J Integr Plant Biol board

Professor Jian-Kang Zhu

Institute of Advanced Biotechnology and School of Life Sciences,
Southern University of Science and Technology,
Shenzhen, China
E-mail: zhujk@sustech.edu.cn
https://iab.sustech.edu.cn/Research-details-pid-6-typeid-2.html
Area of expertise: plant stress biology, epigenetics, gene editing

Selected Publications:

Li, J., Yang, D. L., Huang, H., Zhang, G., He, L., Pang, J., Lozano-Durán, R., Lang, Z., and Zhu, J. K. (2020). Epigenetic memory marks determine epiallele stability at loci targeted by de novo DNA methylation. Nat. Plants 6: 661–674.

Lin, Z., Li, Y., Zhang, Z., Liu, X., Hsu, C. C., Du, Y., Sang, T., Zhu, C., Wang, Y., Satheesh, V., Pratibha, P., Zhao, Y., Song, C. P., Tao, W. A., Zhu, J. K., and Wang, P. (2020). A RAF-SnRK2 kinase cascade mediates early osmotic stress signaling in higher plants. Nat. Commun. 11: 613.

Nie, W. F., Lei, M., Zhang, M., Tang, K., Huang, H., Zhang, C., Miki, D., Liu, P., Yang, Y., Wang, X., Zhang, H., Lang, Z., Liu, N., Xu, X., Yelagandula, R., Zhang, H., Wang, Z., Chai, X., Andreucci, A., Yu, J. Q., Berger, Frederic.,Lozano-Duran, Rosa., Zhu, J. K. (2019). Histone acetylation recruits the SWR1 complex to regulate active DNA demethylation in Arabidopsis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 116:16641–16650.

Zhang, H., Lang, Z., and Zhu, J. K. (2018). Dynamics and function of DNA methylation in plants. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 19:489–506.

Zhu, J. K. (2016). Abiotic Stress Signaling and Responses in Plants. Cell 167: 313–324.

Feng, Z., Mao, Y., Xu, N., Zhang, B., Wei, P., Yang, D. L., Wang, Z., Zhang, Z., Zheng, R., Yang, L., Zeng, L., Liu, X., and Zhu, J. K. (2014). Multigeneration analysis reveals the inheritance, specificity, and patterns of CRISPR/Cas-induced gene modifications in Arabidopsis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111: 4632–4637.

Wang, P., Xue, L., Batelli, G., Lee, S., Hou, Y. J., Van Oosten, M. J., Zhang, H., Tao, W. A., and Zhu, J. K. (2013). Quantitative phosphoproteomics identifies SnRK2 protein kinase substrates and reveals the effectors of abscisic acid action. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110: 11205–11210.

Feng, Z., Zhang, B., Ding, W., Liu, X., Yang, D. L., Wei, P., Cao, F., Zhu, S., Zhang, F., Mao, Y., and Zhu, J. K. (2013). Efficient genome editing in plants using a CRISPR/Cas system. Cell Res. 23: 1229–1232.

Qian, W., Miki, D., Zhang, H., Liu, Y., Zhang, X., Tang, K., Kan, Y., La, H., Li, X., Li, S., Zhu, X., Shi, X., Zhang, K., Pontes, O., Chen, X., Liu, R., Gong, Z., and Zhu, J. K. (2012). A histone acetyltransferase regulates active DNA demethylation in Arabidopsis. Science 336: 1445–1448.

Fedoroff, N. V., Battisti, D. S., Beachy, R. N., Cooper, P. J., Fischhoff, D. A., Hodges, C. N., Knauf, V. C., Lobell, D., Mazur, B. J., Molden, D., Reynolds, M. P., Ronald, P. C., Rosegrant, M. W., Sanchez, P. A., Vonshak, A., and Zhu, J. K. (2010). Radically rethinking agriculture for the 21st century. Science 327: 833–834.

Gao, Z., Liu, H. L., Daxinger, L., Pontes, O., He, X., Qian, W., Lin, H., Xie, M., Lorkovic, Z. J., Zhang, S., Miki, D., Zhan, X., Pontier, D., Lagrange, T., Jin, H., Matzke, A. J., Matzke, M., Pikaard, C. S., and Zhu, J. K. (2010). An RNA polymerase II- and AGO4-associated protein acts in RNA-directed DNA methylation. Nature 465: 106–109.

Fujii, H., Chinnusamy, V., Rodrigues, A., Rubio, S., Antoni, R., Park, S. Y., Cutler, S. R., Sheen, J., Rodriguez, P. L., and Zhu, J. K. (2009). In vitro reconstitution of an abscisic acid signalling pathway. Nature 462: 660–664.

He, X. J., Hsu, Y. F., Zhu, S., Wierzbicki, A. T., Pontes, O., Pikaard, C. S., Liu, H. L., Wang, C. S., Jin, H., and Zhu, J. K. (2009). An effector of RNA-directed DNA methylation in arabidopsis is an ARGONAUTE 4- and RNA-binding protein. Cell 137: 498–508.

Zhu, J. K. (2008). Epigenome sequencing comes of age. Cell 133: 395–397.

Sridhar, V. V., Kapoor, A., Zhang, K., Zhu, J., Zhou, T., Hasegawa, P. M., Bressan, R. A., and Zhu, J. K. (2007). Control of DNA methylation and heterochromatic silencing by histone H2B deubiquitination. Nature 447: 735–738.

Shi, H., Lee, B. H., Wu, S. J., and Zhu, J. K. (2003). Overexpression of a plasma membrane Na+/H+ antiporter gene improves salt tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nat. Biotechnol. 21: 81–85.

Gong, Z., Morales-Ruiz, T., Ariza, R. R., Roldán-Arjona, T., David, L., and Zhu, J. K. (2002). ROS1, a repressor of transcriptional gene silencing in Arabidopsis, encodes a DNA glycosylase/lyase. Cell 111: 803–814.

Liu, J., and Zhu, J. K. (1998). A calcium sensor homolog required for plant salt tolerance. Science 280: 1943–1945.

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