J Integr Plant Biol board

Dr. Letian Chen (Lotic)

College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University,
Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, China
Tel: +86-20-38294509
E-mail: lotichen@scau.edu.cn
https://nxy.scau.edu.cn/2024/0819/c18031a420048/page.htm
Area of expertise: Plant reproductive biology, cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS), genic male sterility (GMS), hybrid sterility (HS).

Selected Publications:

Li, G., Zhang, Y., Yu, H., Xie, Y., Luo, H., Wang, Y., Tang, J., Zhang, J., Xie, X., Zong, W., Liu, K., Wang, X., Long, Y., Song, Q., Wu, Z., Liu, Y.-G., Chen, L. (2026) A tripartite pollen killer–protector system confers temperature-sensitive inter-subspecific reproductive isolation in rice. Mol. Plant 19: 295-312

Zhang, Z., Ding, Z., Feng, X., Huang, J., Peng, X., Xiao, Y., Zong, W., Zhao, Z., Liu, Y.-G., Xie, Y., Chen, L. (2025) Ubiquitin-mediated degradation restricts spatiotemporal accumulation of the cytoplasmic male sterility protein WA352 to anthers in rice. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 122: e2504381122.

Zhao, Z., Ding, Z, Meng, H., Zhang, Z., Gou, X., Tang, H., Ping, J., Xiao, F., Liu, Y.-G., Xie, Y., Chen, L. (2023) Copy number variation of the restorer Rf4 underlies human selection of three-line hybrid rice breeding. Nature Commun. 14: 7333.

Wang, B., Fang, R., Zhang, J., Han, J., Chen, F., He, F., Liu, Y.-G., Chen, L. (2020) Rice OsLecRK5 phosphorylates a UGPase to regulate callose biosynthesis during pollen development. J. Exp. Bot. 71: 4033-4041.

Xie, Y., Tang, J., Xie, X., Li, X., Huang, J., Fei, Y., Han, J., Chen, S., Tang, H., Zhao, X., Tao, D., Xu, P., Liu, Y.-G., Chen, L. (2019) An asymmetric allelic interaction drives allele transmission bias in interspecific rice hybrids. Nature Commun. 10: 2501.

Xie, Y., Zhang, Y., Han, J., Luo, J., Li, G., Huang, J., Wu, H., Tian, Q., Zhu, Q., Chen, Y., Kawano, Y., Liu, Y.-G., Chen, L. (2018) The intronic cis-element SE1 recruits trans-acting repressor complexes to repress the expression of ELONGATED UPPERMOST INTERNODE1 in rice. Mol. Plant 11: 720-735.

Xie, Y., Xu, P., Huang, J., Ma, S., Xie, X., Tao, D., Chen, L., Liu, Y.-G. (2017) Interspecific hybrid sterility in rice is mediated by OgTPR1 at the S1 locus encoding a peptidase-like protein. Mol. Plant 10: 1137-1140.

Tang, H., Luo, D., Zhou, D., Zhang Q., Tian D., Zheng X., Chen L. Liu Y.-G. (2014) The rice restorer Rf4 for Wild-Abortive cytoplasmic male sterility encodes a mitochondrial-localized PPR protein that functions in reduction of WA352 transcripts. Mol. Plant 7: 1497-1500.

Chen, L., and Liu, Y.-G. (2014) Male sterility and fertility restoration in crops. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 65: 579-606.

Chen, L., Hamada, S., Fujiwara, M., Zhu, T., Thao, N.P., Wong, H.L., Krishna, P., Ueda, T., Kaku, H., Shibuya, N., Kawasaki, T., Shimamoto, K. (2010) The Hop/Sti1-Hsp90 chaperone complex facilitates the maturation and transport of a PAMP receptor in rice innate immunity. Cell Host Microbe 7: 185-96.

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