Hongru Wang Lab comprehensively applies the theories of evolutionary biology, combining ancient DNA, pan-genomics, and molecular genetics methods to study the domestication and dissemination of crops. The group aims to explore and utilize spatiotemporal adaptive natural variations, providing valuable genetic variation resources for breeding new rice varieties and addressing climate change.
The research group has 12 personnel ,including 1 PI , 2 Postdoc,6 Support and Management Staff, 1 Ph.D. student.
Xiaobing Jiang
Pengkun Xu
Dr. Xiaobing Jiang joined AGIS in 2022 as a postdoctoral researcher. His emphasis is on understanding the molecular basis of agriculturally important traits in tomato. Currently, his research focuses on how transcription factors and phytohormones regulate tomato flowering and inflorescence development.
Xu Pengkun, postdoctoral fellow, graduated from Huazhong Agricultural University in 2023 with a PhD in genetics. During the postgraduate stage, he devoted himself to researching key scientific issues on the genetic and molecular mechanisms of rice quality and chalkiness formation in indica rice, as well as the synergistic regulation of endosperm development by chalkiness. His research direction is to analyze the hybrid male sterility locus at the whole genome level through pollen mixed pool sequencing technology of the representative japonica rice T65 and indica rice GLA4 hybrid F1, and verify the function of the new hybrid male sterility gene, and analyze its development, genetics and evolutionary mechanism.
Ting Li
Yulu Ye
Yaxue Fang
Yingyi Liu
Qi Zheng
Zihao Huang
Zicheng Wang