1977年4月生，博士，研究员，主要从事小麦品质、抗病研究及新品种选育。主持国家自然科学基金、江苏省自然科学基金、江苏省自主创新资金等项目12项，参与国家重点研发计划专项、江苏省重点研发计划、江苏省现代种业振兴“揭榜挂帅”项目等项目10余项，以第一作者或通讯作者在LWT、the Crop Journal、Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture、Phytopathology、Journal of Cereal Science、Frontiers in Plant Science、中国农业科学、作物学报等期刊发表论文50余篇，以第一完成人授权国家发明专利5项、选育新品种3个，参与制定国家标准和行业标准各1项，获江苏省农业丰收二等奖1项。2012年8月～2013年8月、2016年9月～2017年9月、2019年3月分别赴美国德州农工大学、美国堪萨斯州立大学和国际小麦玉米改良中心开展小麦品质遗传改良及赤霉病抗性育种研究。
近期代表性研究论文：
1.Tao Yang, Tian Lv, Bo Wang, Yue Zhang, Pei Wang, Qin Zhou, Dong Jiang, Pingping Zhang*, Hao Jiang*. Mechanistic insights into arginine-mediated gluten solubility enhancement and aggregation inhibition across specific subunit and molecular scales. Food Hydrocolloids, 2025, 167:111451.
2. Pingping Zhang*, Guicheng Song, Maria Itria Ibba, Huadun Wang, Runsheng Ren. Dough properties and baking quality of near isogenic lines with single HMW-GS null at Glu-A1, Glu-B1 and Glu-D1 loci in soft wheat. LWT-Food Science and Technology, 2024, 213:117084.
3. Pingping Zhang*, Joseph M, Awika*. Effect of sorghum bran addition on antioxidant activities, sensory properties, and in vitro starch digestibility of Chinese southern-style steamed bread. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 2024, 104:9652-9659.
4. Runsheng Ren†, Jianian Zhou†, Yuqi Wang, Lirong Wang, Xiaochen Zheng, Xin Li, Suizhuang Yang, Xinli Zhou*, Pingping Zhang*. Identification and molecular mapping resistance gene for adult-plant resistance to stripe rust in spring wheat germplasm line PI660076. Food Production, Processing and Nutrition, 2024, 6:6.
5. Hao Chen†, Liangqi Zhang†, Chuanguang Ding, Yuqi Luo, Guoyun Jia, Junming Feng, Yuqi Wang, Binfan Si, Jianian Zhou, Xin Li, Kebing Huang, Suizhuang Yang, Yong Ren, Xianming Chen, Pingping Zhang*, Xinli Zhou*. Comparisons of stripe rust response, grain yield and quality between fungicide sprayed and non-sprayed treatments for newly developed wheat lines carrying different genes for adult-plant resistance to stripe rust. Crop protection, 2024, 184:106713.
6. Runsheng Ren, Xinli Zhou, Xu Zhang, Xin Li, Pingping Zhang*, Yi He*. Genome-wide identification and characterization of thaumatin-like protein family genes in wheat and analysis of their responses to fusarium head blight infection. Food Production, Processing and Nutrition, 2022, 4:24.
7. Guangxiao Liu, Yujiao Gao, Huadun Wang, Yonggang Wang, Jianmin Chen, Pingping Zhang*, Hongxiang Ma*. Premature termination codon of 1Dy12 gene improves cookie quality in Ningmai9 wheat. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022, 13:835164.
8. Xinli Zhou*, Taohong Fang, Kexin Li, Kebing Huang, Chunhua Ma, Min Zhang, Xin Li, Suizhuang Yang, Runsheng Ren*, Pingping Zhang*. Yield losses associated with different levels of stripe rust resistance of commercial wheat cultivars in China. Phytopathology, 2022, 112(6):1244-1254.
9. Pingping Zhang, Michael Tilley*, Guihua Bai, Sarah Harmer, Sara Duke, Bradford W. Seabourn, Guorong Zhang. Effect of wheat quality traits and glutenin composition on tortilla quality from the USDA Southern Regional Performance Nursery. Cereal Chemistry, 2021, 98:1227-1237.
10. Pingping Zhang, Chenjin Guo, Zhao Liu, Amy Bernardod, Hongxiang Ma, Peng Jiang, Guicheng Song, Guihua Bai*. Quantitative trait loci for Fusarium head blight resistance in wheat cultivars Yangmai 158 and Zhengmai 9023. the Crop Journal, 2021, 9(1):143-153.
11. Pingping Zhang, Tom O. Jondiko, Michael Tilley, Joseph M. Awika*. Effect of high molecular weight glutenin subunit composition in common wheat on dough properties and steamed bread quality. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 2014, 94:2801-2806.
12. 张平平, 姚金保, 王化敦, 宋桂成, 姜朋, 张鹏, 马鸿翔*. 江苏省优质软麦品种品质特性与饼干加工品质的关系. 作物学报, 2020, 46(4):491-502.