Yingxiang Wang, Team leader
Tier 2 Professor, National Distinguished Young Scholar
Expertise and Research Interest:
Cell Biology
Plant Meiosis
Soybean Biobreeding
Email:yxwang@scau.edu.cn
Jiyue Huang, Professor
Postdoc at UNC
Ph.D. from Fudan Univeristy
B.S. from CAU
Expertise and Research Interest:
Plant Genetics
Plant Meiotic Recombination and Regulation of Fertility
Email:jyhuang@scau.edu.cn
Changkui Guo, Professor
Ph.D. from Fudan Univeristy
B.S. from Shandong University
Expertise and Research Interest:
Stress Biology
Plant Growth, Development and Adaptation to Environment
Email:guock@scau.edu.cn
Chenjiang You, Professor
Postdoc at UCR
Ph.D. & B.S. from Fudan Univeristy
Expertise and Research Interest:
Bioinformatics
Non-coding RNAs and Plant Reproductive Development
Email:cjyou@scau.edu.cn
Yalin Liu, Professor
Postdoc at JIC
Ph.D. from IGDB, CAS
B.S. from NWAFU
Expertise and Research Interest:
Chromosomal Biology
Development of Plant Zygote and Embryo
Email:yalin.liu@scau.edu.cn
Cong Wang, Professor
Postdoc at Fudan University
Ph.D. from Fudan University
B.S. from Lanzhou University
Expertise and Research Interest:
Epigenetics
Fate Determination of Microsporocyte and Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plants
Email:wangc@scau.edu.cn
Qian Jia, Associate Professor
Postdoc at SYSU
Ph.D. from SYSU
Expertise and Research Interest:
Structural Biology
Structure and Function of Regulatory Proteins in Plant Reproductive Development
Email:qjia@scau.edu.cn
Haifeng Peng, Associate Professor
Ph.D. from SCAU
Expertise and Research Interest:
Megagametophyte Development and Germline Differentiation in Plants
Plant Morphoanatomy
Email:phf72@scau.edu.c
• Li Q, Zhou J, Li S, Zhang W, Du Y, Li K, Wang Y, Sun Q. DNA polymerase ε harmonizes topological states and R-loops formation to maintain genome integrity in Arabidopsis. Nat Commun. 2023,14(1):7763
• Wang Y, Chen C, Copenhaver GP, Wang CR. Editorial: Meiosis in plants: sexual reproduction, genetic variation and crop improvement. Front Plant Sci. 2023, 14:1294591
• Liu Y, Yi C, Fan C, Liu Q, Liu S, Shen L, Zhang K, Huang Y, Liu C, Wang Y, Tian Z, Han F.Pan-centromere reveals widespread centromere repositioning of soybean genomes.PNAS 2023, 120(42): e2310177120.
• Peng G, Liu M, Zhu L, Luo W, Wang Q, Wang M, Chen H, Luo Z, Xiao Y, Zhang Y, Hong H, Liu Z, Zhou L, Guo G, Wang Y, Zhuang C, Zhou H. The E3 ubiquitin ligase CSIT1 regulates critical sterility-inducing temperature by ribosome-associated quality control to safeguard two-line hybrid breeding in rice. Mol Plant. 2023, 16(10):1695-1709
• Hu LQ, Yu SX, Xu WY, Zu SH, Jiang YT, Shi HT, Zhang YJ, Xue HW, Wang YX, Lin WH. Spatiotemporal formation of the large vacuole regulated by the BIN2-VLG module is required for female gametophyte development in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 2023, 35(4):1241-1258.
• Hang R, Xu Y, Wang X, Hu H, Flynn N, You C*, Chen X*. Arabidopsis HOT3/eIF5B1 constrains rRNA RNAi by facilitating 18S rRNA maturation. PNAS 2023, 120(15):e2301081120.
• Xu W, Yu Y, Jing J, Wu Z, Zhang X, You C, Ma H, Copenhaver GP, He Y, Wang Y*. SCFRMF mediates degradation of the meiosis-specific recombinase DMC1. Nat Commun. 2023, 14:5044
• Wang C, Li X, Huang J, Ma H, Wang C R, Wang Y. Isolation of Meiocytes and Cytological Analyses of Male Meiotic Chromosomes in Soybean, Lettuce, and Maize. In: Riechmann, J.L., Ferrándiz, C. (eds) Flower Development. Methods Mol. Biol. 2023 vol 2686. Humana, New York, NY.
• Li J#, Wang C#, Liang W, Jiang C, Liu Y, Ren Z, Ci D, Chang J, Wang Y*,Qian W*. Functional importance and divergence of plant apurinic/apyrimidinic endonucleases in somatic and meiotic DNA repair. Plant Cell 2023, koad056.
