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Wenbin ZHOU

Date:2020-05-11Author:Source:

Prof. Wenbin Zhou  
Director General of ICSCAAS  
Head of the Research Group of Regulation of Photosynthesis
Center for Crop Management & Farming System
Institute of Crop Sciences
No.12 Zhongguancun South Street
Beijing, 100081, China
Tel:86-10-86-10-8210-8563
Fax:86-10-86-10-8210-5819
Email:zhouwenbin@caas.cn

Educations


  •  2009-2014, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr. Ralph Bock at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany


  •  2005-2008, PhD in Botany, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.

Working Experience


  •  2015.1- now, Professor, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China.


  •  2008.7-2009.5, Research Assistant, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests


  •  Photosynthesis and Environmental Stress


  •  Engineering Photosynthesis for Enhancing Crop Yield Potential


  •  Plant tRNA Modification

Academic Qualifications


  •  Technical Editor, The Crop Journal

Selected Publications (*corresponding authors)

Liu J #,                 Zhou W#*, Wang C, Sun Y, Wu W, Wang Z, Hai G, Yang C, Huang, J, Bock R, and Cheng Y*. 2015. The conserved endoribonuclease YbeY is required for chloroplast rRNA processing in Arabidopsis thaliana.                 Plant Physiol. 168: 205-221.
Zhou W, Karcher D, Fischer A, Maximova E, Walther D and Bock R. 2015. Multiple RNA processing defects and impaired chloroplast function in plants deficient in the organellar protein-only RNase P enzyme.                 PLoS ONE 10: e0120533.
Zhou W, Karcher D. and Bock R. 2014. Identification of enzymes for adenosine-to-inosine editing and discovery of cytidine-to-uridine editing in nucleus-encoded tRNAs of Arabidopsis.                 Plant Physiol. 166: 1985-1997.
Zhou W, Karcher D. and Bock R. 2013. Importance of adenosine-to-inosine editing adjacent to the anticodon in an Arabidopsis alanine tRNA under environmental stress.                 Nucl. Acids Res. 41: 3362-3372.
Zhou W, Karcher D. and Bock R. 2013. Importance of adenosine-to-inosine editing adjacent to the anticodon in an Arabidopsis alanine tRNA under environmental stress.                 Nucl. Acids Res. 41: 3362-3372.
Cheng Y,                 Zhou W, Ibrahim El sheery N, Peters C, Li M, Wang X, and Huang J. 2011. Characterization of the Arabidopsis glycerophosphodiesterphosphodiesterase (GDPD) family reveals that a plastid-localized AtGDPD1 is involved in membrane lipid remodeling under phosphate deficiency.                 Plant J. 66: 781-795.
Zhou W, Chen Y, Yap A, Chateigner-Boutin A-L, Delannoy E, Hammani K, Small I, and Huang J. 2009. The Arabidopsis gene YS1 encoding a DYW protein is required for editing of rpoB transcripts and the rapid development of chloroplasts during early growth.                 Plant J. 58: 82-96.
Wei Q,                 Zhou W, Hu G, Wei J, Yang H, and Huang J. 2008. Heterotrimeric G-protein is involved in phytochrome A-mediated cell death of Arabidopsis hypocotyls.                 Cell Res. 18: 949-960.

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