Wanqi Liang

  • Tel: +86-021-34205073
  • Email: wqliang@sjtu.edu.cn
  • Lab Web: zhanglab.sjtu.edu.cn
  • Prof. Wanqi Liang received her BSc from CAS SIPPE in 1998. She joined SJTU after obtaining her PhD from CAS SIPPE in 2006 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2012. Her research focuses on the molecular basis of plant reproductive development, with key findings published in Nature, Nat Plants, Nat Commun, Dev Cell, Plant Cell and PNAS.

Selected Publications

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    Zhang X, Kim YJ, Tan Q, Jung KH, Liang W*. A leucine-rich-repeat receptor-like kinase regulates pollen aperture formation in rice. Plant Physiology 2024. doi: 10.1093/plphys/kiae466. Online ahead of print.

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    Xue F, Zhang J, Wu D, Sun S, Fu M, Wang J, Searle I, Gao H, Liang W*. m6A demethylase OsALKBH5 is required for double-strand break formation and repair by affecting mRNA stability in rice meiosis. New Phytologist. 2024. doi: 10.1111/nph.19976. Online ahead of print.

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    Tang J, Huang X, Sun M, Liang W*. DWARF TILLER1 regulates apical-basal pattern formation and proper orientation of rice embryos. Plant Physiology 2024. 196(1):309-322.

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    Lin S, Liu Z, Sun S, Xue F, Li H, Tursun A, Cao L, Zhang L, Wilson Z, Zhang D, Liang W* (2023). Rice HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN60-3B maintains male fertility under high temperature by starch granule biogenesis. Plant Physiology 2023. 192(3):2301-2317.

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    Zhang P, Zhu W,He Y, Fan J, Shi J, Fu R, Hu J, Li L, Zhang D, Liang W*. THERMO-SENSITIVE BARREN PANICLE (TAP) is required for rice panicle and spikelet development at high ambient temperature. New Phytologist. 2023. 237: 855-869.

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    Li H, Kim YJ, Yang L, Liu, Z, Zhang J, Shi H, Huang G, Persson S, Zhang D, Liang W*. Grass-specific EPAD1 is essential for pollen exine patterning in rice. The Plant Cell, 2020, 32(12):3961-3977.

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    Zhang X, Zhao G, Tan Q, Yuan H, Betts N, Zhu L, Zhang D, Liang W*. Rice pollen aperture formation is regulated by the interplay between OsINP1 and OsDAF1. Nature Plants. 2020, 6(4):394-403. 

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    Zhang J, Wang C, Higgins J, Kim YJ, Moon S, Jung KH, Qu S, Liang W*. A Multiprotein Complex Regulates Interference-sensitive Crossover Formation in Rice. Plant Physiology. 2019, 181(1):221-235. 

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    He Y, Wang C, Higgins J, Yu J, Zong J, Lu P, Zhang D, Liang W*. MEIOTIC F-BOX is essential for male meiotic DNA double strand break repair in rice. The Plant Cell. 2016, 2016, 28: 1879-1893.

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    Fu M, Wang C, Xue F, Higgins J, Chen M, Zhang D, Liang W*. The DNA topoisomerase VI–B subunit OsMTOPVIB is essential for meiotic recombination initiation in rice. Molecular Plant. 2016, 9(11): 1539–1541.