Renhou Wang

Biological Methods, Introductory Biology (Molecular and Cell Biology)

• Evolution of plant life history (annualism vs perennialism)

• Hormone signaling in plant responses to environmental stimuli

• Genome editing technologies

• Arnaud T. Djami-Tchatchou, Gregory A. Harrison, Chris P. Harper, Renhou Wang, Michael J. Prigge, Mark Estelle, and Barbara N. Kunkel. Dual Role of Auxin in Regulating Plant Defense and Bacterial Virulence Gene Expression During Pseudomonas syringae PtoDC3000 Pathogenesis. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, Published Online:29 Jun 2020.

• Peizhu Guan, Juan José Ripoll, Renhou Wang, Lam Vuong, Lindsay J. Bailey, Dening Ye, Nigel M. Crawford. Interacting TCP and NLP transcription factors control plant responses to nitrate availability. PNAS. 2017, 114: 2419-2424.

• Eilon Shani, Mohammad Salehin, Yuqin Zhang, Sabrina Sanchez, Colleen Doherty, Renhou Wang, Cristina Castillejo Mangado, Liang Song, Iris Tal, Odelia Pisanty, Joe Ecker, Steve Kay, Jose Pruneda-Paz, Mark Estelle. Plant stress tolerance requires auxin-sensitive Aux/IAA transcriptional repressors. Current Biology. 2017, 27: 437-444.

• Renhou Wang, Yi Zhang, Martin Kiefer, Hong Yu, Stefan Kepinski and Mark Estelle. HSP90 regulates temperature-dependent seedling growth in Arabidopsis by stabilizing the auxin co-receptor F-box protein TIR1. Nature Communications. 2016, 7:10269 doi: 10.1038/ncomms10269 (2016). Recommended by F1000.

• Hong Yu, Yi Zhang, Britney L. Moss, Bastiaan O.R. Bargmann, Renhou Wang, Mike Prigge, Jennifer L. Nemhauser, Mark Estelle. Untethering the TIR1 auxin receptor from the SCF complex increases its stability and inhibits auxin response. Nature Plants. 2015, 1: 14030. ​doi:10.1038/nplants.2014.30.

• Renhou Wang and Mark Estelle. Diversity and specificity: auxin perception and signaling through the TIR1/AFB pathway. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 2014, 21: 51-58.

• Sara Bergonzi, Maria C. Albani, Emiel Ver Loren van Themaat, Karl Nordström, Renhou Wang, Korbinian Schneeberger, Perry D. Moerland and George Coupland. Mechanisms of age-dependent response to winter temperature in perennial flowering of Arabis alpina. Science 2013, 340 (6136), 1094-1097. Recommended by F1000. Highlighted in ScienceDaily.

• Maria C. Albani, Loren Castaings, Stefan Wötzel, Julieta L. Mateos, Jörg Wunder, Renhou Wang, Mathieu Reymond and George Coupland. PEP1 of Arabis alpina is Encoded by Overlapping Genes that Contribute to Natural Genetic Variation in Perennial Flowering. PLoS Genetics 2012, 8(12): e1003130

• Renhou Wang, Maria Albani, Coral Vincent, Sara Bergonzi, Ming Luan, Yan Bai Christiane Kiefer, Rosa Castillo and George Coupland. AaTFL1 confers an age-dependent response to vernalization in perennial Arabis alpina. Plant Cell, 2011, 23(4):1307-21.

• Renhou Wang, Sara Farrona, Coral Vincent, Anika Joecker, Heiko Schoof, Franziska Turck, Carlos Alonso-Blanco, George Coupland and Maria C. Albani. PEP1 regulates perennial flowering in Arabis alpina. Nature 459, 423-427 (2009). Recommended by F1000.

• Renhou Wang, Sara Farrona, Coral Vincent, Fabio Fornara, Anika Joecker, Heiko Schoof, Franziska Turck, Carlos Alonso-Blanco, Maria Albani, George Coupland. Control of perennial flowering and perenniality in Arabis alpina, a relative of Arabidopsis thaliana.  Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 2009, 153 (2) S195-S196.

• Xiaofu Zhou, Pengda Ma, Renhou Wang, Bo Liu and Xingzhi Wang. A Novel Approach to Functional Analysis of the Ribulose Bisphosphate Carboxylase Small Subunit Gene by Agrobacterium-Mediated Gene Silencing. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2006, 48 (10), 1225 – 1232.

• Xiaofu Zhou, Pengda Ma, Renhou Wang, Xiaojuan Zhu, Bao Liu, Xingzhi Wang. The analysis of rbcs Gene fuction by post-transcription gene silencing in Nicotiana benthamiana. Acta Genetica Sinica, 2005, 32 (6) 586-593.

• Xiaofu Zhou, Xiaojuan Zhu, Wenbo Liu, Renhou Wang, Xingzhi Wang. Potato Virus X Vector Induced Silencing of RbcS Gene in Nicotiana benthamiana. Molecular Plant Breeding. 2 (2), 197-201.

• Renhou Wang, Xiaofu Zhou and Xingzhi Wang. Chemically regulated expression systems and their applications in transgenic plants. Transgenic Research. 2003, 12(5):529-540.

• Renhou Wang and Xingzhi Wang. Expression of Human Acid Fibroblast Growth Factor (aFGF) in Transgenic Tomato. Molecular Plant Breeding, 2003, 1 (3) 425-426.