Wild Rice Resources and Rice Variety Improvement Team
Research Interests
Common wild rice is an important natural resource in Guangxi and an important gene treasure for rice breeding. Ourresearchinterests: (1) Wefocus on theconservationand utilization of common wild riceoriginatedin Guangxi.More than 1,800 wild rice resourcesare conserved in ourgermplasm repository;(2) Screening of the resistance geneticgermplasms(including abiotic stress and biological stress resistance, such as cold tolerance, drought tolerance, saline-alkali resistance, bacterial stripe disease resistance, etc.) from common wild rice resources, andcloningtheresistance genes by map-basedcloning and genome-wide association analysis (GWAS);(3) Functional dissection of the molecularfunctionsoftheresistance genes;(4) Breeding abiotic/bioticresistant rice varietiesusing the resistance genes to solve the yieldlossproblemcaused by thecurrent varieties withweakabiotic/bioticresistancecultivatedin South China.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Jijing Luo (pH.D.)
Professor Jijing Luo, as team leader ofWild Rice Resources and Rice Variety Improvement, has made a noteworthy academic achievement and published more than 30 papers in journals such as Nature Genetics, Molecular Plant, Plant Cell, and Journal of Experimental Botany, among others.
Biography
1993-1997,B.S.,Department of Biology, Guangxi Normal University,Major in Biology education
2002-2005,M.S.,School of Life Sciences, East China Normal University,Major inBotany
2005-2009,Ph.D.,Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.Major in Genetics.
2009-2012, Postdoc.,Texas A&M University and Purdue University, USA.
2012 to now, Professor, College of Life Science and Technology, Guangxi University
Team Members:Sheng Huang, Baoxiang Qin, Fang Liu, Rongbai Li
Fundings
1. Preliminary research on the molecular mechanism of cold tolerance and breeding application ofqCSS12, a major gene for cold tolerance in rice seedling stage (Key project of Guangxi Natural Science Foundation,No.: 2018GXNSFDA138004, 400,000, 2018-7-1~2022-7-1)
2. Cloning of cold-sensitive QTLqCSS12at seedling stage and its regulatory molecular mechanism based on a single fragment replacement line of indica rice chromosomes (Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.:31671646, 620,000, 2017-1-1~2020-12-31)
3. Support fund of "100-TalentProgram" in Guangxi
4. High-quality and efficient germplasm Resources Mining and variety breeding of rice (Guangxi Science and Technology Major Project -- Guangxi Innovation-driven Development Project,No.: Guike AA17204070, 2017-2020.6 million, participant (Team leader ofTask 1))
5. Cloning and molecular mechanism of QTLqSCT-4-1for cold tolerance in common wild rice seedling stage in Guangxi (National Natural Science Foundation of China, No.:31460342, 550,000, 2015-1-1~2018-12-31)
6. Cloning and Functional study of Cold tolerance QTLqSCT-12-1in wild rice of Guangxi (Guangxi Natural Science Foundation,No.: 2013GXNSFCA019007, 2013.1.1-2016.3.31, 100,000)
7.Mapping, cloning and functional study of QTL qSCT-3-1, the main effect of cold tolerance in Guangxi Wild Rice (Guangxi Natural Science Foundation project,No.: 2014GXNSFAA118075, 2014.6.1-2017.5.31, 50,000)
Selected Publications
Hu Y, Ma M, Zhao W, Niu P, Li R, Luo J: Identification of hub genes involved in gibberellin-regulated elongation of coleoptiles of rice seeds germinating under submerged conditions. J Exp Bot 2024.
Zhong, Y., Y. Luo, J. Sun, X. Qin, P. Gan, Z. Zhou, Y. Qian, R. Zhao, Z. Zhao, W. Cai, J. Luo#, L.-L. Chen# and J.-M. Song# (2024). Pan-transcriptomic analysis reveals alternative splicing control of cold tolerance in rice. The Plant Cell,36(6):2117-2139（#Co-corresponding authors).
Gan, P., X. Luo, H. Wei, Y. Hu, R. Li and J. Luo (2023). Identification of hub genes that variate the qCSS12-mediated cold tolerance between indica and japonica rice using WGCNA.Plant Cell Reports 43(1):24.
