主持科研项目情况（2019年以来）

1. 科技创新2030重大项目子课题，寒高产苜蓿分子育种技术与新种质创制，2022/10-2025/12

2. 内蒙古自然科学基金重大项目（批准号2021ZD03），苜蓿耐盐高产分子机理的解析及优质种质资源的选育，2020/01-2023/12

3. 国家自然科学基金项目（批准号31860671），促进结瘤并调控抗逆的黄花苜蓿AP2/EREBP家族基因的发掘和功能解析， 2019/01-2022/12

部分代表性论文（2019年以来）

1. Qianwen Liu, Peng Liu, Tuo Ji, Lihua Zheng, Chen Shen, Shasha Ran, Jinling Liu, Yafei Zhao, Yiding Niu, Tao Wang*, Jiangli Dong*.  The histone methyltransferase SUVR2 promotes the DSB repair via chromatin remodeling and liquid–liquid phase separation. Molecular Plant, 2022, 15, 1157–1175

2. Ruonan Yu†, Tiantian Zuo†, Pengfei Diao, Jiabin Fu, Yanyan Fan, Yue Wang, Qiqi Zhao, Xuesong Ma, Wenting Lu, Aoga Li, Ru Wang, Fang Yan1, Li Pu, Yiding Niu*, Hada Wuriyanghan*. Melatonin enhances seed germination and seedling growth of Medicago sativa under salinity via a putative melatonin receptor MsPMTR1. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021, 12: 702875

3. Pengfei Diao, Qimeng Zhang, Hongyu Sun, Wenjie Ma, Aiping Cao, Ruonan Yu, JiaojiaoWang, Yiding Niu*, Hada Wuriyanghan*. miR403a and SA are involved in NbAGO2 mediated antiviral defenses against TMV infection in Nicotiana benthamiana. Genes, 2019, 10, 526; doi:10.3390/genes10070526

4. Liquan Zhang, Xuhui Jia, Jingwei Zhao, Agula Hasi, Yiding Niu*. Molecular characterisation and expression analysis of NAC transcription factor genes in wild Medicago falcata under abiotic stresses. Functional Plant Biology, 2020, 47(4), 327–341

5. Ningning Li, Chao Du, Binjie Ma, Ziqi Gao, Zhigang Wu, Linlin Zheng, Yiding Niu*, Yingchun Wang*. Functional analysis of ion transport properties and salt tolerance mechanisms of RtHKT1 from the recretohalophyte Reaumuria trigyna. Plant and Cell Physiology, 2019, 60(1):85-106