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Overview

Haibao Tang is affiliated with Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their primary research interests span Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biomedical Engineering, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Plant Virus Research Studies

Haibao Tang has published research in several scientific journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Nature Genetics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • Genome Biology

Recent papers include:

  • JCVI: A versatile toolkit for comparative genomics analysis, 2024, iMeta
  • Two divergent haplotypes from a highly heterozygous lychee genome suggest independent domestication events for early and late-maturing cultivars, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Haplotype-resolved genome assembly provides insights into evolutionary history of the tea plant Camellia sinensis, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Genomes of the Banyan Tree and Pollinator Wasp Provide Insights into Fig-Wasp Coevolution, 2020, Cell
  • Precision medicine integrating whole-genome sequencing, comprehensive metabolomics, and advanced imaging, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Haibao Tang has collaborated frequently with several researchers including:

  • Xingtan Zhang
  • Ray Ming
  • Jisen Zhang
  • Xiuting Hua
  • Muqing Zhang

Best Publications

  • MCScanX: a toolkit for detection and evolutionary analysis of gene synteny and collinearity

    Yupeng Wang;Haibao Tang;Jeremy D. DeBarry;Xu-fei Tan

  • The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses

    Andrew H. Paterson;John E. Bowers;Rémy Bruggmann;Inna Dubchak

  • The tomato genome sequence provides insights into fleshy fruit evolution

    Shusei Sato;Satoshi Tabata;Hideki Hirakawa;Erika Asamizu

  • Early allopolyploid evolution in the post-Neolithic Brassica napus oilseed genome

    Boulos Chalhoub;Shengyi Liu;Isobel A.P. Parkin

  • The genome of the mesopolyploid crop species Brassica rapa

    Xiaowu Wang;Hanzhong Wang;Jun Wang;Jun Wang;Jun Wang

  • Synteny and collinearity in plant genomes.

    Haibao Tang;John E. Bowers;Xiyin Wang;Ray Ming

  • The Medicago genome provides insight into the evolution of rhizobial symbioses

    Nevin D Young;Frédéric Debellé;Frédéric Debellé;Giles E D Oldroyd;Rene Geurts

  • Repeated polyploidization of Gossypium genomes and the evolution of spinnable cotton fibres

    Andrew H Paterson;Jonathan F Wendel;Heidrun Gundlach;Hui Guo

  • The draft genome of the transgenic tropical fruit tree papaya (Carica papaya Linnaeus)

    Ray Ming;Shaobin Hou;Yun Feng;Qingyi Yu

  • GOATOOLS: A Python library for Gene Ontology analyses.

    D. V. Klopfenstein;Liangsheng Zhang;Brent S. Pedersen;Fidel Ramírez

  • Allele-defined genome of the autopolyploid sugarcane Saccharum spontaneum L.

    Jisen Zhang;Xingtan Zhang;Haibao Tang;Qing Zhang

  • Unraveling ancient hexaploidy through multiply-aligned angiosperm gene maps

    Haibao Tang;Xiyin Wang;Xiyin Wang;John E. Bowers;Ray Ming

  • The genome of cultivated peanut provides insight into legume karyotypes, polyploid evolution and crop domestication

    Weijian Zhuang;Hua Chen;Meng Yang;Jianping Wang;Jianping Wang

  • The pineapple genome and the evolution of CAM photosynthesis

    Ray Ming;Ray Ming;Robert VanBuren;Robert VanBuren;Robert VanBuren;Ching Man Wai;Ching Man Wai;Haibao Tang;Haibao Tang

  • PGDD: a database of gene and genome duplication in plants

    Tae-Ho Lee;Haibao Tang;Xiyin Wang;Andrew H. Paterson

  • The pangenome of an agronomically important crop plant Brassica oleracea

    Agnieszka A. Golicz;Philipp E. Bayer;Guy C. Barker;Patrick P. Edger

  • Transcriptome and methylome profiling reveals relics of genome dominance in the mesopolyploid Brassica oleracea.

    Isobel Ap Parkin;Chushin Koh;Haibao Tang;Stephen J Robinson

  • Genome of the long-living sacred lotus ( Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.)

    Ray Ming;Ray Ming;Robert VanBuren;Yanling Liu;Mei Yang

  • Finding and Comparing Syntenic Regions among Arabidopsis and the Outgroups Papaya, Poplar, and Grape: CoGe with Rosids

    Eric Lyons;Brent Pedersen;Josh Kane;Maqsudul Alam

  • An improved genome release (version Mt4.0) for the model legume Medicago truncatula

    Haibao Tang;Vivek Krishnakumar;Shelby Bidwell;Benjamin Rosen

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew H. Paterson
Andrew H. Paterson University of Georgia
Xiyin Wang
Xiyin Wang North China University of Science and Technology
Ray Ming
Ray Ming University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eric Lyons
Eric Lyons University of Arizona
John E. Bowers
John E. Bowers University of Georgia
Michael Freeling
Michael Freeling University of California, Berkeley
Christopher D. Town
Christopher D. Town J. Craig Venter Institute
David Sankoff
David Sankoff University of Ottawa
Patrick P. Edger
Patrick P. Edger Michigan State University
Michael C. Schatz
Michael C. Schatz Johns Hopkins University

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