
Chunxiang Fu
Title: Professor, Crop Molecular Breeding Group
Email: fucx@qibebt.ac.cn
Address: 189 Songling Road, Qingdao, China, 266101
Research Areas
1) Crop molecular breeding and genetic improvement of economic crops
2) Advanced biotechnological approaches and biosafty of genetically modified crops
Education
1997-2001, Yantai University, Biochemistry, B.S. Shandong, China
2001-2007, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Botany, Combined M.D. /Ph.D. Beijing, China
Experience
Work Experience
2007-2012, Forage Improvement Division, the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Postdoctoral fellow, Ardmore, Oklahoma, USA
2012-2013, Genetic Transformation Facility Manager, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation,Ardmore, Oklahoma, USA
2013-present, Professor, Principal Investigator of Crop Molecular Breeding Group, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Publications
Papers
1. Zhenying Wu, Yingping Cao, Ruijuan Yang, Tianxiong Qi, Yuqing Hang, Hao Lin, Gongke Zhou, Zeng-Yu Wang, Chunxiang Fu. Switchgrass SBP-box transcription factors PvSPL1 and 2 function redundantly to initiate side tillers and affect biomass yield of energy crop. Biotechnol Biofuels. 9:101, 2016
2. Lifang Niu*, Chunxiang Fu*, Hao Lin*, Tezera W. Wolabu, Yanqi Wu, Zeng-Yu Wang, Million Tadege. Control of floral transition in the bioenergy crop switchgrass. Plant Cell Environ. 2016
3. Chunxiang Fu, Timothy Hernandez, Chuanen Zhou, Zeng-Yu Wang. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). Agrobacterium Protocols,Springer New York, 2015
4. Guang Qi, Dian Wang, Li Yu, Xianfeng Tang, Guohua Chai, Guo He, Wenxuan Ma, Shengying Li, Yingzhen Kong, Chunxiang Fu*, Gongke Zhou*. Metabolic engineering of 2-phenylethanol pathway producing fragrance chemical and reducing lignin in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Rep. 34:1331-1342, 2015
5. Yingping Cao, Junling Li, Li Yu, Guohua Chai, Guo He, Ruibo Hu, Guang Qi, Yingzhen Kong, Chunxiang Fu*, Gongke Zhou*. Cell wall polysaccharide distributions in Miscanthus lutarioriparius stem using immuno-detection. Plant Cell Rep. 33:643-653, 2014
6. Yanchong Yu, Ruibo Hu, Huamei Wang, Yingping Cao, Guo He, Chunxiang Fu*, Gongke Zhou*. MlWRKY12, a novel Miscanthus transcription factor, participates in pith secondary cell wall formation and promotes flowering. Plant Sci. 212:1-9, 2013
7. Chunxiang Fu, Ramanjulu Sunkar, Chuanen Zhou, Hui Shen, Jiyi Zhang, Jessica Matts, Jennifer Wolf, David G.J. Mann, C. Neal Stewart Jr, Yuhong Tang and Zeng-Yu Wang. Overexpression of miR156 in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) results in various morphological alterations and leads to improved biomass production. Plant Biotechnol J. 10:443-452, 2012
8. Chunxiang Fu*, Jonathan R. Mielenz*, Xirong Xiao, Yaxin Ge, Choo Y. Hamilton, Miguel Rodriguez, Jr., Fang Chen, Marcus Foston, Arthur Ragauskas, Joseph Bouton, Richard A. Dixon and Zeng-Yu Wang. Genetic manipulation of lignin reduces recalcitrance and improves ethanol production from switchgrass. PNAS 108:3803-3808, 2011
9. Chunxiang Fu, Xirong Xiao, Yajun Xi, Yaxin Ge, Fang Chen, Joseph Bouton, Richard A. Dixon, and Zeng-Yu Wang. Downregulation of cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD) leads to improved saccharification efficiency in switchgrass.BioEnergy Research 4:153-164, 2011
