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College of Plant Protection
Northwest A&F University in Yangling, Shaanxi
China
Tel.: 86-29-87080063; Fax: 86-29-87080063;
E-mail: wangxiaojie@nwsuaf.edu.cn
https://ppc.nwafu.edu.cn/en/People/Faculty/PlantPathology/fullprofessor/33bef6a9124a443b9603d68c15db80ef.htm
Area of expertise: Wheat; Fungi; Pathogenicity; Disease resistance; Plant immunity; Plant-microbe Interactions; Crop disease resistance improvement
Selected Publications:Wang, N., Tang, C., Fan, X., He, M., Gan, P., Zhang, S., Hu, Z., Wang, X., Yan, T., Shu, W., Yu, L., Zhao, J., He, J., Li, L., Wang, J., Huang, X., Huang, L., Zhou, J., Kang, Z., and Wang, X. (2022). Inactivation of a wheat protein kinase gene confers broad-spectrum resistance to rust fungi. Cell 185: 2961- 2974.e19.
Tang, C, Xu Q., Zhao J., Yue M., Wang J., Wang X., Kang, Z., and Wang, X. (2022). A rust fungus effector directly binds plant pre-mRNA splice site to reprogram alternative splicing and suppress host immunity. Plant Biotechnol. J. 20:1167-1181.
Wang, N., Fan, X., He, M., Hu, Z., Tang, C, Zhang, S., Lin, D., Gan, P., Wang, J., Huang, X., Gao C., Kang, Z., and Wang, X. (2022). Transcriptional repression of TaNOX10 by TaWRKY19 compromises ROS generation and enhances wheat susceptibility to stripe rust. Plant Cell 34: 1784-1803.
Wang, X., Zhai, T., Zhang, X., Tang, C, Zhuang, R., Zhao, H., Xu, Q., Cheng, Y., Wang, J., Duplessis, S., Kang, Z., and Wang, X. (2021). Two stripe rust effectors impair wheat resistance by suppressing import of host Fe–S protein into chloroplasts. Plant Physiol. 187: 2530-2543.
Xu, Q., Wang, J., Zhao, J., Xu, J., Sun, S., Zhang, H., Wu, J., Tang, C., Kang, Z., and Wang, X. (2020). A polysaccharide deacetylase from Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici is an important pathogenicity gene that suppresses plant immunity. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 18:1830-1842.
Xu, Q., Tang, C., Wang, L., Zhao, C., Kang, Z., and Wang, X. (2020). Haustoria - arsenals during the interaction between wheat and Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici. Mol. Plant Pathol. 21: 83–94.
Xu, Q., Tang, C., Wang, X., Sun, S., Zhao, J., Kang, Z., and Wang, X. (2019). An effector protein of the wheat stripe rust fungus targets chloroplasts and suppresses chloroplast function. Nat. Commun. 10: 5571.
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