Zhao, W., W. Xiao, J. Sun, M. Chen, M. Ma, Y. Cao, W. Cen, R. Li and J. Luo (2022). An Integration of MicroRNA and Transcriptome Sequencing Analysis Reveal Regulatory Roles of miRNAs in Response to Chilling Stress in Wild Rice. Plants 11(7): 977
Wang, X., Y. Han, Y.-x. Zhang, B. Deng, B.-q. Wu, X.-y. Guo, Y.-f. Qin, Y.-y. Fang, F. Liu, B.-x. Qin, J.-j. Luo# and R.-b. Li# (2022).QTL mapping integrated with BSA-Seq analysis identifies a novel gene conferring resistance to brown planthopper from common wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.). Euphytica 218(3)（#Co-corresponding authors）
Cen W, Zhao W, Ma M, Lu S, Liu J, Cao Y, Zeng Z, Wei H, Wang S, Li R, Luo J: The Wild Rice Locus CTS-12 Mediates ABA-Dependent Stomatal Opening Modulation to Limit Water Loss Under Severe Chilling Stress. Front Plant Sci 2020, 11.
Ma M, Cen W, Li R, Wang S, Luo J: The Molecular Regulatory Pathways and Metabolic Adaptation in the Seed Germination and Early Seedling Growth of Rice in Response to Low O2 Stress. Plants 2020, 9(10):1363.
Yu B, Liu J, Wu D, Liu Y, Cen W, Wang S, Li R, Luo J: Weighted gene coexpression network analysis-based identification of key modules and hub genes associated with drought sensitivity in rice. BMC Plant Biol 2020, 20(1):478.
Jiang Q, Zeng Y, Yu B, Cen W, Lu S, Jia P, Wang X, Qin B, Cai Z, Luo J: The rice pds1 locus genetically interacts with partner to cause panicle exsertion defects and ectopic tillers in spikelets. BMC Plant Biol 2019, 19:200-214.
Gan P, Liu F, Li R, Wang S, Luo J: Chloroplasts— Beyond Energy Capture and Carbon Fixation: Tuning of Photosynthesis in Response to Chilling Stress. Int J Mol Sci 2019, 20(20):5046.
Cai Z, Jia P, Zhang J, Gan P, Shao Q, Jin G, Wang L, Jin J, Yang J, Luo J: Genetic analysis and fine mapping of a qualitative trait locus wpb1 for albino panicle branches in rice. PLoS One 2019, 14(9):e0223228.
Cen W, Liu J, Lu S, Jia P, Yu K, Han Y, Li R, Luo J: Comparative proteomic analysis of QTL CTS-12 derived from wild rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.), in the regulation of cold acclimation and de-acclimatin of rice (Oryza sativa L.) in response to severe chilling stress. BMC Plant Biol 2018, 18(1):163.
Wang Y, Jiang Q, Liu J, Zeng W, Zeng Y, Li R, Luo J: Comparative transcriptome profiling of chilling tolerant rice chromosome segment substitution line in response to early chilling stress. Genes Genom 2017, 39(2):127-141.
Wei Z, Zhongquan C, Yongliang W, Qigui J, Jun W, Shurong L, Lu P, Baoxiang Q, Baoshan C, Rongbai L, Jijing Luo et al: Quantitative Trait Locus Analysis for Grain Size Related Traits of Rice. Molecular Plant Breeding 2016.
Sun H*, Qian Q*, Wu K*, Luo J*, Wang S*, Zhang C, Ma Y, Liu Q, Huang X, Yuan Q et al: Heterotrimeric G proteins regulate nitrogen-use efficiency in rice. Nat Genet 2014, 46:652-656（*Co-first Authors）.
Luo J, Liu X: Polo-like kinase 1, on the rise from cell cycle regulation to prostate cancer development. Protein & Cell 2012, 3(3):182-197.
Qin QM, Luo J, Lin X, Pei J, Li L, Ficht TA, de Figueiredo P: Functional analysis of host factors that mediate the intracellular lifestyle of Cryptococcus neoformans. PLoS Pathog 2011, 7(6):e1002078.
Luo JJ, Hao W, Jin J, Gao JP, Lin HX: Fine Mapping of Spr3, a Locus for Spreading Panicle from African Cultivated Rice (Oryza glaberrima Steud.). Mol Plant 2008, 1(5):830-838.
