Weining Bai
Editors, Plant Diversity
Beijing Normal University, China
Area of expertise: speciation and adaptation, genome evolution, hybridization and gene introgression
Beijing Normal University, China
Area of expertise: speciation and adaptation, genome evolution, hybridization and gene introgression
Name: Weining Bai
Title: Professor
Affiliation: College of Life sciences, Beijing Normal University
Area of expertise: speciation and adaptation, genome evolution, hybridization and gene introgression
Email: baiwn@bnu.edu.cn
Selected publications (no more than 15):
Hao-Sheng Liu, Wei-Hao Wang, Yan-Feng Song, Yang Yang, Da-Yong Zhang*, Wei-Ning Bai*, Bo-Wen Zhang*. A pan-genome framework reveals structural variation and small RNA regulation underlying heterodichogamy in Pterocarya. 2025, Current Biology, 35, 1–13.
Wei-Hao Wang, Susanne S. Renner, Hao-Sheng Liu, Liu-Feng Dai, Cai-Jin Chen, Yi Zhang, Bo-Wen Zhang*, Da-Yong Zhang*, Wei-Ning Bai*. Genetic Mechanisms and Adaptive Benefits of Anthocyanin Red Stigmas in a Wind-Pollinated Tree. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2025, 42: 1-11
Ya-Mei Ding, Xiao-Xu Pang, Yu Cao, Wei-Ping Zhang, Susanne S. Renner*, Da-Yong Zhang* & Wei-Ning Bai*, Genome structure-based Juglandaceae phylogenies contradict alignment-based phylogenies and substitution rates vary with DNA repair genes. Nature Communications, 2023, 14:617
YaMei Ding, Yu Cao, WeiPing Zhang, Jun Chen, Jie Liu, Pan Li, Susanne S. Renner*, DaYong Zhang* and WeiNing Bai*. Populationgenomic analyses reveal bottlenecks and asymmetric introgression from Persian into iron walnut during domestication. Genome Biology, 2022, 23:145
Zhang WP, Cao L, Lin XR, Ding YM, Liang Y, Zhang DY*, Pang EL*, Renner, SS*, Bai WN*. Dead-End Hybridization in Walnut Trees Revealed by Large-Scale Genomic Sequence Data. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2022, 39(1): msab308
Lin-Lin Xu, Rui-Min Yu, Xin-Rui Lin, Bo-Wen Zhang, Nan Li, Kui Lin, Da-Yong Zhang, Wei-Ning Bai*. Different rates of pollen and seed gene flow cause branch-length and geographic cytonuclear discordance within Asian butternuts. New Phytologist, 2021, 232: 388–403