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Dr. Lingling Ye is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Emerging Agricultural Technology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, starting in August 2025.She is interested inroot cambium development, hormone-mediated plant growth and cell wall metabolism.She has published first-author or co-first authorpapers inNature Plants,Current BiologyandPlant Physiology.

Hormonalregulationof vasculaturedevelopment and evolution.

Education Background

Bachelor’s Degree (September 2007–July2011):Anhui NormalUniversity

Ph.D. (September 2011–January2017):Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professional Experience

2025.08–Present: Associate Professor, Institute of Emerging Agricultural Technology,Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology

2017.3–2025.8:Postdoc, Institute of Biotechnology, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki (Finland)

Lingling Ye#, Xin Wang#, Juan José Valle-Delgado, Julia P. Vainonen, Isaac Wopereis, Kavindra Kumar Kesari, Junko Takahashi, Maija Sierla, Ari Pekka Mähönen*. 2025. Cambium LBDs promote radial growth by regulating PLL-mediated pectin metabolism. Nature plants (accepted in principle).

Munan Lyu, Hiroyuki Iida, Thomas Eekhout, Meeri Mäkelä, Sampo Muranen, Lingling Ye, Anne Vatén, Brecht Wybouw, Xin Wang, Bert De Rybel, Ari Pekka Mähönen. 2025. The dynamic and diverse nature of parenchyma cells in theArabidopsisroot during secondary growth. Nature Plants

Riikka Mäkilä, Brecht Wybouw, Ondrej Smetana, Leo Vainio, Anna Sole Gil, Munan Lyu, Lingling Ye, Xin Wang, Riccardo Siligato, Ari Pekka Mähönen. 2023. Gibberellic acid links polar auxin transport to stem cell fate decision in vascular cambium. Nature Plants

Lingling Ye, Xin Wang*, Munan Lyu, Riccardo Siligato, Gugan Eswaran, Leo Vainio, Tiina Blomster, Jing Zhang, Ari Pekka Mähönen*. 2021. Cytokinins initiate secondary growth in theArabidopsisroot through a set ofLBDgenes. Current Biology

Xin Wang, Lingling Ye, Munan Lyu, Robertas Ursache, Ari Löytynoja, Ari Pekka Mähönen. 2020. An inducible genome editing system for plants. Nature Plants

Lingling Ye#, Bin Wang#, Wengen Zhang, Hongyan Shan, Hongzhi Kong. 2016. Gain of an auto-regulatory site led to divergence of theArabidopsisAPETALA1andCAULIFLOWERduplicate genes in the time, space and level of expression and regulation of one paralog by the other. Plant Physiology

(#, co-first author; *, co-corresponding author)