Xiaoming Zheng

Xiaoming Zheng

Head of Research Group of Wild Rice

Center for Crop Germplasm Resources

Institute of Crop Sciences

No.12 Zhongguancun South Street

Beijing, 100081, China

Tel:86-10-62186687

Fax:86-10-62186687

Email: zhengxiaoming@caas.cn

Educations

l  2004-2010, PhD in Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Beijing, China

l  2000-2004, BS in Forestry, Beijing Forestry University Forestry, Beijing, China

Working Experience

l  2021-no, Professor, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

l  2017-2018, Academic visitor, Washington University, St. Louis

l  2015-2020, Associate Professor, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

l  2013-2014, Assistant Professor, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

l  2010-2013, Postdoctoral research, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Research Interests

l  Conservation of Agricultural Wild Plants

l  Genetic Diversity Studies of Wild Rice

l  Gene Discovery and Function Analysis

l  Conservation Biology

Academic Qualifications

l  Director of the Beijing Office of the International Rice Research Institute

l  Chief scientist of the International Union for Conservation of Nature

l  Director of the China Red List Committee

l  Member of the editorial board of RICE

l  Member of the editorial Board of New Crops

l  Member of the Genetic Resources Branch of the Chinese Society of Agronomy

Selected Publications (*corresponding authors)

1.       Guo W, Qian Q, Zheng XM*. Introducing a win-win strategy for both rice yield and sheath blight resistance. J Integr Plant Biol. 2025 Sep 11.

2.       Fu J, Zheng S, Fan L, Zheng XM*, Qian Q. Breeding 5.0: Artificial intelligence (AI)-decoded germplasm for accelerated crop innovation. J Integr Plant Biol. 2025 Aug 6.

3.       Ratnasekera D, Fan J, Henry RJ, Song BK, Wambugu P, Pusadee T, Aung OM, Vilayheuang K, Zheng XM*, Qian Q. The First International Symposium of the World Wild Rice Wiring: Conservation and utilization of global wild rice germplasm resources through international cooperation. Mol Plant. 2025 Feb 3;18(2):167-170.

4.       Yang J, Liang X, Wang Y, Duan J, Tang L, Zheng XM*. Exploring the mating systems of wild rice Oryza rufipogon and O. nivara: implications for population genetic variation. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 2024.

5.       Zheng XM*, Sun J, Cheng C, Qian Q. A new gene for restoring wild abortive-type cytoplasmic male sterility in rice. Mol Plant. 2024 Dec 2;17(12):1800-1802.

6.       Zheng XM*, Peng Y, Qiao J, Henry R, Qian Q. Wild rice: unlocking the future of rice breeding. Plant Biotechnol J. 2024 Nov;22(11):3218-3226.

7.       Zheng XM*, Ratnasekera D, Fan J, Henry RJ, Song BK, Olsen KM, Joshi BK, Banaticla-Hilario MCN, Pusadee T, Melaku AG, Estelle Loko YL, Vilayheuang K, Oppong GK, Poku SA, Wambugu PW, Ge S, Junior AM, Aung OM, Venuprasad R, Kohli A, Zhou W, Qian Q. Global wild rice germplasm resources conservation alliance: World Wild-Rice Wiring. Mol Plant. 2024 Apr 1;17(4):516-518.

8.       Zheng XM*, Venuprasad R, Kohli A. Unearthing old rice germplasm, illuminating a new way to improvement. J Integr Plant Biol. 2024 Jun;66(6):1041-1043.

9.       Zheng XM, Qian Q*. Unveiling a half-century mystery of molecular bases for three-line hybrid rice breeding system. J. Integr. Plant Biol. 2024 Jan;66(1):3-6.

10.    Zheng XM, Wei F, Cheng C, Qian, Q*. A historical review of hybrid rice breeding. J. Integr. Plant Biol. 2024 Mar;66(3):532-545.

11.    Wang Y, Yang Z, Xing M, Huang J, Ding Y, Zhang L, Li F, Nie Y, Wang S, Li Y, Zhao M, Ge J, Lou D, Liu Z, Fan W, Guo W, Zheng XM, Qian Q, Yang Q, Qiao W. A novel QTL GL12 from wild rice increases grain length and weight in cultivated rice. Plant Biotechnol J. 2023 Aug;21(8):1513-1515.

12.    Zheng XM, Zhong L, Pang H, Wen S, Li F, Lou D, Ge J, Fan W, Wang T, Han Z, Qiao W, Pan X, Zhu Y, Wang J, Tang C, Wang X, Zhang J, Xu Z, Kim SR, Kohli A, Ye G, Olsen KM, Fang W, Yang Q*. Lost genome segments associate with trait diversity during rice domestication. BMC Biol. 2023 Feb;21(1):20.

13.    Lu J, Zhen S, Zhang J, Xie Y, He C, Wang X, Wang Z, Zhang S, Li Y, Cui Y, Wang G, Wang J, Liu J, Li L, Gu R, Zheng XM*, Fu J*. Combined population transcriptomic and genomic analysis reveals cis-regulatory differentiation of non-coding RNAs in maize. Theor Appl Genet. 2023 Jan;136(1):1-13.

14.    Pang HB, Chen Q, Li YY, Wang Z, Wu LK, Yang QW*, Zheng XM*. Genome-wide differences of alternative splicing between Oryza sativa ssp. indica and Oryza sativa ssp. japonica. Acta Physiol Plant. 2023 Jan;45, 37.

15.    Lou D, Li F, Ge J, Fan W, Liu Z, Wang Y, Huang J, Xing M, Guo W, Wang S, Qiao W, Han Z, Qian Q, Yang Q*, Zheng XM*. LncPheDB: a genome-wide lncRNAs regulated phenotypes database in plants. Abiotech. 2022 Oct 5;3(3):169-177.

16.    Han Z, Li F, Qiao W, Nong B, Cheng Y, Zhang L, Huang J, Wang Y, Lou D, Ge J, Xing M, Fan W, Nie Y, Guo W, Wang S, Liu Z, Li D*, Zheng XM*, Yang Q*. Identification of candidate genes and clarification of the maintenance of the green pericarp of weedy rice grains. Front Plant Sci. 2022 Jul 22;13:930062.

17.    Yang Z, Zhang Y, Xing M, Wang X, Xu Z, Huang J, Wang Y, Li F, Nie Y, Ge J, Lou D, Liu Z, Han Z, Liang Y, Zheng XM, Yang Q*, He H*, Qiao W*. Genomic Analysis Provides Insights Into the Plant Architecture Variations in in situ Conserved Chinese Wild Rice (Oryza rufipogon Griff.). Front Plant Sci. 2022 Jun 27;13:921349.

18.    Ge J, Wang J, Pang H, Li F, Lou D, Fan W, Liu Z, Li J, Li D, Nong B, Zhang Z, Wang Y, Huang J, Xing M, Nie Y, Xiao X, Zhang F, Wang W, Xu J, Kim SR, Kohli A, Ye G, Qiao W, Yang Q*, Zheng XM*. Genome-wide selection and introgression of Chinese rice varieties during breeding. J Genet Genomics. 2022 May;49(5):492-501.