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The Group of Chao-Ying He:
Functional evo-devo
Members Address
PI's Biography
Research Interests
Selected publications
中文Address:
Research Center for Systematic and Evolutionary Botany
Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences
20 Nanxincun, Xiangshan
Beijing 100093, China
Tel: 86-10-62836085; Fax: 86-10-62590843
E-mail: chaoying@ibcas.ac.cn ^^ top ^^
PI's biography:
Positions held
Professor, Principle investigator (2008-), State Key
Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of
Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Group leader (2006-2008), Research associate
(2004-2006) and Postdoc (2001-2004) of Functional Evolution,
Department of Molecular Plant Genetics, Max-Planck Institute for
Plant Breeding Research, Germany
Education
PhD (1998-2001) of Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics,
Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology, Institute of Genetics and
Developmental Biology, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Master Degree (1995-1998) of Plant Genetics and Breeding,
Genetics and Breeding Laboratory, Institute of Subtropical Forestry,
the Chinese Academy of Forestry, China
Bachelor Degree (1991-1995) of Education of Life Sciences,
Department of Life Sciences, Northwest Normal University, China
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Research Interests:
Our research emphasis is
on functional evo-devo and functional genomics in plants. The group
aims at elucidating molecular mechanisms underlying evolution of
morphological novelties and characterizing the genes involved in
domestication of important traits in plants. The origin of
morphological novelties and domesticated traits is a long-standing
problem in evolutionary biology. Their understanding demands
elucidation of developmental and genetic mechanisms that produce
such new traits in which heterochrony or heterotopy of the existing
regulatory functions might be recruited during evolution or
domestication. We are also interested in revealing the genetic
control of natural variation of some important agricultural traits,
e.g. fruit size. The ultimate goal is to understand the mechanisms
on evolution of biodiversity. Currently the group has collected
substantial number of Solanaceae from all over the world and
generated a mutant library of Physalis floridana. Reverse
genetics is used to reveal the roles of some important regulatory
genes in morphogenesis within Solanaceae, for example, the MADS-box
genes. Meanwhile, some evolutionary informative Physalis mutants are
being dissected molecularly. Related morphology and underlying
molecular interacting networks will be compared between non-model
species like Physalis and model species like rice, Arabidopsis and
tomato. The major topics include:
Functional evolution of floral morphological novelties in plants
Evolution of genetic control of petal development and corolla
diversity
Functional evolution of fertility-determining system and its
applications in plants
Molecular evolution of fruit size and fruit type
Conservation/diversification of the regulatory network controlling
flowering time
Molecular basis on the evolution of plant biodiversity
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Selected publications (*
Corresponding author):
(8)
He, C.-Y.*, Sommer H, Grosardt
B, Huijser P and Saedler H. 2007. PFMAGO, a MAGO NASHI-like
factor, interacts with the MADS-box protein MPF2 from Physalis
floridana. Mol. Biol. Evol.
24(5): 1229-1241
(7)
He, C.-Y.,
Saedler H. 2007. Hormonal control of the inflated
calyx syndrome, a morphological novelty, in Physalis. Plant J.
49(5): 935-946
(6)
He, C.-Y.,
Saedler H. 2005. Heterotopic expression of MPF2
is the key to the evolution of the Chinese lantern of Physalis, a
morphological novelty in Solanaceae. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
U.S.A. 102 (16): 5797-5784
(5)
He, C.-Y.,
Münster T, Saedler H. 2004. On the origin of morphological floral novelties.
FEBS Lett. 567: 147-151
(4)
Wang, B.-J., Wang, Y.-J., Wang, Q., Luo, G.-Z., Zhang, Z.-G., He,
C.-Y., He, S.-J., Zhang, J.-S., Gai, J.-Y., Chen, S.-Y. 2004. Characterization of an NBS-LRR resistance gene homologue from soybean. J. Plant Physiol.
161(7): 815-822
(3)
Zhang, W.-K., Wang, Y.-J., Luo, G.-Z., Zhang, J.-S., He, C.-Y.,
Wu, X.-L., Gai, J.-Y., Chen, S.-Y. 2004. QTL mapping of ten agronomic traits on the soybean
(Glycine max L. Merr.) genetic map and their association with EST markers.
Theor. Appl. Genet. 108: 1131-1139
(2)
He, C.-Y.,
Tian, A.-G., Zhang, J.-S., Zhang, Z.-Y., Gai, J.-Y., Chen, S.-Y. 2003. Isolation and
characterization of a full-length resistance gene homolog from soybean.
Theor. Appl. Genet. 106: 786-793
(1)
He, C.-Y.,
Zhang, J.-S., Chen, S.-Y. 2002. A new soybean gene encoding a proline-rich protein is
regulated by salicylic acid, an endogenous circadian rhythm and by various
stresses. Theor. Appl. Genet. 104: 1125-1131
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