Plant Developmental Biology

Research interests:

1. Axillary meristem development in Arabidopsis and maize

2. Epigenetic regulation of plant development

2005.9-2012.7  PhD  Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2015.9-2019.5  Postdoc  University of California, Riverside

2012.7-2015.9  Research Associate  Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

1.    Zhang, C.^#, Wang, J., Wenkel, S., Chandler, J., Werr, W., and Jiao, Y. (2018) Spatiotemporal control of axillary meristem formation by interacting transcriptional regulators. Development 145, dev158352. (Corresponding author).

2.    Peng, T., Qiao, M., Liu, H., Teotia, S., Zhang, Z., Zhao, Y., Wang, B., Zhao, D., Shi, L., Zhang, C., Le, B., Rogers, K., Gunasekara, C., Duan, H., Gu, Y., Tian, L., Nie, J., Qi, J., Meng, F., Huang, L., Chen, Q., Wang, Z., Tang, J., Tang, X., Wei, H., Chen, X., Zhao, Q., Tang, Q^#. (2018). A resource for inactivation of microRNAs using short tandem target mimic technology in model and crop plants. Molecular Plant 11, 1400–1417.

3.    Wang, J., Tian, C., Zhang, C., Shi, B., Cao, X., Zhang, T.Q., Zhao, Z., Wang, J.W., and Jiao, Y^#. (2017). Cytokinin signaling activates WUSCHEL expression during axillary meristem initiation. Plant Cell 29, 1373-1387.

4.    Shi, B.*, Zhang, C.*, Tian, C., Wang, J., Wang, Q., Xu, T., Xu, Y., Ohno, C., Sablowski, R., Heisler, M.G., Theres, K., Wang, Y., and Jiao, Y^#. (2016). Two-Step regulation of a meristematic cell population acting in shoot branching in Arabidopsis. PLoS Genet 12, e1006168. (*Co-first author)

5.    Zhang, C*., Bai, M.Y., and Chong, K^#. (2014). Brassinosteroid-mediated regulation of agronomic traits in rice. Plant Cell Rep 33, 683-696. (First author)

6.    Han, Y., Zhang, C., Yang, H., and Jiao, Y^#. (2014). Cytokinin pathway mediates APETALA1 function in the establishment of determinate floral meristems in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 111, 6840-6845.

7.    Liu, H., Guo, S., Xu, Y., Li, C., Zhang, Z., Zhang, D., Xu, S., Zhang, C., and Chong, K^#. (2014). OsmiR396d-regulated OsGRFs function in floral organogenesis in rice through binding to their targets OsJMJ706 and OsCR4. Plant Physiol 165, 160-174.

8.    Tian, C., Zhang, X., He, J., Yu, H., Wang, Y., Shi, B., Han, Y., Wang, G., Feng, X., Zhang, C., Wang, J., Qi, J., Yu, R., and Jiao, Y^#. (2014). An organ boundary-enriched gene regulatory network uncovers regulatory hierarchies underlying axillary meristem initiation. Mol Syst Biol 10, 755.

9.    Guo, S., Xu, Y., Liu, H., Mao, Z., Zhang, C., Ma, Y., Zhang, Q., Meng, Z., and Chong, K^#. (2013). The interaction between OsMADS57 and OsTB1 modulates rice tillering via DWARF14. Nat Commun 4, 1566.

10.  Zhang, C*., Xu, Y., Guo, S., Zhu, J., Huan, Q., Liu, H., Wang, L., Luo, G., Wang, X., and Chong, K^#. (2012). Dynamics of brassinosteroid response modulated by negative regulator LIC in rice. PLoS Genet 8, e1002686. (First author)

11.  Li, J., Jiang, J., Qian, Q., Xu, Y., Zhang, C., Xiao, J., Du, C., Luo, W., Zou, G., Chen, M., Huang, Y., Feng, Y., Cheng, Z., Yuan, M., and Chong, K^#. (2011). Mutation of rice BC12/GDD1, which encodes a kinesin-like protein that binds to a GA biosynthesis gene promoter, leads to dwarfism with impaired cell elongation. Plant Cell 23, 628-640.

      12. Wang, L., Xu, Y., Zhang, C., Ma, Q., Joo, S.H., Kim, S.K., Xu, Z., and Chong, K^#. (2008). OsLIC, a novel CCCH-Type zinc       finger protein with transcription activation, mediates rice architecture via brassinosteroids signaling. PLoS One 3, e3521.