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Bing Yang is affiliated with the University of Missouri in the United States. Their research focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant concentration in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Over their career, they have contributed extensively to the fields of molecular biology, plant science, immunology, genetics, and epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers key topics such as CRISPR and genetic engineering, chromosomal and genetic variations, plant pathogenic bacteria studies, plant virus research studies, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, plant tissue culture and regeneration, and plant molecular biology research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Bing Yang include:

  • Si Nian Char
  • Wolf B. Frommer
  • Van Schepler-Luu
  • Eliza P.I. Loo
  • Bo Liu

Yang's research has been published predominantly in several venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • New Phytologist
  • Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • The Plant Cell
  • eLife

Among their recent publications are:

  • Single-cell RNA sequencing of developing maize ears facilitates functional analysis and trait candidate gene discovery, 2021, Developmental Cell
  • AARS1 and AARS2 sense l-lactate to regulate cGAS as global lysine lactyltransferases, 2024, Nature
  • Xa1 Allelic R Genes Activate Rice Blight Resistance Suppressed by Interfering TAL Effectors, 2020, Plant Communications
  • Genetic elucidation of interconnected antibiotic pathways mediating maize innate immunity, 2020, Nature Plants
  • High-efficiency plastome base editing in rice with TAL cytosine deaminase, 2021, Molecular Plant

Best Publications

  • Demonstration of CRISPR/Cas9/sgRNA-mediated targeted gene modification in Arabidopsis, tobacco, sorghum and rice

    Wen Zhi Jiang;Huanbin Zhou;Honghao Bi;Michael E. Fromm

  • High-efficiency TALEN-based gene editing produces disease-resistant rice

    Ting Li;Bo Liu;Martin H Spalding;Donald P Weeks

  • Broad-spectrum resistance to bacterial blight in rice using genome editing

    Ricardo Oliva;Chonghui Ji;Genelou Atienza-Grande;Genelou Atienza-Grande;José C. Huguet-Tapia

  • TAL nucleases (TALNs): hybrid proteins composed of TAL effectors and FokI DNA-cleavage domain

    Ting Li;Sheng Huang;Wen Zhi Jiang;David Wright

  • R gene expression induced by a type-III effector triggers disease resistance in rice.

    Keyu Gu;Bing Yang;Dongsheng Tian;Lifang Wu

  • Os8N3 is a host disease-susceptibility gene for bacterial blight of rice

    Bing Yang;Akiko Sugio;Frank F. White

  • Large chromosomal deletions and heritable small genetic changes induced by CRISPR/Cas9 in rice

    Huanbin Zhou;Bo Liu;Donald P. Weeks;Martin H. Spalding

  • Modularly assembled designer TAL effector nucleases for targeted gene knockout and gene replacement in eukaryotes

    Ting Li;Sheng Huang;Xuefeng Zhao;David A. Wright

  • Gene targeting by the TAL effector PthXo2 reveals cryptic resistance gene for bacterial blight of rice

    Junhui Zhou;Zhao Peng;Juying Long;Juying Long;Davide Sosso

  • Rice xa13 Recessive Resistance to Bacterial Blight Is Defeated by Induction of the Disease Susceptibility Gene Os-11N3

    Ginny Antony;Junhui Zhou;Sheng Huang;Ting Li

  • Seed filling in domesticated maize and rice depends on SWEET-mediated hexose transport

    Davide Sosso;Dangping Luo;Qin Bao Li;Joelle Sasse

  • An Agrobacterium-delivered CRISPR/Cas9 system for high-frequency targeted mutagenesis in maize.

    Si Nian Char;Anjanasree K. Neelakandan;Hartinio Nahampun;Bronwyn Frame

  • Lateral organ boundaries 1 is a disease susceptibility gene for citrus bacterial canker disease

    Yang Hu;Junli Zhang;Hongge Jia;Davide Sosso

  • A male-expressed rice embryogenic trigger redirected for asexual propagation through seeds

    Imtiyaz Khanday;Imtiyaz Khanday;Debra Skinner;Bing Yang;Raphael Mercier

  • XA23 is an executor R protein and confers broad-spectrum disease resistance in rice.

    Chunlian Wang;Xiaoping Zhang;Yinglun Fan;Ying Gao

  • The virulence factor AvrXa7 of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae is a type III secretion pathway-dependent nuclear-localized double-stranded DNA-binding protein

    Bing Yang;Weiguang Zhu;Lowell B. Johnson;Frank F. White

  • The Regulatory Status of Genome-edited Crops

    Jeffrey D. Wolt;Kan Wang;Bing Yang

  • Two type III effector genes of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae control the induction of the host genes OsTFIIAγ1 and OsTFX1 during bacterial blight of rice

    Akiko Sugio;Bing Yang;Tong Zhu;Frank F. White

  • Diverse members of the AvrBs3/PthA family of type III effectors are major virulence determinants in bacterial blight disease of rice.

    Bing Yang;Frank F. White

  • Prospects for understanding avirulence gene function

    Frank F White;Bing Yang;Lowell B Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank F. White
Frank F. White University of Florida
Wolf B. Frommer
Wolf B. Frommer Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Martin H. Spalding
Martin H. Spalding Iowa State University
Reuben J. Peters
Reuben J. Peters Iowa State University
Kan Wang
Kan Wang Iowa State University
Edward S. Buckler
Edward S. Buckler Cornell University
Zhaohu Li
Zhaohu Li China Agricultural University
Eric A. Schmelz
Eric A. Schmelz University of California, San Diego
Blake C. Meyers
Blake C. Meyers University of California, Davis
Boris Szurek
Boris Szurek Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

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