陈桃，女，华中农业大学植物科学技术学院教授，农业微生物资源发掘与利用全国重点实验室、湖北省洪山实验室固定研究人员。教育部“长江学者奖励计划”青年学者。主要从事植物与微生物互作研究，通过植物与微生物组的互作揭示了植物微生物菌群与植物健康的关系；通过植物与病原微生物互作解析了病原微生物致病及防控方法；通过植物与共生菌互作完善了共生信号转导途径；拓展了对植物与微生物互作机理的认识，为植物健康生长，病害绿色防治，农业的可持续生产提供理论支撑。以第一作者（或并列第一）或者通讯作者在Nature、Plant Cell、Plant Physiology、Plant Journal、ISME Journal等期刊上发表论文，先后主持了国家自然科学基金等10余项科研项目，多次在国内外重要学术会议做报告，相关成果获了2020年湖北省科学技术奖励自然科学类三等奖。

开设课程

微生物学，植物微生物组学，植物生产与保护，高级植物病理学实验技术，植物病虫害研究法

研究方向

植物与微生物/微生物组的互作，根肿菌的致病机制及抗病基因的挖掘

科研项目

1. 国家自然科学基金委员会，面上项目，32572787，超表达根肿菌效应蛋白PbEC4增强抗根肿病的分子机制，2026-01-01 至 2029-12-31，50万元，在研，主持

2. 校自主创新基金，其它培育专项，土壤微生物增强作物耐盐碱胁迫的机制与应用，2024.01-2026-12，主持，结题

3. 国家自然科学基金委员会，面上项目，32172371，根肿菌分泌型E3泛素连接酶PbE3-2与寄主半胱氨酸蛋白酶RD21A互作抑制油菜抗性的分子机制, 2022-01-01 至 2025-12-31，58万元，主持，结题

4. 国家重点研发计划，生物大分子与微生物组, 2022YFA1304400, 多病原侵染重要作物的微生物组学基础和调控机制，子课题：油菜根际微生物组动态与病害发生及关键微生物的挖掘，2022-12 至 2026-11, 80万元，子课题主持，在研

5. 科技创新2030-“农业生物育种”重大项目, 2023ZD04070, 抗病虫新基因挖掘与育种价值评价，子课题：油菜抗病新基因挖掘与育种价值评价，2023-12 至 2025-12，191.5万元，子课题主持，结题

6. 校自主科技创新基金，优秀人才培育项目，2662020ZKPY003，根瘤菌/AM菌根真菌生物防治根肿病的防治机理，2020-05至2023-04，50万元，主持，结题

7. 国家重点研发计划，中加国际双边合作，2018YFE0108000，芸薹属作物关键性状遗传改良中的基因组学研究，子课题：油菜根肿菌与寄主互作机理研究，2019-08至2022-07，33万元，主持，结题。

8. 校自主科技创新基金，学科交叉研究专项（教育部创新团队支持项目），2662017JC004，再生稻防病促生有益微生物筛选及应用，2017-01至2019-12，30万元，结题，主持。

9. 国家自然科学基金委员会，青年科学基金，31300208，蒺藜苜蓿MAPKK Tnt1 突变体的分离及共生表型分析，2014-01至2016-12，22万元，结题，主持。

10. 高等学校博士点专项科研基金，新教师类，20130146120032，苜蓿MAPKK在共生信号转导中调控及生物学功能研究，2014-01至2016-12，4万元，结题，主持。

11. 湖北省自然科学基金，面上项目，2013CFB202，油菜根肿病的发病分子机理研究，2013-01至2015-12，6万元，结题，主持。

12. 校自科技主创新基金，青年教师科技创新专项，2013QC041，MAPK级联在根瘤菌与苜蓿共生信号转导中的调控机制，2013-01至2014-12，8万元，结题，主持。

