Education Background

Undergraduate education：2006.9-2010.6，Northwest A&F University，Protected Horticulture (Greenhouse cultivation), （Horticulture department）

Master and PHD education：2010.9-2016.6，Northwest A&F University，Protected Horticulture (Greenhouse cultivation), （Horticulture department）

Research

Assistant researcher, is engaged in the study of greenhouse environment control, greenhouse structure design, greenhouse vegetable growth, and plant factory research. the main research content is the precise control of vegetable growth and development by different LED light quality. Undertaking 1 research projects supported by the National Natural ScienceFoundation of China, 2 research projects supported by key laboratory of protected agricultural engineering by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. Published 5 SCI and 2 EI papers as the first author.

Overseas Study Background

2012.06 took part in a program in Egypt for 1 month which was supported by the China’s Ministry of Agriculture.

2013.09-2015.08, studied in Rockefeller University, NY, USA for 2 years which was supported by China Scholarship Council

Paper Publish

1. Cao Kai, Cui LR, Zhou XT, Zou ZR* et al. 2016. Four Tomato FLOWERING LOCUS T-Like Proteins Act Antagonistically to Regulate Floral Initiation. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, 6:1213.

2. Cao Kai, Cui LR, Zhou XT, Zhao HL and Zou ZR*. 2016. Effects of Night Break Treatment by Red Light on Growth and Flowering of Tomato Plants. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, 7:527.

3. Cui LR, Cao Kai, Zou ZR*, 2017. Effects of exogenous 24-epibrassinolide on photosynthesisand atp synthase β subunit of tomato under low temperature / poor light. Pak. J. Bot., 49(1): 57-62. (co-first author)

4. Kai Cao, Jie Yu, Dawei Xu, et al. 2018. Exposure to lower red to far-red light ratios improve tomato tolerance to salt stress, BMC plant biology, 18:92.

5. Kai Cao, Dawei Xu, Jie Yu, et al. 2018. Phytochrome B1-dependent control of SP5G transcription is the basis of the night break and red to far-red light ratio effects in tomato flowering, BMC plant biology, 18:158

6. Cao Kai, Yu Jie, Ye Lin, Zhao Hailiang, Zou Zhirong. Red light treatments at night during seedling stage in greenhouse promoting tomato vegetative growth and improving yield[J].Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering (Transactions of the CSAE), 2016, 32(10):180-186

7.  Cao Kai, Yu Jie, Ye Lin, Zhao Hailiang, Zou Zhirong. Optimal LED far-red light intensity in end-of-day promoting tomato growth and development in greenhouse[J].Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering (Transactions of the CSAE), 2016, 32(8):171-176.