马正强，1983年毕业于西南农业大学，获农学学士学位，1988年毕业于南京农业大学，获农学硕士学位。1983至1986在江苏省农业科学院工作。1994年于Cornell University获博士学位。毕业后作为博士后继续从事麦类作物的基因组研究。1998年回国，被聘为南京农业大学农学系教授、博导，同年被评为江苏省普通高等学校优秀青年骨干教师。1999年获霍英东青年教师研究奖类三等奖，入选教育部高等学校骨干教师培养计划。2000年入选教育部优秀青年教师和跨世纪优秀人才培养计划，同年获国家杰出青年科学基金。其部分研究成果2002年获教育部提名国家自然科学一等奖(排名第一)。2003年度被评为全国农业先进工作者。入选国家七部委首批新世纪百千万人才工程国家级人选，国家自然基金委生命科学部评审专家，国务院学位委员会学科评议组（生物学）成员。现为省政协委员, 民盟江苏省委常委、民盟南京农业大学委员会主委。曾经主持或承担国家杰出青年科学基金1项，Mcknight基金1项，国家自然科学基金重点项目3项，国家自然科学基金国际合作项目2项，国家自然科学基金项目面上项目6项，国家973前期重大专项1项、国家科技部“973” 项目4项，“863”项目3项，转基因专项5项和省部级及国际合作项目多项。主要论文发表在“Plant Physiology”、“PLoS One”、“Journal of Experimental Botany” 、 “Proteomics”、“Theor Appl Genet”、“Genome”、“Crop Sci”、“Mol Gen Genet” 等本领域SCI刊物上。获发明专利六项，软件著作权一项。

近期发表主要相关论文：

Xiang Y, Song M, Wei Z, Tong J, Zhang L, Xiao L, Ma Z, Wang Y . 2011. A jacalin-related lectin-like gene in wheat is a component of the plant defence system. Journal of Experimental Botany doi:10.1093/jxb/err226

Xue SL, Xu F, Tang MZ, Zhou Y, Li GQ, An X, Lin F, Xu HB, Jia HY, Zhang LX, Kong ZX, Ma ZQ. 2011. Precise mapping Fhb5, a major QTL conditioning resistance to Fusarium infection in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Theor Appl Genet 123:1055-63

Ding LN, Xu HB, Yi HY, Yang LM, Kong ZX, Zhang LX, Xue SL, Jia HY, Ma ZQ. 2011. Resistance to hemi-biotrophic F.graminearum infection is associated with coordinated and ordered expression of diverse defense signaling pathways. PLoS One 6:e19008

Xue SL, Li GQ, Jia HY, Lin F, Cao Y, Xu F, Tang MZ, Wang Y, Wu XY, Zhang ZZ, Zhang LX, Kong ZX, Ma ZQ. 2010. Marker-assisted development and evaluation of near-isogenic lines for scab resistance QTLs of wheat. Mol Breeding 25:397–405

Xue SL, Li GQ, Jia HY, Xu F, Lin F, Tang MZ, Wang Y, An X, Xu HB, Zhang LX, Kong ZX, Ma ZQ. 2010 Fine mapping Fhb4, a major QTL conditioning resistance to Fusarium infection in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Theor Appl Genet 121:147–156

Wei LZ, Tao Y, Jia HY, Zhang LX, Xu P, Wang YZ, Zhang ZZ, Zhang CQ, Ma ZQ. 2009. Highly Conserved UFD1 Proteins Among Eukaryotes Exhibit Considerable C-Terminus Diversity in Different Taxa. Plant Mol Biol Rep. 27:439-447

Jia HY, Yu J, Yi DL, Cheng Y, Xu WQ, Zhang LX, Ma ZQ. 2009. Chromosomal intervals responsible for tissue culture response of wheat immature embryos. Plant Cell Tissue Org Cult 97: 159-165

Xu Pei, Xiang Y, Zhu HL, Xu, HB, Zhang ZZ, Zhang CQ, Zhang LX, Ma ZQ. 2008. Wheat cryptochromes: subcellular localization and involvement in photomorphogenesis and osmotic stress respones. Plant Physiology 149:760-774.

