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Director of Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of the Ministry of Education (MOE)
Northeast Normal University in Changchun
China
Tel.: 86-431-85099822; Fax: 86-431-85099822
E-mail: baoliu@nenu.edu.cn
http://js.nenu.edu.cn/teacher/index.php?zgh=1994900053
Area of expertise: Crop genomics; epigenetics; polyploid genome evolution; wheat; rice
Selected Publications:
Hu, L.J., Li, N., Zhang, Z.B., Meng, X.C., Dong, Q.L., Xu, C.M., Gong, L., and Liu, B. (2020). CG hypomethylation leads to complex changes in DNA methylation and transpositional burst of diverse transposable elements in callus cultures of rice. Plant J. 101: 188–203.
Li, N., Xu, C.M., Zhang, A., Lv, R.L., Meng, X.C., Lin, X.Y., Gong, L., Wendel, J.F., and Liu, B. (2019). DNA methylation repatterning accompanying hybridization, whole genome doubling and homoeolog exchange in nascent segmental rice allotetraploids. New Phytol. 223: 979–992.
Lv, Z., Zhang, W., Wu, Y., Huang, S., Zhou, Y., Zhang, A., Deng, X., Xu, C., Xu, Z., Gong, L., and Liu, B. (2019). Extensive allele-level remodeling of histone methylation modification in reciprocal F1 hybrids of rice subspecies. Plant J. 97: 571–586.
Bian, Y., Yang, C.W., Ou, X.F., Zhang, Z.B., Wang, B., Ma, W., Gong, L., Zhang, H.K., and Liu, B. (2018). Meiotic chromosome stability of a newly formed allohexaploid wheat is facilitated by selection under abiotic stress as a spandrel. New Phytol. 220: 262–277.
Gou, X.W., Bian, Y., Zhang, A., Zhang, H.K., Wang, B., Lv, R.L., Li, J.Z., Zhu, B., Gong, L., and Liu, B. (2018). Transgenerationally precipitated meiotic chromosome instability fuels rapid karyotypic evolution and phenotypic Diversity in an artificially constructed allotetraploid wheat (AADD). Mol. Biol. Evol. 35: 1078–1091.
Sun, Y., Wu, Y., Yang, C.W,, Sun, S., Lin, X.Y., Liu, L.X., Xu, C.M., Wendel, J.F., Gong, L., and Liu, B. (2017). Segmental allotetraploidy generates extensive homoeologous expression rewiring and phenotypic diversity at the population level in rice. Mol. Ecol. 26: 5451–5466.
Zhang, A., Li, N., Gong, L., Gou, X., Wang, B., Deng, X., Li, C., Dong, Q., Zhang, H., and Liu, B. (2017). Global analysis of gene expression in response towhole-chromosome aneuploidy in hexaploid wheat. Plant Physiol. 175:828–847.
Wang, X.T., Zhang, H.K., Li, Y., Zhang, Z.B., Li, L., and Liu, B. (2016). Transcriptome asymmetry in synthetic and natural allotetraploid wheats, revealed by RNA-sequencing. New Phytol. 209: 1264–1277.
Zhang, M.S., Li, N., He, W., Zhang, H., Yang, W., and Liu, B. (2016). Genome-wide screen of genes imprinted in sorghum endosperm, and the roles of allelic differential cytosine methylation. Plant J. 85: 424–436.
Wang, X.T., Hu, L.J., Wang, X., Li, N., Xu, C.M., Gong, L., and Liu, B. (2016). DNA methylation affects gene alternative splicing in plants: an example from rice. Mol. Plant 9: 305–307.
Wu, Y., Sun, Y., Wang, X.T., Lin, X.Y., Sun, S., Shen, K., Wang, J., Jiang, T.T., Zhong, S.L., Xu, C.M., and Liu, B. (2016). Transcriptome shock in an interspecific F1 triploid hybrid of Oryza revealed by RNA sequencing. J. Integr. Plant Biol. 58: 150–164.
Yang, C.W., Zhao, L., Zhang, H.K., Yang, Z.Z., Wang, H., Wen, S., Zhang, C., Rustgi, S., Von Wettstein, D., and Liu, B. (2014). Evolution of physiological responses to salt stress in hexaploid wheat. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111: 11882–11887.
Hu, L.J., Li, N., Xu, C.M., Zhong, S.L., Lin, X.Y., Yang, J.J., Zhou, T.Q., Yuliang, A.Z., Wu, Y., Chen, Y.R., Cao, X.F., Zemach, A., Rustgi, S., Von Wettstein, D., and Liu, B. (2014). Mutation of a major CG methylase in rice causes genome-wide hypomethylation, dysregulated genome expression, and seedling lethality. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111: 10642–10647.
Xu, C.M., Bai, Y., Lin, X., Zhao, N., Hu, L.J., Gong, Z.Y., Wendel, J.F., and Liu, B. (2014). Genome-wide disruption of gene expression in allopolyploids but not hybrids of rice subspecies. Mol. Biol. Evol. 31: 1066–1076.
Zhang, H.K., Zhu, B., Qi, B., Gou, X.W., Dong, Y.Z., Xu, C.M., Zhang, B.J., Huang, W., Liu, C., Wang, X., Yang, C.W., Zhou, H., Kashkush, K., Feldman, M., Wendel, J.F., and Liu, B. (2014). Evolution of the BBAA component of bread wheat during its history at the allohexaploid level. Plant Cell 26: 2761–2776.
Zhang, H.K., Bian, Y., Gou, X.W., Dong, Y.Z., Rustgi, S., Zhang, B., Xu, C.M., Li, N., Qi, B., Han, F.P., Von Wettstein, D., and Liu, B. (2013). Intrinsic karyotype stability and gene copy number variations may have laid the foundation for tetraploid wheat formation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110: 19466–19471.
Zhang, H.K., Bian, Y., Gou, X.W., Zhu, B., Xu, C.M., Qi, B., Li, N., Rustgi, S., Zhou, H., Han, F,P., Jiang, J.M., Von Wettstein, D., and Liu, B. (2013). Persistent whole-chromosome aneuploidy is generally associated with nascent allohexaploid wheat. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110: 3447–3452.
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