1. Introduction to the Research Team
The team will establish a molecular genetic technology system for studying the traits of quality and disease resistance to important economic forest, flowers, edible and medicinal fungi, etc. We will strengthen the advantages of specialty specialties, build a innovation team of highly productive, highly skilled and cohesive, and promote the team's "14th Five-Year Plan" and high-quality development toward the vision goal of 2035.
2. Specific Research Directions
(1) The mechanism of the quality and disease resistance traits for important economic forest, flowers, edible and medicinal fungi, etc.
(2) Discovery and utilization of key genes of characteristic and excellent germplasm resources.
3. Research Projects
The team has led several projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province, and Yunnan Young & Elite Talents Project. These projects were orientated at addressing natural product inhibited plant viruses systematic infection by regulating pathway of hormone, discovery and utilization of key genes of Mycoparasite Pestalotiopsis sp., the mechanism of host resistance to streptococcus agalactiae infection. The study has provided technical support and theoretical basis for prevention and control the disease high efficiency. The team has published more than 40 scientific papers authored one book.
4. Team Leader
Lihua Zhao (Principal investigator, [email protected])
5. Team Members
Li Jing(Professor, [email protected])
Yu Jinde (Associate professor, [email protected])
Jia Lu (lecturer, [email protected])
6. Selected Publications
(1) Anti-TMV activity and functional mechanisms of two sesquiterpenoids isolated from Tithonia diversifolia. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology. 2017. 140: 24-29.
(2) Diterpenoid compounds from Wedelia trilobata induce resistance to tomato spotted wilt virus via the JA signal pathway in tobacco plants. Scientific Reports. 2019. 9: 2763.
(3) Tagitinin A from Tithonia diversifolia provides resistance to tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus by inducing systemic resistance. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology. 2020.169: 104654.
(4) Tomato zonate spot virus induced hypersensitive resistance via an auxin-related pathway in pepper. Gene. 2022. 823: 146320.
(5) Functional analysis of the nonstructural protein NSs of tomato zonate spot virus. PLoS ONE, 2022, 1-13.
(6) Identification of Reliable Reference Genes under Different Stresses and in Different Tissues of Toxicodendron succedaneum. Genes, 2022
(7) Matrine-type alkaloids with anti-tomato spotted wilt virus activity from the root of Sophora tonkinensis Gagnep. J. Agric. Food Chem. 2023. 71(10): 4394-4407.
(8) Aloperine-type alkaloids with antiviral and antifungal activities from the seeds of Sophora alopecuroides L. J. Agric. Food Chem. 2024. 72, 8225-8236.
(9) Genomic Characterization of the Mycoparasite Pestalotiopsis sp. Strain cr013 from Cronartium ribicola. Polish Journal of Microbiology. 2023
(10) Unveiling the crucial role of ferroptosis in host resistance to streptococcus agalactiae infection. Cell Death Discovery, 2024, 10: 423.
(11) Tagitinin A regulates an F-box gene, CPR30, to resist tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus (TSWV) infection in Nicotiana benthamiana. PLoS ONE 19(12): e0315294.
(12) Monograph,《Mycoparasites of rust: Genomics and natural products》. China Forestry Publishing House. ISBN 978-7-5219-2162-5
