Dongryung Lee

Postdoctoral Fellows

Postdoctoral Fellow

Current

Location:

B2/R3231-WS16

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Research Interests

I am interested in studying the mechanisms of early salt stress responses and their contribution to salt stress. Despite significant advances in our understanding of the ionic components of salt tolerance, little is known about the early responses of plants to salt stress. By combining various approaches such as high-throughput phenotyping, transcriptomics and functional genomics I would like to disentangle which plant phenotypic traits and genetic components are contributing to tolerance in early salt stress in rice. 

Selected Publications

  • Identification of a spotted leaf sheath gene involved in early senescence and defense response in rice. Lee, Dongryung, Gileung Lee, Backki Kim, Su Jang, Yunjoo Lee, Yoye Yu, Jeonghwan Seo et al. Frontiers in plant science (2018): 1274.
  • Identification of a novel SPLIT-HULL (SPH) gene associated with hull splitting in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Lee, Gileung, Kang-Ie Lee, Yunjoo Lee, Backki Kim, Dongryung Lee, Jeonghwan Seo, Su Jang, Joong Hyoun Chin, and Hee-Jong Koh. Theoretical and applied genetics 131, no. 7 (2018): 1469-1480.
  • Association between sequence variants in panicle development genes and the number of spikelets per panicle in rice. Jang, Su, Yunjoo Lee, Gileung Lee, Jeonghwan Seo, Dongryung Lee, Yoye Yu, Joong Hyoun Chin, and Hee-Jong Koh. BMC genetics 19, no. 1 (2018): 5.
  • Novel allelic variant of Lpa1 gene associated with a significant reduction in seed phytic acid content in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Kishor, D. S., Choonseok Lee, Dongryung Lee, Jelli Venkatesh, Jeonghwan Seo, Joong Hyoun Chin, Zhuo Jin, Soon-Kwan Hong, Jin-Kwan Ham, and Hee Jong Koh. PloS one 14, no. 3 (2019). 

Education

  • BSc in Bioscience and Technology, Korea University, Republic of Korea
  • MSc in Plant Science, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
  • PhD in Plant Science, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

Professional Profile

  • 2019-2020: Postdoctoral fellow, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia 

KAUST Affiliations

Prof. Mark Tester's Group

CDA - Center for Desert Agriculture

BESE - Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division

Research Interests Keywords

Salinity tolerance