发明专利及获得奖励

发明专利：

1) 姜道宏 张洪祥 曲正 谢甲涛 付艳苹 程家森 陈桃 一株核盘菌菌株Ss367A及其应用、水悬浮剂及其制备方法，专利号 201910435202.1

2) 姜道宏 田斌年 谢甲涛 付艳苹 程家森 陈桃 一种小麦增产防病的方法及其应用，专利号 201910435218.2

3) 陈桃; 赵艳丽; 谢甲涛; 姜道宏; 付艳苹; 程家森; 李博; 一株贵州木霉Hz36菌株、生防菌剂及其制备方法和应用, 2022-7-1, 中国, 202110894333.3 (专利)

4) 陈桃; 赵艳丽; 谢甲涛; 姜道宏; 付艳苹; 程家森; 李博; 一株拟康宁木霉Hk37菌株、生防菌剂及其制备方法和应用, 2022-8-23, 中国, 202110894902.4 (专利)

5) 陈桃; 赵艳丽; 谢甲涛; 姜道宏; 付艳苹; 程家森;一种抗根肿菌的几丁质酶及编码基因和应用, 2024-1-11, 中国, 202210984055.5 (专利)

获得奖励：

1) 2020年湖北省科学技术奖励自然科学类三等奖，成果名称：豆科植物共生固氮系统调控的分子机制，获奖人：张忠明、朱辉、曹扬荣、陈桃、于海翔

2) 陈桃(1/1) ，长江学者奖励计划青年学者，中华人民共和国教育部，2022

学术论文与著作（*表示通讯作者，#表示共同作者）：

学术论文

第一作者或者通讯作者：

1. Zhen Zhang^#, Xingfu Chen^#, Meihui Wu^#,Xiuxiu Liu, Lu Chang, Feng Rao,Yuanwei Zhou, Kenichi Tsuda, Chunyu Zhang, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie, Yang Lin, Yanping Fu,Daohong Jiang^*, and Tao Chen^*. Aesculetin-mediated recruitment of denitrifying microbiota by resistant rapeseed suppresses Plasmodiophora brassicae via nitrate depletion. The ISME Journal, 2026, 20(1), wrag061.

2. Miaomiao Cui, Zanzan Xu, Zheng Shi, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie, Yang Lin, Yanping Fu, Tom Hsiang, Daohong Jiang, and Tao Chen *. RNAI-based strategies and nanomaterial-mediated delivery for green control of clubroot disease in rapeseed. J Adv Res. 2026, 85:121-136.

3. Chao Li, Sha Li, Lu Feng, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie, Yang Lin, Yanping Fu, Kenichi Tsuda, Daohong Jiang and Tao Chen* Arabidopsis OTU2 deubiquitinates cysteine protease RD21A to enhance clubroot resistance. Plant J. 2025, 122(1):e70148. 

4. Chao Li^#, Zhen Zhang^#, Feng Rao, Zanzan Xu, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie, Yang Lin, Tom Hsiang, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang & Tao Chen*. Mesorhizobium huakuii 7653 R regulates the endophytic bacterial communities and disease resistance pathways to promote clubroot resistance in Brassica napus. Virulence. 2025, 16(1):2543068.

5. Chao Li, Shaofeng Luo, Lu Feng, Qianqian Wang, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie, Yang Lin, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang and Tao Chen1*. Protist ubiquitin ligase effector PbE3-2 targets cysteine protease RD21A to impede plant immunity. Plant Physiol. 2024, 194(3):1764-1778

6. 苏晴芳，孙小钊，林杨，付艳苹，程家森，谢甲涛，姜道宏，陈 桃* 嗜线虫沙雷氏菌Serratia nematodiphila TG10 增强油菜耐盐碱能力. 作物学报, 2025, 51 (2): 358-369.

7. Yanli Zhao, Chao Li, Xingfu Chen, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie, Yang Lin, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang, Tao Chen*. Overexpression of chitinase PbChia1 from Plasmodiophora brassicae improves broad-spectrum disease resistance of Arabidopsis, Virulence, 2023, 14(1): 2233147.

8. Zhen Zhang, Lu Chang, Xiuxiu Liu, Jing Wang, Xianhong Ge, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie, Yang Lin, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang, Tao Chen*. Rapeseed Domestication Affects the Diversity of Rhizosphere Microbiota. Microorganisms, 2023 11(3):724.

