On March 24, Professor Yu Feifei (currently working at China Agricultural University) from the Institute of Genetics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences cooperated with Professor Ouyang Yidan of Huazhong Agricultural University and other units to significantly improve the salinity tolerance tolerance of a variety of crops by genetically manipulating the newly discovered salinity tolerance gene (AT1). The relevant scientific research results were published in the latest issue of Science under the title "A Gγ protein regulates alkaline sensitivity in crops".
First authors of the paper: Zhang Huili (ranked first), Professor Yu Feifei, and Xie Peng, postdoctoral fellow of the Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Dr. Sun Shengyuan of Huazhong Agricultural University and Qiao Xinhua, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Corresponding authors: Xie Qi, researcher of the Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Yu Feifei, and Professor Ouyang Yidang of Huazhong Agricultural University.
Dr. Feifei Yu is currently working at China Agricultural University. He received his bachelor's degree from Qufu Normal University in 2009. He received his master's degree from Shandong Agricultural University in 2012. In 2016, he graduated from the Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences with a Ph.D. degree.
He used to be an assistant researcher and associate researcher at the Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2017-2022). Since 2022, he has joined the College of Prataculture of China Agricultural University as a professor. In the same year, he was awarded the National Youth Outstanding Youth Grant.
Researcher Xie Qi, researcher of the Institute of Genetics, received a bachelor's degree from Sun Yat-sen University in 1987, Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor (2002), and National Jieqing (2003).
Professor Ouyang Yidan is a professor at the School of Life Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University. From 1999 to 2008, he received his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from Huazhong Agricultural University (under the tutelage of Academician Zhang Qiqi, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Since 2009, he has worked at Huazhong Agricultural University and is a winner of Hubei Jieqing Project.
Screenshot of part of the paper
Figure 1. The Gγ subunit encoding gene AT1 mediates the response mechanism of plants to base stress
Figure 2. AT1/GS3 knockout and natural loss-of-function alleles increase saline-alkali crop yields
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