Xue SL, Li GQ, Lin F, Cao Y, Wu XY, Jia HY, Zhang ZZ, Ma ZQ. 2008. Marker-assisted development of near-isogenic lines for scab resistance QTLs of wheat. Cereal research communications. 36: 185-187

Ma ZQ, Xue SL, Lin F, Yang SH, Li GQ, Tang MZ, Kong ZX, Cao Y, Zhao DM, Jia HY, Zhang ZZ, Zhang LX. 2008. Mapping and validation of scab resistance QTLs in the Nanda2419 x Wangshuibai population. Cereal research communications 36: 245-251

Tao Ye, Haibin Xu1 and Zhengqiang Ma. 2008. EST Finder: indexing and batch-retrieving ESTs from local databases. Journal of Life Sciences 2:23-25

Xue SL, Zhang ZZ, Lin F, Kong ZX, Cao Y, Li CJ, Yi HY, Mei MF, Zhao DM, Zhu HL, Xu HB, Wu JZ, Tian DG, Zhang CQ, Ma ZQ. 2008. A high-density intervarietal map of the wheat genome enriched with markers derived from expressed sequence tags. Theor Appl Genet, 117: 181-189.

Xu HX, Yao GQ, Xiong L, Yang LL, Jiang YM, Fu BS, Zhao WF, Zhang ZZ. Zhang CQ, Ma ZZ. 2008 Identification and mapping of pm2026, a recessive powdery mildew resistance gene in an einkorn (Triticum monococcum L.) accession. Theor Appl Genet, 117: 471-477.

Xu P, Yang, Z YW, Zhang HZ, Chen WH, Zhang CQ, Zhang LX, Zou SX, Ma ZQ. 2008. Expression of the nuclear gene TaFAd is under mitochondrial retrograde regulation in anthers of male sterile wheat plants with timopheevii cytoplasm. Journal of Experimental Botany, 59: 1375-1381.

Lin F, SL Xue, DG Tian, CJ Li, Y Cao, ZZ Zhang, CQ Zhang, ZQ Ma. 2008. Mapping chromosomal regions affecting flowering time in a spring wheat RIL population. Euphytica, 164:769–777

Li CJ, Zhu HL, Zhang CQ, Lin F, Xue SL, Cao Y, Zhang ZZ, Zhang LX, Ma ZQ. 2007. Mapping QTLs associated with Fusarium-damaged kernels in the Nanda 2419 × Wangshuibai population. Euphytica, 163, 185-191

Jia HY, DL Yi, J Yu, SL Xue, Y Xiang, CQ Zhang, ZZ Zhang, LX Zhang, ZQ Ma. 2007. Mapping QTLs for tissue culture response of mature wheat embryos. Mol. Cell, 23: 323-330.

Yao GQ, JL Zhang, LL Yang, HX Xu, YM Jiang, L Xiong, CQ Zhang, ZZ Zhang, ZQ Ma. ME Sorrells. 2007. Genetic mapping of two powdery mildew resistance genes in einkorn accessions. Theor Appl Genet, 114: 351-358.

Ma ZQ, Zhao DM, Zhang CQ, Zhang ZZ, Xue SL, Lin F, Kong ZX, Tian DG, Luo QY. 2007. Molecular genetic analysis of five spike–related traits in wheat using RIL and immortalized F2 populations. Mol Genet Genomics, 277: 31-42.

Xu HB, LM Yang, P Xu, Y Tao and ZQ Ma. 2007. cTrans: Generating polypeptide databases from cDNA sequences. Proteomics, 7: 177-179.

