姚瑞枫 Ruifeng Yao

研究方向：奇妙的植物激素独脚金内酯,不仅调控植物分枝等生长发育过程,还分泌到土壤中吸引共生真菌定植到根部,以帮助植物更好地生存繁衍,却又被寄生杂草利用于探测宿主植物的存在。本团队专注于研究上述重要且有趣的生理过程,及其背后的科学原理,并致力于应用相关成果促进作物增产、营养高效、杂草防治等粮食安全和农业绿色可持续发展国家重大战略。

Research Direction: The fascinating plant hormone strigolactone not only regulates plant growth and development processes such as branching, but is also secreted into the soil to attract symbiotic fungi to colonize the roots, helping plants survive and reproduce better, yet it is also exploited by parasitic weeds to detect the presence of host plants. Our team focuses on studying these important and interesting physiological processes and the scientific principles behind them, and is committed to applying relevant results to promote major national strategies such as crop yield increase, nutrient efficiency, weed control, food security, and green sustainable agricultural development.

C Xue, M Zhang#, and Ruifeng Yao#. Gapless biosynthetic pathway enables sustainable paclitaxel production. Trends in Plant Science (2024) doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.05.005. (IF5-yr = 20.100)
J Bai, X Lei, J Liu, Y Huang, L Bi, Y Wang, J Li, H Yu, S Yao, L Chen, BJ Janssen, KC Snowden#, M Zhang#, and Ruifeng Yao#. Molecular mechanism of strigolactone receptor DWARF14-regulated flowering in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell 2024 DOI: 10.1093/plcell/koae248 (IF5-yr = 11.1000)