J Integr Plant Biol board

Dr. Congming Lu

Professor
College of Life Sciences, National Key Laboratory of Wheat Improvement, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China
E-mail: cmlu@sdau.edu.cn
Website: http://life.sdau.edu.cn/2019/0129/c12845a261856/page.htm
Area of expertise: Biogenesis of thylakoid complexes, chloroplast gene expression, photosynthesis and environment

Speciality Area

Photosynthesis and Crop Physiology

Selected Publications:

Zhang, A., Tian, L., Zhu, T., Li, M., Sun, M., Fang, Y., Zhang, Y., and Lu, C. (2024). Uncovering the photosystem I assembly pathway in land plants. Nat. Plants 10: 645–660.

Wang, T., Wang, G., Fang, Y., Zhang, Y., Peng, W., Zhou, Y., Zhang, A., Yu, L., and Lu, C. (2024). Architecture of the spinach plastid-encoded RNA polymerase. Nat. Commun. 15: 9838.

Zhang, Y., Tian, L., and Lu, C. (2023). Chloroplast gene expression: Recent advances and perspectives. Plant Commun. 4: 100611.

Hu, Z., Yang, Z., Zhang, Y., Zhang, A., Lu, Q., Fang, Y., and Lu, C. (2022). Autophagy targets Hd1 for vacuolar degradation to regulate rice flowering. Mol. Plant 15: 1137–1156.

Zhang, Y., and Lu, C. (2019). The enigmatic roles of PPR-SMR proteins in plants. Adv. Sci. 6: 1900361.

Ding, S., Zhang, Y., Hu, Z., Huang, X., Zhang, B., Lu, Q., Wen, X., Wang, Y., and Lu, C. (2019) mTERF5 acts as a transcriptional pausing factor to positively regulate transcription of chloroplast psbEFLJ. Mol. Plant 12: 1259–1277.

Zhou, W., Lu, Q., Li, Q., Wang, L., Ding, S., Zhang, A., Wen, X., Zhang, L., and Lu, C. (2017). PPR-SMR protein SOT1 has RNA endonuclease activity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 114: E1554–E1563.

Wang, L., Li, Q., Zhang, A., Zhou, W., Jiang, R., Yang, Z., Yang, H., Qin, X., Ding, S., Lu, Q., Wen, X., and Lu, C. (2017). The phytol phosphorylation pathway is essential for the biosynthesis of phylloquinone, which is required for photosystem I stability in Arabidopsis. Mol. Plant 10: 183–196.

Zhong, L., Zhou, W., Wang, H., Ding, S., Lu, Q., Wen, X., Peng, L., Zhang, L., and Lu, C. (2013). Chloroplasr small heat shock protein HSP21 interacts with plastid nucleoid protein pTAC5 and is essential for chloroplast development in Arabidopsis under heat stress. Plant Cell 25: 2925–2943.

Liu, J., Yang, H., Lu, Q., Wen, X., Chen, F., Peng, L., Zhang, L., and Lu, C. (2012). PSBP-DOMAIN PROTEIN1, a nuclear-encoded thylakoid lumenal protein, is essential for photosystem I assembly in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 24: 4992–5006.

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