Associate Professors
Wenna Zheng
Associate Professor
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No.723 Xingke Road, Tianhe District, Guangzhou
Education：
PHD
Email：
wennaz@scbg.ac.cn,
Zip Code：
510650
Education and Appointments：
2023/09-now South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences Associate Researcher
2021/04-2023/04 The University of Copenhagen Postdoc
2020/02-2021/03 The University of Melbourne Guest researcher
2012/09-2019/06 China Agricultural University PhD student
2008/09-2012/06 China Agricultural University Undergraduate
Research Interest：
Regulatory mechanism of cytoskeleton in response to plant stress; Regulatory mechanism of plant protein transport; Regulatory mechanism of plant cell wall biosynthesis.
Public Services:
Representative Publications ：
1. Wenna Zheng*, Yuxiang Jiang, Xiangfeng Wang, Shanjin Huang, Ming Yuan, Yan Guo# (2019) AP3M harbors actin filament binding activity that is crucial for vacuole morphology and stomatal closing in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116 (36), 18132-18141. Doi: 10.1073/pnas.1901431116.
2. Yongqing Yang*, Yi Zhao*, Wenna Zheng*, Yang Zhao, Shuangshuang Zhao, Qiannan Wang, Li Bai, Tianren Zhang, Shanjin Huang, Chunpeng Song, Ming Yuan, Yan Guo# (2021) Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate regulates SCAB1-mediated F-actin reorganization during stomatal closure in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 34(1), 477-494. Doi: 10.1093/plcell/koab264.
3. Huizhen Xu*, Alessandro Giannetti*, Yuki Sugiyama, Wenna Zheng, René Schneider, Yoichiro Watanabe, Yoshihisa Oda, Staffan Persson# (2022) Secondary cell wall patterning-connecting the dots, pits and helices. Open Biology. 12(5):210208. Doi: 10.1098/rsob.210208.
4. Bo Yu*, Wenna Zheng, Lu Xing, Jian-Kang Zhu, Staffan Persson, Yang Zhao# (2022) Root twisting drives halotropism via stress-induced microtubule reorientation. Developmental Cell. S1534-5807(22)00682-7. Doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2022.09.012.
5. Bo Yu*, Wenna Zheng*, Staffan Persson, Yang Zhao# (2023) Protocol for analyzing root halotropism using split-agar system in Arabidopsis thaliana. STAR Protocols. 4(2), 102157. Doi: org/10.1016/ j.xpro.2023.102157.