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Xiang Zhou is an Associate Research Fellow at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a Recipient of the Guangdong Province's Top Young Talents Program, the Youth Project of the Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and has been selected for the Shenzhen Pengcheng Peacock Plan (Category B).He pioneered research demonstrating that mechanical stress is essential for pollen tube cell wall integrity and fertility. Dr. Zhou has authored more than 7 SCI-indexed publications, which have garnered over 550 citations. As first or co-first author, he has published 3 papers in high-impact journals includingDevelopmental Cell, Cell, and PNAS.

Agricultural Synthetic Biology and Biomanufacturing:

①Mechanisms of plant cell perception and transduction of extracellular signals;

②Analysis of regulatory mechanisms underlying floral structure and development in soybean, and development of cross-pollinating flower traits for hybrid vigor utilization;

③Development of a soybean seed-based bioreactor chassis for high-efficiency recombinant protein synthesis

④Regulatory mechanisms and applications of plant sexual reproduction (includingdistant hybridizationand haploid induction);

⑤Breeding of high-yield, high-protein duckweed strains for alternative protein production.

Education Background

Bachelor’s Degree(2007.09-2010.07): China Agricultural University

Master’s Degree(2010.09-2012.06): University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences

Ph.D.(2012.07-2016.07): University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences

Professional Experience

2023.09–Present: Professor,xxx University/ Institute

2022.01–2023.08: Associate Professor, Manager of Cell biology Core Facility,FAFU-UCR Joint Center for Horticultural Biology and Metabolomics, Haixia Institute of Science and Technology,Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University

2016.09–2021.10:Postdoctoral Fellow,Department of Botany and Plant Sciences and Institute for Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB), University of California, Riverside, California, USA.

^#co-first author, ^*corresponding author

(1)Xiang Zhou, Jun Lu, Yuqin Zhang, Jingzhe Guo, Wenwei Lin, Jaimie M. Van Norman, Yuan Qin, Xiaoyue Zhu, and Zhenbiao Yang

Membrane receptor-mediated mechano-transduction maintains cell integrity during pollen tube growth within the pistil.Developmental Cell.56, 1–13, April 5 (2021)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2021.02.030

This paper was highlighted in a preview at Developmental Cell: Feeling the pressure: A mechanical tale of the pollen tube journey through the pistil

https://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/fulltext/S1534-5807(21)00212-4

(2)Wenwei Lin,Xiang Zhou, Wenxin Tang, Koji Takahashi, Xue Pan, Jiawei Dai, Hong Ren, Xiaoyue Zhu, Songqin Pan, Haiyan Zheng, William M. Gray, Tongda Xu, Toshinori Kinoshita and Zhenbiao Yang

TMK-based cell surface auxin signaling activates cell wall acidification.Nature 599, 278–282 (2021)https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03976-4

(3)Wenxin Tang, Wenwei Lin,Xiang Zhou, Jingzhe Guo, Xie Dang, Binqi Li, Deshu Lin, Zhenbiao Yang

Mechano-transduction via the pectin-FERONIA complex regulates ROP6 GTPase signaling in Arabidopsis.Current Biology 32, 508–517 (2022)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982221015906?via%3Dihub

(4) Jing Yan,Xiang Zhou, Zengyu Liu, Jinbo Hu, Hui Li^*and Jiming Gong^*

Inhibition of ROP1 activity is essential for pollen dormancy under moist conditions in Arabidopsis.Seed Biology, 2:18 (2023)

https://www.maxapress.com/article/doi/10.48130/SeedBio-2023-0018

(5) Yongqiang Yu^#, Wenxin Tang,^#, Wenwei Lin^#, Wei Li^#,Xiang Zhou^#, Ying Li, Rong Chen, Rui Zheng, Guochen Qin, Wenhan Cao, Patricio Pérez-Henríquez, Rongfeng Huang, Jun Ma, Qiqi Qiu, Ziwei Xu, Ailing Zou, Juncheng Lin, Liwen Jiang, Tongda Xu^*, Zhenbiao Yang^*

ABLs and TMKs are co-receptors for extracellular auxin.Cell 186, 5457–5471(2023)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.10.017

This paper was highlighted in a preview at Cell:Found: The missing discriminators of cell-surface auxin receptorshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.10.021

(6)Xiang Zhou^#*, Wenbo Han^#, Jiawei Dai^#, Sujuan Liu, Shiyuan Gao, Yi Guo, Tiegang Xu & Xiaoyue Zhu*

SPA, a Stigma-style-transmitting tract Physical microenvironment Assay for investigating mechano-signaling in pollen tubes.PNAS 120:49 (2023)

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2314325120

(7) Guang-Jiu Hao, Lu-Shen Li, Xin-Ying Zhao, Jun Ying, Miao-Miao Zhang, Xue-Chun Cui, Tiantian Sun, En Li, Le-Yan Su, Jinbo Shen,Xiang Zhou, Xiaoyue Zhu, Sha Li*, Yan Zhang*

Canonical Rab5 GTPases are essential for pollen tube growth through style in Arabidopsis.New Phytol, 239: 1740-1753, (2023)https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19059