Degree: Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor
Graduation School: Wuhan University
Office: 620, North Building
Plants have an enormous morphotypic diversity, even they come from the same species. For example, the mustard, an AABB allopolyploid Brassica plant, has evolved and domesticated to multiple ecotypes, such as root-type, stem-type, seed-type, leaf-type. I’m interested in the molecular mechanism underlying the establishment of the important traits in mustard, including leaf heading, swollen stem and root, and so on. I hope the findings of our study will facilitate both the science of plant development and plant breeding.
[1] 2009.9-2015.6 Wuhan University
[2] 2004.9-2008.6 Jiangsu University
[1] 2021.4-present> Huazhong Agricultural University>Associate Professor
[2] 2016.6-2021.3> Huazhong Agricultural University>postdoc
1）Jia Y., Yu P., Shao W., An G., Chen J., Yu C. * & Kuang H. * (2022) Up-regulation of LsKN1 promotes cytokinin and suppresses gibberellin biosynthesis to generate wavy leaves in lettuce. Journal of Experimental Botany, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erac311.
2）An G., Yu C., Yan C., Wang M., Zhang W., Jia Y., … & Kuang H. * (2022) Loss-of-function of SAWTOOTH 1 affects leaf dorsiventrality genes to promote leafy heads in lettuce, The Plant Cell, https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac234.
3）Yu C. #, Yan C. #, Liu Y., Liu Y., Jia Y., Lavelle D., … & Kuang H. * (2020) Upregulation of a KN1 homolog by transposon insertion promotes leafy head development in lettuce. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(52):33668-33678.
4）Su, W., Tao, R., Liu, W., Yu, C., Yue, Z., He, S., … & Chen, J. (2020). Characterization of four polymorphic genes controlling red leaf colour in lettuce that have undergone disruptive selection since domestication. Plant biotechnology journal, 18(2), 479-490.
5）Wang, L., Yu, C., Xu, S., Zhu, Y., & Huang, W. (2016). OsDi19‐4 acts downstream of OsCDPK14 to positively regulate ABA response in rice. Plant, Cell & Environment, 39(12), 2740-2753.
6）Huang W.#, Yu C.#, Hu J., Wang L., Dan Z., Zhou W., … & Zhu Y.* (2015) Pentatricopeptide-repeat family protein RF6 functions with hexokinase 6 to rescue rice cytoplasmic male sterility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(48), 14984-14989.
7）Yu C., Wang L., Xu S., Zeng Y., He C., Huang W., … & Hu J.* (2015) Mitochondrial ORFH79 is essential for drought- and salt-tolerance in rice. Plant and Cell Physiology, 56(11), 2248-2258.
8）Yu C., Wang L., Chen C., He C., Hu J., Zhu Y.* and Huang W.* (2014) Protoplast: A more efficient system to study nucleo-cytoplasmic interactions. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 450(4), 1575-1580.
9）Hu, J., Huang, W., Huang, Q., Qin, X., Yu, C., Wang, L., … & Zhu, Y. (2014). Mitochondria and cytoplasmic male sterility in plants. Mitochondrion, 19, 282-288.
10）Huang, W., Hu, J., Yu, C., Huang, Q., Wan, L., Wang, L., … & Zhu, Y. (2012). Two non-allelic nuclear genes restore fertility in a gametophytic pattern and enhance abiotic stress tolerance in the hybrid rice plant. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 124(5), 799-807.
