个人信息

博士生导师
研究员

Email: wbyang@cemps.ac.cn
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研究方向

植物干细胞维持和分化

杨卫兵

个人简介

2003.9-2007.6 南京大学生命科学学院,学士
2007.9-2013.7 中国科学院上海生命科学研究院植物生理生态研究所,博士
2014.1-2020.8 The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge,博士后
2020.9-至今,中国科学院分子植物科学卓越创新中心,研究员

研究工作

植物干细胞是一类具有自我更新和增殖能力的细胞群,分布于各类分生组织中,如茎尖和根端分生组织、维管束形成层、叶表皮细胞等。干细胞呈现高度的动态特征,能通过不断的分裂维持分生组织的大小,并分化形成各种细胞类型。干细胞的维持及分化是植物生长发育和形态建成(morphogenesis)的基础。尤为重要的是,在禾本科植物中,干细胞的活性与穗原基的发育紧密相关,进而直接影响作物产量。植物干细胞的发育不仅被内在的物理(机械)和化学(激素)信号调控,还受到各类环境因素的影响。我们实验室主要以拟南芥和水稻为研究对象,探索如下的科学问题:
1) 植物干细胞维持和分化的分子机理;
2) 环境信号对干细胞活力的影响;
3) 植物干细胞动态过程中细胞壁的重塑。

主要成果

    •Xianmiao Zhu#, Xing Chen#, Yangxuan Liu, Yimin Zhu, Geshuang Gao, Miao Lan, Yihao Fu, Yimin Gu, Han Han, Wenjuan Cai, Raymond Wightman, Mingjun Gao, Yiliang Ding, Weibing Yang*. Cell wall patterning regulates plant stem cell dynamics. Science 390: 1064—1070 (2025).

    • Yimin Zhu, Xianmiao Zhu#, Simin Bi#, Dan Teng#, Muhammad Tahir#, Yangxuan Liu#, Long Wang, Huanhuan Liu, Tingting Wen, Leyao Zhu, Zhenquan Li, Xing Chen, Minhua Zhang, Wenjuan Cai, Zhijun Liu, Mingyue Zheng, Yu Zhang, Ji-Ming Gong, Jia-Wei Wang, Zuhua He, Lihong Li, Ertao Wang, Minbiao Ji, Weibing Yang*. Epidermal hydrodynamics controls water homeostasis of shoot meristems for plant adaptation to terrestrial environments. Developmental Cell 61: 59—72.e9 (2025).

    • Miao Lan#, Yimin Zhu#, Alexis Peaucelle#, Xianmiao Zhu#, Yangxuan Liu, Xuemin Cao, Aram Gurzadyan, Geshuang Gao, Wenjuan Cai, Jérémy Gruel, Kalina T Haas, Henrik Jönsson, Olivier Hamant, Raymond Wightman, Elliot Meyerowitz, Weibing Yang*. CSLD5-mediated cell wall remodelling regulates tissue mechanics and shoot meristem growth. Nature Communications 16: 7229 (2025).

    • Yangxuan Liu, Weibing Yang*. Plant hormones: Uneven mitotic division and brassinosteroid. Current Biology 35: R262—R265 (2025).

    • Chunli Chen*, Yuxin Hu*, Momoko Ikeuchi*, Yuling Jiao*, Kalika Prasad*, Ying Hua Su*, Jun Xiao*, Lin Xu*, Weibing Yang*, Zhong Zhao*, Wenkun Zhou*, Yun Zhou*, Jian Gao*, Jia-Wei Wang*. Plant regeneration in the new era: from molecular mechanisms to biotechnology applications. Science China Life Sciences 67: 1338—1367 (2024).

    Weibing Yang, Sandra Cortijo, Niklas Korsbo, Pawel Roszak, Katharina Schiessl, Aram Gurzadyan, Raymond Wightman, Henrik Jönsson, Elliot Meyerowitz. Molecular mechanism of cytokinin-activated cell division in Arabidopsis. Science 371: 1350—1355 (2021).

    • Mingjun Gao#, Yang He#, Xin Yin#, Xiangbin Zhong#,*, Bingxiao Yan, Yue Wu, Jin Chen, Xiaoyuan Li, Keran Zhai, Yifeng Huang , Xiangyu Gong, Huizhong Chang, Shenghan Xie, Jiyun Liu, Jiaxing Yue, Jianlong Xu, Guiquan Zhang, Yiwen Deng, Ertao Wang, Didier Tharreau, Guo-Liang Wang, Weibing Yang*, Zuhua He*. Ca2+ sensor-mediated ROS scavenging suppresses rice immunity and is exploited by a fungal effector. Cell 184: 5391—5404 (2021).

    Weibing Yang, Christoph Schuster, Nathanaël Prunet, Qingkun Dong, Benoit Landrein, Raymond Wightman, Elliot M Meyerowitz. Visualization of protein coding, long noncoding, and nuclear RNAs by fluorescence in situ hybridization in sections of shoot apical meristems and developing flowers. Plant Physiology 182: 147—158 (2020).

    Weibing Yang, Raymond Wightman, Elliot M Meyerowitz. Cell cycle control by nuclear sequestration of CDC20 and CDH1 mRNA in plant stem cells. Molecular Cell 68: 1108—1119 (2017).

    Weibing Yang, Christoph Schuster, Cherie T Beahan, Varodom Charoensawan, Alexis Peaucelle, Antony Bacic, Monika S Doblin, Raymond Wightman, Elliot M Meyerowitz. Regulation of meristem morphogenesis by cell wall synthases in Arabidopsis. Current Biology 26: 1404—1415 (2016).

