Research Team of Genomics and MolecularBreeding in Vegetable

Team leader: Hu Kailin

TheResearch Team of Genomics and Molecular Breeding in Vegetable was establishedin 2015. We have five researchers and two research assistants. Normally, wehave around 10 postgraduate students and visiting scientists. The three majorareas of research are Vegetable (mainly pepper, tomato, bitter gourd and spongegourd) Genomics, QTL mapping and MAS, Gene cloning and functional analysis. Ourresearch projects are mainly from National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC), China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Guangdong provincial government. Inthe recent five years, we have published more than 30 journal articles in PNAS,Scientific Reports, PLoS One, Euphytica, Mol. Breed. and so on. We alsodeveloped the Industry Standards for bitter gourd and bottle gourd.

Funded Projects

[1]Positional cloning and functional analysis of genic male sterility gene inpepper (Capsicum

annuum). (the National Natural Science Foundationof China (31372026)), 2014-2017

[2]Map-based cloning and functional analysis of fertilityrestorer gene ofcytoplasmic male

sterilityin Capsicum annuum. (the National NaturalScience Foundation of China (31672162)), 2017-2020

[3] Markerdevelopment, fine mapping and positional cloning of disease-resistantgenes in

Solanaceaevegetable crops. (the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation of China

(S2011030001410)),2011-2016

Selected Publications

[1] JiaowenCheng, Cheng Qin, Xin Tang, Huangkai Zhou, Yafei Hu, Zicheng Zhao, Junjie Cui,Bo Li, Zhiming Wu, Jiping Yu & Kailin Hu. Development of a SNP array andits application to genetic mapping and diversity assessment in pepper (Capsicumspp). Scientific. Reports. 6: 33293, doi: 10.1038/srep33293 (2016)

[2] Zhiming Wu, Jiaowen Cheng, Junjie Cui, Xiaowan Xu,Guansheng Liang, Xirong Luo, Xiaocui Chen, Xiangqun Tang, Kailin Hu and ChengQin. Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Profile of Dof TranscriptionFactor Gene Family in Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.). Frontiers in Plant Science,2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.00574

[3] Jiaowen Cheng, Zicheng Zhao, Bo Li, Cheng Qin, ZhimingWu, Diana L.Trejo-Saavedra,

Xirong Luo, Junjie Cui, Rafael F. Rivera-Bustamante,Shuaicheng Li & Kailin Hu. A

comprehensivecharacterization of simple sequence repeats in pepper genomes provides

valuable resources for markerdevelopment in Capsicum. Scientific. Reports. 6: 18919;doi:

10.1038/srep18919 (2016).

[4] ShuTan, Jiao-Wen Cheng, Li Zhang, Cheng Qin, Ding-Guo Nong, Wei-Peng Li,Xin Tang,

Zhi-Ming Wu, Kai-Lin Hu.Construction of an interspecific geneticmap based on InDel and

SSR for mapping the QTLs affecting the initiationof flower primordia in pepper (Capsicum

spp.). PLoS one, 2015,10(3):e0119389. (DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0119389)

[5] Weipeng Li, JiaowenCheng, Zhiming Wu, Cheng Qin, Shu Tan, Xin Tang, Junjie Cui, Li Zhang, Kailin Hu. AnInDel-based linkage map of hot pepper (Capsicumannuum) . Molecular Breeding , 2015, 35:32(DOI 10.1007/s11032-015-0219-3)

[6] JunjieCui , Jiaowen Cheng, Guoping Wang, Xin Tang, Zhiming Wu, Mingbao Lin,

Lianfang Li, Kailin Hu. QTL analysis ofthree flower-related traits based on an interspecific genetic map of Luffa.Euphytica , 2015, 202:45–54 (DOI 10.1007/s10681-014-1208-z)

[7] Cheng Qin, Changshui Yu, Yaou Shen, Xiaodong Fang,Lang Chen, Jiumeng Min, Jiaowen Cheng, Shancen Zhao, Meng Xu, Yong Luo, YulanYang, Zhiming Wu, Likai Mao, aiyang Wu, Changying Ling-Hu, Huangkai Zhou,Haijian Lin, Sandra González-Morales, Diana L. Trejo-Saavedra, Hao Tian, XinTang, Maojun Zhao, Zhiyong Huang, Anwei Zhou, Xiaoming Yao, Junjie Cui, WenqiLi, Zhe Chen, Yongqiang Feng, Yongchao Niu, Shimin Bi, Xiuwei Yang, Weipeng Li,Huimin Cai, Xirong Luo, Salvador Montes-Hernández, Marco A. Leyva-González,Zhiqiang Xiong, Xiujing He, Lijun Bai, Shu Tan, Xiangqun Tang, Dan Liu, JinwenLiu, Shangxing Zhang, Maoshan Chen, Lu Zhang, Li Zhang, Yinchao Zhang, WeiqinLiao, Yan Zhang, Min Wang, Xiaodan Lv, Bo Wen, Hongjun Liu, Hemi Luan, YonggangZhang, Shuang Yang, Xiaodian Wang, Jiaohui Xu, Xueqin Li, Shuaicheng Li, JunyiWang, Alain Palloix, Paul W. Bosland, Yingrui Li, Anders Krogh, Rafael F.Rivera-Bustamante, Luis Herrera-Estrella, Ye Yin, Jiping Yu, Kailin Hu, and Zhiming Zhang. Whole-genome sequencing of cultivated and wild peppers provides insightsinto Capsicum domestication and specialization. Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Science of the United States of America, 2014, 111(14): 5135-5140.doi:10.1073/pnas.1400975111

[8] Zhiming Wu, Jiaowen Cheng, Cheng Qin, Zhiqun Hu, Caixia Yin and Kailin Hu.Differential proteomic analysis of anthers between cytoplasmic male sterile andmaintainer lines in Capsicum annuum L. International Journal ofMolecular Science，2013,14(11),22982-22996; doi:10.3390/ijms141122982

[9] Qiu Z., Li R., Zhang S., Wang K., Xu M., Li J., Du Y., Yu H., and Cui X..Identification of regulatory DNA elements using genome-wide mapping of DNase Ihypersensitive sites during tomato fruit development. Molecular. Plant. 2016, doi:10.1016/j.molp.2016.05.01.

[10] Qiu, Z., Wang, X., Gao, J., Guo, Y., Huang, Z., & Du, Y. (2016). The tomatoHoffman’s anthocyaninless gene encodes a bHLH transcription factor involved in anthocyaninbiosynthesis that is developmentally regulated and induced by low temperatures.PloS one, 11(3), e0151067.