10. Hui Shen*, Chunxiang Fu*, Xirong Xiao, Tui Ray, Yuhong Tang, Zeng-Yu Wang and Fang Chen. Developmental control of lignification in stems of lowland switchgrass variety Alamo and the effects on saccharification efficiency. BioEnergy Research2:233-245, 2009
11. Yajun Xi*, Chunxiang Fu*, Yaxin Ge, Rangaraj Nandakumar, Hiroshi Hisano, Joseph Bouton and Zeng-Yu Wang.Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of switchgrass and inheritance of the transgenes. BioEnergy Research 2:275-283, 2009
12. Chunxiang Fu, Yanjun Xu, Dexiu Zhao, Fengshan Ma. A comparison between hairy root cultures and wild plants of Saussurea involucrate. in phenylpronoid production. Plant Cell Rep. 24:750-754, 2006
13. Chunxiang Fu, Liqin Cheng, Xiaofen Lv, Dexiu Zhao, Fengshan Ma. Methyl jasmonate stimulates jaceosidin and hispidulin production in cell cultures of Saussurea medusa. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology 134:89-96, 2006
14. Chunxiang Fu, Dexiu Zhao, Xiaofeng Xue, Zhiping Jin, Fengshan Ma. Transformation of Saussurea involucrata byAgrobacterium rhizogenes: hairy root induction and syringin production. Process Biochemistry 40:3789-3794, 2005
15. Chunxiang Fu, Dexiu Zhao, Yan Huang, Fengshan Ma. Cellular aggregate size as the critical factor for flavonoid production by suspension cultures of Saussurea medusa. Biotechnology Letters 27:91-95, 2005
16. Maofeng Chai, Chuanen Zhou, Isabel Molina, Chunxiang Fu, Jin Nakashima, Guifen Li, Wenzheng Zhang, Jongjin Park, Yuhong Tang, Qingzhen Jiang, and Zeng-Yu Wang. A class II KNOX gene, KNOX4, controls seed physical dormancy. PNAS, 2016
17. Chuanen Zhou, Lu Han, Chunxiang Fu, Jiangqi Wen, Xiaofei Cheng, Jin Nakashima, Junying Ma, Yuhong Tang, Yang Tan, Million Tadege, Kirankumar S. Mysore, Guangmin Xia and Zeng-Yu Wang. The trans-acting short interfering RNA3 pathway and NO APICAL MERISTEM antagonistically regulate leaf margin development and lateral organ separation, as revealed by analysis of an argonaute7/lobed leaflet1 mutant in Medicago truncatula. Plant Cell 25: 4845-4862, 2013
18. Qiao Zhao, Jin Nakashima, Fang Chen, Yanbin Yin, Chunxiang Fu, Jianfei Yun, Hui Shao, Xiaoqiang Wang, Zeng-Yu Wang and Richard A. Dixon. LACCASE is necessary and nonredundant with PEROXIDASE for lignin polymerization during vascular development in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 25:3976-3987, 2013
19. Hui Shen, Mitra Mazarei, Hiroshi Hisano, Luis Escamilla-Trevino, Chunxiang Fu, Yunqiao Pu, Mary R. Rudis, Yuhong Tang, Xirong Xiao, Lisa Jackson, Guifen Li, Tim Hernandez, Fang Chen, Arthur J. Ragauskas. C. Neal Stewart Jr., Zeng-Yu Wang and Richard A. Dixon. A genomics approach to deciphering lignin biosynthesis in switchgrass. Plant Cell 25:4342-4361, 2013
20. Qiao Zhao, Yuki Tobimatsu, Rui Zhou, Sivakumar Pattathil, Lina Gallego-Giraldo, Chunxiang Fu, Lisa A. Jackson, Michael G. Hahn, Hoon Kim, Fang Chen, John Ralph and Richard A. Dixon. Loss of function of cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase 1 leads to unconventional lignin and a temperature-sensitive growth defect in Medicago truncatula. PNAS 110:13660-13665, 2013
21. Yaxin Ge, Chunxiang Fu, Hem Bhandari, Joseph Bouton, E. Charles Brummer, and Zeng-Yu Wang. Pollen viability and longevity of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.). Crop Science 51:2698-2705, 2011
Research Interests
Genetic improvement of biofuel and forage crops.
Students
现指导学生
齐天雄 02 63228
杨瑞娟 01 19183
李玉 02 19183
王亚梅 01 19183