Lin F, Xue SL, Zhang ZZ, Zhang CQ, Kong ZX, Yao GQ, Tian DG, Zhu HL, Li CJ, Cao Y, Wei JB, Luo QY, Ma ZQ. 2006. Mapping QTL associated with resistance to Fusarium head blight in the Nanda2419 × Wangshuibai population. II. Type I resistance. Theor Appl Genet, 112: 528-535.

Wang Y, LM Yang, HB Xu, QF Li, ZQ Ma, CG Chu. 2005. Differential proteomic analysis of proteins in wheat spikes induced by Fusarium graminearum. Proteomics, 5: 4496-4503.

Yu L, Niu JS, Chen PD, Ma ZQ and Liu DJ. 2005. Cloning, Physical mapping and expression analysis of a wheat Mlo-like gene. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology Formerly Acta Botanica Sinica. 47:214-222

Zhang ZZ MA ZQ, LIU DJ. 2005. Suppression Subtractive Hybridization Analysis of Ms2 Near-isogenic Lines of Wheat Reveals Genes Differentially Expressed in Spikelets and Anthers. Journal of Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology. 31: 175-182

Zhang ZZ, Ma ZQ. 2005. Cloning and Characterization of TOM7-like Gene in Wheat. Genetica Sinica, 32: 170-177.

Lin F, Kong ZX, Zhu HL, Xue SL, Wu JZ, Tian DG, Wei JB, Ma ZQ. 2004. Mapping QTL associated with resistance to Fusarium head blight in the Nanda2419  Wangshuibai population. I. Type II resistance, Theor Appl Genet. 109:1504–1511

Huang XZ, Wei LZ, Ma ZQ. 2004. Cloning and characterization of an ubiquitin fusion degradation protein gene in wheat. Acta Botanica Sinica, 46: 1366-1372

Ma ZQ, Lapitan NLV, Steffenson B. 2004. QTL Mapping of Net Blotch Resistance Genes in a Doubled-haploid Population of Six-rowed Barley. Euphytica, 137: 291-296.

Ma ZQ, Wei JB, Cheng SH. 2004. PCR-based markers for powdery mildew resistance gene Pm4a in wheat. Theor Appl Genet. 109: 140-145.

Ma ZQ, Steffenson B, Frost E, Rasmusson D, and Lapitan NLV. 2000. Quantitative trait loci mapping for Fusarium head blight resistance genes in six-rowed barley. Phytopathology, 90: 1079-1088.

Ma ZQ, Nelson CL, Saidi A, Quick J, and Lapitan NLV. 1998. Chromosomal localization and mapping of Russian wheat aphid resistance gene Dn2 and Dn4 in wheat. Genome, 41: 303-306.

Ma ZQ, Röder M, and Sorrells ME. 1996. Frequencies, and sequence characteristics of di-, tri-, and tetra-nucleotide microsatellites in wheat. Genome, 39: 123-130.

Ma ZQ and Sorrells ME. 1995. Chromosomal regions linked to restoring genes in two restorers for Triticum timopheevii cytoplasm sterility of wheat. Crop Sci. 35: 1137-1143.

Ma ZQ, Zhao YH, Sorrells ME. Inheritance and molecular identification of restoring gene in wheat transferred from Aegilops umbellulata Zhuk.. Mol. Gen. Genet. 1995. 247: 351-357.

Ma ZQ, Sorrells ME, and Tanksley SD. 1994. RFLP marker linked to powdery mildew resistance genes Pm1, Pm2, Pm3 and Pm4 in wheat. Genome, 37: 871-875.

Ma ZQ, Gill BS, Sorrells ME, and Tanksley SD. 1993. RFLP markers linked to two Hessian fly-resistant genes in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) from Triticum tauschii (Coss.) Schmal. Theor. Appl. Genet. 85: 750-754.

Ma ZQ, Zhao YH and Liu DJ. 1991. Incorporation of restoring gene of Aegilops umbellulata into wheat. Genome, 34: 727-732.