YE Xingguo

Dr. Xingguo Ye

Ph. D & Professor

Address: Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhong Guan Cun South Street, Beijing 100081, China

Tel: 86-10-8210-5173

Fax: 86-10-8210-9765

Email: yexingguo@caas.cn

Education background

Xingguo Ye, a plant biotechnology researcher by training, received his BSc degree in Agronomy (1984) from Ningxia University of China, his MS degree (1991) and PhD (1995) in Crop Genetics and Breeding from the Graduated School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He did post-doc research on plant biotechnology for one year (1997-1998) in Korea University, for two years (2001-2003) in University of Nebraska, USA.

Research area

His research is focused on new variety development and genetic resource creating of wheat by tissue culture and transgenic approach, establishment and application of wheat transformation system by large scale. To date, he has developed three spring wheat varieties by anther culture, and transferred some target genes related to disease resistance and drought tolerance into wheat mediated by Agribacterium and biolistic particle techniques. Presently, he is the investigator of wheat genetic transformation team, and In charge of two national projects and one international collaboration branch program presently. His future interests include enhancement of wheat transformation efficiency mediated by Agribacterium, cloning and characterization of putative genes associated with plant regeneration and T-DNA delivery in wheat, development of new wheat varieties by using chromosome elimination strategy induced by maize pollens.

Publications

He has published more than 120 papers in various scientific journals. Some of his latest publication is as follows:

Wang K, Han X F, Dong K, Gao L Y, Ma W J, Yan Y M, Ye X G*. Characterization of seed proteome in Brachypodium distachyon. Journal of Cereal Sciences, 2010, 52: 177-186.

She M Y, Ye X G*, Yan Y M, Ma W J. Gene network in the synthesis and deposition of protein polymers during grain development of wheat. Functional & Integrative genomics, 2011, 11: 23-25.

Li J R, Ye X G*, An B Y, Du L P, Xu H J. Genetic transformation of wheat: current status and future prospects, Plant Biotechnology Reports, 2012, 6: 183-193.

Bie X M, Wang K, She M Y, Du L P, Zhang S X, Li J R, Gao X, Lin Z S, Ye X G*. Combinational transformation of three wheat genes encoding fructan biosynthesis enzymes confers increased fructan content and tolerance to abiotic stresses in tobacco. Plant Cell Rep, 2012, 31: 2229-2238.

Wang S L, Wang K, Chen G X, Lv D W, Han X F, Yu Z T, Li X H, Ye X G*, Hsam S L, Ma W J, Appels R, Yan Y M. Molecular characterization of LMW-GS genes in Brachypodium distachyon L. reveals highly conserved Glu-3 loci in Triticum and related species. BMC Plant Biology, 2012, 12: 221.

She M Y, Yin G X, Li J R, Li X, Du L P, Ma W J, Ye X G*. Efficient Regeneration potential is closely related to auxin exposure time and catalase metabolism during the somatic embryogenesis of immature embryos in Triticum aestivum L. Mol Biotechnol, 2013, 54: 451-460.

Wang K, Lin Z S, Wang S L, Du L P, Li J R, Xu H J, Yan Y M, Ye X G*. Development, identification, and genetic analysis of a quantitative dwarfing somatic variation line in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Crop Sci, 2013, 53: 1032-1041.

Zhou X H, Wang K, Lv D W, Wu C J, Li J R, Du L P, Lin Z S, Ye X G*. Global analysis of differentially expressed genes and proteins in the wheat callus infected by Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Plos ONE, 2013, 8(11): e79390.

Lin Z S, Zhang Y L, Wang K, Li J R, Xu Q F, Chen X, Zhang X S, Ye X G*. Isolation and molecular analysis of gees Srpk-V2 and Stpk-V3 homologous to powdery mildew resistance gene Stpk-V in a Dasypyrum villosum accession and its derivatives. J Appl Genet, 2013, 54: 417-426.

Wang X M, Wang K, Li J R, Du L P, Li J R, Xu H J, Ye X G*. Effects of environmental temperature on the regeneration frequency of the immature embryos of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). 2014, 2014, 13(4): 722-732.

Rong W, Qi L, Wang A Y, Ye X G (Co-first author), Du LP, Liang H X, Xin Z Y, Zhang Z Y. The ERF transcription factor TaERF3 promotes tolerance to salt and drought stresses in wheat. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 2014, 12: 468-479.

Zhang W, Wang K, Lin Z S, Du LP, Ma H L, Xiao L L, Ye X G*. Production and identification of haploid dwarf male sterile wheat plants induced by corn inducer. Botanical Studies, 2014, 55: 26.

Xiao L L, Wang K, Liu Y L, Ye X G*, Ma W J, Yan Y M. Molecular characterization of high molecular weight glutenin allele Glu-B1h encoding 1Bx14+1By15 subunits in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Crop and Pasture Science, 2014, 65 (3): 215-226.

Zhang, W, Wang X M, Fan R, Yin G X, Wang K, Du L P, Lele Xiao, Ye X G*. Effects of inter-culture, arabinogalactan proteins, and hydrogen peroxide on the plant regeneration of wheat immature embryos. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2014, DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(14)60764-4.

Patents

He has obtained six national patents as the first inventor.

Media and method of high efficient regeneration and transformation of mature embryos of wheat mediated by Agrobacterium. 2011. China patent number: ZL200810106258.4.

Media and transformation method of alleviating cell death of immature embryos of wheat induced by Agrobacterium. 2008. China patent number: 2011. ZL200810106257.X.

A key technique of improving wheat efficiently regeneration system. 2012. China patent number: ZL200910237362.1.

A novel plant expression vector for transformation. 2012. China patent number: ZL201010293247.9.

A method to improve the regeneration efficiency from the immature embryos of wheat genotypes with low regeneration feature. 2013. China patent number: ZL201210085450.6.

A method to maintain the immature embryos of wheat under freezing condition. 2014. China patent number: ZL201310087497.0.

Academic membership

He is serving as editorial members for Journal of Integrative Agriculture, Advances in Crop Science and Technology, Science and Technology Review, and Agricultural Science.