Associate Professor
Education:
9/2012 - 6/2018
PhD of Agriculture, June 2018 Supervisor: Prof. Junping Gao
China Agricultural University, Beijing, China Ornamental Horticulture
9/2008 - 6/2012
Bachelor of Agriculture
Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, China Horticulture
Professional Experience：
10/2023 – Present Associate Professor
FAFU-UCR Joint Center, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
7/2018 – 9/2023 Post doctoral Fellow
The Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
Laboratory of Dr. Juan Dong
FAFU-UCR Joint Center, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Laboratory of Dr. Tongda Xu
Research Interest：
Deciphering the Molecular Mechanisms of Phytohormone Auxin in Controlling Asymmetric Cell Division
Publications：
[1] Yi Zhang, Zhicheng Wu, Ming Feng, Jiwei Chen, Meizhu Qin, Wenran Wang, Ying Bao, Qian Xu, Ying Ye, Chao Ma, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Su-Sheng Gan, Hougao Zhou, Youming Cai, Bo Hong, Junping Gao, Nan Ma. 2021, The circadian-controlled PIF8–BBX28 module regulates petal senescence in rose flowers by governing mitochondrial ROS homeostasis at night. The Plant Cell, 33: 2716–2735
[2] Yi Zhang, Tongda Xu, Juan Dong. 2023, Asymmetric cell division in plant development. J. Integr. Plant Biol., 65: 343-370
[3] Chao Bian, Xiaoyu Guo, Yi Zhang, Lu Wang, Tongda Xu, Alison DeLong, and Juan Dong. 2020, Protein phosphatase 2A promotes stomatal development by stabilizing SPEECHLESS in Arabidopsis. PNAS, 117：13127–13137[4] Jie Yang, Hang He, Yuming He, Qiaozhen Zheng, Qingzhong Li, Xin Feng, Pengcheng Wang, Guocheng Qin, Yangtao Gu, Ping Wu, Chao Peng, Shilei Sun, Yi Zhang, Mingzhang Wen, Rong Chen, Yang Zhao, Tongda Xu. 2021, TMK1-based auxin signaling regulates abscisic acid responses via phosphorylating ABI1/2 in Arabidopsis. PNAS, 118: 24 e2102544118
[5] Lin Wu, Nan Ma, Yangchao Jia, Yi Zhang, Ming Feng, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Chao Ma and Junping Gao. 2017, An Ethylene-Induced Regulatory Module Delays Flower Senescence by Regulating Cytokinin Content.
Plant Physiology, 173: 853–862
Foundations：
[1] National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 32300271).
[2] China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2019M662215).
E-mail: yi_zhang@cau.edu.cn