Professor Jiangyi Yang, Ph.D., Doctoral and Master's Supervisor

Contact

E-mail:yangjy598@163.com

Personal Profile:

I engaged mainly in the study on molecular mechanism of rice reproductive isolation and perenniality, providing theoretical basis for breeding perennial distant hybrid rice. I published a paper in Science magazine, revealing a novel reproductive isolation mechanism at rice S5 locus that is inconsistent with previous viewpoints, and it was rated as “very good” by the famous international biomedical post-publication evaluation system F1000Prime. At present, key genes that interact with S5 have been identified, providing a foundation for elucidating the molecular mechanism by which S5 contributes to hybrid sterility in Rice.

Recently, we have made a breakthrough in the research of perennial rice. For the first time, we have cloned rhizome-regulating genes of perennial rice, cracking the problem unsolved in the world for decades: identification and cloning of rhizome-regulating genes of perennial plants. We rapidly domesticated pest-resistant perennial wild rice by using gene editing technology, to help rice production in the “hollow villages” with few young farmers.

I was selected as an excellent expert in Guangxi of China in 2018, and was selected as an outstanding scholar in colleges and universities of Guangxi in 2016. I am the academic leader of "plant molecular biology" in Guangxi University, and a board member of Guangxi Society for Biochemistry and molecular biology.

 

Teaching and research results:

Intellectual Property Rights:

Jiangyi Yang, Zhiquan Fan, Yu Zhang, Yourong Fan，ZL 2021 1 0344638.7, A tissue culture method for underground stem of perennial rice, 2022.11.15, National Invention Patent of China.

Jiangyi Yang, Kai Wang, Yourong Fan, Zhiquan Fan, ZL 2018 1 0045579.1, A hydroponic method for underground stem of rice, 2020.09.08, National Invention Patent of China.

Qifa Zhang, Jiangyi Yang, Yidan Ouyang, Hongyi Du, ZL 2012 1 0190888.0, Genes for hybrid fertility of rice embryo sac and their applications, 2015.02.11, National Invention Patent of China.

Awards:

Fifteenth Hubei Provincial Outstanding Academic Papers in Natural Sciences, Grand Prize, 2014.

Yunnan Provincial Natural Science Award, First Prize, 2005.

Yunnan Provincial Natural Science Award, Second Prize, 2003.

Instructional Programs:

2016 Guangxi Higher Education Undergraduate Teaching Reform Project (General Project Class A):Research and Practice on the Reform of the Teaching Mode of the Course "Plant Tissue Culture Technology" Based on Scientific Research Training (2016JGA135), 20,000 RMB. Fan Xianwei, Yang Jiangyi, Xia Jixing, Yang Meichun, Shan Jianwei, Li Mianyuan, Lu Chunhua, Li Xiaojuan.

Major research projects:

National Natural Science Foundation of China, cloning and mechanism study on rhizome-regulating gene TUX1 in perennial rice.

National Natural Science Foundation of China, Map-based cloning and mechanism study on S5-interacting gene qSIG3.1 in rice

Guangxi Natural Science Foundation (key project), Research on the Mechanism of perenniality regulation in rice, already completed.

The Project of High Level Innovation Team and Outstanding Scholar in Guangxi Colleges and Universities, Guangxi of China, Innovation team of rice molecular biology research, already completed.

National Natural Science Foundation of China, Map-based gene cloning and mechanism exploration on hybrid pollen sterility of rice, already completed.

 

Research Directions:

1. Study on isolation and molecular mechanism of rhizome-regulating genes in perennial Rice

2. Research on gene isolation and molecular mechanism related to reproductive isolation in Rice

3. Study on molecular mechanism of Rice yield and stress resistance

Mentored students who won awards:

 

 

Representative papers:

1.    Jiangyi Yang et al. A killer-protector system regulates both hybrid sterility and segregation distortion in rice. Science, 2012.

2.    Jie Li^#, Shufang Chen^#, Yu Zhang^#, Weidong Zhao, Jiangyi Yang*, Yourong Fan*, A novel PLS-DYW type PPR protein OsASL is essential for chloroplast development in rice, Plant Science, 2024, 345: 112134

3.    Kai Wang, Jie Li, Yourong Fan*, Jiangyi Yang*, Temperature Effect on Rhizome Development in Perennial rice. 2024, Rice 17: 32

4.    Kai Wang, Jie Li, Yourong Fan*, Jiangyi Yang*, Opportunities and Challenges: Research Advances of Perennial Crops. Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin (in Chinese, English abstract), 2023, 39(35):9-19.

5.    Zhiquan Fan^#, Guanwen Huang^#, Yourong Fan*, Jiangyi Yang*, Sucrose facilitates rhizome development of perennial rice (Oryza longistaminata). International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, 23(21): 13396

6.    Jianglei Rao, Xing Wang, Zhongquan Cai, Yourong Fan* and Jiangyi Yang*. Genetic analysis of S5-interacting genes regulating hybrid sterility in rice. Rice, 2021, 14(1): 11

7.    Zhiquan Fan^#, Kai Wang^#, Jianglei Rao^#, Zhongquan Cai, Li-Zhen Tao, Yourong Fan*, Jiangyi Yang*. Interactions among multiple quantitative trait loci underlie rhizome development of perennial rice. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020, (11): 591157.

8.    Zhiquan Fan#, Kai Wang, Yourong Fan, Li-Zhen Tao, Jiangyi Yang*. Combining ability analysis on rhizomatousness via incomplete diallel crosses between perennial wild relative of rice and Asian cultivated rice. Euphytica, 2020

9.    Zhongquan Cai1#, Peilong Jia#, Jiaqiang Zhang, Ping Gan, Qi Shao, Gang Jin, Liping Wang, Jian Jin*, Jiangyi Yang*, Jijing Luo*. Genetic analysis and fine mapping of a qualitative trait locus wpb1 for albino panicle branches in rice. PLOS ONE, 2019

10.    Jianwei Shan#, Zhongquan Cai#, Yu Zhang, Hannan Xu, Jianglei Rao, Yourong Fan*, Jiangyi Yang*.The underlying pathway involved in inter-subspecific hybrid male sterility in rice. genomics, 2019

11.    Zhiquan Fan, Zhongquan Cai, Jianwei Shan, Jiangyi Yang*. Bud Position and Carbohydrate Play a More Significant Role than Light Condition in the Developmental Transition between Rhizome Buds and Aerial Shoot Buds of Oryza longistaminata. Plant and Cell Physiology. 2017

12.    Yourong Fan, Jiangyi Yang et al. PMS1T, producing phased small-interfering RNAs, regulates photoperiod-sensitive male sterility in rice. proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2016