J Integr Plant Biol board

Dr. Yang Bai

Professor
School of Life Sciences, Peking-Tsinghua center of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Gene Function and Modulation Research, Peking University, No.5 West Beichen Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100871 China
E-mail: ybai@pku.edu.cn
Website: http://bailab.com.cn/
Area of expertise: Root microbiome, microbiota, plant-microbe interactions, beneficial microbes, metagenome

Speciality Area

Plant Biotic Interactions

Selected Publications:

Zhang, J., Wang, B., Xu, H., Liu, W., Yu, J., Wang, Q., Yu, H., Wei, J., Dai, R., Zhou, J, He, Y., Zuo, D., Yang, J., Ban, X., Hu, Q., Meng, X., Hu, B., Wang, M., Xin, P., Chu, J., Li, C., Garrido-Oter, R., Yu, P., van Dijk, A.D.J., Dong, L., Bouwmeester, H., Gao, S., Huang, A., Chu, C., Li, J. & Bai, Y. (2025). Root microbiota regulates tiller number in rice. Cell 188: 3125–3166.

Dai, R., Zhang, J., Liu, F., Xu, H., Qian, J. M., Cheskis, S., Liu, W., Wang, B., Zhu, H., Pronk, L.J.U., Medema, M.H., de Jonge, R., Pieterse, C.M.J., Levy, A., Schlaeppi, K., & Bai, Y. (2025). Crop root bacterial and viral genomes unveil unexplored species and microbiome patterns. Cell 188: 2521–2539.

Zhang, S., Sun, A., Qian, J. M., Lin, S., Xing, W., Yang, Y., Zhu, H. Z., Zhou, X. Y., Guo, Y. S., Liu, Y., Meng, Y., Jin, S. L., Song, W., Li, C. P., Li, Z., Jin, S., Wang, J. H., Dong, M. Q., Gao, C., Chen, C., Bai, Y., & Liu, J. G. (2024). Pro-CRISPR PcrIIC1-associated Cas9 system for enhanced bacterial immunity. Nature 630: 484–492.

Han, Q., Zhu, G., Qiu, H., Li, M., Zhang, J., Wu, X., Xiao, R., Zhang, Y., Yang, W., Tian, B., Xu, L., Zhou, J., Li, Y., Wang, Y., Bai, Y., & Li, X. (2024). Quality traits drive the enrichment of Massilia in the rhizosphere to improve soybean oil content. Microbiome 12: 244.

Xu, S., Liu, Y. X., Cernava, T., Wang, H., Zhou, Y., Xia, T., Cao, S., Berg, G., Shen, X. X., Wen, Z., Li, C., Qu, B., Ruan, H., Chai, Y., Zhou, X., Ma, Z., Shi, Y., Yu, Y., Bai, Y., & Chen, Y. (2022). Fusarium fruiting body microbiome member Pantoea agglomerans inhibits fungal pathogenesis by targeting lipid rafts. Nat. Microbiol. 7: 831–843.

Zhang, J., Liu, Y. X., Guo, X., Qin, Y., Garrido-Oter, R., Schulze-Lefert, P., & Bai, Y. (2021). High-throughput cultivation and identification of bacteria from the plant root microbiota. Nat. Protoc. 16: 988–1012.

Huang, A. C., Jiang, T., Liu, Y. X., Bai, Y. C., Reed, J., Qu, B., Goossens, A., Nützmann, H. W., Bai, Y., & Osbourn, A. (2019). A specialized metabolic network selectively modulates Arabidopsis root microbiota. Science 364: eaau6389

Zhang, J., Liu, Y. X., Zhang, N., Hu, B., Jin, T., Xu, H., Qin, Y., Yan, P., Zhang, X., Guo, X., Hui, J., Cao, S., Wang, X., Wang, C., Wang, H., Qu, B., Fan, G., Yuan, L., Garrido-Oter, R., Chu, C., Bai, Y. (2019). NRT1.1B is associated with root microbiota composition and nitrogen use in field-grown rice. Nat. Biotechnol. 37: 676–684.

Zhang, J., Zhang, N., Liu, Y. X., Zhang, X., Hu, B., Qin, Y., Xu, H., Wang, H., Guo, X., Qian, J., Wang, W., Zhang, P., Jin, T., Chu, C., & Bai, Y. (2018). Root microbiota shift in rice correlates with resident time in the field and developmental stage. Sci. China Life Sci. 61: 613–621.

Bai, Y., Müller, D. B., Srinivas, G., Garrido-Oter, R., Potthoff, E., Rott, M., Dombrowski, N., Münch, P. C., Spaepen, S., Remus-Emsermann, M., Hüttel, B., McHardy, A. C., Vorholt, J. A., & Schulze-Lefert, P. (2015). Functional overlap of the Arabidopsis leaf and root microbiota. Nature 528: 364–369.

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