1. 黄瓜遗传与种质创新；
2. 花卉新品种培育（矮牵牛和长春花）。
研究论文
Nie JT, He HL, Peng JL, Yang XQ, Bie BB, Zhao JL, Wang YL, Si LT, Pan JS*, Cai R*. Identification and fine mapping of pm5.1: a recessive gene for powdery mildew resistance in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). Molecular Breeding, 2015, 35(1): 7
Zhao JL, Wang YL, Yao DQ, Zhu WY, Chen L, He HL, Pan JS*, Cai R*. Transcriptome profiling of trichome-less reveals genes associated with multicellular trichome development in Cucumis sativus. Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2015, 290: 2007-2018
Zhao JL, Pan JS, Guan Y, Zhang WW, Bie BB, Wang YL, He HL, Lian HL, Cai R*. Micro-trichome as a class I homeodomain-leucine zipper gene regulates multicellular trichome development in Cucumis sativus. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2015, DOI: 10.1111/jipb.12345
Yang XQ, Zhang WW, He HL, Nie JT, Bie BB, Zhao JL, Ren GL, Li Y, Zhang DB, Pan JS*, and Cai R*. Tuberculate fruit gene Tu encodes a C2H2 zinc finger protein that is required for the warty fruit phenotype in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). The Plant Journal, 2014, 78: 1034–1046
Yang XQ, Li Y, Zhang WW, He HL, Pan JS*, Cai R*. Fine mapping of the uniform immature fruit color gene u in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). Euphytica, 2014, 196(3): 341-348
Yang XQ, Zhang WW, Li Y, He HL, Bie BB, Ren GL, Zhao JL, Wang YL, Nie JT, Pan JS*, Cai R*. High-resolution mapping of the dull fruit skin gene D in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). Molecular Breeding, 2014, 33(1): 15-22