9. Yanli Zhao, Xingfu Chen, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie, Yang Lin, Daohong Jiang, Yanping Fu* and Tao Chen*, Application of Trichoderma Hz36 and Hk37 as Biocontrol Agents against Clubroot Caused by Plasmodiophora brassicae. J. Fungi. 2022. 8(8):777

10. Tao Chen^#, Kinya Nomura^#, Xiaolin Wang, Reza Sohrabi, Jin Xu, Lingya Yao, Bradley C. Paasch, Li Ma, James Kremer, Yuti Cheng, Li Zhang, Nian Wang, Ertao Wang, Xiu-Fang Xin^* and Sheng Yang He^*. A plant genetic network for preventing dysbiosis in the phyllosphere, Nature, 2020, 580(7805):653-657.

11. Tao Chen, Kai Bi, Yanli Zhao, Xueliang Lyu, Zhixiao Gao, Ying Zhao, Yanping Fu, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie, Daohong Jiang*. MAPKK inhibitor U0126 inhibit Plasmodiophora brassicae development. Phytopathology, 2018, 108(6):711-720.

12. Tao Chen, Bo Zhou, Liujian Duan, Hui Zhu and Zhongming Zhang*, MtMAPKK4 is an essential gene for growth and reproduction of Medicago truncatula, Physiologia Plantarum, 2017, 159(4):492-503.

13. Tao Chen, Liujian Duan, Bo Zhou, Haixiang Yu, Hui Zhu, Yangrong Cao and Zhongming Zhang*. Interplay of Pathogen-Induced Defense Responses and Symbiotic Establishment in Medicago truncatula. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017, 8: 973.

14. 何璋超, 高知枭, 毕凯, 赵莹, 程家森, 谢甲涛, 付艳苹, 姜道宏, 陈桃*. 基于LC-MS技术的代谢组学方法研究根肿菌对拟南芥代谢的影响. 华中农业大学学报，2017年，第36卷，第5期.

15. Xiaoli Zhang^#, Xinqiang Liu^#, Yanli Zhao, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang and Tao Chen*. Histone H3 Lysine 9 Methyltransferase DIM5 Is Required for the Development and Virulence of Botrytis cinerea. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016, 7: 1289.

16. Tao Chen, Kai Bi, Zhangchao He, Zhixiao Gao, Ying Zhao, Yanping Fu, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie and Daohong Jiang*. Arabidopsis Mutant bik1 Exhibits Strong Resistance toPlasmodiophora brassicae. Frontiers in Physiology, 2016, 7:402. 

17. Kai Bi, Zhangchao He, Zhixiao Gao, Ying Zhao, Yanping Fu, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie, Daohong Jiang and Tao Chen*. Integrated omics study of lipid droplets from Plasmodiophora brassicae. Scientific reports, 2016, 6:36965.

18. Tao Chen, Hui Zhu, Danxia Ke, Kai Cai, Chao Wang, Honglan Gou, Zonglie Hong, Zhongming Zhang*. A MAP Kinase Kinase Interacts with SymRK and Regulates Nodule Organogenesis in Lotus japonicus. Plant Cell, 2012, 24(2): 823-838

参与作者:

1. Liu Z, Pan Q, Huang H, Gao L, Zhou Z, Zheng D, Xiao X, Fu Y, Cheng J, Cai Q, Li B, Chen T, Yu X, Lin Y, Lyu X, Hsiang T, Xie J, Jiang D. Mycoviruses confer hypovirulence but enhance antifungal volatile organic compound production in a phytopathogenic fungus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2026,14;123(15):e2526822123. 

2. Gao J, Zhang X, Jia J, Huang H, Cheng J, Fu Y, Xiao X, Li B, Chen T, Yu X, Zhu L, Hsiang T, Jiang D, Zhang L, Xie J. A hypovirulence-associated capsidless bi-segmented ssRNA mycovirus enhances melanin and microsclerotial production in a vascular phytopathogenic fungus. PLoS Pathog. 2025, 21(8):e1013348.

