Liang Jiang

Address: Room 212, Building 19, Longcheng Street 81, Xiaodian district, Taiyuan, Shanxi province, 030031

Email：jiangliang@sxau.edu.cn; jiangliang188@gmail.com

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

2008-2014   Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics, supervised by Prof. Jiayang Li

 Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology

 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

2005-2008   M.S. in Plant Breeding and Genetics, supervised by Prof. Qian Qian

 China Rice Research Institute

 Chinese Agricultural Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, China

2001-2005    B.S. in Biotechnology

            Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology

            Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, China

RESEARCH EXPEIENCES

2022-        PI, Shanxi Agricultural University, Houji Lab in Shanxi province

2019-2021    Postdoctoral associate, Duke University, US

2017-2019    Humboldt fellowship, MPIMP, Germany  

2015-2017    Postdoctoral associate, MPIMP, Germany  

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Molecular basis of tiller formation in foxtail;

Metabolic basis of foxtail domestication

FUNDING

Program supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, PI, 2023-2026;

Program supported by Shanxi Province Foundation for Returness, PI, 2023-2025;

Talent program supported by Shanxi Agricultural University, PI, 2022-2026;

Humboldt research fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, PI, 2017-2019

PUBLISHCATIONS

1.   Jiang, Liang; Liu, Xue; Xiong, Guosheng; Liu, Huihui; Chen, Fulu; Wang, Lei; Meng, Xiangb ing; Liu, Guifu; Yu, Hong; Yuan, Yundong; Yi, Wei; Zhao, Lihua; Ma, Honglei; He, Yuanzheng; Wu, Z hongshan; Melcher, Karsten; Qian, Qian; Xu, H. Eric; Wang, Yonghong; Li, Jiayang ; DWARF 53 acts as a repressor of strigolactone signalling in rice, Nature, 2013, 504: 401-405.

2.   Jiang, Liang; Yoshida, Takuya; Stiegert, Sofia; Jing, Yue; Alseekh, Saleh; Lenhard, Micha el; Pérez-Alfocea, Francisco; Fernie, Alisdair R ; Multi-omics approach reveals the contribution of KLU to leaf longevity and drought tolerance, Plant Physiology, 2020, 185(2): 352-368.

3.   Jiang, Liang; Guo, Longbiao; Jiang, Hua; Zeng, Dali; Hu, Jiang; Wu, Liwen; Liu, Jian; Gao , Zhenyu; Qian, Qian ; Genetic analysis and fine-mapping of a dwarfing with withered leaf-tip mut ant in rice, Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 2008, 12(35): 715-721.

4.     Huihui Liu, Simiao Liu, Hong Yu, Xiahe Huang, Yingchun Wang, Liang Jiang, Xiangbing Meng, Guifu Liu,  Mingjiang Chen, Yanhui Jing, Feifei Yu, Bing Wang, Jiayang Li. An engineered platform for reconstituting functional multisubunit SCF E3 ligase in vitro, Molecular Plant, 2022, 1674-2052.

5.     Wang, Lei.*, Wang, Bing.*, Jiang, Liang. Liu, Xue; li, Xilong; Lu, Zefu; Meng, Xiangbing; Wang, Yonghong; Smith, Steven M.; Li, Jiayang. Strigolactone Signaling in Arabidopsis Regulates Shoot Development by Targeting D53-Like SMXL Repressor Proteins for Ubiquitination and Degradation. The Plant cell, 2015, 27, 3128-3142.

6.   Wang, Yuexing.*, Xiong, Guosheng.*, Hu, Jiang.*, Jiang, Liang, Yu, Hong; Xu, Jie; Fang, Yunxia; Zeng, Longjun; Xu, Erbo; Xu, Jing; Ye, Weijun; Meng, Xiangbing; Liu, Ruifang; Chen, Hongqi; Jing, Yanhui; Wang, Yonghong; Zhu, Xudong; Li, Jiayang; Qian, Qian. Copy number variation at the GL7 locus contributes to grain size diversity in rice. Nature genetics 2015, 47, 944-948.

HONORS AND AWARDS

2017      Humboldt research fellowship

2016   Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award, CAS

2014   Outstanding alumni award, CAS

2014      Special Prize of President Scholarship for Postgraduate Students

2013      National Scholarship for Graduate Students