Tao Shi
Editors, Plant Diversity
Wuhan Botanical Garden, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Genome evolution; gene regulatory network evolution; epigenomics; whole-genome duplication; genome karyotype evolution
Wuhan Botanical Garden, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Genome evolution; gene regulatory network evolution; epigenomics; whole-genome duplication; genome karyotype evolution
Title: Professor
Email: shitao323@wbgcas.cn
Web-link of Research Group: http://wbg.cas.cn/jgsz/xkxz/swdyxyjzx/bzzwzqyh/202410/t20241015_7400010.html
http://english.wbg.cas.cn/sourcedb/rckyw/Professor/202311/t20231103_546860.html
Selected publications:
Shi T*, Van de Peer Y*. 2026 ,Revisiting ancient whole-genome duplications in the seed and flowering plants through the lens of dosage-sensitive genes. Science Advances, 12:eaea9797.
Shi T, Huneau C, Zhang Y, Li Y, Chen JM*, Salse J*, Wang QF*. 2022. The slow-evolving Acorus tatarinowii genome sheds light on ancestral monocot evolution. Nature Plants, 8: 764-777.
Shi T#*, Gao ZY#, Chen JM, Van de Peer Y*. 2024. Dosage sensitivity shapes balanced expression and gene longevity of homoeologs after whole-genome duplications in angiosperms, The Plant Cell, 36(10): 4323–4337.
Shi T*, Chen JM*. 2020. A reappraisal of the phylogenetic placement of the Aquilegia whole-genome duplication. Genome Biology, 21: 295.
Shi T, Rahmani RS, Gugger PF, Wang MH, Li H, Zhang Y, Li ZZ, Wang QF*, Peer YVd*, Marchal K*, Chen JM*. 2020. Distinct expression and methylation patterns for genes with different fates following a single whole-genome duplication in flowering plants. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37(8): 2394-2413.
Gao ZY, Yang XY, Chen JM*, Rausher MD*, Shi T*. 2023. Expression inheritance and constraints on cis- and trans-regulatory mutations underlying lotus color variation. Plant Physiology, 191(3): 1662-1683.
Zhang Y, Yang XY, Peer YVd, Chen JM*, Marchal K*, Shi T*. 2022. Evolution of isoform-level gene expression patterns across tissues during lotus species divergence. The Plant Journal, 112(3): 830-846.
Shi T, Wang K, Yang PF*. 2017. The evolution of plant microRNAs-insights from a basal eudicot sacred lotus. The Plant Journal, 89(3): 442-457.
Li H, Yang XY, Wang QF, Chen JM*, Shi T*. 2021. Distinct methylome patterns contribute to ecotypic differentiation in the growth of the storage organ of a flowering plant (sacred lotus). Molecular Ecology, 30:2831–2845.
Li H, Yang XY, Zhang Y, Gao ZY, Liang YT, Chen JM*, Shi T*. 2021. Nelumbo genome database, an integrative resource for gene expression and variants of Nelumbo nucifera. Scientific Data, 8: 38.