3. Huang H, Mao H, Wu T, Xie J, Zheng J, Cheng J, Fu Y, Cai Q, Lin Y, Chen T, Li B, Yu X, Hsiang T, Jiang D, Xiao X. Expansion of the plant-parasitic nematode RNA viruses: Unprecedented diversity, intron-bearing viruses, and cross-kingdom evolutionary links. NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes. 2025, 1;12(1):2.

4. Liu X, Zhao H, Yuan M, Li P, Xie J, Fu Y, Li B, Yu X, Chen T, Lin Y, Chen W, Jiang D, Cheng J*. An effector essential for virulence of necrotrophic fungi targets plant HIRs to inhibit host immunity. Nat Commun. 2024,15(1):9391.

5. Hai D, Li J, Jiang D, Cheng J, Fu Y, Xiao X, Yin H, Lin Y, Chen T, Li B, Yu X, Cai Q, Chen W, Kotta-Loizou I, Xie J. Plants interfere with non-self recognition of a phytopathogenic fungus via proline accumulation to facilitate mycovirus transmission. Nat Commun. 2024,15(1):4748.

6. Huang Huang, Xiangmin Hua, Xidan Pang, Zhongmei Zhang, Jingyi Ren, Jiasen Cheng, Yanping Fu, Xueqiong Xiao, Yang Lin, Tao Chen, Bo Li, Huiquan Liu, Daohong Jiang, Jiatao Xie. Discovery and Characterization of Putative Glycoprotein-Encoding Mycoviruses in the Bunyavirales. J Virol. 2023, 97(1):e0138122.

7. Ting Ye , Zhongbo Lu, Han Li, Jie Duan, Du Hai, Yang Lin, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Bo Li, Tao Chen, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang. Characterization of a Fungal Virus Representing a Novel Genus in the Family Alphaflexiviridae. Viruses. 2023, 15(2):339.

8. Jingni Wu; Xiao Mei; Jinyu Zhang; Luhuan Ye; Yezhou Hu; Tao Chen; Yiping Wang; Menghui Liu; Yijing Zhang; Xiu-Fang Xin*. CURLY LEAF modulates apoplast liquid water status in Arabidopsis leaves, Plant Physiology, 2023, 193(1): 792-808

9. Jong Hum Kim#, Christian Danve M. Castroverde#,*, Shuai Huang, Chao Li, Richard Hilleary, Adam Seroka, Reza Sohrabi, Diana Medina-Yerena, Bethany Huot, Jie Wang, Kinya Nomura, Sharon K. Marr, Mary C. Wildermuth, Tao Chen, John D. MacMicking, Sheng Yang He*. Increasing the resilience of plant immunity to a warming climate Nature, 2022, 607, 339–344.

10. Xin Luo, Daohong Jiang, Jiatao Xie, Jichun Jia, Jie Duan, Jiasen Cheng, Yanping Fu, Tao Chen, Xiao Yu, Bo Li, Yang Lin*. Genome Characterization and Phylogenetic Analysis of a Novel Endornavirus That Infects Fungal Pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Viruses. 2022, 14(3):456.

11. Zheng Qu, Yanping Fu, Yang Lin, Zhenzhen Zhao, Xuekun Zhang, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie, Tao Chen, Bo Li, Daohong Jiang*. Transcriptional Responses of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum to the Infection by SsHADV-1, J Fungi (Basel), 2021, 7(7):493.

12. Weibo Liang, Zhongbo Lu, Jie Duan, Daohong Jiang, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Yanping Fu, Tao Chen, Bo Li, Xiao Yu, Weidong Chen, Yang Lin*. A novel alphahypovirus that infects the fungal plant pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Arch Virol, 2022, (1):213-217.

13. Hongxiang Zhang, Jiatao Xie, Yanping Fu, Jiasen Cheng, ,Zheng Qu, Zhenzhen Zhao, Shufen Cheng, Tao Chen, Bo Li, Qianqian Wang, Xinqiang Liu, Binnian Tian, David B Collinge, Daohong Jiang*. A 2-kb Mycovirus Converts a Pathogenic Fungus into a Beneficial Endophyte for Brassica Protection and Yield Enhancement. Molecular Plant, 2020, 13(10):1420-1433.

