Xiaojie Wang

 

　　Dr. Xiaojie Wang, Ph.D, Professor, student adviser,

　　College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University,

　　Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China

　　Email wangxiaojie@nwsuaf.edu.cn;

　　Phone 8602987080063

 

 

 

　　Education & professional positions

　　2015-present, Professor, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, China

　　2012- 2014, Associate Professor, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, China

　　2009-2011 Research Associate, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, China

　　2004-2009 Ph. D. College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, China

　　2001-2004 M.S. College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, China

　　1997-2001 B.S. Department of Horticulture, Laiyang Agricultural College, China

　　Research interests

　　PucciniastriiformisWestend. f. sp. tritici Eriks （Pst）， an obligate parasitic fungi, causes devastating stripe rust disease in wheat worldwide. Resistance wheat cultivars is usually overcome quickly by the rapid emergence of new virulent Pst races, which frequently leads to the epidemic of the disease. Pst can not be cultivated in vitro and lack the stable transformation system, which hinder the intensive researches on the Pst pathogenic mechanism. It is particularly urgent to reveal the mechanism of Pst-wheat interactions to develop new strategies for durable disease control pertinently. Hence my research mainly focuses on the identification of Pst virulence factors and host response regulators during Pst-wheat interactions. Especially focus on the Pst haustorium, a specialized infection structure to take nutrients from their host, and establish an intimate feeding relationship. Also concentrate on the host hypersensitive response （HR） to restrain the Pst growth and reproduction. These studies will substantially provide new insights in revealing the mechanism of interactions between Pst and wheat, and offer a new strategy to engineer durable resistance cultivars through the modulation of pathogen genes or host genes, which is of great theoretical and practical significance for the sustainable control of the stripe rust.

　　Awards & Honors

　　1）Award as the National “Creative Intellectual Pushing Program” Youth and Middle-Aged Leading Scientist Program scientist, 2015

　　2）Award as the “Ten-Thousand Program” Youth Top Intellectual Scientist of the Central Human Resource, 2015

　　3）Award of the National Excellent Youth Science and Technology Foundation, 2014

　　4）Winner of Education Ministry's New Century Excellent Talents Supporting Plan, 2012

　　5）The National “Hundred Ph.D. Dissertations” winner, 2011

　　Selected Publications （*corresponding author）

　　In the recent five years, over 60 research papers have been published in scientific journals including Nature Communications, the Plant Journal, Environmental Microbiology, Journal of Experimental Botany, etc. of which more than 40 have been included by SCI.

　　[1]Cheng Yulin, Wang Xiaojie*, Yao Juanni, Voegele T. Ralf, Zhang Yanru, Wang Wumei, Huang Lili and Kang Zhensheng*. Characterization of Protein Kinase PsSRPKL, a Novel Pathogenicity Factor in the Wheat Stripe Rust Fungus. Environmental Microbiology, 2015, 17（8）：2601-2617.

　　[2]Tang Chunlei, Wei Jinping, Han Qingmei, Liu Rui, Duan Xiaoyuan, Fu Yanping, Huang Xueling, Wang Xiaojie* and Kang Zhenshen*. PsANT, the Adenine Nucleotide Translocase of Puccinia Striiformis, Promotes Cell Death and Fungal Growth. Scientific Reports, 2015, 5, DOI: 10.1038/srep11241.

　　[3]Fu Yanping, Duan Xiaoyuan, Tang Chunlei, Li Xiaorui, Voegele Ralf, Wang Xiaojie*, Wei Guorong and Kang Zhensheng*. TaADF7, an actin-depolymerizing factor, contributes to wheat resistance against Pucciniastriiformis f. sp. tritici. Plant Journal, 2014, 78（1）： 16-30.

　　[4]Al?Attala M. Nashaat, Wang Xiaojie *, Abou?Attia M. A., Duan Xiaoyuan, Kang Zhensheng *. A novel TaMYB4 transcription factor involved in the defence response against Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici and abiotic stresses. Plant Molecular Biology, 2014, 84（4-5）：589-603

　　[5]Feng Hao, Wang Xiaojie*, Zhang Qiong, Fu Yanping, Feng Chuanxin, Wang Bing, Huang Lili and Kang Zhensheng*. Monodehydroascorbate reductase gene, regulated by the wheat PN-2013 miRNA, contributes to adult wheat plant resistance to stripe rust through ROS metabolism. BBA - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms, 2014, 1839（1）：1-12.

　　Graduate student academic awards

　　Postgraduate National Scholarship: Rui Liu, Qiang Xu

　　Graduate employment

　　Northwest University: Yang Hu; Chinese Academy of Sciences:Rui Liu; Northwest A&F University: Qiang Xu