About

Yu Jiang is an Assistant Professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science, Horticulture Section at Cornell AgriTech. His research focuses on system engineering and data analytics for specialty crops, involving interdisciplinary innovation among engineering, computer science, and plant science. He has interests in agricultural robotics and artificial intelligence, image processing, and high throughput plant phenotyping. Dr. Jiang holds a doctorate from The University of Georgia, obtained in 2019, and his work includes developing robotic systems for vineyard disease scouting and advancing digital and precision agriculture practices. His contributions aim to enhance disease management, sustainability, and technological integration in agriculture.

Research topics

• Biology
• Genetics
• Evolutionary biology
• Geography
• Ecology
• Botany
• Zoology

Selected publications

• 863 genomes reveal the origin and domestication of chicken

  Cell Research · 2020 · 291 citations

  • Biology
  • Zoology
  • Evolutionary biology
  DOI

• Chromosome-Level Reference Genome and Population Genomic Analysis Provide Insights into the Evolution and Improvement of Domesticated Mulberry (Morus alba)

  Molecular Plant · 2020 · 124 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Biology
  • Botany
  • Evolutionary biology
  DOI

• The origin of domestication genes in goats

  Science Advances · 2020 · 181 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Biology
  • Evolutionary biology
  • Genetics

  gene, which encodes a gastrointestinally secreted mucin. Experiments revealed that the nearly fixed introgressed haplotype confers enhanced immune resistance to gastrointestinal pathogens. Another locus with a strong signal of selection may be related to behavior. The selected alleles at these two loci emerged in domestic goats at least 7200 and 8100 years ago, respectively, and increased to high frequencies concurrent with the expansion of the ubiquitous modern mitochondrial haplogroup A. Tracking these archaeologically cryptic evolutionary transformations provides new insights into the mechanisms of animal domestication.

  DOI

Frequent coauthors

• Hong Chen

  Henan Normal University

  131 shared

• Peng Yang

  80 shared

• Wen Wang

  117th Hospital of People's Liberation Army

  70 shared

• Zhi Yao

  Wuhan Puai Hospital

  56 shared

• Xianwei Wang

  Yangzhou University

  52 shared

• Xihong Wang

  Agriculture and Forestry University

  52 shared

• Guojie Zhang

  Women's Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University

  51 shared

• Ningbo Chen

  49 shared

Education

• Ph.D, Max-Planck Junior Scientist Group on Evolutionary Genomics

  Kunming Institute of Zoology Chinese Academy of Sciences

  2011

• B.Sc, life science

  Fudan University

  2006

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