Wang Xin

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Wang Xin

Degree: Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Graduation School: Huazhong Agricultural University

Office: 418, South Building

Xin Wang, PhD, Doctoral supervisor, principal investigator at College of Horticulture and Forestry sciences of Huazhong Agricultural University and Hubei Hongshan laboratory. Dr. Wang received his doctoral degree at Huazhong Agricultural University in 2016, after which he joined Dr. Zhangjun Fei’s lab at Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University for Postdoctoral researcher. In Dec. 2021, Dr. Wang joined Huazhong Agricultural University and Hubei Hongshan laboratory as a faculty member.
Dr. Wang has strong interest in horticultural crop genomics, and his lab researches mainly focus on utilizing multi-omics data in combination with computational approaches to understand and explore molecular mechanisms underlying important agronomic traits of horticultural crops (lettuce etc) and application in genetic improvement.

Dr. Wang has published 20 papers, many of which are in the top journals of plant biology filed, including Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, New Phytologist etc.

[1] 09/2010 – 06/2016 Huazhong Agricultural University PhD
[2] 09/2006 – 06/2010 Shandong Agricultural University BS

[1] 12/2021 – present Professor Huazhong Agricultural University
[2] 12/2021 – present Professor Hubei Hongshan Laboratory
[3] 09/2016 – 09/2021 Postdoctoral researcher Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University

1. Wang, X. #, Gao, L.#, Jiao, C., Stravoravdis, S., Hosmani, P.S., Saha, S., Zhang, J., Mainiero, S., Strickler, S.R., and Catala, C. Genome of Solanum pimpinellifolium provides insights into structural variants during tomato breeding. Nature communications. 2020. 11, 1-11.. Highlight by editor in webpage of “Plants and agriculture”.
2. Wang, X., Ai, G., Zhang, C., Cui, L., Wang, J., Li, H., Zhang, J., and Ye, Z. Expression and diversification analysis reveals transposable elements play important roles in the origin of L ycopersicon‐specific lnc RNA s in tomato. New Phytologist. 2016. 209, 1442-1455..
3. Guo, S. #, Zhao, S. #, Sun, H. #, Wang, X. #, Wu, S. #, Lin, T. #, Ren, Y., Gao, L., Deng, Y., and Zhang, J. Resequencing of 414 cultivated and wild watermelon accessions identifies selection for fruit quality traits. Nature genetics. 2019. 51, 1616-1623.
4. Wang, X., Bao, K., Reddy, U.K., Bai, Y., Hammar, S.A., Jiao, C., Wehner, T.C., Ramírez-Madera, A.O., Weng, Y., and Grumet, R. The USDA cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) collection: genetic diversity, population structure, genome-wide association studies, and core collection development. Horticulture Research. 2018. 5, 1-13.
5. Wu, S. #, Wang, X. #, Reddy, U., Sun, H., Bao, K., Gao, L., Mao, L., Patel, T., Ortiz, C., and Abburi, V.L. Genome of ‘Charleston Gray’, the principal American watermelon cultivar, and genetic characterization of 1,365 accessions in the US National Plant Germplasm System watermelon collection. Plant biotechnology journal. 2019. 17, 2246-2258.
6. Ye, J.#, Wang, X.#, Wang, W.#, Yu, H., Ai, G., Li, C., Sun, P., Wang, X., Li, H., Ouyang, B., Zhang, J., Zhang, Y., Giovannoni, J.J., Fei, Z.* and Ye, Z.*. Genome-wide association study reveals the genetic architecture of 27 yield-related traits in tomato. Plant Physiology. 2021. 186, 2078-2092
7. Wang, X#., Ando, K#.,Wu, S. Reddy, U.K., Tamang, P., Bao K., Hammar, Grumet, R.; McCreight, J., Fei, Z., Genetic characterization of melon accessions in the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System and construction of a melon core collection. Molecular Horticulture. 2021.
8. Tan, H., Wang, X., Fei, Z., Li, H., Tadmor, Y., Mazourek, M., and Li, L. (2020). Genetic mapping of green curd gene Gr in cauliflower. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 133, 353-364.
9. Zhang, C., Wang, J., Wang, X., Li, C., Ye, Z., and Zhang, J. (2020). UF, a WOX gene, regulates a novel phenotype of un-fused flower in tomato. Plant Science 297, 110523.
10. Li, M., Wang, X., Li, C., Li, H., Zhang, J., and Ye, Z. (2018). Silencing GRAS2 reduces fruit weight in tomato. Journal of integrative plant biology 60, 498-513.
11. Wu, S., Lau, K.H., Cao, Q., Hamilton, J.P., Sun, H., Zhou, C., Eserman, L., Gemenet, D.C., Olukolu, B.A., Wang, H,..Wang, X and Fei, Z. (2018). Genome sequences of two diploid wild relatives of cultivated sweetpotato reveal targets for genetic improvement. Nature communications 9, 1-12.
12. Duan, N., Bai, Y., Sun, H., Wang, N., Ma, Y., Li, M., Wang, X., Jiao, C., Legall, N., and Mao, L. (2017). Genome re-sequencing reveals the history of apple and supports a two-stage model for fruit enlargement. Nature communications 8, 1-11.
13. Ye, J., Wang, X., Hu, T., Zhang, F., Wang, B., Li, C., Yang, T., Li, H., Lu, Y., and Giovannoni, J.J. (2017). An InDel in the promoter of Al-ACTIVATED MALATE TRANSPORTER9 selected during tomato domestication determines fruit malate contents and aluminum tolerance. The Plant Cell 29, 2249-2268.
14. Chu, Z., Wang, X., Li, Y., Yu, H., Li, J., Lu, Y., Li, H., and Ouyang, B. (2016). Genomic organization, phylogenetic and expression analysis of the B-BOX gene family in tomato. Frontiers in plant science 7, 1552.
15. Lu, Y., Liu, L., Wang, X., Han, Z., Ouyang, B., Zhang, J., and Li, H. (2016). Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of the expansin gene family in tomato. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 291, 597-608.
16. Liu, H., Yu, C., Li, H., Ouyang, B., Wang, T., Zhang, J., Wang, X., and Ye, Z. (2015). Overexpression of ShDHN, a dehydrin gene from Solanum habrochaites enhances tolerance to multiple abiotic stresses in tomato. Plant Science 231, 198-211.
17. Zhang, T., Wang, X., Lu, Y., Cai, X., Ye, Z., and Zhang, J. (2014). Genome-wide analysis of the cyclin gene family in tomato. International journal of molecular sciences 15, 120-140.
18. Guo, N., Wang, S., Gao, L., Liu, Y., Wang, X., Lai, E., Duan, M., Wang, G., Li, J., Yang, M., et al. (2021). Genome sequencing sheds light on the contribution of structural variants to Brassica oleracea diversification. BMC Biology 19, 93.