Zhiqiang Wu
Editors, Plant Diversity
Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Area of expertise: Plant genome biology, Plant organelle genome, evolutionary biology
Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Area of expertise: Plant genome biology, Plant organelle genome, evolutionary biology
Title: Principal Investigator
Email: wuzhiqiangwahaha@163.com; wuzhiqiang@caas.cn
Web-link of Research Group: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=C048luAAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1; https://www.agis.org.cn/kydw/kydwyjzx/zwjyzyjzx/95068a1597fb456ebe15a1e98d3c083a.htm
Selected publications:
Yi Zou, Weidong Zhu, Yingke Hou, Daniel B Sloan, Zhiqiang Wu*. The evolutionary dynamics of organellar pan-genomes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genome Biology. 2025. 26:240.
Weidong Zhu#, Jie Qian#, Yingke Hou#, Luke R Tembrock, Liyun Nie, Yi-Feng Hsu, Yong Xiang, Yi Zou*, Zhiqiang Wu*. The evolutionarily diverged single-stranded DNA-binding proteins SSB1/SSB2 differentially affect the replication, recombination and mutation of organellar genomes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Diversity. 2025. 47(1):127-135.
Jiali Kong#, Jie Wang#, Liyun Nie#, Luke R Tembrock, Changsong Zou, Shenglong Kan, Xiongfeng Ma*, Jonathan F Wendel*, Zhiqiang Wu*. Evolutionary dynamics of mitochondrial genomes and intracellular transfers among diploid and allopolyploid cotton species. BMC Biology. 2025. 23:9.
Jie Wang#, Shenglong Kan#, Jiali Kong, Liyun Nie, Weishu Fan, Yonglin Ren, Wayne Reeve*, Jeffrey P Mower*, Zhiqiang Wu*. Accumulation of Large Lineage-Specific Repeats Coincides with Sequence Acceleration and Structural Rearrangement in Plantago Plastomes. 2024. Genome Biology and Evolution. 16(8):evae177.
Xiaoni Zhang#, Quanshu Wu#, Lan Lan, Dan Peng, Huilin Guan, Kaiqing Luo, Manzhu Bao, Mohammed Bendahmane*, Xiaopeng Fu*, Zhiqiang Wu*. Haplotype-resolved genome assembly of the diploid Rosa chinensis provides insight into the mechanisms underlying key ornamental traits. Molecular Horticulture. 2024. 4: 14
Jie Wang, Shenglong Kan, Xuezhu Liao, Jiawei Zhou, Luke R. Tembrock, Henry Daniell*, Shuangxia Jin*, Zhiqiang Wu*. Plant Organellar Genomes: Much Done, Much More to Do. Trends in Plant Science. 2024. 29(7): 754-769.
Jiawei Zhou#, Liyun Nie, Shuo Zhang, Hailiang Mao, Shin-Ichi Arimura#, Shuangxia Jin#, Zhiqiang Wu*. Mitochondrial genome editing of WA352 via mitoTALENs restore fertility in cytoplasmic male sterile rice. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 2024. 22(7): 1960-1962.
Shenglong Kan#, Xuezhu Liao#, Lan Lan, Jiali Kong, Jie Wang, Liyun Nie, Jun Zou, Hong An, Zhiqiang Wu*. Cytonuclear interactions and subgenome dominance shape the evolution of organelle-targeted genes in the Brassica triangle of U. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2024. 41(3): msae043.
Qun Lian#, Shuai Li#, Shenglong Kan#, Xuezhu Liao, Sanwen Huang, Daniel B. Sloan, Zhiqiang Wu*. Association analysis provides insights into plant mitonuclear interactions. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2024. 41(2): msae028.
Changwei Bi, Fei Shen, Fuchuan Han, Yanshu Qu, Jing Hou, Kewang Xu, Li-an Xu, Wenchuang He, Zhiqiang Wu*, Tongming Yin*. PMAT: an efficient plant mitogenome assembly toolkit using low coverage HiFi sequencing data. Horticulture Research. 2024. 11(3): uhae023.
Lan Lan, Huiqi Zhao, Suxia Xu, Shenglong Kan, Xiaoni Zhang, Weichao Liu, Xuezhu Liao, Luke R Tembrock, Yonglin Ren, Wayne Reeve, Jun Yang, Zhiqiang Wu*. A high-quality Bougainvillea genome provides new insights into the evolutionary history and pigment biosynthetic pathways in the Caryophyllales. Horticulture Research. 2023. 10: uhad124.
Wenchuang He, Kunli Xiang, Caijin Chen, Jie Wang, Zhiqiang Wu*. Master graph: an essential integrated assembly model for the plant mitogenome based on a graph-based framework. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 2023. 24(1):bbac522.
Yi Zou, Weidong Zhu, Daniel B. Sloan, Zhiqiang Wu*. Long-read sequencing characterizes detailed patterns of mitochondrial and plastid genome variants in Arabidopsis msh1 mutants. The Plant Journal. 2022. 112(3):738-755.
Zhiqiang Wu*, Xuezhu Liao, Xiaoni Zhang, Luke R. Tembrock, Amanda Broz. Genomic architectural variation of plant mitochondria—A review of multichromosomal structuring. Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 2022. 60(1):160–168.
Zhiqiang Wu#, Gus Waneka#, Amanda K Broz#, Connor R King, Daniel B Sloan*. MSH1 is required for maintenance of the low mutation rates in plant mitochondrial and plastid genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 2020. 117(28):16448-16455.