Ruonan Wang

Dr. Wang earned her Ph.D. in Plant Nutrition from the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISS, CAS), from September 2019 to June 2024. She served as a Research Assistant at ISS, CAS from September to December 2024, as a Lecturer at the College of Horticulture Science and Technology, Hebei Normal University of Science & Technology, from January to June 2025, and has been a Special Research Assistant at ISS, CAS since July 2025. Dr. Wang was a Visiting Scholar at CSIRO Agriculture and Food from July 2022 to December 2023, and at the Research School of Biology, Australian National University (ANU) from January 2023 to March 2024. She has been serving as a Reviewer for the Journal of Experimental Botany since 2024, and as a Volunteer for the China Plant Protein Research Conference since 2023. Dr. Wang has conducted multi-omics research on the responses of roots and leaves of wheat and rice at the seedling stage (one-leaf-one-heart and two-leaf-two-heart stages) to phosphorus, nitrogen, iron, and sulfur deficiency stress, as well as to phosphorus and nitrogen resupply. She has published 15 academic papers and participated in 6 research projects. Her research focuses on label-free proteomics technology, utilizing the triple quadrupole mass spectrometer at the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, to map protein expression profiles under various nutrient deficiency treatments at the tissue level. Combined with soil metaproteomics studies in wheat, her work provides a foundational protein database for elucidating the functional proteins involved in the response of immobile wheat to mineral nutrient deficiencies in the growth medium, thereby supporting the cultivation of robust seedlings and the achievement of high and stable yields. The distinctive feature and significance of her research lie in using crops as model systems to construct protein expression profiles, functional peptide networks, and molecular regulatory networks that link soil, roots, and leaves in response to dynamic changes in the growth medium, and to synthesize plant-derived functional small peptides that synergistically enhance stress resistance in both soil and plants.

Selected publications:
1. Label-Free Quantitative Proteomics in plant, Methods in Molecular biology, 2023, 2665
2. IMA peptides are dwarf giants fighting for fitness, Trends Plant Sci., 2024
3. Ethylene modulates wheat response phosphate deficiency, Journal of Experimental Botany, 2024
4. IMA peptides function in iron homeostasis and cadmium resistance, Plant Science, 2023
5. Differentially reset transcriptomes and genome bias response orchestrate wheat response to phosphate deficiency, Physiologia Plantarum, 2022