Degree: Ph.D.
Title: Professor
Graduation school: Huazhong Agricultural University
Office: 425, South Building
Prof. Zhibiao is the deputy director of the National Key Laboratory of germplasm innovation and utilization of Horticultural crops of the Ministry of Education. He is also a scientist of the National Modern Agricultural Industrial Technology System for Vegetables (Molecular Breeding), executive director of the Chinese Horticultural Society, vice president of the Hubei Horticultural Society, and vice president of the Tomato Branch of the Chinese Horticultural Society.
He pursued collaborative research in plant biotechnology at the University of Nottingham, UK, and Cornell University, U.S.A. He was awarded the title of Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Experts by the Ministry of Agriculture in 1995 and received a special allowance from the State Council in 1996. He was selected by the Ministry of Education for the Backbone Teacher Program. He won the First Prize and Second Prize in Hubei Science and Technology Progress three times and the Second Prize in Science and Technology Progress of the Ministry of Agriculture one time.
Dr. Zhibiao’s primary research areas include vegetable breeding and molecular biology. He has presided over 50 projects of the National 863 Program, National 973 Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China, provincial (ministerial) level scientific research projects, and international cooperation projects. Dr. Zhibiao has created the first agricultural transgenic product approved for commercial production in China, which is considered an exemplary case of the storability breeding of fruits and vegetables in China. He has also made significant contributions to the isolation and identification of a key gene (Wo) for tomato velvet hair formation through map cloning. This discovery reveals the diversity of cell fate regulation in plants and is essential to understanding the mechanism of tomato embryo development. Dr. Zhibiao has published more than 130 papers in domestic and foreign academic journals, including more than 40 SCI papers, 4 monographs, and 5 invention patents.
[1] 1997.9-2000.6> Huazhong Agricultural University > PhD
[2] 1981.12-1984.12 > Nanjing Agricultural University > MS
[3] 1978.3-1981.12 > Huazhong Agricultural University > BS
[1] 1984.12-present> Huazhong Agricultural University > Professor
[2] 1990.9-1992.5 > University of Nottingham, UK > Collaborative Researcher
[1] Yang C, Li H, Zhang J, Luo Z, Gong P, Zhang C, Li J, Wang T, Zhang Y, Lu Y, Ye Z*. A regulatory gene induces trichome formation and embryo lethality in tomato. Proc. Nat’l. Amer. Sci. USA, 2011, 108(29): 11836-11841.
[2] Gong PJ, Zhang JH, Li HX, Yang CX, Zhang CJ, Zhang XH, Khurram Z, Zhang YY, Wang TT, Fei ZJ, Ye ZB*. Transcriptional profiles of drought-responsive genes in modulating transcription signal transduction, and biochemical pathways in tomato. J Experimental Botany, 2010, 61: 3563-3575.
[3] Ouyang B, Yang T, Li HX, Zhang L, Zhang YY, Zhang JH, Fei ZJ, Ye ZB*. Identification of salt stress regulated genes in tomato seedlings by suppression subtracted hybridization and microarray. J Experimental Botany, 2007, 58: 507-520.
[4] Chen RG, Li HX, Zhang LY, Zhang JH, Xiao JH, Ye ZB*. CaMi, a root-knot nematode resistance gene from hot pepper confers nematode resistance in tomato, Plant Cell Reports, 2007, 26 : 895-905.
[5] Fine-mapping of the woolly gene controlling multicellular trichome formation and embryonic development in tomato.Theoretical and Applied Genetics,2011,
[6] Expression of artificial microRNAs in tomato confers efficient and stable virus resistance in a cell-autonomous manner.TRANSGENIC RESEARCH,2011,
[7] Fine-mapping of the woolly gene controlling multicellular trichome formation and embryonic development in tomato.THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS,2011,
[8] RNA interference of a mitochondrial APX gene improves vitamin C accumulation in tomato fruit.SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE,2011,
[9] Reducing AsA Leads to Leaf Lesion and Defence Response in Knock-Down of the AsA Biosynthetic Enzyme GDP-D-Mannose Pyrophosphorylase Gene in Tomato Plant.PLOS ONE,2013,
[10] Overexpression of ShDHN, a dehydrin gene from Solanum habrochaites enhances tolerance to multiple abiotic stresses in tomato.PLANT SCIENCE,2015,
[11] Suppressed Expression of Ascorbate Oxidase Gene Promotes Ascorbic Acid Accumulation in Tomato Fruit.PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTER,2011,
[12] Overexpression of SlGMEs leads to ascorbate accumulation with enhanced oxidative stress, cold, and salt tolerance in tomato.PLANT CELL REPORTS,2011,
[13] A Multiple Stress-Responsive Gene ERD15 from Solanum pennellii Confers Stress Tolerance in Tobacco.PLANT AND CELL PHYSIOLOGY,2011,
[14] A STAY-GREEN protein SlSGR1 regulates lycopene and beta-carotene accumulation by interacting directly with SlPSY1 during ripening processes in tomato.NEW PHYTOLOGIST,2013,
[15] Identification and expression pattern of one stress-responsive NAC gene from Solanum lycopersicum.MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REPORTS,2012,
[16] SpUSP, an annexin-interacting universal stress protein, enhances drought tolerance in tomato.JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY,2012,
[17] Over-expression of sly-miR156a in tomato results in multiple vegetative and reproductive trait alterations and partial phenocopy of the sft mutant.FEBS LETTERS,2011,
[18] Genetic analysis and identification of QTLs for resistance to cucumber mosaic virus in chili pepper (Capsicum annuum L.).EUPHYTICA,2013,
[19] Over-expression of microRNA169 confers enhanced drought tolerance to tomato.Biotechnology Letters,2010,
[20] Transcriptome profile analysis of cell proliferation molecular processes during multicellular trichome formation induced by tomato Wo(v) gene in tobacco.BMC GENOMICS,2015,
[21] Over-expression of microRNA169 confers enhanced drought tolerance to tomato. BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS,2011,
