Academic Education & Work Career:
2022.9-now: South China Botanical Garden, CAS, assistant researcher
2020.1-2022.8: South China Botanical Garden, CAS, postdoc
2016.10-2018.8: Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, visiting student
2013.9-2020.1: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Doctoral Degree
2009.9-2013.7: South China University of Technology, Bachelor Degree
Research Interest:
Biosynthesis and its regulation of specialized metabolites in medicinal plants; synthetic biology of high-value compounds.
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Publication:
1. Xiaoman Yang#, Jianjun Chen#, Wenjun Huang, Yanjun Zhang, Xing Yan, Zhihua Zhou, Ying Wang*. Synthesis of icariin in tobacco leaf by overexpression of a glycosyltransferase gene from Epimedium sagittatum. Industrial Crops and Products, 2020, 156: 112841.
2. Xiaoman Yang, Shuang Lin, Yongxia Jia, Fazal Rehman, Shaohua Zeng*, Ying Wang*. Anthocyanin and spermidine derivative hexoses coordinately increase in the ripening fruit of Lycium ruthenicum. Food Chemistry, 2020, 311: 25874.
3. Mingyue Gou#, Xiaoman Yang#, Yunjun Zhao#, Xiuzhi Ran, Yanzhai Song, Chang-Jun Liu*. Cytochrome b5 is an obligate electron shuttle protein for syringyl lignin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 2019, 31 (6): 1344-1366.
4. Xiaoman Yang#, Jiali Yang#, Yueming Jiang, Hongshun Yang, Ze Yun, Weiliang Rong, Bao Yang*. Regiospecific synthesis of preynlated flavonoids by a prenyltransferase cloned from Fusarium oxysporum. Scientific Reports, 2016, 6.
5. Xiaoman Yang, Yueming Jiang, Jiali Yang, Jirui He, Jian Sun, Feng Chen, Mingwei Zhang, Bao Yang*. Prenylated flavonoids, promising nutraceuticals with impressive biological activities. Trends in Food Science and Technology, 2015, 44 (1): 93-104.