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Maize Endosperm Development and Genetic Improvement Group  
  

 
 

Xixi Zheng

Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Place of birth: Zhejiang, China
Languages: English, Chinese
Advisorx: Yongrui Wu
Contact: xxzheng@sibs.ac.cn

Education

2014-present, Ph.D. candidate of Plant Genetics Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, SIBS, CAS

2010-2014, Bachelor of Agronomy Huazhong Agricultural University

 

  

Objectives

My study focus on how proteome communicate between endosperm and embryo in maize, identifying important factors in embryo that respond to the proteome change in endosperm.

Publication

1.Zhiyong Zhang, Xixi Zheng, Jun Yang, Joachim Messing and Yongrui Wu(2016). Maize endosperm-specific transcription factors O2 and PBF network the regulation of protein and starch synthesis. PNAS,113:10842-10847.

2. Hongjun Liu, Junpeng Shi, Chuanlong sun, Hao Gong, Xingming Fan, Fazhan Qiu, Xuehui Huang, Qi Feng, Xixi Zheng, Ningning Yuan, Zhiyong Zhang, Yiting Deng, Jiechen Wang, Guangtang Pan, Bin Han, Jinsheng Lai, Yongrui Wu(2016). Gene duplication confers enhanced expression of 27-kDa γ-zein for endosperm modification in quality protein maize. PNAS, 113:4964-4969.

3. Qi Li, Jiechen Wang, Jianwei Ye, Xixi Zheng, Xiaoli Xiang, Changsheng Li, Miaomiao Fu, Qiong Wang, Zhiyong Zhang and Yongrui Wu. (2017). The maize imprinted gene Floury3 encodes a PLATZ protein required for tRNA and 5S rRNA transcription through interaction with RNA polymerase III. Plant Cell 10.1105/tpc.17.00576.