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Professor and director of the Department of Plant Biosafety
College of Plant Protection
China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
E-mail: wangshengzhu@cau.edu.cn
https://www.labxing.com/zhulab
Area of expertise: Maize, Arabidopsis, Genetics of disease resistance, Natural variation, Plant-microbe interaction, Calcium channel in plant innate immunity
Selected Publications:
Liu, C., He, S., Chen, J., Wang, M., Li, Z., Wei, L., Chen, Y., Du, M., Liu, D., Li, C., An, C., Bhadauria, V., Lai, J., and Zhu, W. (2024). A dual-subcellular localized β-glucosidase confers pathogen and insect resistance without a yield penalty in maize. Plant Biotechnol. J. 22: 1017–1032.
Wang, M. Y., Chen, J. B., Wu, R., Guo, H. L., Chen, Y., Li, Z. J., Wei, L. Y., Liu, C., He, S. F., Du, M. D., Guo, Y. L., Peng, Y. L., Jones, J. D. G., Weigel, D., Huang, J. H., and Zhu, W. S. (2023). The plant immune receptor SNC1 monitors helper NLRs targeted by a bacterial effector. Cell Host Microbe 8: 1792–1803.e7.
Chen, J., Li, L., Kim, J. H., Neuhäuser, B., Wang, M., Thelen, M., Hilleary, R., Chi, Y., Wei, L., Venkataramani, K., Exposito-Alonso, M., Liu, C., Keck, J., Barragan, A. C., Schwab, R., Lutz, U., Pei, Z. M., He, S. Y., Ludewig, U., Weigel, D., and Zhu, W. (2023). Small proteins modulate ion channel-like ACD6 to regulate immunity in Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol. Cell 83: 4386–4397.e9.
Zhu, W., Zaidem, M., Van de Weyer, A. L., Gutaker, R. M., Chae, E., Kim, S. T., Bemm, F., Li, L., Todesco, M., Schwab, R., Unger, F., Beha, M. J., Demar, M., and Weigel, D. (2018). Modulation of ACD6 dependent hyper-immunity by natural alleles of an Arabidopsis thaliana NLR resistance gene. PLoS Genet. 14: e1007628.
Zhu, W., Hu, B., Becker, C., Doğan, E. S., Berendzen, K. W., Weigel, D., and Liu, C. (2017). Altered chromatin compaction and histone methylation drive non-additive gene expression in an interspecific Arabidopsis hybrid. Genome Biol. 18: 157.
Sanchez-Bermejo, E., Zhu, W., Tasset, C., Eimer, H., Sureshkumar, S., Singh, R., Sundaramoorthi, V., Colling, L., and Balasubramanian, S. (2015). Genetic architecture of natural variation in thermal response of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 169: 647–59.
Zhu, W., Ausin, I., Seleznev, A., Méndez-Vigo, B., Picó, F. X., Sureshkumar, S., Sundaramoorthi, V., Bulach, D., Powell, D., Seemann, T., Alonso-Blanco, C., and Balasubramanian, S. (2015). Natural variation identifies ICARUS1, a universal gene required for cell proliferation and growth at high temperatures in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS Genet. 11: e1005085.
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