Deng Xiuxin

Prof. Deng Xiuxin is the first pomology Ph.D of New China. He is currently professor and doctoral supervisor of Huazhong Agricultural University, vice president of Chinese Academy of Engineering, president of Chinese Society for Horticultural Science, chief scientist of National Technology System for Citrus Industry, and member of Standing Committee of National People’s Congress. As the eleventh chairman of International Society of Citriculture (2004-2008) and president of Chinese Society for Citriculture (1998-2009), he successfully organized the 11th International Citrus Congress in Wuhan (2008) and has been awarded “International Society of Citriculture Honorary Member” for his distinguished service.
He has mainly been engaged in citrus germplasm discovery, innovation and utilization for genetic improvement and genomics research. He was the first in China to successfully establish the efficient protoplast fusion and regeneration system in citrus, and created a series of new seedless germplasm with different ploidy levels (triploid, tetraploid and diploid). In the past 20 years, he and his research team bred more than 10 new citrus varieties which have been widely popularized in the major citrus-producing areas of China, such as Hubei, Jiangxi etc. As the principal investigator, He organized the strategic planning for China citrus industry, and made contributions to citrus regional development and technological promotion. His recent work includes the exploitation of wild citrus as the model plant of citrus genetics, and the formation mechanism for flesh color mutant trait of sweet oranges, with aiming at carotenoids biosynthesis and molecular regulation. He and his team has established the high-quality draft sequence for the genome of sweet orange, and provided a valuable resource for further understanding and improving many important citrus traits.
To date, Prof. Deng has contributed more than 300 research papers to peer reviewed journals including Nature Genetics, Molecular Plant, National Science Review, Plant physiology etc. He has been awarded many important prizes for his outstanding achievements such as the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award (2006), the first prize of Scientific and Technological Progress Award of Hubei Province (2012), “National Labor Medal” (2007)，the 2011 Outstanding International Horticulturist award by the American Society of Horticultural Science, “the Chinese Agricultural Excellence Award” (2012), International Society of Citriculture Fellow Member (2012), Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress (2013), Hubei Science and Technology Outstanding Contribution Award (2017) and etc. He was awarded the “Yangzi” Distinguished Professor Prize in 2001. He was elected as academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2007.

[1] 1985.02-1987.12 Huazhong Agricultural University > PhD Pomology
[2] 1982.02-1984.12 Huazhong Agricultural College > MS Pomology
[3] 1978.02-1981.12 Hunan Agricultural College > MS Pomology

1. Wang N, Song XT, Ye JL, Zhang SQ, Cao Z, Zhu CQ, Hu JB, Zhou Y, Huang Y, Cao S, Liu ZJ, Wu XM, Chai LJ, Guo WW, Xu Q, Brandon S. Gaut, Anna M.G. Koltunow, Zhou YF, Deng XX*. Structural variation and parallel evolution of apomixis in citrus during domestication and diversification. National Science Review, 2022, accepted
2. Kaijie Zhu, Danni Yan, Yun Wang, Feng Zhu, Lixin Cao, Shunde Xiang, Yunliu Zeng, Lijun Chai, Yunjiang Cheng, Junli Ye*, Xiuxin Deng*. Chlorophyll retention reduces storability and pathogen defense in a novel citrus brown flavedo mutant. Postharvest Biology and Technology, 2022, 192: 112006
3. Qihang Jiang, Junli Ye, Kaijie Zhu, Fangfang Wu, Lijun Chai, Qiang Xu, Xiuxin Deng*. Transcriptome and co-expression network analyses provide insights into fruit shading that enhances carotenoid accumulation in pomelo(Citrus grandis). Horticultural Plant Journal, 2021, 8（4）: 438-449
4. Kaijie Zhu, Hongyan Chen, Yingzi Zhang, Yun Liu, Xiongjie Zheng, Juan Xu, Junli Ye, Xiuxin Deng*. Carotenoid extraction, detection, and analysis in citrus. Methods in Enzymology, 2022, (https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mie.2022.01.006)
5. Lu SW, Ye JL, Zhu KJ, ZhangY, Zhang MW, Xu Q, Deng XX*. A Citrus Phosphate Starvation Response Factor CsPHL3 Negatively Regulates Carotenoid Metabolism. Plant and Cell Physiology, 2021, 62 (3): 482-493
6. Lu SW, Ye JL, Zhu KJ, ZhangY, Zhang MW, Xu Q, Deng XX*. A fruit ripening-associated transcription factor CsMADS5 positively regulates carotenoid biosynthesis in citrus. Journal of Experimental Botany, 2021, 72 (8): 3028-3043
7. Mou JL, Zhang ZH, Qiu HJ, Lu Y, Zhu QH, Ye JL, Fernie AR, Cheng YJ, Deng XX*, Wen WW*. 2021,Multiomics-based dissection of citrus flavonoid metabolism using a Citrus reticulata × Poncirus trifoliata population, Hortic Res, 2021, Mar 1;8(1):56. doi: 10.1038/s41438-021-00472-8.
8. Zhang Y, Zhang YZ, Sun Q, Lu SW, Chai LJ, Ye JL*, Deng XX*. Citrus transcription factor CsHB5 regulates abscisic acid biosynthetic genes and promotes senescence. The Plant Journal, 2021, 108 (1): 151-168
9. Zhu KJ, Sun Q, Chen HY, Mei XH, Lu SW, Ye JL, Chai LJ, Xu Q, Deng XX*. Ethylene activation of carotenoid biosynthesis by a novel transcription factor CsERF061. Journal of Experimental Botany, 2021, 72 (8): 3137-3154
10. Zhu KJ, Zheng XJ, Ye JL, Huang Y, Chen HY, Mei XH, Xie ZZ, Cao LX, Zeng YL, Larkin RM, Xu Q, Estela PR, Manuel T, Cecilia ZC, Eleanore TW*, Deng XX. Regulation of carotenoid and chlorophyll pools in hesperidia, anatomically unique fruits found only in Citrus. Plant Physiology, 2021, 187 (2): 829-845

1. 2020.06 Citrus engineering cell models accumulating β-citraurinene by multi-gene metabolic engineering and its application, granted as a patent by State Intellectual Property Office, the first accomplisher
2. 2019.11 The sequence closely related to citrus red/yellow peel and its application, granted as a patent by State Intellectual Property Office, the first accomplisher
3. 2019.07 A Method for Extracting plastoglobulus from citrus pulp chromoplasts, granted as a patent by State Intellectual Property Office, the first accomplisher
4. 2019.03 A method for the extraction, purification and transformation of citrus protoplasts, granted as a patent by State Intellectual Property Office, the first accomplisher
5. 2012.12 A method for the extraction and purification of citrus pulp chromoplasts, granted as a patent by State Intellectual Property Office, the first accomplisher
6. 2004.04 A method for producing the seed abortive fruits in pummelo, granted as a patent by State Intellectual Property Office, the first accomplisher
7. 2019.12 ‘Zongcheng’ navel orange, granted and protected as a new variety by the Ministry of Agriculture, the first accomplisher
8. 2016.05 ‘Gannan No.1’ navel orange, granted and protected as a new variety by the Ministry of Agriculture, the first accomplisher
9. 2008.05 “Zaohong” navel orange, granted and protected as a new variety by the Ministry of Agriculture, the first accomplisher