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School of Life Sciences
Shandong University
Jinan, China
Tel: +86-0531-8836-3592; Fax: +86-0531-8856-5610
E-mail: bctan@sdu.edu.cn
http://www.lifesci.sdu.edu.cn/info/1062/1656.htm
Area of expertise: Molecular genetics of plant seed development; carotenoid metabolism; embryogenesis and endosperm development; organelle RNA processing; maize
Selected Publications:
Liu, X.Y., Jiang, R.C., Wang, Y., Tang, J.J., Sun, F., Yang, Y.Z., and Tan, B.C. (2021). ZmPPR26, a DYW-type pentatricopeptide repeat protein, is required for C-to-U RNA editing at atpA-1148 in maize chloroplasts. J. Exp. Bot. 10.1093/jxb/erab185.
Xu, C., Shen, Y., Li, C., Lu, F., Zhang, M.D., Meeley, R.B., McCarty, D.R., and Tan, B.C. (2021). Emb15 encodes a plastid ribosomal assembly factor essential for embryogenesis in maize. Plant J. 106: 214–227.
Wang, H.C., Sayyed, A., Liu, X.Y., Yang, Y.Z., Sun, F., Wang, Y., Wang, M.D., and Tan, B.C. (2020). SMALL KERNEL4 is required for mitochondrial cox1 transcript editing and seed development in maize. JIPB. 62: 777–792.
Wang, Y., Liu, X.Y., Yang, Y.Z., Huang, J., Sun, F., Lin, J.S., Gu, Z.Q., Sayyed, A., Xu, C., and Tan, B.C. (2019). Empty pericarp21 encodes a novel PPR-DYW protein that is required for mitochondrial RNA editing at multiple sites, complexes I and V biogenesis, and seed development in maize. PLoS Genet. 15: e1008305.
Chen, Z., Wang, H.C., Shen, J., Sun, F., Wang, M.D., Xu, C., and Tan, B.C. (2019). PPR-SMR1 is required for the splicing of multiple mitochondrial introns and interacts with Zm-mCSF1 and is essential for seed development in maize. J. Exp. Bot. 70: 5245–5258.
Wang, H.C., Sayyed, A., Liu, X.Y., Yang, Y.Z., Sun, F., Wang, Y., Wang, M.D., and Tan, B.C. (2019). SMALL KERNEL4 is required for mitochondrial cox1 transcript editing and seed development in maize. J. Integr. Plant Biol. 62:777–792.
Sun, F., Xiu, Z., Jiang, R., Liu, Y., Zhang, X., Yang, Y.Z., Li, X., Zhang, X., Wang, Y., and Tan, B.C. (2019). The mitochondrial pentatricopeptide repeat protein EMP12 is involved in the splicing of three nad2 introns and seed development in maize. J. Exp. Bot. 70: 963–972.
Li, X.L., Huang, W.L., Jiang, R.C., Sun, F., Wang, H.C., Zhao, J., Xu, C., and Tan, B.C. (2019). EMP18 functions in mitochondrial atp6 and cox2 transcript editing and is essential to seed development in maize. New Phytol. 221: 896–907.
Sun, F., Zhang, X., Shen, Y., Wang, H., Liu, R., Wang, X., Gao, D., Yang, Y.Z., Liu, Y., and Tan, B.C. (2018). The pentatricopeptide repeat protein EMPTY PERICARP8 is required for the splicing of three mitochondrial introns and seed development in maize. Plant J. 95: 919–932.
Zhang, Y.F., Suzuki, M., Sun, F., and Tan, B.C. (2017). The mitochondrion-targeted PENTATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT78 protein is required for nad5 mature mRNA stability and seed development in maize. Mol. Plant 10: 1321–1333.
Yang, Y.Z., Ding, S., Wang, Y., Li, C.L., Shen, Y., Meeley, R., McCarty, D.R., and Tan, B.C. (2017) Small kernel 2 encodes a glutaminase in Vitamin B6 biosynthesis and is essential for maize seed development. Plant Physiol. 174: 1127–1138.
Yang, Y.Z., Ding, S., Wang, H.C., Sun, F., Huang, W.L., Song, S., Xu, C.H., and Tan, B.C. (2017) The pentatricopeptide repeat protein EMP9 is required for mitochondrial ccmB and rps4 transcript editing, mitochondrial complex biogenesis and seed development in maize. New Phytol. 214: 782–795.
Xiu, Z., Sun, F., Shen, Y., Zhang, X., Jiang, R., Bonnard, G., Zhang, J., and Tan, B.C. (2016) EMPTY PERICARP16 is required for mitochondrial nad2 intron 4 cis-splicing and seed development in maize. Plant J. 85: 507–519.
Li, C., Shen, Y., Meeley, R., McCarty, D.R., and Tan, B.C. (2015) Embryo defective 14 encodes a plastid-targeted cGTPase essential for embryogenesis in maize. Plant J. 84: 785–799.
Sun, F., Wang, X., Bonnard, G., Shen, Y., Xiu, Z., Li, X., Gao, D., Zhang, Z., and Tan, B.C. (2015) Empty pericarp7 encodes a mitochondrial E-subgroup pentatricopeptide repeat protein that is required for ccmFN editing, mitochondrial function and seed development in maize. Plant J. 84: 283–295.
Chen, Y., Hou, M., Liu, L., Wu, S., Shen, Y., Ishiyama, K., Kobayashi, M., McCarty, D.R., and Tan, B.C. (2014) The maize DWARF1 encodes a Gibberellin 3-oxidase and is dual-localized to the nucleus and cytosol. Plant Physiol. 166: 2028–2039.
Li, X.J., Zhang, Y.F., Hou, M.M., Sun, F., Shen, Y., Xiu, Z.H., Wang, X.M., Chen, Z.L., Sun, S.S.M., Small, I., and Tan, B.C. (2014) Small kernel1 encodes a pentatricopeptide repeat protein required for mitochondrial nad7 transcript editing and seed development in maize and rice. Plant J. 79: 797–809.
Shen, Y., Li, C., Meeley, R., McCarty, D.R., and Tan, B.C. (2013) Embryo defective12 encodes translation initiation factor3 and is essential to maize embryogenesis. Plant J. 74: 792–804.
Liu, Y., Xiu, Z.H., Meeley, R., and Tan, B.C. (2013) Empty pericarp5 encodes a pentatricopeptide repeat protein that is required for mitochondrial RNA editing and seed development in maize. Plant Cell 25: 868–883.
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