Department of Genetics

YAN Wenhao
2020-10-28
 

Wenhao Yan

Huazhong Agricultural University

Shizishan Str.1#, House 3, Room  A402, Wuhan, China

Email:  yanwenhao@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Tel. 0086-13628662459

 

Research interests:

 

1. Genetic basis of wheat yield with focus on flowering and panicle traits.

2. Crop improvement based on plant regulome and gene editing technology.

3. Molecular basis of wheat polyploidy.

 

 

 

Education and professional experience

 

2019.04-

Now

 

 

2017.06-

2019.03

 

 

2013.03-

2017.05

Professor. in Crop Genetics

Huazhong Agricultural University

Wuhan, China.

 

Postdoctoral researcher 

Humboldt University of Berlin

Berlin, Germany

 

Postdoctoral researcher

University of Potsdam

Potsdam, Germany

 

2006.09-2013.03

Ph.D. in Plant Molecular Genetics

National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, China.

Huazhong Agricultural University

Wuhan, China

 

2002.09-2006.07

Bachelor in Life Science

Huazhong Agricultural University

Wuhan, China.

 

Publications

 

 

Papers (#, equal contributions; *, correspondences )

1. Wenhao Yan#, Dijun Chen#*, Julia Schumacher, Diego Durantini, Julia Engelhorn, Ming Chen, Christel Carles, and Kerstin Kaufmann*. Dynamic control of enhancer activity drives stage-specific gene expression during flower morphogenesis. Nature Communications, 2019,10;1705, 1–16

2. Dijun Chen#, Wenhao Yan#, Liang-Yu Fu and Kerstin Kaufmann*. Architecture of gene regulatory networks controlling flower development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature Communications, 2018, 9:4534,1-13

3. Wenhao Yan#*, Dijun Chen#, Cezary Smaczniak, Engelhorn Julia, Haiyang Liu, Wenjing Yang, Alexander Graf, Christel Carles, Dao-Xiu Zhou, and Kerstin Kaufmann*. Dynamic and spatial restriction of polycomb activity by plant histone demethylases. Nature Plants, 2018, 4: 681–689.

4. Julia Schumacher, Kerstin Kaufmann, and Wenhao Yan*. Multiplexed guideRNA-expression to efficiently mutagenize multiple loci in Arabidopsis by CRISPR-Cas9. Bio-protocol,  2017, e2166.

5. Wenhao Yan*, Dijun Chen and Kerstin Kaufmann*. Efficient multiplex mutagenesis by RNA-guided Cas9 and its use in the characterization of regulatory elements in the AGAMOUS gene. Plant Methods, 2016, 12: 23

6. Wenhao Yan, Dijun Chen and Kerstin Kaufmann*. Molecular mechanisms of floral organ specification by MADS domain proteins. Current Opinion in Plant Biology,  2016, 29:154–162

7 Jia Zhang#, Xiangchun Zhou#, Wenhao Yan#, Zhanyi Zhang, Li Lu, Zhongmin Han, Hu Zhao, Haiyang Liu, Pan Song, Yong Hu, Guojing Shen, Qin He, Sibin Guo, Guoqing Gao, Gongwei Wang and Yongzhong Xing*. Combinations of the Ghd7, Ghd8 and Hd1 genes largely define the ecogeographical adaptation and yield potential of cultivated rice. New Phytologist,  2015, 208: 1056-1066

8. Wenhao Yan#, Haiyang Liu#, Xiangchun Zhou, Qiuping Li, Jia Zhang, Li Lu, Touming Liu, Haijun Liu, Chengjun Zhang, Zhanyi Zhang, Guojing Shen, Wen Yao, Huaxia Chen, Sibin Yu, Weibo Xie, Yongzhong Xing*. Natural variation in Ghd7.1 plays an important role in grain yield and adaptation in rice. Cell Research, 2013, 23: 969-971.  

9. Li Lu#, Wenhao Yan#, Weiya Xue, Di Shao, Yongzhong Xing*. Evolution and association analysis of Ghd7 in rice.  Plos one,  2011, 7:e34021.

10. Wenhao Yan#, Peng Wang#, Huaxia Chen, Hongju Zhou, Qiuping Li, Chongrong Wang, Zehong Ding,Yushan Zhang, Sibin Yu*, Yongzhong Xing* and Qifa Zhang. A major QTL, Ghd8, plays pleiotropic roles in regulating grain productivity, plant height, and heading date in rice.  Molecular Plant, 2011, 4: 319-330.

 

Book chapter

Wenhao Yan, Zhongmin Han, and Yongzhong Xing*. Molecular diagnostics in rice (Oryza sativa). Chapter 20 of Diagnostics in Plant Breeding, 2013, pp 443-465

 

 

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