Jiang Liang 

1 PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name:   Liang Jiang     Email: jiangliang188@gmail.com     Date of Birth: 1982

Address: Longcheng Street 81, Building 19, Xiaodian district, Taiyuan, Shanxi province, 030031

2 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

2008-2014   Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics, supervised by Prof. Jiayang Li

 Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology

 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

2005-2008   M.S. in Plant Breeding and Genetics, supervised by Prof. Qian Qian

 China Rice Research Institute

 Chinese Agricultural Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, China

2001-2005    B.S. in Biotechnology

            Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology

            Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China

RESEARCH EXPEIENCES

2022-        PI,  Shanxi Agricultural University

2019-2021    Postdoctoral associate, Duke University, US

2017-2019    Humboldt fellowship, MPIMP, Germany  

2015-2017    Postdoctoral associate, MPIMP, Germany  

3 RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Molecular basis of plant architecture;

Metabolic basis of plant domestication

4 RESEARCH SUMMARY:

The improvement in plant architecture plays a vital role during crop domestication and breeding. Understanding the molecular mechanism underlying the plant architecture will not only bring fresh knowledge to plant science, but will also facilitate the breeding of high-yielding crop varieties in practice. My research interests mainly focused on the elucidation of the molecular basis of plant architecture. Research contributions included but not limited to: 1) characterization of DWARF 53 (D53) act as the repressor of strigolactone (SL) signaling in rice, and proposing a framework for molecular mechanism underlying SL in the regulation of rice tillering; 2) exploring the roles of an unknown signaling molecule that affects plant architecture in plant coping with leaf senescence and drought tolerance. These results have been published in high-profile journals including nature and plant physiology. The discovery of D53 as a repressor of SL signaling was a landmark research in the SL research field. It is one of the high-cited papers authorized by ESI. This research was awarded “top 10 scientific achievements of 2014”.

5 FUNDING

Talent program supported by Shanxi Agricultural University, 2022-2026;

Humboldt research fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2017-2019

6 PUBLISHCATIONS

1.      Jiang, Liang; Liu, Xue; Xiong, Guosheng; Liu, Huihui; Chen, Fulu; Wang, Lei; Meng, Xiangb ing; Liu, Guifu; Yu, Hong; Yuan, Yundong; Yi, Wei; Zhao, Lihua; Ma, Honglei; He, Yuanzheng; Wu, Z hongshan; Melcher, Karsten; Qian, Qian; Xu, H. Eric; Wang, Yonghong; Li, Jiayang ; DWARF 53 acts as a repressor of strigolactone signalling in rice, Nature, 2013, 504: 401-405（SCI）

2.      Jiang, Liang; Yoshida, Takuya; Stiegert, Sofia; Jing, Yue; Alseekh, Saleh; Lenhard, Micha el; Pérez-Alfocea, Francisco; Fernie, Alisdair R ; Multi-omics approach reveals the contribution of KLU to leaf longevity and drought tolerance, Plant Physiology, 2020, 185(2): 352-368. (SCI)

3.      Jiang, Liang; Guo, Longbiao; Jiang, Hua; Zeng, Dali; Hu, Jiang; Wu, Liwen; Liu, Jian; Gao , Zhenyu; Qian, Qian ; Genetic analysis and fine-mapping of a dwarfing with withered leaf-tip mut ant in rice, Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 2008, 12(35): 715-721. (SCI)

4.      Wang, Lei.*, Wang, Bing.*, Jiang, Liang. Liu, Xue; li, Xilong; Lu, Zefu; Meng, Xiangbing; Wang, Yonghong; Smith, Steven M.; Li, Jiayang. (2015). Strigolactone Signaling in Arabidopsis Regulates Shoot Development by Targeting D53-Like SMXL Repressor Proteins for Ubiquitination and Degradation. The Plant cell 27, 3128-3142.

5.      Wang, Yuexing.*, Xiong, Guosheng.*, Hu, Jiang.*, Jiang, Liang, Yu, Hong; Xu, Jie; Fang, Yunxia; Zeng, Longjun; Xu, Erbo; Xu, Jing; Ye, Weijun; Meng, Xiangbing; Liu, Ruifang; Chen, Hongqi; Jing, Yanhui; Wang, Yonghong; Zhu, Xudong; Li, Jiayang; Qian, Qian (2015). Copy number variation at the GL7 locus contributes to grain size diversity in rice. Nature genetics 47, 944-948.

7 HONORS AND AWARDS

2017      Humboldt research fellowship

2016   Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award, CAS

2014   Outstanding alumni award, CAS

2014      Special Prize of President Scholarship for Postgraduate Students

2013      National Scholarship for Graduate Students

8 CONTACTS

Address: Longcheng Street 81, Building 19, Xiaodian district, Taiyuan, Shanxi province, 030031

Email：jiangliang188@gmail.com