14. Fan Mu, Bo Li, Shufen Cheng, Jichun Jia, Daohong Jiang, Yanping Fu, Jiasen Cheng, Yang Lin, Tao Chen, Jiatao Xie*. Nine viruses from eight lineages exhibiting new evolutionary modes that co-infect a hypovirulent phytopathogenic fungus, PLoS Pathog, 2021, 17(8):e1009823.

15. Yingdi Gong, Yanping Fu, Jiatao Xie, Bo Li, Tao Chen, Yang Lin, Weidong Chen, Daohong Jiang, Jiasen Cheng*. Sclerotinia sclerotiorum SsCut1 Modulates Virulence and Cutinase Activity. J Fungi (Basel). 2022, 8(5):526.

16. Binnian Tian, Jiatao Xie, Yanping Fu, Jiasen Cheng, Bo Li, Tao Chen, Ying Zhao, Zhixiao Gao, Puyun Yang, Martin J Barbetti, Brett M Tyler, Daohong Jiang*. A cosmopolitan fungal pathogen of dicots adopts an endophytic lifestyle on cereal crops and protects them from major fungal diseases. ISME Journal 2020, 14(12):3120-3135.

17. Liguang Tang, Guogen Yang, Ming Ma, Xiaofan Liu, Bo Li, Jiatao Xie, Yanping Fu, Tao Chen, Yang Yu, Weidong Chen, Daohong Jiang, Jiasen Cheng*. An effector of a necrotrophic fungal pathogen targets the calcium-sensing receptor in chloroplasts to inhibit host resistance. Molecular Plant Pathology, 2020, 21(5):686-701.

18. Huizhang Zhao, Ting Zhou, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Tao Chen, Daohong Jiang, Yanping Fu*. Mycoparasitism illuminated by genome and transcriptome sequencing of Coniothyrium minitans, an important biocontrol fungus of the plant pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Microbial Genomes, 2020, 6(3):e000345.

19. Xinqiang Liu, Jiatao Xie, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang, Tao Chen, Jiasen Cheng*. The Subtilisin-Like Protease Bcser2 Affects the Sclerotial Formation, Conidiation and Virulence of Botrytis cinerea. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020, 21(2):603.

20. Feng Ding, Jiasen Cheng, Yanping Fu, Tao Chen, Bo Li, Daohong Jiang, Jiatao Xie*. Early Transcriptional Response to DNA Virus Infection in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Viruses, 2019, 11(3):278.

21. Qianqian Wang, Shufen Cheng, Xueqiong Xiao, Jiasen Cheng, Yanping Fu, Tao Chen, Daohong Jiang and Jiatao Xie*. Discovery of Two Mycoviruses by High-Throughput Sequencing and Assembly of Mycovirus-Derived Small Silencing RNAs From a Hypovirulent Strain of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019, 10(1415).

22. Jun Yin, Xiaomin Guan, Heng Zhang, Longxiang Wang, Hao Li, Qing Zhang, Tao Chen, Zeyuan Xu, Zonglie Hong, Yangrong Cao* and Zhongming Zhang*. An MAP kinase interacts with LHK1 and regulates nodule organogenesis in Lotus japonicus. Science China Life Sciences, 2019, 62 (9): 1203-1217.

23. Weixiao Yin, Yufu Wang, Tao Chen, Yang Lin, Chaoxi Luo*. Functional Evaluation of the Signal Peptides of Secreted Proteins. Bio Protoc. 2018, 8(9):e2839.

24. Chenwei Luo, Huizhang Zhao , Xiaoxiang Yang, Cuicui Qiang, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie, Tao Chen, Daohong Jiang, Yanping Fu*. Functional Analysis of the Melanin-Associated Gene CmMR1 in Coniothyrium minitans. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018, 9:2658.

25. Fan Mu, Jiatao Xie, Shufen Cheng, Ming Pei You, Martin JBarbetti, Jichun Jia, Qianqian Wang, Jiasen Cheng, Yanping Fu, Tao Chen, Daohong Jiang*. Virome Characterization of a Collection of S. sclerotiorum from Australia. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018, 8:2540. 

