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Name:
 LU Chengkai
Education:
 Ph.D
Positions:
  
Academic title:
 Associate Professor
Postal Code:
 666303
Subject categories:
 Botany
Mailing Address:
 XTBG, Menglun, Mengla, 666303, Yunnan, China
E-mail:
 luchengkai@xtbg.ac.cn

Resume:
 

Education 

· Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, September 2014 - July 2018 

· M.Sc. in Cell Biology, Lanzhou University, September 2011 - July 2014 

· B.Sc. in Bioengineering, Henan University of Urban Construction, September 2007 - July 2011 

Work Experience 

· Associate Researcher, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, May 2024 - Present 

· Assistant Researcher, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, July 2021 – Apr 2024 

· Research Assistant, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, February 2021 - June 2021 

· Postdoctoral Fellow, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, August 2018 - January 2021   

Projects Led or Participated In 

1. Talent Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences - Youth Innovation Promotion Association Member, January 2023 - December 2026, CNY 800,000, Principal Investigator. 

2. Yunnan Province General Project - Molecular Mechanism of Iron Signaling Regulating Arabidopsis Resistance to Botrytis cinerea, May 2023 - April 2026, CNY 100,000, Principal Investigator. 

3. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) General Project - Mechanism Study on Upland Rice and Root Microbiome Co-adaptation to Terrestrial Environment, January 2023 - December 2026, CNY 540,000, Major Participant. 

4. NSFC General Project - Identification and Functional Analysis of a New Component of Iron Homeostasis Signal, January 2021 - December 2024, CNY 580,000, Participant. 

5. Overseas Education and Science Cooperation Center Project - Screening and Demonstration of New Varieties of Upland Rice in Myanmar, January 2023 - December 2025, CNY 1,100,000, Major Participant. 

6. Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory Project - Breeding and Demonstration of New Varieties of Upland Rice, January 2022 - December 2022, CNY 400,000, Major Participant. 

7. Yunnan Province Science and Technology Plan (Technology into Yunnan Project) - Breeding and Industrialization Research of New Varieties of Upland Rice, September 2020 - December 2023, CNY 5,000,000, Major Participant. 

8. Chinese Academy of Sciences Strategic Leading Science and Technology Project Sub-Project (Class A) - Improvement of the Breeding Base Research Network in Xishuangbanna, October 2019 - December 2024, CNY 2,245,000, Major Participant. 

Approved Varieties 

1. Zhongke Xilu No. 10, Dian Shen Dao 2022040 

2. Zhongke Yuma, Dian Shen Dao 2022039 

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Article:
 

1. Cheng Kai Lu and Gang Liang*, Fe deficiency-induced ethylene synthesis confers resistance to Botrytis cinerea (2023). New Phytologist, 237(5):1843–1855. (IF5Y=10.5) 

2. Yang Li#, Cheng Kai Lu#, Chen Yang Li#, Ri Hua Lei, Meng Na Pu, Jun Hui Zhao, Feng Peng, Hua Qian Ping, Dan Wang, and Gang Liang*. IRON MAN interacts with BRUTUS to maintain iron homeostasis in Arabidopsis (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118(39): e2109063118. (Co-first author， IF5Y =12.0) 

3. Feng Peng#, Chenyang Li#, Chengkai Lu#, Yang Li, Peng Xu and Gang Liang*. IRONMAN peptide interacts with OsHRZ1 and OsHRZ2 to maintain Fe homeostasis in rice (2022). Journal of Experimental Botany. 73 (18): 6463–6474. ( Co-first author， IF5Y =8.0) 

4. Chengkai Lu, Jinfeng Qi, Christian Hettenhausen, Yunting Lei, Jingxiong Zhang, Mou Zhang, Cuiping Zhang, Juan Song, Jing Li, Guoyan Cao, Saif ul Malook and Jianqiang Wu*. Elevated CO2 differentially affects tobacco and rice defense against lepidopteran larvae via the jasmonic acid signaling pathway (2018). Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 60(5):412-431. (IF5Y =10.1) 

5. Zhiqiang Pang#, Xinyu Mao#, Shaoqun Zhou#, Sheng Yu, Guizhou Liu, Chengkai Lu, Jinpeng Wan, Lingfei Hu*, Peng Xu*. Microbiota-mediated nitrogen fixation and homeostasis in aerial root-mucilage. Microbiome. 2023, 11(1):85. 