    Weibing Yang, Mingjun Gao, Xin Yin, Jiyun Liu, Yonghan Xu, Longjun Zeng, Qun Li, Shubiao Zhang, Junmin Wang, Xiaoming Zhang, Zuhua He. Control of rice embryo development, shoot apical meristem maintenance, and grain yield by a novel cytochrome P450. Molecular Plant 6: 1945—1960 (2013).

    Weibing Yang#, Sulin Ren#, Xiaoming Zhang#, Mingjun Gao, Shenghai Ye, Yongbin Qi, Yiyan Zheng, Juan Wang, Longjun Zeng, Qun Li, Shanjin Huang, Zuhua He. BENT UPPERMOST INTERNODE1 encodes the class II formin FH5 crucial for actin organization and rice development. Plant Cell 23: 661—680 (2011).

    其他论文:(# 共同一作; * 通讯作者)

    • Henry Temple, Pyae Phyo, Weibing Yang, Jan J Lyczakowski, Alberto Echevarría-Poza, Igor Yakunin, Juan Pablo Parra-Rojas, Oliver M Terrett, Susana Saez-Aguayo, Ray Dupree, Ariel Orellana, Mei Hong, Paul Dupree. Golgi-localized putative S-adenosyl methionine transporters required for plant cell wall polysaccharide methylation. Nature Plants 8: 656—669 (2022).

    • Jing Zhang, Gugan Eswaran, Juan Alonso-Serra, Melis Kucukoglu, Jiale Xiang, Weibing Yang, Annakaisa Elo, Kaisa Nieminen, Teddy Damén, Je-Gun Joung, Jae-Young Yun, Jung-Hun Lee, Laura Ragni, Pierre Barbier de Reuille, Sebastian E Ahnert, Ji-Young Lee, Ari Pekka Mähönen, Ykä Helariutta. Transcriptional regulatory framework for vascular cambium development in Arabidopsis roots. Nature Plants 5: 1033—1042 (2019).

    • Benoit Landrein, Pau Formosa-Jordan, Alice Malivert, Christoph Schuster, Charles W Melnyk, Weibing Yang, Colin Turnbull, Elliot M Meyerowitz, James C W Locke, Henrik Jönsson. Nitrate modulates stem cell dynamics in Arabidopsis shoot meristems through cytokinins. PNAS 115: 1382—1387 (2018).

    •Nathanaël Prunet, Weibing Yang, Pradeep Das, Elliot M Meyerowitz, Thomas P Jack. SUPERMAN prevents class B gene expression and promotes stem cell termination in the fourth whorl of Arabidopsis thaliana flowers. PNAS 114: 7166—7171 (2017).

    • Mingxing Wang, An-Hui Ge, Xingzhu Ma, Xiaolin Wang, Qiujin Xie, Like Wang, Xianwei Song, Mengchen Jiang, Weibing Yang, Jeremy D Murray, Yayu Wang, Huan Liu, Xiaofeng Cao, Ertao Wang. Dynamic root microbiome sustains soybean productivity under unbalanced fertilization. Nature Communications 15: 1668 (2024).

    • Wentao Dong, Tiangen Chang, Huiling Dai, Weibing Yang, Yu Su, Daiyin Chao, Xin-Guang Zhu, Peng Wang, Nan Yu, Ertao Wang. Creating a C4-like vein pattern in rice by manipulating SHORT ROOT and auxin levels. Science Bulletin 68: 3133—3136 (2023).

    • Wentao Dong, Yayun Zhu, Huizhong Chang, Chunhua Wang, Jun Yang, Jincai Shi, Jinpeng Gao, Weibing Yang, Liying Lan, Yuru Wang, Xiaowei Zhang, Huiling Dai, Yuchen Miao, Lin Xu, Zuhua He, Chunpeng Song, Shuang Wu, Dong Wang, Nan Yu, Ertao Wang. An SHR-SCR module specifies legume cortical cell fate to enable nodulation. Nature 589: 586—590 (2021).

    • Mingjun Gao, Xin Yin, Weibing Yang, Sin Man Lam, Xiaohong Tong, Jiyun Liu, Xin Wang, Qun Li, Guanghou Shui, Zuhua He. GDSL lipases modulate immunity through lipid homeostasis in rice. PLoS Pathogens 13: e1006724 (2017).

    • Quanyuan You, Keran Zhai, Donglei Yang, Weibing Yang, Jingni Wu, Junzhong Liu, Wenbo Pan, Jianjun Wang, Xudong Zhu, Yikun Jian, Jiyun Liu, Yingying Zhang, Yiwen Deng, Qun Li, Yonggen Lou, Qi Xie, Zuhua He. An E3 ubiquitin ligase-BAG protein module controls plant innate immunity and broad-spectrum disease resistance. Cell Host Microbe 20: 758—769 (2016).

    • Nan Yu, Dexian Luo, Xiaowei Zhang, Junzhong Liu, Wanxiao Wang, Yue Jin, Wentao Dong, Jiyun Liu, Huan Liu, Weibing Yang, Longjun Zeng, Qun Li, Zuhua He, Giles E D Oldroyd, Ertao Wang. A DELLA protein complex controls the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in plants. Cell Research 24: 130 (2014).

    • Yingying Zhang, Baichen Zhang, Dawei Yan, Weixin Dong, Weibing Yang, Qun Li, Longjun Zeng, Jianjun Wang, Linyou Wang, Leslie M Hicks, Zuhua He. Two Arabidopsis cytochrome P450 monooxygenases, CYP714A1 and CYP714A2, function redundantly in plant development through gibberellin deactivation. Plant Journal 67: 342—353 (2011).