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School of Agriculture and Biotechnology
Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China
E-mail: yangf389@mail.sysu.edu.cn
https://ab.sysu.edu.cn/zh-hans/teacher/367
Area of expertise: shoot meristem development, sexuality establishment, shoot branching, flowering, agronomic traits
Selected Publications:
Sheng, H., Zhang, H., Deng, H., Zhang, Z., Qiu, F., and Yang, F. (2025). Maize COMPACT PLANT 3 regulates plant architecture and facilitates high-density planting. Plant Cell https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf029
Wu, S., Zhang, H., Fang, Z., Li, Z., Yang, N., and Yang, F. (2025). Genetic dissection of ear-related trait divergence between maize and teosinte. Plant J. 121: e17202.
Sun, Y., Dong, L., Kang, L., Zhong, W., Jackson, D., and Yang, F. (2024) Progressive meristem and single-cell transcriptomes reveal the regulatory mechanisms underlying maize inflorescence development and sex differentiation. Mol. Plant 17: 1019–1037. (Cover Story)
Han, L., Zhong, W., Qian, J., Jin, M., Tian, P., Zhu, W., Zhang, H., Sun, Y., Feng, J. W., Liu, X., Chen, G., Farid, B., Li, R., Xiong, Z., Tian, Z., Li, J., Luo, Z., Du, D., Chen, S., Jin, Q., Li, J., Li, Z., Liang, Y., Jin, X., Peng, Y., Zheng, C., Ye, X., Yin, Y., Chen, H., Li, W., Chen, L.L., Li, Q., Yan, J., Yang, F., and Li, L. (2023). A multi-omics integrative network map of maize. Nat. Genet. 55: 144–153.
Sun, Q., Li, Y., Gong, D., Hu, A., Zhong, W., Zhao, H., Ning, Q., Tan, Z., Liang, K., Mu, L., Jackson, D., Zhang, Z., Yang, F., and Qiu, F. (2022). A NAC-EXPANSIN module enhances maize kernel size by controlling nucellus elimination. Nat. Commun. 13: 5708. (Featured Article)
Yang, R. S., Xu, F., Wang, Y. M., Zhong, W. S., Dong, L., Shi, Y. N., Tang, T. J., Sheng, H. J., Jackson, D., and Yang, F. (2021). Glutaredoxins regulate maize inflorescence meristem development via redox control of TGA transcriptional activity. Nat. Plants 72: 1589–1601.
Sun, Y., Dong, L., Zhang, Y., Lin, D., Xu, W., Ke, C., Han, L., Deng, L., Li, G., Jackson, D., Li, X., and Yang, F. (2020) 3D genome architecture coordinates trans and cis regulation of differentially expressed ear and tassel genes in maize. Genome Biol. 21: 143.
Selected Registered Patents:
Fang Yang, Yonghao Sun, Da Lin, Gang Cao. A simple and effective method for constructing long-fragment in situ DLO Hi-C sequencing libraries in plants, Patent No. ZL 2020 1 0362688.3(2021.09.7), China.
Gang Cao, Fang Yang, Meiling Zhou, Yingying Lei, Qili Yao, Yichao Han, Chenghang Zhu, Xiang Wu, Jinxia Dai, Yunfeng Zhu, Xi Chen, Sihua Zeng, Zhenfang, Fu. Recombinant vectors and method for high-throughput yeast two-hybrid screen of interacting proteins. Patent No. ZL 2016 1 0436290.3, (2016.7.5), China.
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