Reporter:

Chen Jianghua

Doctor, researcher

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Email:  jhchen@xtbg.ac.cn

Report title:

Molecular mechanism of compound leaf development

Report time: 16:30 PM, Friday, August 7, 2020

Address: conference room of Party member's home, 2nd floor, building 2, College of life science and technology

Contact person: Yuan Zheng

Reporter information:

Professor Chen Jianghua: Deputy Director of Academic Committee and assistant director of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2014, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) 100 talents program supported the selection of A-type talents; in 2015, Yunnan Province introduced overseas high-level talents; and in 2016, young backbone members of CAS molecular plant Excellence Center. Professor Chen Jianghua graduated from Wuhan University and Shanghai Institute of plant physiology and ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000 and 2006, and obtained bachelor's degree and doctor's degree successively. After that, he carried out postdoctoral research in the noble Research Institute of the United States, returned to work in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013, and continued to engage in molecular mechanism research of plant compound leaf development.

Professor Chen Jianghua has successively presided over more than 10 national, provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, such as the leading class A and class B projects of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Natural Science Foundation Yunnan Joint Fund (key projects), the class a project of the 100 person program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the general projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has made a series of original research achievements in the leaf research of legumes. Many SCI papers have been published in nature plants, nature communication, PNAs, new Phytologist and other mainstream journals.

 

Representative papers:

1. He L, Liu Y, He H, Liu Y, Qi J, Zhang X, Zheng X, Bai Q, Zhao B, Wen J, Mysore K, Tadege M, Xia Y, Chen Jianghua* (2020) A molecular framework underlies the compound leaf pattern formation in Medicago truncatula. Nature Plants. 6(5):511-521.

2. Chen H, Zeng Y, Yang Y, Huang L, Tang B, Fan G, Hao F, Li Y, He H, Chen Jianghua*, Wang Wen*, Qiu Qiang*(2020) Chromosome-level reference genome and efficient CRISPR/Cas9 editing of autoterraploid alfalfa (Medicago sativa). Nature Communications. 11(1):2494.

3. Zhao B, He L, Liu Y, He H, Bai Q, Zhou S, Zheng X, Wen J, Kirankumar S.Mysore, Tadege M, Liu Y, Liu Renyi*, Chen Jianghua* (2020) The Lateral Leaflet Suppression 1(LLS1), encoding a member of YUCCA1, regulates lateral leaflet development in Medicago truncatula. New Phytologist. 227(2):613-628.

4. Zheng X#, He L#, Liu Y, Mao Y, Wang C, Zhao B, Li Y, He H, Guo S, Zhang L, Schneider H, Tadege M, Chang F, Chen Jianghua*(2020) A study of male fertility control in Medicago truncatula uncovers an evolutionarily conserved recruitment of two tapetal bHLH subfamilies in plant sexual reproduction. New Phytologist. doi: 10.1111/nph.16770.

5. Chen Jianghua, Moreau Carol, Liu Yu, Kawaguchi Massayoshi, CalderiniOrnella, Hofer Julie, Ellis Noel, Chen R (2012) Conserved genetic determinant of motor organ identity in Medicagotruncatula and related legumes. PNAS 109(29):11723-8.

6. Chen Jianghua *, Yu J*, Ge L*, Wang H*, Berbel A, Liu Y, Chen Y, Li G, Tadege M, Wen J, Cosson V, Mysore KS, Ratet P, Madueno F, Bai G, Chen R (2010) Control of dissected leaf morphology by a Cys(2)His(2) zinc finger transcription factor in the model legume Medicago truncatula. PNAS 8:107(23):10754-10759.