Professor, Haiyang Xu
School of life science, Chongqing university.
Selected into the "100 people plan" of Institute of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies of Chongqing University
Email: hyxu@cqu.edu.cn
Education:
2009/09 - 2014/03 PhD Student in Genetics
Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology,
Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing
2007/09 - 2009/07 M.Sc. in Biochemistry
School of Applied Science, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing
2003/09 - 2007/07 B.Sc. in Biotechnology
College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao
Work Experience:
2018/08 - present Professor
School of life science, Chongqing university,
2014/03 – 2018/08 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB）,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Research interests
Research Interests: plant secondary metabolism and synthetic biology applications.
Integrated genomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics techniques:
1 To analyze the biosynthetic pathways and regulatory mechanisms of plant secondary metabolites with important economic and medicinal values, and further explore their application in synthetic biology.
2 To study the metabolism and regulation mechanism of volatile compounds related to flavor in tomato, citrus and other crops.
Major achievement
Lybrand DB, Xu HY, Last RL, Pichersky E (2020) How Plants Synthesize Pyrethrins: Safe and Biodegradable Insecticides. Trends in Plant Science 25: 1240-1251
Xu H, Li W, Schilmiller AL, van Eekelen H, de Vos RCH, Jongsma MA, Pichersky E* (2019) Pyrethric acid of natural pyrethrin insecticide: complete pathway elucidation and reconstitution in Nicotiana benthamiana. New Phytol 223: 751-765
Xu H, Lybrand D, Bennewitz S, Tissier A, Last RL, Pichersky E* (2018) Production of trans-chrysanthemic acid, the monoterpene acid moiety of natural pyrethrin insecticides, in tomato fruit. Metab Eng 47: 271-278
Xu H, Moghe GD, Wiegert-Rininger K, Schilmiller AL, Barry CS, Last RL, Pichersky E* (2018) Coexpression Analysis Identifies Two Oxidoreductases Involved in the Biosynthesis of the Monoterpene Acid Moiety of Natural Pyrethrin Insecticides in Tanacetum cinerariifolium. Plant Physiol 176: 524-537
Xu H#, Bohman B#, Wong DCJ, Rodriguez-Delgado C, Scaffidi A, Flematti GR, Phillips RD, Pichersky E, Peakall R* (2017) Complex Sexual Deception in an Orchid Is Achieved by Co-opting Two Independent Biosynthetic Pathways for Pollinator Attraction. Curr Biol 27: 1867-1877
Xu H, Zhang F, Liu B, Huhman DV, Sumner LW, Dixon RA, Wang G* (2013) Characterization of the formation of branched short-chain fatty acid:CoAs for bitter acid biosynthesis in hop glandular trichomes. Mol Plant 6: 1301-1317
Contact information
Email address: hyxu@cqu.edu.cn
