Andan Zhu
Editors, Plant Diversity
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Area of expertise: Genome Evolution, Polyploidy, Comparative genomics, Domestication
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Area of expertise: Genome Evolution, Polyploidy, Comparative genomics, Domestication
Title: Professor
Email: zhuandan@mail.kib.ac.cn
Web-link of Research Group: https://kibzhulab.github.io/
Orcid id: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4417-565X
Selected publications:
Jin X#, Du H#, Chen M, Zheng X, He Y, Zhu A*. (2025) A fully phased octoploid strawberry genome reveals the evolutionary dynamism of centromeric satellites. Genome Biology 26(1):17
Wen H#, Liu Y#, Hu Z, Shui L, Zhao Z, ..., Deng X, Zhu A*, Xu J*. (2025) A solo-LTR insertion in the CreTPS3a promoter enhances γ-terpinene biosynthesis and affects consumer preference for tangerine-like aroma in citrus fruits. Molecular Plant.
Jin X, Du H, Zhu C, Wan H, Liu F, Ruan J*, Mower JP*, Zhu A*. (2023) Haplotype-resolved genomes of wild octoploid progenitors illuminate genomic diversifications from wild relatives to cultivated strawberry. Nature Plants 9: 1252–1266
Fan W#, Liu F#, Jia Q, Du H, Chen W, Ruan J, Lei J, Li DL*, Mower JP*, Zhu A* (2022) Fragaria mitogenomes evolve rapidly in structure but slowly in sequence and incur frequent multinucleotide mutations mediated by micro‐inversions. New Phytologist 236: 745-759.
Fan W#, He ZS#, Zhe M, Feng JQ, Zhang L, Huang Y, Liu F, Huang JL, Ya JD, Zhang SB, Yang JB*, Zhu A*, Li DZ*. (2023) High-quality Cymbidium mannii genome and multifaceted regulation of crassulacean acid metabolism in epiphytes. Plant Communications 4:100564.
Liu F#, Fan W#, Yang JB, Xiang CL, Mower JP, Li DL*, Zhu A* (2020) Episodic and GC-biased bursts of intragenomic and interspecific synonymous divergence in Ajugoideae (Lamiaceae) mitogenomes. New Phytologist 228: 1107-1114
Li Z#, Zhu A#, Song Q, Chen HY, Harmon FG, Chen ZJ* (2020) Temporal regulation of metabolome and proteome in photosynthetic and photorespiratory pathways contributes to maize heterosis. The Plant Cell 32(2):3706-3722
Guo W#, Zhu A#, Fan W, Robert P Adams RP, Mower JP* (2020) Extensive Shifts from Cis- to Trans-splicing of Gymnosperm Mitochondrial Introns. Molecular Biology and Evolution 37(6):1615-1620
Fan W, Guo W, L Funk L, Mower JP*, Zhu A* (2019) Complete loss of RNA editing from the plastid genome and most highly expressed mitochondrial genes of Welwitschia mirabilis. Science China Life Sciences 62 (4), 498-506
Tao NG*, Chen Y, Wu Y, Wang X, Li L, Zhu A* (2019) The terpene limonene induced the green mold of citrus fruit through regulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) homeostasis in Penicillium digitatum spores. Food Chemistry 277, 414-422
Zhu A#, Fan W#, Adams RP, JP Mower JP*. (2018) Phylogenomic evidence for ancient recombination between plastid genomes of the Cupressus-Juniperus-Xanthocyparis complex (Cupressaceae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 18(1):137
Zhu A, Guo W, Gupta S, Mower JP* (2016) Evolution dynamics of the plastid inverted repeat: the effects of the expansion, contraction, and loss on substitution rates. New Phytologist 209(4), 1747-1756
Zhu A, Guo W, Jain K, Mower JP* (2014) Unprecedented heterogeneity in the synonymous substitution rate within a plant genome. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31 (5): 1228-1236