Chief Scientist: PENG Wenjun
Brief introduction of Chief Scientist:
Peng Wenjun, Professor, vice Director of the institude; Head of the innovation team, scientist of bee industrial technology system; Director of bee products branch of the national agricultural products processing center. Research Interests on the bee products processing. Hosting scientific projects include the "11th five", "12th five" national technology support project, modern bee industry technology system construction projects from ministry of agriculture, the national natural science foundation of China, etc. More than 30 academic papers have been published and more than 8 patents have been authorized.
Objectives :
Bee product processing and function evaluation team is mainly based on the research platform of national research center of bee product processing and Institute of Apicultural Research. The team pays close attention to the development of frontier disciplines of bee products and to meet the needs of key technology of bee products industry. The research areas include nutrition of bee products, bioactive evaluation of bee products, processing technology and quality control of bee products. The team possesses more than 20 instruments and equipments for extraction, identification, function evaluation relying on cell culture and animal experiments for bee products.
Research Focus:
On the demand of the bee product industry, the team undertakes emerging development of bee products processing industry inChina. The scientific research is focused on the following three fields:
1) The mechanism and control of the quality change of bee products during the storage and processing: analysis of sensory quality changes and nutrient loss mechanism of bee pollen, honey, royal jelly during the storage and processing, process optimization and new equipment design for bee products, the process control of the quality deterioration of the bee products during the storage and processing in order to provide theory basis for improvement of the bee product quality.
2) The extraction and identification of active ingredients from bee products: extraction and separation of biological active substances in bee products with high yield and low cost, establishment of the qualitative and quantitative analysis methods for active components in bee products, and improving the fingerprint of active ingredients in bee products.
3) Nutritious function evaluation of bee products: evaluating the biological function of active components in bee products, investigating the metabolic pathway and mechanism of the biological activity of active compounds in bee products.
Team Members:
DONG Jie,
SUN Liping,
ZHANG Hongcheng,
TIAN Wenli,
GAO Lingyu,
FANG Xiaoming,
ZHAO Yazhou,
XU Xiang
Selected Publications:
1) Peng W., Li J., Zhao Y., Chen Y., Zeng Z. A descriptive study of the prevalence of parasites and pathogens in Chinese black honeybees. Parasitology, 2015, 142(11): 1364-1374.
2) Zheng J., Lang Y., Zhang Q., Cui D., Sun H., Jiang L., Chen Z., Zhang R., Gao Y., Tian W., Wu W., Tang J., Chen Z. Structure of human MDM2 complexed with RPL11 reveals the molecular basis of p53 activation. Genes & Development, 2015, 29: 1524-1534.
3) Xu X., Gao Y. Purification and identification of angiotensin I-converting enzyme-inhibitory peptides from apalbumin 2 during simulated gastrointestinal digestion. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 2015, 95(5): 906-914.
4) Zhang H., Wang G., Beta T., Dong J. Inhibitory Properties of Aqueous Ethanol Extracts of Propolis on Alpha-Glucosidase. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2015, Article ID 587383, 7 pages
5) Dong J., Gao K., Wang K., Xu X., Zhang H. Cell Wall Disruption of Rape Bee Pollen Treated with Combination of Protamex. Food research international, 2015, 75: 123-130.
6) Zhou J., Qi Y., Ritho J., Zhang Y., Zheng X., Wu L., Li Y., Sun L. Flavonoid glycosides as floral origin markers to discriminate of unifloral bee pollen by LC–MS/MS. Food Control, 2015, 57: 54-61.