Principal Investigator

Dr. Xiao Luo

Contact Address: No. 699 Binhu Road, Fangzi District, Weifang, Shandong, China

Email: xiao.luo@pku-iaas.edu.cn

Education

9/2008-6/2012 PhD in Botany,Northeast Agricultural University, China.

9/2004-6/2008 BS in Plant Biology, Northeast Agricultural University, China.

Working Experience

2020/11-----present Professor, PI, Director of Soybean Molecular Biology and Molecular Design Breeding Laboratory, Peking University Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, China

12/2018-10/2020 Associate professor,Plant Environmental Epigenetics Group, Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

07/2016-11/2018.11 Assistant professor,Plant Environmental Epigenetics Group, Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

01/2014-06/2016: Postdoctoral research,Shanghai Center for Plant Stress Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

01/2014/-05/2014: Visiting Researcher, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore,Singapore

06/2012-12/2013: Assistant professor, Key Laboratory of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Research Interests

l The role and mechanism of chromatin modification in soybean flowering

l The mechanism and genetic network of soybean chromatin modification factors in soybean response to environmental stress

l Germplasm enhancement and genetic improvement of soybean

Selected Publications

Fei Huang ^#, Xiao Luo^#, Yang Ou^#, &Zhaoxu Gao^#, Qiming Tang, Zhenzhen Chu, Xinguang Zhu, Yuehui He*.2023. Control of histone demethylation by nuclear-localized α-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase. Science. 381. eadf8822. 10.1126/science.adf8822.

Zhicheng Zhang^#, Xiao Luo^#,Yupeng Yang,Yuehui He*.2023.Cold induction of nuclear FRIGIDA condensation in Arabidopsis.Nature 619, E27–E32. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06189-z

Xiao Luo^#, Yang Ou^#, Renjie Li^#&Yuehui He*.2020. Maternal transmission of the parental ‘memory of winter cold’ in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants, 6（10）:1211-1218.

Zicong Li^#, Xiao Luo^#, Yang Ou^#, Huijun Jiao, Li Peng, Xing Fu, Alberto P Macho, RenyiLiu&Yuehui He*.2021.JASMONATE-ZIM DOMAIN proteins engage Polycomb chromatin modifiers to modulate Jasmonate signaling in  Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant,14(5):732-747.

Xiao Luo^#, Tao Chen^#, Xiaolin Zeng, Dingwei He &Yuehui He*.2019. Feedback regulation of FLC by FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) and FD through a 5'FLC promoterregion in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant, 12(3): 285~288.

Zeng Tao^#, Hongmiao Hu^#,Xiao Luo^#, Bei Jia, Jiamu Du*&Yuehui He*.2019. Embryonic resetting of the parental vernalized state by two B3 domain transcription factors in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants, 5 (4)：424–435.

Wenya Yuan^#,Xiao Luo,Zicong Li, Wannian Yang, Yizhong Wang, Rui Liu, Jiamu Du*&Yuehui He*.2016. A cis cold memory element and a trans epigenome reader mediate Polycomb silencing of FLC by vernalization in Arabidopsis.Nature Genetics, 48(12): 1527~1534.

Xiao Luo^#, Zheng Gao^#,Yizhong Wang, Zhijuan Chen, Wenju Zhang, Jirong Huang,Hao Yu, Yuehui He*.2018. The NUCLEAR FACTOR-CONSTANS complex antagonizes Polycomb repression to de-repress FLOWERING LOCUS T expression in response to inductive long days in Arabidopsis. Plant Journal, 95(1): 17~29. 

Xiao Luo^#, Yuehui He*.2020.Experiencing winter for spring flowering – a molecular epigenetic perspective on vernalization.Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 62 (1): 104-117. ESI Highly Cited Paper.

Ying Zhu^#, Xiao Luo^#, Xuxin Liu^#, Wenjuan Wu, Xiaofeng Cui, Yuehui He*&JirongHuang*.2020. Arabidopsis PEAPODs function with LIKE HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN1 to regulate lateral organ growth. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 62 (6): 812-831.

Xiao Luo^#, *, Meng nan Yin^#, Yue hui He*.2022. Molecular genetic understanding of photoperiodic regulation of flowering time in Arabidopsis and soybean. Int. J. Mol. Sci, 23, 466.

Zhaohan Zhang^#, Wanpeng Wang, Shahid Ali, Xiao Luo*, Linan Xie*.2022.CRISPR/Cas9-mediated multiple knockouts in abscisic acid receptor genes reduced the sensitivity to ABA during soybean seed germination. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2022,18;23(24):16173.

Myeongjune Jeon^#, Goowon Jeong, Yupeng Yang, Xiao Luo, Daesong Jeong, Jinseul Kyung, Youbong Hyun, Yuehui He*, Ilha Lee*.2023. Vernalization-triggered expression of the antisense transcript COOLAIR is mediated by CBF genes. eLife,12:e84594. doi: 10.7554/eLife.84594.

Hong Zhai, Zhao Wan, Shuang Jiao, Jingwen Zhou, Kun Xu, Haiyang Nan, Yingxiang Liu, Shangshang Xiong, Rong Fan, Jinlong Zhu, Wenting Jiang, Tian Pang, Xiao Luo, Hongyan Wu, Guang Yang, Xi Bai, Fanjiang Kong, Zhengjun Xia.2022. GmMDE genes bridge the maturity gene E1 and florigens in photoperiodic regulation of flowering in soybean. Plant Physiology,189(2), 1021–1036

Zicong Li^#, Danhua Jiang^#, Xing Fu, Xiao Luo, Renyi Liu, Yuehui He*.2016. Coupling of histone methylation and RNA processing by the nuclear mRNA cap-binding complex. Nature Plants, 2(3):1-10.

Honorables and Awards

Yuandu Scholar from Weifang City (2021)

Taishan Scholar-Young Expert from Shandong Province (2022)

Outstanding Scientific and Technological Workers of Weifang City (2023)