CV of Dr. Xianlong Zhang
Zhang Xianlong, male, was born in March 1963, Shangcai county, Henan province. Dr. Zhang graduated in 1990 from Huazhong Agricultural University where he also obtained his doctoral degree (Ph.D.). In July 1990 he was appointed as a faculty member of Huazhong Agricultural University, when he started his teaching and research career. He was a visiting researcher for one year (1993-1994) in the Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, and then he come back to his position, and was promoted as a full professor in January1997. Dr. Zhang is a faculty of the College of Plant Science and Technology, also a PI of the National Key Laboratory for Crop Genetic Improvement since 1992. He has worked as an associate director of the National Key Laboratory since 2002. From June 2002 to February 2008 he was the Dean of College of Plant Science and Technology, and then took the position of Vice President of Huazhong Agricultural University from March 2008 to August 2018. Dr. Zhang is Vice-President of the Cotton Association, Agronomy Society of China, Member of the Crop Society of China, and senior editor of both Acta Agronomica Sinica and Plants, People, Planet. He has been awarded a national second class prize and twice awarded a Provincial first class of prize for his contributions to agriculture. Dr. Zhang and his colleagues have published more than 300 papers, of which 160 papers are published by international journals, giving him an H index of 44, and his SCI papers have been cited more than 6600 times. He has been a recognised highly cited Chinese scholar by Elsevier continuously for recent 5 years. He was honored as a leading talent by the National ‘Ten Thousand Talent Plan’, the National ‘Creation and Glory’ Prize and a National ‘Excellent Teacher in Education’. Dr. Zhang is also honored as a‘National Outstanding Scientist’ and ‘Hubei Provincial Ten Best Ethical Teacher’.
Dr. Zhang Xianlong’s research focuses on Crop Science. He has made great achievements in developing genetics and creating technologies in cotton breeding, and his cotton varieties are broadly used in cotton production.
Research areas：
l Cotton biotechnology and breeding
l Cotton fiber development
l Biotic and abiotic tolerance
l Cotton genomics
l Cotton high temperature physiology
E-mail: xlzhang@mail.hzau.edu.cn
Funding
1. High-throughput verification of association mapped loci conferring cotton fiber quality and construction of fiber quality related gene network, Key project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2019-2023.
2. Cotton disease resistance breeding, project of China Agriculture Research System, 2016-2020.
3. High yield cotton breeding by transgenic approach, project of China Transgenic Plant Research, 2016—2018.
4. Identification of functional genes conferring resistance to Verticillium and Fusarium wilt diseases, Key project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2018-2021.
Selected publications:
1. Hakim Manghwar, Keith Lindsey, Xianlong Zhang* and Shuangxia Jin*, 2019, CRISPR/Cas System: Recent Advances and Future Prospects for Genome Editing, Trends in Plant Science, 24(12): 1102-1125
2. Maojun Wang, Lili Tu, Daojun Yuan, De Zhu, Chao Shen, Jianying Li, Fuyan Liu, Liuling Pei, Pengcheng Wang, Guannan Zhao, Zhengxiu Ye, Hui Huang, Feilin Yan, Yizan Ma, Keith Lindsey*, Zhongxu Lin*, Joshua A. Udall* & Xianlong Zhang*, 2019, Reference genome sequences of two cultivated allotetraploid cottons, Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense, Nature Genetics，51：224-229
