Wenhao Yan
Editors, Plant Diversity
Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Area of expertise: Wheat Genetics, Plant Development, epi-genetics, Gene Transcription Regulation
Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Area of expertise: Wheat Genetics, Plant Development, epi-genetics, Gene Transcription Regulation
Title: Professor
Email: yanwenhao@mail.hzau.edu.cn
Web-link of Research Group: http://yan-lab.hzau.edu.cn/
Selected publications:
1.Guofeng Lv, Yating Wang, Heping Zhang, Yuning Shen, Wenjing Hu, Datong Liu, Mengmeng Liu, Wenna Wang, Yuwen Gao, Caixia Lan, Tongde Bie, Hongya Wu, Wei Chen, Yong Zhang*, Jianwei Zhang*, Chao He*, Wenhao Yan*, Derong Gao*. Telomere-to-telomere genome assembly reveals the genomic architecture of disease resistance and yield coordination in elite wheat YM33. Molecular Plant. 2025.in press
2.Yunzhen Li, Liujie Jin, Wanying Li, Ke Wang, Handong Su, Hailiang Mao, Wei Chen, Caixia Lan, Qiang Li*, Kerstin Kaufmann*, Wenhao Yan*. Modulation of an evolutionarily conserved epigenetic regulon controlling abscisic acid catabolism enhances drought tolerance in wheat. New Phytologist. 2025 Aug;247(4):1777-1789.
3.Liujie Jin, Kening Duo, Chao Fu, Yunzhen Li, Chao He, Xin Gong, Wenhao Yan* Dissecting the genetic basis of reproductive transition and reproductive growth in wheat by considering accumulated temperature. Journal of Genetics and Genomics. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgg.2025.09.012
4.Chao He, Siteng Bi, Yuqi Li, Chengxiang Song, Heping Zhang, Xintong Xu, Qiang Li, Sulaiman Saeed, Wei Chen, Chunjie Zhao, Caixia Lan, Handong Su, Hailiang Mao*, Wenhao Yan*. Dynamic Atlas of Histone Modifications and Gene Regulatory Networks in Endosperm of Bread Wheat. Nature Communications. 2024. 15:9572
5., , , , , , , , , , , *. Chromatin Loops Gather Targets of Upstream Regulators Together for Efficient Gene Transcription Regulation During Vernalization in Wheat. Genome Biology. 2024.25:306
7.Wenhao Yan#, Dijun Chen#, Julia Schumacher, Diego Durantini, Julia Engelhorn, Ming Chen, Christel Carles, and Kerstin Kaufmann. Dynamic control of enhancer activity drives stage-specific gene expression during flower morphogenesis. Nature Communications, 2019 Apr;10(1):1705.
8.Wenhao Yan#*, Dijun Chen#, Cezary Smaczniak, Engelhorn Julia, Haiyang Liu, Wenjing Yang, Alexander Graf, Christel Carles, Dao-Xiu Zhou, and Kerstin Kaufmann*. Dynamic and spatial restriction of polycomb activity by plant histone demethylases. Nature Plants, 2018, 4: 681–689.
9.Dijun Chen#, Wenhao Yan#, Liang-Yu Fu and Kerstin Kaufmann*. Architecture of gene regulatory networks controlling flower development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature Communications, 2018, 9:4534.