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Prof. Haiyang Wang 

College of Life Sciences,
South China Agricultural University,

Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, China
Tel: +86-20-85282180 (O)
E-mail: whyang@scau.edu.cn

http://webplus.scau.edu.cn/_s83/2019/0307/c3190a162505/page.psp


Education 

  • Ph.D. (Biology)

University of Michigan, USA, 1998

  • M.S. (Biology)

Northwest University, China, 1989

  • B.S. (Biology)

Hangzhou University (now Zhejiang University), China, 1986


Professional Biography

Dr. Haiyang Wang worked as Postdoctoral Fellow in Yale University from 1998 to 2002, as Assistant Scientist (equivalent to Assistant Professor) at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University from 2002 to 2009, and as Research Scientist at the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University from 2009-2013. He was a professor at the Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences from 2013-2016, and took a professor position in the SCAU in late 2016. Prof. Wang’s lab now focuses on two areas of research: 1. Plant photobiology, especially the molecular genetic mechanisms regulating shade avoidance response and plant architecture; 2. Crop functional genomics, especially plant architecture regulation and heterosis utilization in rice and maize.


Area of Expertise

Shade avoidance response, plant architecture, heterosis utilization, crop molecular design, biotechnology



Selected Publications 



  1. Wang B, Lin Z, Li X, Zhao Y, Zhao B, Wu G, Ma X, Wang H, Xie Y, Li Q, Song G, Kong D, Zheng Z, Wei H, Shen R, Wu H, Chen C, Meng Z, Wang T, Li Y, Li X, Chen Y, Lai J, Hufford MB, Ross-Ibarra J, He H, Wang H*.2020Genome-wide selection and genetic improvement during modern maize breeding.Nat Genet doi: 10.1038/s41588-020-0616-3. Online ahead of print.

  2. Xie Y, Liu Y, Ma M, Zhou Q, Zhao Y, Zhao B, Wang B, Wei H, WangH*.  (2020) Arabidopsis FHY3 and FAR1 integrate light and strigolactone signaling to regulate branching.Nat Commun11(1):1955. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15893-7.

  3. Wang B, Zhu L, Zhao B, Zhao Y, Xie Y, Zheng Z, Li Y, Sun J, Wang H*.  (2019) Development of a Haploid-Inducer Mediated Genome Editing System for Accelerating Maize Breeding.Mol Plant12(4):597-602.

  4. Yu X, Zhao Z, Zheng X, Zhou J, Kong W, Wang P, Bai W, Zheng H, Zhang H, Li J, Liu J, Wang Q, Zhang L, Liu K, Yu Y, Guo X, Wang J, Lin Q, Wu F, Ren Y, Zhu S, Zhang X, Cheng Z, Lei C, Liu S, Liu X, Tian Y, Jiang L, Ge S, Wu C*, Tao D*, Wang H*, Wan J*. (2018) A selfish genetic element confers non-Mendelian inheritance in rice. Science 360(6393):1130-1132. (cited by F1000)

  5. Wang H*, Deng XW*. (2018) Development of the “Third-Generation” Hybrid Rice in China. Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics (18)30432-7.  

  6. Xie Y, Liu Y, Wang H, Ma X, Wang B, Wu G, Wang H*. (2017) Phytochrome-Interacting Factors Directly Suppress MIR156 Expression to Enhance Shade Avoidance Syndrome in Arabidopsis.Nature Commun, 8(1): 348.

  7. Zhou F, Lin Q, Zhu L, Ren Y, Zhou K, Shabek N, Wu F, Mao H, Dong W, Gan L, Ma W, Gao H, Chen J, Yang C, Wang D, Tan J, Zhang X, Guo X, Wang J, Jiang L, Liu X, Chen W, Chu J, Yan C, Ueno K, Ito S, Asami T, Cheng Z, Wang J, Lei C, Zhai H, Wu C, Wang H*, Zheng N*, Wan J*. (2013) D14-SCFD3-dependent degradation of D53 regulates strigolactone signalling.Nature(Research article) 504(7480):406-10. (* co-corresponding author)

  8. Li G, Siddiqui H, Teng Y, Lin R, Wan XY, Li J, Lau OS, Ouyang X, Dai M, Wan J, Devlin P, Deng XW, Wang H*. (2011) Coordinated Transcriptional Regulation Underlying the Circadian Clock in Arabidopsis. Nature Cell Biol 13:616-622. (Cited by F1000)

  9. Lin R, Ding L, Casola C, Ripoll D, Feschotte C, and Wang H*. (2007) Transposase-derived transcription factors regulate light signaling in Arabidopsis. Science 318:1302-1305. (Cited by Nature Highlights, Science STKE, cited by F1000)

  10. Wang, H., Ma, L.-G., Li, J.-M., Zhao, H.-Y., and Deng, X.W. (2001) Direct interaction of Arabidopsis cryptochromes with COP1 in light control development. Science 294:154-158 (with commentary news on Science, Cited by F1000).