Yang Dong
Editors, Plant Diversity
Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Area of expertise: Plant Development, Organ Morphogenesis and Trait Evolution
Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Area of expertise: Plant Development, Organ Morphogenesis and Trait Evolution
Title: Professor
Email: Yang.Dong@ibcas.ac.cn
Web-link of Research Group: http://www.lseb.cn/rcpy/dsjj/bd/DY/
Selected publications:
Jeonghwan Ahn+, Feng Gao+, Yang Dong*. 2025. Developmental mechanisms of fruit diversification in angiosperms and the evolutionary implications. Plant, Cell and Environment, 48:4585–4598 (Cover Image).
Tianfeng Lü+, Feng Gao+, Tongbing Su*, Yang Dong*. 2025. Developmental genetics of fruit diversity in Brassicaceae. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 85:102707.
Heather Marie McLaughlin+*, Tianfeng Lü+, Bhavani Natarajan, Lars Østergaard, Yang Dong*. 2025. Conserved roles of ETT and ARF4 in gynoecium development in Brassicaceae with distinct fruit shapes. Development, 152: dev204263 (Cover Image).
Zhi-Cheng Hu†, Mateusz Majda†, Hao-Ran Sun†, Yao Zhang, Yi-Ning Ding, Quan Yuan, Tong-Bing Su, Tian-Feng Lü, Feng Gao, Gui-Xia Xu, Richard S. Smith, Lars Østergaard* and Yang Dong*. 2025. Evolution of a SHOOTMERISTEMLESS transcription factor binding site promotes fruit-shape determination. Nature Plants, 11: 23-35 (Featured Article).
Yi-Ning Ding, Feng Gao, Xin-Ran Li and Yang Dong*. 2024. Genetics and molecular regulation of gynoecium patterning and fruit development in Arabidopsis. Seed Biology, 3: e018.
Zheng Wang+, Jinghua Yang+, Feng Cheng+, Peirong Li+, Xiaoyun Xin, Weihong Wang, Yang Dong* and Tongbing Su*. 2022. Sub-genome dominance and the evolutionary implications in crop domestication. Horticultural Research 9: uhac090.
Juan-Juan Wang+, Yang Wang+, Tian-Feng Lv, Xia Yang, Jing Liu, Yang Dong* and Yin-Zheng
Yang Dong*, Zhi-Cheng Hu and Lars Østergaard*. 2022. An optimized protocol to assess SUMOylation in the plant Capsella rubella using two-component DEX-inducible transformants. STAR Protocols 3:101197.
Jing Liu, Quan Yuan and Yang Dong*. 2021. Phyllotaxis development: a lesson from the Asteraceae family. Trends in Plant Science 26:873-875. (Cover Image).
Yang Dong, Mateusz Majda, Jan Šimura, Robert Horvath, Anjil K. Srivastava, Łukasz Łangowski, Tilly Eldridge, Nicola Stacey, Tanja Slotte, Ari Sadanandom, Karin Ljung, Richard S. Smith and Lars Østergaard*. 2020. HEARTBREAK controls post-translational modification of INDEHISCENT to regulate fruit morphology in Capsella. Current Biology 30:3880–3888.
Yang Dong* and Lars Østergaard*. 2019. Fruit development and diversification. Current Biology 29: R781-785.
Yang Dong, Friederike Jantzen, Nicola Stacey, Łukasz Łangowski, Laila Moubayidin, Jan Šimura, Karin Ljung and Lars Østergaard*. 2019. Regulatory diversification of INDEHISCENT in the Capsella genus directs variation in fruit morphology. Current Biology 29:1038-1046. (Featured Article, Commented by Cristina Ferrándiz, Current Biology 29:R337-R339).
Yang Dong+, Jing Liu+, Chao-Qun Li, Peng-Wei Li, Tian-Feng Lü, Xia Yang and Yin-Zheng Wang*. 2018. Evolution of Darwin's peloric gloxinia (Sinningia speciosa) is caused by a null mutation in a pleiotropic TCP gene. Molecular Biology & Evolution 35:1901-1915.
Yang Dong, Xia Yang, Jing Liu, Bo-Han Wang, Bo-Ling Liu and Yin-Zheng Wang*. 2014. Pod shattering resistance associated with domestication is mediated by a NAC gene in soybean. Nature Communications 5:3352. (Featured Article, Highlighted by F1000: http://f1000.com/prime/718281841).