Deng Yingtian

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Deng Yingtian

Degree: Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Graduation School:  Wuhan University

Office: 616, North Building

Understanding miRNA regulation on growth, development and disease resistance of Solanaceae plants (pepper, tomato, etc.) depends on molecular biology, for progressing crop improvement in agriculture.

2008.09-2013.12 Wuhan University > PhD Development biology

[1] 2018.3-present> Huazhong Agricultural University>Associate Professor

[2] 2021.04-2022.09> University of Cambridge>Postdoctoral Research Associate

[3] 2014.01-2018.03> Huazhong Agricultural University>Faculty Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Yingjia Zhou, Yingtian Deng, Dan Liu, Hongzheng Wang, Xi Zhang, Tingting Liu, Jubin Wang, Yue Li, Lijun Ou, Feng Liu, Xuexiao Zou, Bo Ouyang, Feng Li. Promoting virus-induced gene silencing of pepper genes by a heterologous viral silencing suppressor. Plant Biotechnol J. 2021, 19:2398-2400.
  • Yingtian Deng, Jubin Wang, Jeffrey Tung, Dan Liu, Yingjia Zhou, Shuang He, Yunlian Du, Barbara Baker and Feng Li. A role for small RNA in regulating innate immunity during plant growth. Plos Pathogens. 2018, 14: e1006756.
  • Yingtian Deng, Xiaofei Li, Minglei Liu and Feng Li. microRNA-mediated R gene regulation: molecular scabbards for double-edged swords. Science China Life Science. 2018, 61: 138-147.
  • Feng Liu#Huiyang Yu#,Yingtian Deng#, Jingyuan Zheng, Minglei Liu, Lijun Ou, Bozhi Yang, Xiongze Dai, Yanqing Ma, Shengyu Feng, Shuang He, Xuefeng Li, Zhuqing Zhang, Wenchao Chen, Shudong Zhou, Rong Chen, Minmin Liu, Sha Yang, Ruimin Wei, Huadong Li, Feng Li, Bo Ouyang, and Xuexiao Zou.PepperHub, an Informatics Hub for the Chili Pepper Research Community. Molecular Plant. 2017, 10:1129-1132. (co-first author)
  • Yingtian Deng, Wenxuan Zou, Gang Li, and Jie Zhao. Mitochondrial protein AtTIM9 and AtTIM10 are non-redundantly essential for early embryogenesis in Arabidopsis, Plant Physiology, 2014, 166: 853-868.
  • Yang Liu,Yingtian Deng, Gang Li and Jie Zhao. Replication factor C1 (RFC1) is required for double-strand break repair during meiotic homologous recombination of Arabidopsis, Plant Journal, 2013, 73: 154-165.
  • Dan Chen,Yingtian Dengand Jie Zhao. Distribution and change patterns of free IAA, ABP 1 and PM H+-ATPase during ovary and ovule development ofNicotiana tabacumL, Journal of Plant Physiology, 2012, 169: 127-136.
  • Dan Chen, Yujun Ren,Yingtian Dengand Jie Zhao. Auxin polar transport is essential for the development of zygote and embryo inNicotiana tabacumL. and correlated with ABP1 and PM H+-ATPase activities, Journal of Experimental Botany, 2010, 61: 1853-1867.
  • Heming Zhao, Tengfei Ma, Xin Wang,Yingtian Deng, Haoli Ma, Rongsheng Zhang, and Jie Zhao. OsAUX1 controls lateral root initiation in rice (Oryza sativaL.). Plant Cell and Environment. 2014, 38: 2208-2222.
  • Gang Li, Wenxuan Zou, Liufang Jian, Jie Qian,Yingtian Deng, and Jie Zhao. Non-SMC elements 1 and 3 are required for early embryo and seedling development inArabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany, 2017, 68:1039-1054.
  • Jie Qian, Yueyue Chen, Ying Hu,Yingtian Deng, Yang Liu, Gang Li, Wenxuan Zou, and Jie Zhao.Arabidopsisreplication factor C4 is critical for DNA replication during the mitotic cell cycle. Plant Journal, 2018, 94: 288-303.