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Introduction

The adaptive evolution of agricultural pests is the fundamental reason for their outbreaks . Xiao’s Lab focuses on important local and invasive pests in agriculture, such as cotton bollworm, fall armyworm, and black cutworm. By combining results of population genomics, association analysis, gene editing, cell biology, and bioassay, the environmental adaptation mechanisms (pesticide resistance, Bt resistance, cold resistance, etc.) of pests are analyzed. The genes and loci that are identified will be used to explore new targets, and applied to the research and development of new technologies and environmentally friendly measures for pest prevention and control. The research group includes 29 members, including 1 PI,1 Part-time professor, 1 associate researchers, 7 postdocs, 15 students and 2 Support and Management staff.

Research Areas

Fanghao Wan & Wanqiang Qian

Fanghao Wan & Wanqiang Qian Lab mainly focuses on the genomics study of critical invasive alien species in agriculture, aimed at obtaining an in-depth understanding of the invasion mechanism as well as developing novel techniques for control and management based on whole genome sequencing and deep mining of omics big data. The research group has 47 staff members, including 2 PIs, 3 associate researchers, 5 postdocs, 24 postgraduates and 1 staff.

Associate Researcher

Bo Liu (liubo03@caas.cn) Dr. Liu focuses on bioinformatics and plant genetics. He has rich experience in adaptive evolution, mapping of key genes for genetic traits, and construction of metabolic co-expression networks. He has published more than 50 SCI papers in international top journals, such as Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, New Phytologist, Plant Physiology, The Innovation, etc. Among them, he has published 25 SCI papers as the first author or corresponding author. In terms of biological information algorithms, he independently developed a number of bioinformatics software and obtained three software Copyrights, including population SNP mutation detection software, population CNV mutation detection software and SNP mutation gene annotation software. Xi Qiao (qiaoxi@caas.cn) Xi Qiao, Associate researcher, he is the master's supervisor of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the off-campus master's supervisor of Northwest A & F University and Guangx...

Postdoc

Qiang Wu (wuqiang@caas.cn) Dr. Qiang Wu is a Post-doc in the research team of invasive alien species. He got his Ph.D. from Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) in 2015, then he studied at Department of Developmental Biology, Göttingen University, Germany as a Visiting Scholar, and worked as a research assistant in Institute of Plant Protection, CAAS till 2019. He continued his research as a Post-doc in AGIS from 2019. Currently he conducts research on molecular biology and control of invasive alien insects. The ongoing projects include: (1) Interaction between CpGV and codling moth, especially regulation of viral infection and immune response via epigenetic methylation; (2) Development of novel approaches for insect pest management based on genome editing. He has published more than 20 papers in Nature Communications, Journal of Integrative Agriculture, Virology, and Frontiers in Physiology. Lijuan Yin (yinlijuan@caas.cn) Lijuan Yin, postdoctor since November...

PI

The research group has 47 staff members, including 2 PIs, 3 associate researchers, 5 postdocs, 24 postgraduates and 1 staff.

Postdoc

M. S. students

Support and Management Staff

Research Team

Our Research Interest:

1. Signalling transduction and regulation in plant immunity

The plant defense hormone salicylic acid (SA) and N-hydroxypipecolic acid (NHP) are two key signaling molecules in systemic acquired resistance (SAR), we will utilize various approaches involving genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, as well as omics platforms of AGIS to study signal transduction involved in SAR as well as SA and NHP signaling pathways.

2. Innate immunity against Phytophthora infestans in diploid potato (Solanum tuberosum)

Phytophthora infestans is the causal agent of Potato late blight, seriously threatened potato yield. Understanding of potato innate immunity against Phytophthora infestans will facilitate disease resistance breeding in potato. We will carried out functional genomics analysis of potato resistance against Phytophthora infestans based on diploid potato inbreed lines created by the Upotato plan.

Our research group has10 staff members, including 1 PI, 4 postdocs, 3 postgraduates and 2 staff.