Liying Sun

 

　　Professor, Doctor of philosophy

　　Laboratory of Molecular Plant Virology, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University

　　Email: sunliying@nwsuaf.edu.cn

　　Tel:029-87082477

 

 

 

　　Research Focus

　　Virus diseases largely reduce crop yield and have always been a major concern in agricultural production because chemical treatments or conventional agronomical methods are not effective to control them. Hence, understanding of how viruses been transmitted to and induced disease in plant are crucial for developing new and effective techniques to prevent viral disease in the plants.  Our studies cover a wide range of research topics regarding virus diseases in crops and fruit trees that are economically important in China. In particular, we have been working on insect transmitted viruses such as rice black streaked dwarf virus, maize dwarf mosaic virus, and barley yellow dwarf virus. These viruses have been long known to exist but still pose a serious threat to crop production. In addition, we also devise new molecular diagnostic methods for detection of viruses that infect fruit trees. For molecular studies on viral gene functions, we identify and characterize the viral proteins that have roles in suppression of RNA silencing, viral pathogenicity and virus movement. Recently, a new project work has been started to investigate what effects of virus infection on host in the context of the alteration of synthesis, translocation and function of various cellular components.

　　Representative papers

　　1.Sun LY#*, Andika IB, Shen JF, Yang D, Chen JP*. （2014）。 The P2 of wheat yellow mosaic virus rearranges the endoplasmic reticulum and recruits other viral proteins into replication-associated inclusion bodies. Molecular Plant Pathology, 15（5）：466-478.

　　2.Chen M，Sun LY#, Wu HY , Chen J , Zhang XX, Du L, Ma YZ, Cheng SH, Zhang B, Ye XG, Li LC, Andika IB, Chen JP*, Xu HJ*. （2014）。 Durable field resistance to wheat yellow mosaic virus （WYMV） in transgenic wheat containing the anti-sense virus polymerase gene. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 12（4）：447-56 .

　　3.Li JM, Andika IB, Zhou YR, Shen JF, Sun ZT, Wang X, Sun LY*, Chen JP*. （2014）。 Unusual characteristics of picorna-like virus-derived small RNAs in the small brown planthopper, Laodelphaxstriatellus Journal of General Virology, 95（Pt 3）：712-718.

　　4.Sun LY#*, Bian J, Andika IB, Xie L, Sun BJ, Xiang R, Kondo H, Chen JP*. （2013）。 Nucleo-cytoplasmic shuttling of VPg encoded by wheat yellow mosaic virus requires association with the coat protein. Journal of General Virology, 94（Pt 12）：2790-2802 .

　　5.Andika IB, Sun LY*, Xiang R, Li JM, Chen JP*.（2013）。 Root-specific role for Nicotianabenthamiana RDR6 in the inhibition of Chinese wheat mosaic virus accumulation at higher temperature. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, （26）：1166-1175.

　　6.Sun LY#*, Xie L, Andika IB, Tan ZL, Chen JP*. （2013）。 Non-structural protein P6 encoded by rice black-streaked dwarf virus is recruited to viral inclusion bodies by binding to the viroplasm matrix protein P9-1. Journal of General Virology, 94（Pt 8）：1908-16

　　7.Sun LY#, Andika IB*, Kondo H, Chen JP*. （2013）。 Identification of the amino acid residues and domains in the cysteine-rich protein of Chinese wheat mosaic virus that are important for RNA silencing suppression and subcellular localization. Molecular Plant Pathology, 14（3）： 265-278

　　Major and research direction

　　Plant Pathology, Molecular of Plant Virology and Virus-Host Interaction