Title/Position
Professor & Director (Institute of Horticultural Biotechnology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry Univensity)
Educational Background
September 2002-July 2006 Undergraduate Horticulture, College of Horticulture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
September 2006-July 2011 Successive postgraduate and doctoral programs of study, Pomology, College of Horticulture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Research Fields
Horticultural plant genetic resources, biological breeding and their molecular basis
Fruit trees such as longan, banana, and Polygonatum cyrtonema Hua were used as main research objects for resource collection and investigation. The new germplasms of resistant, high-yielding, and multifunctional fruit trees were conducted using the techniques such as mutagenesis (e.g., physical mutagenesis, chemical mutagenesis), transgenics, gene editing, synthetic biology, whole genome selection. A series of genetic materials have been obtained through the above techniques and the physiological characteristics, and the molecular mechanisms have been investigated.
Mechanisms of plant cell totipotency-how single cells of fruit trees regenerate into whole plants
The somatic embryogenesis of longan and banana were used as materials to investigate the molecular mechanisms of how single cells regenerate into whole plants and to compare the molecular and physiological differences in the mechanisms of regeneration between monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous fruit trees through engineering, transgenics, gene editing, single-cell genomics, etc.
Synthetic biology research-production and molecular mechanism of plant primary or secondary metabolite
The medicinal and food plants, including longan and Polygonatum cyrtonema Hua, were used as research objects, especially callus or suspension cells to investigate the production and molecular mechanisms of functional metabolites such as flavonoids, carotenoids, polysaccharides using tissue culture, transgenics, gene editing, metabolomics, genomics, etc.
Visiting Scholar Experience
May 2014-November 2014, Institute of Plant Biology,Taiwan University, Senior Visiting Scholar
Representative Works
Published multiple academic papers as the first author or corresponding author in SCI journals such as Plant Physiology, The Plant Journal, Horticultural Plant Journal. The main papers are as follows:
1. Zhang, S., Zhu C., Zhang X., Liu M., Xue X., Lai C., Xuhan X., Chen Y., Zhang Z., Lai Z*., Lin Y*., 2023. Single-cell RNA sequencing analysis of the embryogenic callus clarifies the spatiotemporal developmental trajectories of the early somatic embryo in Dimocarpus longan. The Plant Journal. 115 (5), 1277-1297
2. Chen, Y., Xie D., Ma X., Xue X., Liu M., Xiao X., Lai C., Xu X., Chen X., Chen Y., Zhang Z., XuHan X., Lai Z*., Lin Y.*, 2023. Genome-wide high-throughput chromosome conformation capture analysis reveals hierarchical chromatin interactions during early somatic embryogenesis. Plant Physiology. 193 (1), 555-577.
3. Xu, X., Zhang C., Xu X., Cai R., Guan Q., Chen X., Chen Y., Zhang Z., XuHan X., Lin Y.*, Lai Z*., 2023. Riboflavin mediates m6A modification targeted by miR408, promoting early somatic embryogenesis in longan. Plant Physiology. 192 (3), 1799-1820.
4. Zhou, C., Zhu C., Tian C., Xie S., Xu K., Huang L., Wen S., Zhang C., Lai Z., Lin Y.*, Guo Yuqiong*, 2023. The chromosome-scale genome assembly of Jasminum sambac var. unifoliatum provides insights into the formation of floral fragrance. Horticultural Plant Journal. 9 (6), 1131-1148.
5. Zhou, C., Tian C., Wen S., Yang N., Zhang C., Zheng A., Tan J., Jiang L., Zhu C., Lai Z., Lin Y.*., Guo Y*., 2023. Multiomics Analysis Reveals the Involvement of JsLHY in Controlling Aroma Production in Jasmine Flowers. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Research Projects
1. Mechanistic Role of Longan Small Peptides in Mediating Ethylene Signaling and Flavonoid Accumulation during Early Somatic Embryogenesis (No. 32472716), General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2025-2028;
2. Research on the Molecular Mechanism of pri-miRNA encoding-miPEPs during Longan Somatic Embryogenesis (No. 31672127), General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2017-2020;
3. Research on the Mechanistic Role of the dlo-miR167 Family during Longan Somatic Embryogenesis (No. 31201614), General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2013-2015.
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