Ping Yang

Ping Yang

Center for Crop Germplasm Resources

Institute of Crop Sciences

No.12 Zhongguancun South Street

Beijing, 100081, China

Tel:86-10-82107467

Fax:86-10-82107467

Email: yangping@caas.cn

Educations

l  2010-2014, PhD in Plant Breeding, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany; PhD degree awarded from Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

l  2007-2010, MS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an city, China

l  2003-2007, BS in Biotechnology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an city, China

Working Experience

l  2017.5-now, Professor, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

l  2015.2-2017.4, Postdoctoral researcher in Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

l  2014.4-2015.1, Postdoctoral fellow in Max-Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

l  2010.9-2014.3, PhD student in Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany

l  2008.6-2010.8, Visiting student in Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Research Interests

l  Innovation and utilization of barley germplasm resources

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Academic Qualifications

l  Young Talents of the National Ten-Thousand Talents Program

l  Talent Program (2024 - 2028) of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

l  Talent Program (2018 - 2023) of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Selected Publications (*corresponding authors)

·       (25) Congcong Jiang#, Jinhong Kan, Guangqi Gao, Christoph Dockter, Chengdao Li, Wenxue Wu, Ping Yang#,*, Nils Stein*. Barley2035: A decadal vision for barley research and breeding. Molecular Plant, 2025, 18: 195-218.

·       (24) Guangqi Gao, Luxi Yan, Yu Cai, Yu Guo, Congcong Jiang, Qiang He, Sarah Tasnim, Zongyun Feng, Jun Liu, Jing Zhang, Takao Komatsuda, Martin Mascher, Ping Yang. Most Tibetan weedy barleys originated via recombination between Btr1 and Btr2 in domesticated barley. Plant Communications, 2024, 5: 100828.

·       (23) Man Sun#, Congcong Jiang#, Guangqi Gao#, Chaodan An, Wenxue Wu, Jinhong Kan, Jinpeng Zhang, Lihui Li, Ping Yang. A novel type of malformed floral organs mutant in barley was conferred by loss-of-function mutations of the MADS-box gene HvAGL6. Plant Journal, 2024, 119: 2609-2621.

·       (22) Yanlong Jin, Xin Du, Congcong Jiang, Wanquan Ji, Ping Yang. Disentangling sources of gene tree discordance for Hordeum species via target-enriched sequencing assays. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2024, 199: 108160.

·       (21) Jinhong Kan#, Yu Cai#, Chunyuan Cheng#, Shiqiang Chen, Congcong Jiang, Zhentian He, Ping Yang*. CRISPR/Cas9-guided knockout of eIF4E improves Wheat yellow mosaic virus resistance without yield penalty. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 2023, 21: 893-895.

·       (20) Yanlong Jin#, Shiqiang Chen, Xiao Xu, Congcong Jiang, Zhentian He, Wanquan Ji*, Ping Yang*. Host specificity of soil-borne pathogens in Hordeum species and their relatives. Plant Disease, 2023, 107: 1044-1053.

·       (19) Congcong Jiang#, Miaomiao Lei#, Yu Guo#, Guangqi Gao#, Lijie Shi, Yanlong Jin, Yu Cai, Axel Himmelbach, Shenghui Zhou, Qiang He, Xuefeng Yao, Jinhong Kan, Georg Haberer, Fengying Duan, Lihui Li, Jun Liu, Jing Zhang, Manuel Spannagl, Chunming Liu, Nils Stein, Zongyun Feng, Martin Mascher*, Ping Yang*. A reference-guided TILLING by amplicon-seq platform supports forward and reverse genetics in barley. Plant Communications, 2022, 3: 100317.

·       (18) Jinhong Kan#, Yu Cai#, Chunyuan Cheng, Congcong Jiang, Yanlong Jin, Ping Yang*. Simultaneous editing of host factor gene TaPDIL5-1 homoeoalleles confers wheat yellow mosaic virus resistance in hexaploid wheat. New Phytologist, 2022, 234: 340-344.

·       (17) Chunyuan Chen#, Jinhong Kan#*, Shanshan Li#, Congcong Jiang, Xiaoyan He, Huiquan Shen, Rugen Xu, Boqun Li, Zongyun Feng, Ping Yang*. Mutation of barley HvPDIL5-1 improves resistance to yellow mosaic virus disease without growth or yield penalties. Frontiers in Plant Science. 2022, 13: 1018379.

·       (16) Congcong Jiang#, Miaomiao Lei#, Haiye Luan, Yuhan Pan, Li Zhang, Shenghui Zhou, Yu Cai, Xiao Xu, Huiquan Shen, Rugen Xu, Zongyun Feng, Jing Zhang, Ping Yang*. Genomic and pathogenic diversity of barley yellow mosaic virus and barley mild mosaic virus isolates in fields of China and their compatibility with resistance genes of cultivated barley. Plant Disease, 2022, 106: 2201-2210.

·       (15) Ping Yang#, Daniela Scheuermann, Bettina Kessel, Teresa Koller, Julian R. Greenwood, Severine Hurni, Gerhard Herren, Shenghui Zhou, William Marande, Thomas Wicker, Simon G. Krattinger*, Milena Ouzunova*, Beat Keller*. Alleles of a wall-associated kinase gene account for three of the major northern corn leaf blight resistance loci in maize. Plant Journal, 2021, 106: 526–535.

·       (14) Jinhong Kan#, Guangqi Gao#, Qiang He#, Qian Gao#, Congcong Jiang, Sunny Ahmar, Jun Liu, Jing Zhang, Ping Yang*. Genome-wide characterization of WRKY transcription factors revealed gene duplication and diversification in populations of wild to domesticated barley. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021, 22: 5354.

·       (13) Guangqi Gao#, Jinhong Kan#, Congcong Jiang, Sunny Ahmar, Jing Zhang, Ping Yang*. Genome-wide diversity analysis of TCP transcription factors revealed cases of selection from wild to cultivated barley. Functional & Integrative Genomics, 2021, 21: 31-42.

·       (12) Congcong Jiang#, Jinhong Kan#, Frank Ordon, Dragan Perovic, Ping Yang*, Bymovirus-induced yellow mosaic diseases in barley and wheat: viruses, genetic resistances and functional aspects. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2020, 133: 1623–1640.

·       (11) Miaomiao Lei#, Murad Ali#, Congcong Jiang, Zhenzhen Shen, Yu Cai, Ping Yang*, Zongyun Feng*. Marker-assisted selection in a global barley (Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare) collection revealed a unique genetic determinant of the naked barley controlled by the nud locus. Genetic Resources Crop Evolution, 2020, 67(2): 273-280.

·       (10) Lijie Shi#, Congcong Jiang#, Qiang He, Antje Habekuss, Frank Ordon, Haiye Luan, Huiquan Shen, Jun Liu, Zongyun Feng, Jing Zhang, Ping Yang*. Bulked segregant RNA-sequencing (BSR-seq) identified a novel rare allele of eIF4E effective against multiple isolates of BaYMV/BaMMV. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2019, 132(6): 1777-1788.

·       (9) Ping Yang#, Coraline Praz, Beibei Li, Jyoti Singla, Chritelle A.M. Robert, Bettina Kessel, Daniela Scheuermann, Linda Luthi, Milena Ouzunova, Matthias Erb*, Simon G. Krattinger*, Beat Keller*. Fungal resistance mediated by maize wall-associated kinase ZmWAK-RLK1 correlates with reduced benzoxazinoid content. New Phytologist, 2019, 221(2): 976-987.