26. Ruiling Lyu, Yi Zhang, Qing Tang, Yangyi Li, Jiasen Cheng, Yanping Fu, Tao Chen, Daohong Jiang and Jiatao Xie*. Two alphapartitiviruses coinfecting a single isolate of the plant pathogenic fungus Rhizoctonia solani. Arch Virol. 2018, 163:515–520

27. Kai Bi, Tao Chen, Zhangchao He, Zhixiao Gao, Ying Zhao, Yanping Fu, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie and Daohong Jiang*. Proto-oncogenes in a eukaryotic unicellular organism play essential roles in plasmodial growth in host cells. BMC Genomics, 2018, 19(1): 881.

28. Wenping Zeng, Jie Wang, Ying Wang, Jing Lin, Yanping Fu, Jiatao Xie, Daohong Jiang, Tao Chen, Huiquan Liu and Jiasen Cheng*. Dicer-Like Proteins Regulate Sexual Development via the Biogenesis of Perithecium-Specific MicroRNAs in a Plant Pathogenic Fungus Fusarium graminearum. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018, 9:818.

29. Songsong Wu, Jiasen Cheng, Yanping Fu, Tao Chen, Daohong Jiang, Said A. Ghabrial, Jiatao Xie*. Virus-mediated suppression of host non-self recognition facilitates horizontal transmission of heterologous viruses. PLoS Pathogens, 2017, 13 (3): e1006234.

30. Ying Zhao, Kai Bi, Zhixiao Gao, Tao Chen, Huiquan Liu, Jiatao, Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Yanping Fu and Daohong Jiang*. Transcriptome analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana in response to Plasmodiophora brassicae during early infection. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017, 8:673. 

31. Ying Zhao, Zhixiao Gao, Binnian Tian, Kai Bi, Tao Chen, Huiquan Liu, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Yanping Fu and Daohong Jiang. Endosphere microbiome comparison between symptomatic and asymptomatic roots of Brassica napus infected with Plasmodiophora brassicae. PLoS ONE, 2017, 12(10): e0185907.

32. Si Liu, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Bo Li, Tao Chen, Yanping Fu, Guoqing Li, Manqun Wang, Huanan Jin, Hu Wan, and Daohong Jiang*. Fungal DNA virus infects a mycophagous insect and utilizes it as a transmission vector. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2016, 113(45): 12803–12808. 

33. Kunfei Li, Dan Zheng, Jiasen Cheng, Tao Chen, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang, Jiatao Xie∗. Characterization of a novel Sclerotinia sclerotiorum RNA virus as the prototype of a new proposed family within the order Tymovirales. Virus Research, 2016, 219 (3):92-99.

34. Chao Wang, Hui Zhu, Liping Jin, Tao Chen, Longxiang Wang, Heng Kang, Zonglie Hong, Zhongming Zhang*. Splice variants of the SIP1 transcripts play a role in nodule organogenesis in Lotus japonicus. Plant Molecular Biology, 2013, 82: 97–111.

35. Danxia Ke, Qing Fang, Chunfen Chen, Hui Zhu, Tao Chen, Xiaojun Chang, Lian Ma, Zhongming Zhang*. The Small GTPase ROP6 Interacts with NFR5 and Is Involved in Nodule Formation in Lotus japonicus. Plant Physiology, 2012, 159(1): 131-143.

36. Songli Yuan, Hui Zhu, Honglan Gou, Weiwei Fu, Lijing Liu, Tao Chen, Danxia Ke, Heng Kang, Qi Xie, Zonglie Hong and Zhongming Zhang*. A Ubiquitin Ligase of Symbiosis Receptor Kinase Involved in Nodule Organogenesis. Plant Physiology, 2012, 160(1):106-17.

37. Hui Zhu, Tao Chen, Maosheng Zhu, Qing Fang, Heng Kang, Zonglie Hong, Zhongming Zhang*. A novel ARID DNA-binding protein interacts with SymRK and is expressed during early nodule development in Lotus japonicus. Plant Physiology, 2008, 148: 337-347.