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Deputy Director of State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany
Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences
20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan
Beijing 100093, China
Tel: 86-10-62836085; Fax: 86-10-62836095
E-mail: chaoying@ibcas.ac.cn
http://sourcedb.ib.cas.cn/cn/expert/200904/t20090403_44997.html
Area of expertise: Evo-devo; flower development; fruit evolution; the origin of morphological novelties; genetic variation; plant genetics and genomics; Solanaceae; soybean; functional evolution; adaptive evolution
Selected Publications:
Gao, H., Li, J., Wang, L., Zhang, J., and He, C. (2020). Transcriptomic variation of the flower–fruit transition in Physalis and Solanum. Planta. 252: 28.
Wang, Y., Gao, H., He, L., Zhu, W., Yan, L., Chen, Q., and He, C. (2019). The PHOSPHATE1 genes participate in salt and Pi signaling pathways and play adaptive roles during soybean evolution. BMC Plant Biol. 19: 353.
Li, J., Song, C., and He, C. (2019). Chinese lantern in Physalis is an advantageous morphological novelty and improves plant fitness. Sci. Rep. 9: 596.
Gao, H., Wang, Y., Li, W., Gu, Y., Lai, Y., Bi, Y., and He, C. (2018). Transcriptomic comparison reveals genetic variation potentially underlying seed developmental evolution of soybeans. J. Exp. Bot. 69: 5089–5104.
Gu, Y., Li, W., Jiang, H., Wang, Y., Gao, H., Lai, Y., Chen, Q., and He, C. (2017). Differential expression of a WRKY gene between wild and cultivated soybeans correlates to seed size. J. Exp. Bot. 68: 2717–2729.
Wang, Y., Gu, Y., Gao, H., Qiu, L., Chang, R., Chen, S., and He, C. (2016). Molecular and geographic evolutionary support for the essential role of GIGANTEAa in soybean domestication of flowering time. BMC Evol. Biol. 16: 79.
Gu, Y., Xing, S., He, C. (2016). Genome-wide analysis indicates lineage-specific gene loss during Papilionoideae evolution. Genome Biol. Evol. 8: 635–648.
Li, Z., and He, C. (2015). Physalis floridana Cell Number Regulator1 encodes a cell membrane-anchored modulator of cell cycle and negatively controls fruit size. J. Exp. Bot. 66: 257–270.
Wang, L., Li, J., Zhao, J., and He, C. (2015). Evolutionary developmental genetics of fruit morphological variation within the Solanaceae. Front. Plant Sci. 6: 248.
Zhang, S., Zhang, J., Zhao, J., and He, C. (2015). Distinct subfunctionalization and neofunctionalization of the B-class MADS-box genes in Physalis floridana. Planta. 241: 387–402.
Gong, P., Quan, H., and He, C. (2014). Targeting MAGO proteins with a peptide aptamer reinforces their essential roles in multiple rice developmental pathways. Plant J. 80: 905–914.
Wang, L., He, L., Li, J., Zhao, J., Li, Z., and He, C. (2014). Regulatory change at Physalis Organ Size 1 locus correlates to natural variation in tomatillo reproductive organ size. Nat. Commun. 5: 4271.
Gong, P.C., and He, C. (2014). Uncovering divergence of rice EJC core heterodimer gene duplication reveals their essential role in growth, development and reproduction. Plant Physiol. 165: 1047–1061.
Zhao, M., He, L., Gu, Y., Wang, Y., Chen, Q.S., and He, C. (2014). Genome-wide analyses of a plant-specific LIM-domain gene family implicate its evolutionary roles in plant diversification. Genome Biol. Evol. 6: 1000–1012.
Zhang, J., Li, Z., Zhao, J., Zhang, S., Quan, H., Zhao, M., and He, C. (2014). Deciphering the Physalis floridanadouble-layered-lantern1 mutant provides insights into functional divergence of the GLOBOSA duplicates within the Solanaceae. Plant Physiol. 164:748–764.
Zhao, J., Tian, Y., Zhang, J., Zhao, M., Gong, P., Riss, S., Saedler, R., and He, C. (2013). The euAP1 protein MPF3 represses MPF2 to specify floral calyx identity and displays crucial roles in ‘Chinese lantern’ development in Physalis. Plant Cell. 25: 2002–2021.
Zhang, J., Tian, Y., Wang, L., and He, C. (2010). Functional evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) of morphological novelties in plants. J. Syst. Evol. 48: 94–101.
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