Jiayang

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Li Jiayang claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Li Jiayang before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Li Jiayang ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Li Jiayang

In research: Li Jiayang appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Li Jiayang in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Li Jiayang is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1956 births, Alternates of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Anhui Agricultural University alumni, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Li Jiayang outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Li Jiayang in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Li Jiayang means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Li Jiayang in simple terms?

Li Jiayang (Chinese: 李家洋; born 1956) is a Chinese agronomist and geneticist. He is Vice Minister of Agriculture in China and President of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS).

Why does Li Jiayang matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Li Jiayang?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Li Jiayang.