• Wang C#, Huang J#, Li Y, Zhang J, He C, Jiang D, Dong A, Ma H*, Copenhaver GP*, Wang YX*. DNA polymerase epsilon binds histone H3.1-H4 and recruits MORC1 to mediate meiotic heterochromatin condensation, PNAS 2022, 119: e2213540119.
• Wang C, Huang J, Zhang J, Yu Y, Copenhaver GP, You C*, Wang Y*. DNA polymerase epsilon interacts with SUVH2/9 to repress the expression of genes associated with meiotic DSB hotspot in Arabidopsis. PNAS 2022, 119: e2208441119.
• Guo C, Jiang Y, Shi M, Wu X, Wu G*. ABI5 acts downstream of miR159 to delay vegetative phase change in Arabidopsis. New Phytologist 2021, 231: 339-350.
• Li X, Zhang J, Huang J, Xu J, Chen Z, Copenhaver GP, Wang Y*. Regulation of interference-sensitive crossover distribution ensures crossover assurance in Arabidopsis. PNAS 2021, 118: e2107543118.
• Li X, Yu M, Bolaños-Villegas P, Zhang J, Ni D, Ma H, Wang Y*. Fanconi anemia ortholog FANCM regulates meiotic crossover distribution in plants. Plant Physiology 2021, 186: 344-360.
• Chen H#, He C#, Wang C#, Wang X, Ruan F, Yan J, Yin P, Wang Y*, Yan S*. RAD51 supports DMC1 by inhibiting the SMC5/6 complex during meiosis. Plant Cell 2021, 33:2869-2882.
• Fang X, Han Y, Liu M, Jiang J, Li X, Lian Q, Xie X, Huang Y, Ma Q, Nian H, Qi J, Yang C*, Wang Y*. Modulation of evening complex activity enables north-to-south adaptation of soybean. Sci China Life Sci 2021, 64: 179-195. (Cover story)
• Liu Y#, Su H#, Zhang J#, Shi L, Liu Y, Zhang B, Bai H, Liang S, Gao Z, Birchler JA, Han F*. Rapid birth or death of centromeres on fragmented chromosomes in maize. Plant Cell 2020, 32: 3113-3123.
• Su H#, Liu Y#, Liu C, Shi Q, Huang Y, and Han F*. Centromere satellite repeats have undergone rapid changes in polyploid wheat subgenomes. Plant Cell 2020, 9: 2035-2051.
• Wang J#, Yu C#, Zhuang S, Ye J, Dai H, Wang H, Huang J, Cao X, Ma J*, Ma H*, Wang Y*. Cell-type-dependent histone demethylase specificity promotes meiotic chromosome condensation in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants 2020, 6: 823-837.
• Liu, Y#, Su, H#, Zhang, J, Liu, Y, Feng, C, Han, F*. Back-spliced RNA from retrotransposon binds to centromere and regulates centromeric chromatin loops in maize. PLoS Biology 2020, 18: e3000582.
• Huang J#, Wang C#, Li X, Fang X, Huang N, Wang Y, Ma H, Wang Y*, Copenhaver GP*. Conservation and divergence in the meiocyte sRNAomes of Arabidopsis, soybean, and cucumber. Plant Physiology 2020, 182: 301-317.
• Huang J#, Wang C#, Wang H, Lu P, Zheng B, Ma H, Copenhaver GP, Wang Y*. Meiocyte-specific and AtSPO11-1-dependent small RNAs and their association with meiotic gene expression and recombination. Plant Cell 2019, 31: 444-464.
• Wang C#, Huang J#, Zhang J, Wang H, Han Y, Copenhaver GP, Ma H, Wang Y*. The largest subunit of DNA polymerase delta is required for normal formation of meiotic type I crossovers. Plant Physiology 2019, 179: 446-459.
• You C, He W, Hang R, Zhang C, Cao X, Guo H, Chen X, Cui J*, Mo B*. FIERY1 promotes microRNA accumulation by suppressing rRNA-derived small interfering RNAs in Arabidopsis, Nat Commun. 2019, 10: 4424-15.
• Xu R#, Xu J#, Wang L#, Niu B, Copenhaver GP, Ma H, Zheng B, Wang Y*. The Arabidopsis anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome subunit 8 is required for male meiosis. New Phytologist 2019, 224:229-24.
• Jia Q, Xie W*. Alternative conformation induced by substrate binding for Arabidopsis thaliana N6-methyl-AMP deaminase. Nucleic Acids Research 2019, 47:3233-3243.
• Xue M#, Wang J#, Jiang L, Wolfe S, Pawlowskic W*, Wang Y*, He Y*. The number of meiotic double-strand breaks influences crossover distribution in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 2018, 30: 2628-263.
• Wang Y*, Copenhaver GP*. Meiotic recombination: mixing it up in plants. Annual Rev Plant Biol. 2018, 69:577-609.