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Wheat Abiotic Stress Resistance Research

Team name

 

Wheat Abiotic Stress Resistance Research

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Team leader

 

Dr. Yan Xue

 

Research Objective

 

Wheat abiotic stress resistance: Freezing temperature and drought are two major abiotic stresses limiting wheat production. Our goal is to screen for freezing and drought resistance traits in wild wheat ancestors and their closely related species, to identify the resistance allele and study their functional mechanisms. The ultimate goal is to introgress these traits into domesticated wheat varieties through breeding or genome editing, to improve the performance and yield of wheat in stress conditions.

 

Team Members

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Qian Yin, Postdoctoral Fellow, PhD in Science

Research project: Functional studies of MORC proteins in plant immunity

 

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Tonghui Li, joint PhD student with Tel Aviv University

Research project: Fe homeostasis in cucumber

 

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Guorong Yu, Research Assistant, MSc in Horticulture

Research project: Generation of a CRISPRmutant library in Arabidopsis; Establishment of cucumber transformation system

 

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Zhidong Lv, Research Assistant, MSc in Horticulture

Research project: Generation of a CRISPR mutant library in Arabidopsis

 

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Hongji Yang, Research Assistant, MSc in Horticulture

Research project: Identification and characterization of the cis regulatory elements in wheat

 

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Xin Li, Research Assistant, MSc in Bioengineering

Research project: Functional studies of MORC proteins in plant immunity

 

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Jie Zhou, Research Assistant, MSc in Horticulture

Research project: Fe homeostasis in cucumber

 

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Xiaohua Zhu,Research Assistant, MSc in Horticulture

Research project: Fe homeostasis in cucumber; Establishment of wheat transformation system

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Xiaojia Guo, Administrative Assistant, MSc in developmental biology

 

 

Research projects

 

National Postdoctoral Fellowship Program: 2024-2027

Systematic profiling of chromatin epigenetic landscape in pepper, to identify and characterize developmental and stress responsive cis-regulatory elements. The long term objective is to improve growth and stress resistance in pepper through targeted genetic or epigenetic modification of these cis-regulatory elements.

 

Wheat abiotic stress resistance:

Freezing temperature and drought are two major abiotic stresses limiting wheat production. Our goal is to screen for freezing and drought resistance traits in wild wheat ancestors and their closely related species, to identify the resistance allele and study their functional mechanisms. The ultimate goal is to introgress these traits into domesticated wheat varieties through breeding or genome editing, to improve the performance and yield of wheat in stress conditions.

 

 

Publication

 

Zhong, Z.*,Xue, Y.*,Harris CJ.*; Wang, M., Li, Z., Ke, Y.,Jami-Alahmadi, Y., Feng, S.,Wohlschlegel, J.and Jacobsen, SE.2023. MORC proteins regulatetranscription factor binding by mediating chromatin compaction in active chromatin regions.Genome Biology 24:96.