Zhe Yan

Zhe Yan

Head of the Research Group of Soybean Genetic Resources

Center for Crop Germplasm Resource

Institute of Crop Sciences

No.12 Zhongguancun South Street

Beijing, 100081, China

Tel:86-10-82105841

Fax:86-10-82105819

Email: yanzhe@caas.cn

Educations

l  2007-2012, PhD in Plant Sciences,University of Missouri-Columbia, USA

l  2004-2007, M.S in Agronomy，University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

l  2001-2004, M.S in Molecular biology and biochemistry, Xinjiang Agriculture University, Urumchi, P.R. China

l  1997-2001, B.S. in Biotechnology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, P.R. China

Working Experience

l  2000-now, Professor, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

l  1998-2000, Professor, The Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology (IGA), Chinese Academy of Sciences

l  2015-2017, Postdoctoral scholar, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, USA

l  2013-2015, Postdoctoral scholar, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark

Research Interests

l  Exploration and Innovative Utilization of Soybean Genetic Resources

l  Soybean Molecular Breeding

l  Molecular Mechanism of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation between Soybean and Rhizobium

Academic Qualifications

l  Secretary of Soybean Speciality Committee

l  Continuing Committee of the World Soybean Research Conference (CC WSRC)

Selected Publications (*corresponding authors)

Kong XY#, Lyu KW#, Xu R, Zhang Y, Lu D, Liu YQ, Zhai JX, Qiu LJ*, Li BS*, Yan Z*. 2025. DCL2-dependent regulation of sRNA biogenesis and translocation in soybean, The Crop Journal, 13(3):818-827

Yang Q, Hou ZY, Li L, Wang L, Li ST, Li Y, Zhang X, Huang H, Ke Y, Ma X, Wu Z, Liu Z, Shi X, Liu C, Meng C, Du H, Chen M, Gu X, Yan Z, Wang F, Luo X, Yan L,

Liang Z*. 2025. Landscape and m6A post-transcriptional regulation of soybean proteome. Cell Genom, 10;5(9):100926.

Liu Z.#, Kong X.#, Long Y.#，Liu S., Zhang H., Jia J., Cui W., Zhang Z., Song X., Qiu L., Zhai J*., Yan Z*. 2023. Integrated single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics captures transitional states in soybean nodule maturation. Nat. Plants , 9(4):515-524.

Fu B, Xu Z, Lei Y, Dong R, Wang Y, Guo X, Zhu H, Cao Y*, Yan Z*. 2022. A novel secreted protein, NISP1, is phosphorylated by soybean Nodulation Receptor Kinase to promote nodule symbiosis. J Integr Plant Biol. 65(5):1297-1311

Ortiz-Ramírez C, Guillotin B, Xu X, Rahni R, Zhang S, Yan Z, Coqueiro Dias Araujo P, Demesa-Arevalo E, Lee L, Van Eck J, Gingeras TR, Jackson D, Gallagher KL, Birnbaum KD. 2021. Ground tissue circuitry regulates organ complexity in maize and Setaria. Science. 3;374(6572):1247-1252.

Tsikou D#, Yan Z#, Holt DB, Abel NB, Reid DE, Madsen LH, Bhasin H, Sexauer M, Stougaard J, Markmann K. 2018. Systemic control of legume susceptibility to rhizobial infection by a mobile microRNA. Science. 6441(362): 233-236.