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Prof. Letian Chen (Lotic) 

College of Life Sciences,
South China Agricultural University,
Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, China
Tel: +86-20-38294509 (O)
E-mail: lotichen@scau.edu.cn
http://lotic-lab.com/index.html


Education 

  • Ph.D. (Plant Molecular Genetics)

Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan, 2010

  • Ph.D. (Crop Genetics and Breeding)

South China Agricultural University (SCAU), China, 2003

  • M.S. (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)

Jinan University, China, 2000

  • B.S. (Bioengineering)

Jinan University, China, 1996


Professional Biography 

Dr. Letian Chen worked as postdoctoral fellow in NAIST from 2003 to 2010 in Japan, and filled a professor position in the SCAU in late 2010. He has severed as the Dean of the College of Life Sciences, SCAU since the end of 2019. Prof. Chen’s lab now focuses on plant reproductive biology, especially the molecular mechanisms for cytoplasmic male sterility, hybrid sterility and fertility restoration in rice.


Area of Expertise

Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS); Genic male sterility (GMS); Hybrid sterility; Hybrid vigor


Selected Publications 

  1. Xie X, Zhang Z, Zhao Z, Xie Y, Li H, Ma X, Liu YG, Chen L*. (2020) The mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase OsALDH2b negatively regulates tapetum degeneration in rice. J Exp Bot71: 2551-2560.

  2. Xie Y, Tang J, Xie X, Li X, Huang J, Fei Y, Han J, Chen S, Tang H, Zhao X, Tao D, Xu P, Liu, YG, Chen L*. (2019) An asymmetric allelic interaction drives allele transmission bias in interspecific rice hybrids. Nat Commun 10: 2501

  3. Ma K, Han J, Hao Y, Yang Z, Chen J, Liu YG, Zhu Q, Chen L*. (2019) An effective strategy to establish a male sterility mutant mini-library by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knockout of anther-specific genes in rice. J Genet Genomics 46: 273-275

  4. Xie Y, Zhang Y, Han J，Luo J, Li G，Huang J, Wu H, Tian Q, Zhu Q, Chen Y, Kawano Y, Liu YG, Chen L*. (2018) The intronic cis-element SE1 recruits trans-acting repressor complexes to repress the expression of ELONGATED UPPERMOST INTERNODE1 in rice. Mol Plant 11: 720-735

  5. Xie Y, Xu P, Huang J, Ma S, Xie X, Tao D, Chen L*, Liu YG*. (2017) Interspecific hybrid sterility in rice is mediated by OgTPR1 at the S1 locus encoding a peptidase-like protein. Mol Plant 10: 1137-1140

  6. Xie Y, Niu B, Long Y, Li G, Tang J, Zhang Y, Xie X, Ren D, Liu YG, Chen L*. (2017) Suppression or knockout of SaF/SaMovercomes the Sa-mediated hybrid male sterility in rice. J Integr Plant Biol 59: 669-679

  7. Chen L, Liu YG. (2014) Male sterility and fertility restoration in crops. Ann Rev Plant Biol 65: 579-606

  8. Wu HB, Wang B, Chen Y, Liu YG*, Chen L*. (2013) Characterization and fine-mapping of the rice premature senescence mutant ospse1. Theor Appl Genet 126: 1897-1907

  9. Chen L*, Wang F, Wang X, Liu YG. (2013) Robust one-tube Ω-PCR strategy accelerates precise sequence modification of plasmids for functional genomics. Plant Cell Physiol 54: 634-642

  10. Chen L, Hamada S, Fujiwara M, Zhu T, Thao NP, Wong HL, Krishna P, Ueda T, Kaku H, Shibuya N, Kawasaki T, Shimamoto K. (2010) The Hop/Sti1-Hsp90 chaperone complex facilitates the maturation and transport of a PAMP receptor in rice innate immunity. Cell Host Microbe 7: 185-96



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