个人简历

男，教授，博士生导师。2004年毕业于华中农业大学作物遗传育种专业，获农学博士学位；2014年获聘华中农业大学教授、博士生导师。2007.12-2008.12在美国德州理工大学合作研究；2014.2-2014.5在荷兰瓦赫宁根（Wageningen）大学合作研究。2014-2017年作为中央组织部第八批援疆干部在石河子大学农学院挂职。现为作物遗传改良国家重点实验室棉花遗传改良研究团队成员，兼任湖北省棉麻学会副理事长、秘书长。2016年入选国际黄萎病咨询委员会。主要研究方向为棉花与病原互作及早熟多抗分子育种，已在Nature Commmunications, Plant Physiology等学术期刊发表研究论文50多篇，申请或获得国家发明专利10多项。相关研究成果获得国家科技进步二等奖一项（2013）、湖北省科技进步一等奖一项（2012）、湖北省技术发明二等奖一项（2008）等多项。2016年获得湖北省杰出青年基金资助，入选科技部中青年科技创新领军人才推进计划。

研究领域

棉花遗传育种

近期论文

He, X., Wang, T., Zhu, W., Wang, Y., and Zhu, L. (2018a). GhHB12, a HD-ZIP I Transcription Factor, Negatively Regulates the Cotton Resistance to Verticillium dahliae. Int J Mol Sci 19, 3997.
He, X., Wang, T., Xu, Z., Liu, N., Wang, L., Hu, Q., Luo, X., Zhang, X., and Zhu, L. (2018b). The cotton HD-Zip transcription factor GhHB12 regulates flowering time and plant architecture via the GhmiR157-GhSPL pathway. Communications Biology 1, 229.
He, X., Zhu, L., Wassan, G.M., Wang, Y., Miao, Y., Shaban, M., Hu, H., Sun, H., and Zhang, X. (2018c). GhJAZ2 attenuates cotton resistance to biotic stresses via the inhibition of the transcriptional activity of GhbHLH171. Mol Plant Pathol 19, 896-908.
Hu, Q., Zhu, L., Zhang, X., Guan, Q., Xiao, S., Min, L., and Zhang, X. (2018a). GhCPK33 Negatively Regulates Defense against Verticillium dahliae by Phosphorylating GhOPR3. Plant Physiol 178, 876-889.
Hu, Q., Min, L., Yang, X., Jin, S., Zhang, L., Li, Y., Ma, Y., Qi, X., Li, D., Liu, H., Lindsey, K., Zhu, L., and Zhang, X. (2018b). Laccase GhLac1 Modulates Broad-Spectrum Biotic Stress Tolerance via Manipulating Phenylpropanoid Pathway and Jasmonic Acid Synthesis. Plant Physiol 176, 1808-1823.
Li, Y., Min, L., Zhang, L., Hu, Q., Wu, Y., Li, J., Xie, S., Ma, Y., Zhang, X., and Zhu, L. (2018). Promoters of Arabidopsis Casein kinase I-like 2 and 7 confer specific high-temperature response in anther. Plant Mol Biol 98, 33-49.
Miao, Y., Xu, L., He, X., Zhang, L., Shaban, M., Zhang, X., and Zhu, L. (2019). Suppression of tryptophan synthase activates cotton immunity by triggering cell death via promoting SA synthesis. Plant J.
Shaban, M., Ahmed, M.M., Sun, H., Ullah, A., and Zhu, L. (2018a). Genome-wide identification of lipoxygenase gene family in cotton and functional characterization in response to abiotic stresses. BMC Genomics 19, 599.
Shaban, M., Miao, Y., Ullah, A., Khan, A.Q., Menghwar, H., Khan, A.H., Ahmed, M.M., Tabassum, M.A., and Zhu, L. (2018b). Physiological and molecular mechanism of defense in cotton against Verticillium dahliae. Plant Physiol Biochem 125, 193-204.
Song, Y., Liu, L., Wang, Y., Valkenburg, D.J., Zhang, X., Zhu, L., and Thomma, B. (2018). Transfer of tomato immune receptor Ve1 confers Ave1-dependent Verticillium resistance in tobacco and cotton. Plant Biotechnol J 16, 638-648.
Wang, M., Tu, L., Yuan, D., Zhu, Shen, C., Li, J., Liu, F., Pei, L., Wang, P., Zhao, G., Ye, Z., Huang, H., Yan, F., Ma, Y., Zhang, L., Liu, M., You, J., Yang, Y., Liu, Z., Huang, F., Li, B., Qiu, P., Zhang, Q., Zhu, L., Jin, S., Yang, X., Min, L., Li, G., Chen, L.L., Zheng, H., Lindsey, K., Lin, Z., Udall, J.A., and Zhang, X. (2018). Reference genome sequences of two cultivated allotetraploid cottons, Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense. Nat Genet.
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., and Zhang, X. (2018). Long noncoding RNAs involve in resistance to Verticillium dahliae, a fungal disease in cotton. Plant Biotechnol J 16, 1172-1185.
Zhou, Y., Sun, L., Wassan, G.M., He, X., Shaban, M., Zhang, L., Zhu, L., and Zhang, X. (2019). GbSOBIR1 confers Verticillium wilt resistance by phosphorylating the transcriptional factor GbbHLH171 in Gossypium barbadense. Plant Biotechnol J 17, 152-163.
Zhu, W., Gao, E., Shaban, M., Wang, Y., Wang, H., Nie, X., and Zhu, L. (2018). GhUMC1, a blue copper-binding protein, regulates lignin synthesis and cotton immune response. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 504, 75-81.
Ding, Y., Ma, Y., Liu, N., Xu, J., Hu, Q., Li, Y., Wu, Y., Xie, S., Zhu, L., Min, L., and Zhang, X. (2017). microRNAs involved in auxin signalling modulate male sterility under high-temperature stress in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum). Plant J 91, 977-994.
Gao, W., Long, L., Xu, L., Lindsey, K., Zhang, X., and Zhu, L. (2016). Suppression of the homeobox gene HDTF1 enhances resistance to Verticillium dahliae and Botrytis cinerea in cotton. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 58, 503-513.
Guo, W., Jin, L., Miao, Y., He, X., Hu, Q., Guo, K., Zhu, L., and Zhang, X. (2016). An ethylene response-related factor, GbERF1-like, from Gossypium barbadense improves resistance to Verticillium dahliae via activating lignin synthesis. Plant Mol Biol 91, 305-318.
He, X., Zhu, L., Xu, L., Guo, W., and Zhang, X. (2016). GhATAF1, a NAC transcription factor, confers abiotic and biotic stress responses by regulating phytohormonal signaling networks. Plant Cell Rep 35, 2167-2179.
Hu, H., He, X., Tu, L., Zhu, L., Zhu, S., Ge, Z., and Zhang, X. (2016). GhJAZ2 negatively regulates cotton fiber initiation by interacting with the R2R3-MYB transcription factor GhMYB25-like. Plant J 88, 921-935.
Min, L., Hu, Q., Li, Y., Xu, J., Ma, Y., Zhu, L., Yang, X., and Zhang, X. (2015). LEAFY COTYLEDON1-CASEIN KINASE I-TCP15-PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR4 Network Regulates Somatic Embryogenesis by Regulating Auxin Homeostasis. Plant Physiol 169, 2805-2821.