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College of Life Sciences
Wuhan University
Wuhan 430072, China
Tel: +86-27-6875-6170; Fax: +86-27-6875-6010
E-mail: mxsun@whu.edu.cn
http://www.bio.whu.edu.cn/info/1191/4304.htm
Area of expertise: Plant developmental biology; plant sexual reproduction
Selected Publications:
X, Yu., Zhang, X., Zhao, P., Peng, X., Chen, H., Bleckmann, A., Bazhenova, A., Shi, C., Dresselhaus, T., and Sun, M.X. (2021). Fertilized egg cells secrete endopeptidases to avoid polytubey. Nature 592: 433–437.
Xiong, H., Wang, W., and Sun, M.X. (2021). Endosperm development is an autonomously programmed process independent of embryogenesis. Plant Cell. doi.org/10.0.4.69/plcell/koab0077.
Zhao, P., Zhou, X., and Sun, M.X. (2020). Autophagy-mediated compartmental cytoplasmic deletion is essential for tobacco pollen germination and male fertility. Autophagy, 16: 2180–2192.
Zhao, P., Zhou, X., Zheng, Y., Ren, Y., and Sun, M.X. (2020). Equal parental contribution to the transcriptome is not equal control of embryogenesis. Nat. Plants. 6: 1354–1365.
Li, W., Zou, J., Wu, J., Peng, X., and Sun, M.X. (2020). Three STIGMA AND STYLE STYLISTs pattern the fine architectures of apical gynoecium and are critical for male gametophyte-pistil interaction. Curr. Biol. 30: 4780–4788.
Zhao, P., Zhou, X., Shen, K., Liu, Z., Cheng, T., Liu, D., Cheng, Y., Peng, X., Sun, M.X. (2019). Two-step maternal-to-zygotic transition with two-phase parental genome contributions. Dev. Cell 49: 882–893.
Shi, C., Luo, P., Du, Y.T., Chen, H., Huang, X., Cheng, T.-H., Luo, A., Li, H.-J., Yang, W.C., Zhao, P., and Sun, M.X. (2019). Maternal control of suspensor program cell death via gibberellin signaling. Nat. Commun. 10:3484.
Liu, Y., Li, X., Zhao, J., Tang, X., Tian, S., Chen, J., Shi, C., Wang, W., Zhang, L., Feng, X., and Sun, M.X. (2015). Direct evidence that suspensor cells have embryogenic potential that is suppressed by the embryo proper during normal embryogenesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112: 12432–12437.
Zhao, P., Zhou, X., Zhang, L., Wang, W., Ma, L.G., Yang, L.B., X.B., Peng, X.B., Bozhkov, P.V., and Sun, M.X. (2013). A bipartite molecular module controls cell death activation in the basal cell lineage of plant embryos. PLoS Biol. 11: e1001655.
Wu, J.J., Peng, X.B., Li, W.W., He, R., Xin, H.P., and Sun, M.X. (2012). Mitochondrial GCD1 Dysfunction Reveals Reciprocal Cell-to-Cell Signaling during the Maturation of Arabidopsis Female Gametes. Dev. Cell 23: 1043–1058.
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