Position: Professor
Degree: Ph.D.
Graduation School: Huazhong Agricultural University
Office: 626, South Building
Research Field, Interest & Highlights: Cell engineering and citrus improvement: i) protoplast fusion to produce somatic hybrids / cybrids, autotetraploid exploitation, ploidy crossing & embryo rescue to produce triploids; ii) Omics-based technology to reveal the mechanism of male sterility / seedlessness, polyploid wide adaptability; protoplast regeneration-based genome editing.
[1] 1993.9 – 1998.7: PhD study, major in Fruit Tree Science, Huazhong Agricultural University
[2] 1989.9 – 1993.7: Bachelor degree of Agriculture, major in Fruit Tree Science, Huazhong Agricultural University
[1] 2004.1 – present: Professor, Huazhong Agricultural University
[2] 2013.9 – 2018.8: Chang Jiang Scholar (Professorship, Ministry of Education of China)
[3] 2009.3 – 2009.4: Senior visiting scientist in Kagoshima University (Japan) supported by JSPS short invitation program
[4] 2007.3 – 2007.5: Senior visiting scientist in CSIRO & ANU, Australia
[5] 2001.3 – 2003.8: Postdoctoral research in Citrus REC, University of Florida (Cooperative professor: Dr. Jude Grosser)
[6] 1998.7 – 2003.12: Assistant & associate professor, Huazhong Agricultural University
Selected publications (* Corresponding author)
1) Zhang M, Tan FQ*, Fan YJ, Wang TT, Song X, Xie KD, Wu XM, Zhang F, Deng XX, Grosser JW, Guo WW* (2022) Acetylome reprograming involves in the establishment of fruit metabolism during polyploidization in citrus. Plant Physiology, accepted
2) Wang R, Fang YN, Wu XM (co-senior author), Qing M, Li CC, Xie KD, Deng XX, Guo WW* (2020) The miR399-CsUBC24 module regulates reproductive development and male fertility in citrus. Plant Physiology 183: 1681-1695
3) Tan FQ#, Zhang M#, Xie KD, Fan YJ, Song X, Wang R, Wu XM, Zhang HY, Guo WW* (2019) Polyploidy remodels fruit metabolism by modifying carbon source utilization and metabolic flux in Ponkan mandarin. Plant Science 289:110276
4) Long JM, Liu CY, Feng MQ, Liu Y, Wu XM*, Guo WW* (2018) miR156-SPL modules regulate induction of somatic embryogenesis in citrus callus. Journal of Experimental Botany 69: 2979-2993
5) Tan FQ, Tu H, Wang R, Wu XM, Xie KD, Chen JJ, Zhang HY, Xu J, Guo WW* (2017) Metabolic adaptation following genome doubling in citrus doubled diploids revealed by non-targeted metabolomics. Metabolomics 13: 143
6) Long JM, Liu Z, Wu XM*, Fang YN, Jia HH, Xie ZZ, Deng XX, Guo WW* (2016) Genome-scale mRNA and small RNA transcriptomic insights into initiation of citrus apomixis. Journal of Experimental Botany 67: 5743–5756
7) Wu XM, Kou SJ, Liu YL, Fang YN, Xu Q, Guo WW* (2015) Genome-wide analysis of small RNAs in non-embryogenic and embryogenic tissues of citrus: microRNA and siRNA mediated transcript cleavage involved in somatic embryogenesis. Plant Biotechnology Journal 13: 383-394
