J Integr Plant Biol board

Dr. Kang Chong

Professor, CAS Academician, State Key Laboratory of Forage Breeding-by-Design and Utilization, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100093, China
Tel: +86-10-62836517; Fax: +86-10-62836517
E-mail: chongk@ibcas.ac.cn
http://kclab.ibcas.ac.cn
Area of expertise: Cold sensing and signaling in rice, molecular design of stress tolerance traits in Alfalfa, molecular mechanism of wheat vernalization.

Specialty Area

Abiotic Stress Responses

Selected Publications:

Zheng, S., Li, Z., You, Y., Cao, J., Luo, W., Qian, Q., Xu, Y., and Chong, K. (2025). Natural variations in the promoter of CHILLINGTOLERANCE DIVERGENCE 8 contribute to the functional divergence in the chilling tolerance of rice. Plant Cell Environ. 48: 8374-8387.

Deng, X., Pang, H., Fu, Y., Zhang, A., Zhang, J., and Chong, K. (2025). Targeted integrating hyperspectral and metabolomic data with spectral indices and metabolite content models for efficient salt-tolerant phenotype discrimination in Medicago truncatula. Plant Phenomics 7: 100020.

Guo, X., Luo, W., and Chong, K. (2025). Exploring abiotic stress resilience module for molecular design in rice. Sci. Bull. 70: 1364–1367.

Guo, X., and Chong, K. (2025). The teosinte-derived allele COOL1 is a potential target for molecular design of chilling resilience in maize. J. Integr. Plant Biol. 67: 1205–1207.

Sun, S., Liu, D., Luo, W., Li, Z., Feng, J., Guo, Y., Chong, K, and Xu, Y. (2024). Domestication-selected COG4-OsbZIP23 module regulates chilling tolerance in rice. Cell Rep. 43: 114965.

Luo, W., Xu, Y., Cao, J., Guo, X., Han, J., Zhang, Y., Niu, Y., Zhang, M., Wang, Y., Liang, G., Qian, Q., Ge, S., and Chong, K. (2024). COLD6-OSM1 module senses chilling for cold tolerance via 2',3'-cAMP signaling in rice. Mol. Cell 84: 1–5.

Liu, D., Luo, S., Li, Z., Liang, G., Guo, Y., Xu, Y., and Chong, K. (2024). COG3 confers the chilling tolerance to mediate OsFtsH2-D1 module in rice. New Phytol. 241: 2143–2157.

Xia, C., Liang, G., Chong, K, and Xu, Y. (2023). The COG1-OsSERL2 complex senses cold to trigger signaling network for chilling tolerance in japonica rice. Nat Commun. 14: 3104–3117.

Li, Z., Wang, B., Luo, W., Xu, Y., Wang, J., Xue, Z., Niu, Y., Cheng, Z., Ge, S., Zhang, W., Zhang, J., Li, Q., and Chong, K. (2023). Natural variation of codon repeats in COLD11 endows rice with chilling resilience. Sci. Adv. 9: eabq5506.

Guo, X., Zhang, D., Wang, Z., Xu, S., Batistič, O., Steinhorst, L., Li, H., Weng, Y., Ren, D., Kudla, J., Xu, Y., and Chong, K. (2023). Cold-induced calreticulin OsCRT3 conformational changes promote OsCIPK7 binding and temperature sensing in rice. The EMBO J. 42: e110518.

Luo, W., Huan, Q., Xu, Y., Qian, W., Chong, K, and Zhang, J. (2021). Integrated global analysis reveals a vitamin E-vitamin K1 sub-network, downstream of COLD1, underlying rice chilling tolerance divergence. Cell Rep. 36: 58–76.

Yang, W., Wu, K., Wang, B., Liu, H., Guo, S., Guo, X., Luo, W., Sun, S., Ouyang, Y., Fu, X., Chong, K., Zhang, Q, and Xu, Y. (2021). The RING E3 ligase CLG1 targets GS3 for degradation via the endosome pathway to determine grain size in rice. Mol. Plant 14: 1699–1713.

Xu, S., Dong, Q., Deng, M., Lin, D., Xiao, J., Cheng, P., Xing, L., Niu, Y., Gao, C., Zhang, W., Xu, Y., and Chong, K. (2021). A vernalization-induced long non-coding RNA VAS together with transcription factor TaRF2b activates TaVRN1 for flowering in hexaploid wheat. Mol. Plant 14: 1525–1538.

Xia, C., Gong, Y., Chong, K., and Xu, Y. (2021). Phosphatase OsPP2C27 directly dephosphorylates OsMAPK3 and OsbHLH002 to negatively regulate cold tolerance in rice. Plant Cell Environ. 44: 491–505.

Ge, Q., Zhang, Y., Xu, Y., Bai, M., Luo, W., Wang, B., Niu, Y., Zhao, Y., Li, S., Weng, Y., Wang, Z., Qian, Q., and Chong, K. (2020). Cyclophilin OsCYP20-2 with a novel variant integrates defense and cell elongation for chilling response in rice. New Phytol. 225: 2453–2467.

Tang, Y., Gao, C., Gao, Y., Yang, Y., Shi, B., Yu, J., Lyu, C., Sun, B., Wang, H., Xu, Y., Yang, Y, and Chong, K. (2020). OsNSUN2-mediated 5-methylcytidine mRNA modification enhances rice adaptation to high-temperature. Dev. Cell 53: 272–286.

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