6. Yuerong Cai, Yujie Yang, Huaqian Ping, Chengkai Lu, Rihua Lei, Yang Li, Gang Liang*. Why FIT and bHLH Ib interdependently regulate Fe-uptake. bioRxiv. 2022.02.12.480172. 

7. Yang Li, Rihua Lei, Mengna Pu, Yuerong Cai, Chengkai Lu, Zhifang Li, Gang Liang*. bHLH11 inhibits bHLH IVc proteins by recruiting the TOPLESS/TOPLESS-RELATED corepressors (2022). Plant physiology. 188(2):1335-1349. 

8. Feijun Wang, Chengkai Lu, Jinpeng Wan, Jun Yang, Lei Liu, Feifei Zhang, Zihao Wu, Xiao Zhang, Guimei Chang, Diqiu Yu* and Peng Xu*. Genetic Dissection of Stem Branch Trait and Envisioning of Fixing Heterosis by Vegetative Reproduction in Oryza rufipogon (2022). Agronomy. 12(7), 1503. 

9. Cuiping Zhang, Yunting Lei, Chengkai Lu, Lei Wang, Jianqiang Wu*. MYC2, MYC3, and MYC4 function additively in wounding-induced jasmonic acid biosynthesis and catabolism (2020). Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 62(8):1159-1175. 

10. Gang Liang*, Huimin Zhang, Yang Li, Mengna Pu, Yujie Yang, Chenyang Li, Chengkai Lu, Peng Xu, Diqiu Yu. Oryza sativa FER-LIKE FE DEFICIENCY INDUCED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR (OsFIT/OsbHLH156) interacts with OsIRO2 to regulate iron homeostasis (2020). Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 62(5):668-689. 

11. Rihua Lei#, Yang Li#, Yuerong Cai, Chenyang Li, Mengna Pu, Chengkai Lu, Yujie Yang, Gang Liang*. bHLH121 Functions as a Direct Link that Facilitates the Activation of FIT by bHLH IVc Transcription Factors for Maintaining Fe Homeostasis in Arabidopsis (2020). Molecular Plant. 13(4):634-649. 

12. Malook, S., Qi, J., Hettenhausen, C., Xu, Y., Zhang, C., Zhang, J., Lu, C., Li, J., Wang, L., Wu, J*. The oriental armyworm (Mythimna separata) feeding induces systemic defense responses within and between maize leaves. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (2019). 374: 20180307. 

13. Jinfeng Qi, Mou Zhang, Chengkai Lu, Christian Hettenhausen, Qing Tan, Guoyan Cao, Xudong Zhu, Guoxing Wu & Jianqiang Wu*. Ultraviolet-B enhances the resistance of multiple plant species to lepidopteran insect herbivory through the jasmonic acid pathway (2018). Scientific Reports. 8, 277 

14. Yunting Lei#, Yuxing Xu#, Christian Hettenhausen, Chengkai Lu, Guojing Shen, Cuiping Zhang, Juan Song, Honghui Lin and Jianqiang Wu*. Comparative analysis of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) leaf transcriptomes reveals genotype-specific salt tolerance mechanisms (2018). BMC Plant Biology. 18(1):35. 

15. Lei Wu#, Pan Luo#, Dong-Wei Di#, Li Wang, Ming Wang, Cheng-Kai Lu, Shao-Dong Wei, Li Zhang, Tian-Zi Zhang, Petra Amakorová, Miroslav Strnad, Ond？ej Novák & Guang-Qin Guo*. Forward genetic screen for auxin-deficient mutants by cytokinin (2015). Scientific Reports.5, 11923 

16. Zhaohui Xie, Duanqiang Guo, Chengkai Lu, Boying Li & Linna Shan. Argentaffine Cells in the Digestive Tract of Hibernating and Non-hibernating in Chinese Fire-bellied Newt (Cynops orientalis) (2012). International Journal of Morphology. 30(4):1389-1394 

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