3. Ma Y, Min L*, Wang M, Wang C, Zhao Y, Li Y, Fang Q, Wu Y, Xie S, Ding Y, Su X, Hu Q, Zhang Q, Li X, Zhang X*, 2018, Disrupted Genome Methylation in Response to High Temperature Has Distinct Affects on Microspore Abortion and Anther Indehiscence, Plant Cell, 30: 1387–1403
4. Wang M, Wang P, Lin M*, Ye Z, Li G, Tu L, Shen C, Li J, Yang Q*, Zhang X*, 2018, Evolutionary dynamics of 3D genome architecture following polyploidization in cotton, Nature Plants, 4(2):90-97
5. Hu Q, Min L, Yang X, Jin S, Zhang L, Li Y, Ma Y, Qi X, Li D, Liu H, Lindsey K, Zhu L*, Zhang X*, 2018, Laccase GhLac1 Modulates Broad-Spectrum Biotic Stress Tolerance via Manipulating Phenylpropanoid Pathway and Jasmonic Acid Synthesis, Plant Physiology, 176(2):1808-1823
6. Zhang L, Wang M, Li N, Wang H, Qiu P, Pei L, Xu Z, Wang T, Gao E, Liu J, Liu S, Hu Q, Miao Y, Lindsey K, Tu L, Zhu L, Zhang X*, 2018, Long noncoding RNAs involve in resistance to Verticillium dahliae, a fungal disease in cotton, Plant Biotechnol J. 16(6):1172-1185
7. Wang P, Zhang J, Sun L, Ma Y, Xu J, Liang S, Deng J, Tan J, Zhang Q, Tu L, Daniell H, Jin S*, Zhang X*, 2018, High efficient multisites genome editing in allotetraploid cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) using CRISPR/Cas9 system, Plant Biotechnol J. 16(1):137-150
8. Maojun Wang, Lili Tu, Min Lin, Zhongxu Lin, Pengcheng Wang, Qingyong Yang, Zhengxiu Ye, Chao Shen, Jianying Li, Lin Zhang, Xiaolin Zhou, Xinhui Nie, Zhonghua Li, Kai Guo, Yizan Ma, Cong Huang, Shuangxia Jin, Longfu Zhu, Xiyan Yang, Ling Min, Daojun Yuan, Qinghua Zhang, Keith Lindsey* & Xianlong Zhang*,2017, Asymmetric subgenome selection and cis-regulatory divergence during cotton domestication，Nature Genetics, 49(4):579-587
9. Ting Zhou, Xiyan Yang, Kai Guo, Jinwu Deng, Jiao Xu, Wenhui Gao, Keith Lindsey, and Xianlong Zhang*, 2016, ROS Homeostasis Regulates Somatic Embryogenesis via the Regulation of Auxin Signaling in Cotton, Mol Cell Proteomics, 15(6): 2108-2124
10. Maojun Wang, Pengcheng Wang, Lili Tu, Sitao Zhu, Lin Zhang, Zhonghua Li, Qinghua Zhang, Daojun Yuan and Xianlong Zhang*, 2016, Multi-omics maps of cotton fibre reveal epigenetic basis for staged single-cell differentiation, Nucleic Acids Research, 44( 9): 4067–4079
11. Longqing Sun, Longfu Zhu, Li Xu , Daojun Yuan, Ling Min & Xianlong Zhang*, 2014, Cotton cytochrome P450 CYP82D regulates systemic cell death by modulating the octadecanoid pathway, Nature Communications, 5:5372 doi: 10.1038/ncomms6372
12. Ling Min, Yaoyao Li, Qin Hu, Longfu Zhu, Wenhui Gao, Yuanlong Wu, Yuanhao Ding, Shiming Liu, Xiyan Yang, and Xianlong Zhang*, 2014, Sugar and auxin signaling pathways respond to high temperature stress during anther development as revealed by transcript profiling analysis in cotton, Plant Physiology, 164: 1293-1308
13. Wenxin Tang, Lili Tu*, Xiyan Yang, Jiafu Tan, Fenglin Deng, Juan Hao, Kai Guo, Keith Lindsey, Xianlong Zhang* , 2014, The calcium sensor GhCaM7 promotes cotton fiber elongation by modulating ROS production, New Phytologist, 202(2): 509-520
14. Ling Min, Longfu Zhu*, Lili Tu, Fenglin Deng, Daojun Yuan, and Xianlong Zhang*, 2013, Cotton GhCKI disrupts normal male reproduction by delaying tapetum programmed cell death via inactivating starch synthase, The Plant Journal , 75: 823-835
15. Jiafu Tan, Lili Tu, Fenglin Deng, Haiyan Hu, Yichun Nie, and Xianlong Zhang*, 2013, A Genetic and Metabolic Analysis Revealed that Cotton Fiber Cell Development Was Retarded by Flavonoid Naringenin, Plant Physiology, 162: 86-95
