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Overview

Jie Luo is affiliated with Huazhong Agricultural University in China and has a research profile focused on agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work predominantly addresses plant science and molecular biology, with additional contributions in pharmacology, food science, and genetics.

The scientist's recent publications cover diverse topics related to plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, gene expression analysis, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, and the management of postharvest quality and shelf life. Specific research themes include plant stress responses and tolerance, essential oils and antimicrobial activity, and genetics and pathology of wheat and barley.

  • "Metabolite-based genome-wide association study enables dissection of the flavonoid decoration pathway of wheat kernels," 2020, Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • "Exploiting Natural Variation in Tomato to Define Pathway Structure and Metabolic Regulation of Fruit Polyphenolics in the Lycopersicum Complex," 2020, Molecular Plant
  • "A monocot-specific hydroxycinnamoylputrescine gene cluster contributes to immunity and cell death in rice," 2021, Science Bulletin
  • "Jujube metabolome selection determined the edible properties acquired during domestication," 2021, The Plant Journal
  • "AIM1-dependent high basal salicylic acid accumulation modulates stomatal aperture in rice," 2023, New Phytologist

Frequent publication venues for Jie Luo include:

  • The Plant Journal
  • New Phytologist
  • Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • Molecular Plant
  • Science Bulletin

Collaborations are an important aspect of Jie Luo's research. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Alisdair R. Fernie
  • Shuangqian Shen
  • Chenkun Yang
  • Xianqing Liu
  • Shen Zhou

Best Publications

  • Enrichment of tomato fruit with health-promoting anthocyanins by expression of select transcription factors.

    Eugenio Butelli;Lucilla Titta;Marco Giorgio;Hans Peter Mock

  • A novel integrated method for large-scale detection, identification, and quantification of widely targeted metabolites: application in the study of rice metabolomics.

    Wei Chen;Liang Gong;Zilong Guo;Wensheng Wang

  • Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics: a guide for annotation, quantification and best reporting practices

    Saleh Alseekh;Asaph Aharoni;Yariv Brotman;Kevin Contrepois

  • Genome-wide association analyses provide genetic and biochemical insights into natural variation in rice metabolism.

    Wei Chen;Yanqiang Gao;Weibo Xie;Liang Gong

  • Rewiring of the Fruit Metabolome in Tomato Breeding.

    Guangtao Zhu;Shouchuang Wang;Zejun Huang;Shuaibin Zhang

  • Metabolome-based genome-wide association study of maize kernel leads to novel biochemical insights

    Weiwei Wen;Dong Li;Xiang Li;Yanqiang Gao

  • The Structure and Function of Major Plant Metabolite Modifications.

    Shouchuang Wang;Saleh Alseekh;Alisdair R. Fernie;Jie Luo;Jie Luo

  • Aux/IAA Gene Family in Plants: Molecular Structure, Regulation, and Function.

    Jie Luo;Jing-Jing Zhou;Jin-Zhi Zhang

  • Multi-level engineering facilitates the production of phenylpropanoid compounds in tomato.

    Yang Zhang;Eugenio Butelli;Saleh Alseekh;Takayuki Tohge

  • AtMYB12 regulates caffeoyl quinic acid and flavonol synthesis in tomato : expression in fruit results in very high levels of both types of polyphenol

    Jie Luo;Eugenio Butelli;Lionel Hill;Adrian Parr

  • Exploring the Diversity of Plant Metabolism.

    Chuanying Fang;Alisdair R. Fernie;Jie Luo;Jie Luo

  • Convergent evolution in the BAHD family of acyl transferases: identification and characterization of anthocyanin acyl transferases from Arabidopsis thaliana

    Jie Luo;Yasutaka Nishiyama;Yasutaka Nishiyama;Christine Fuell;Goro Taguchi

  • Comparative and parallel genome-wide association studies for metabolic and agronomic traits in cereals.

    Wei Chen;Wensheng Wang;Meng Peng;Liang Gong

  • Differentially evolved glucosyltransferases determine natural variation of rice flavone accumulation and UV-tolerance.

    Meng Peng;Raheel Shahzad;Ambreen Gul;Hizar Subthain

  • Breeding signatures of rice improvement revealed by a genomic variation map from a large germplasm collection

    Weibo Xie;Gongwei Wang;Meng Yuan;Wen Yao

  • Spatio-temporal distribution and natural variation of metabolites in citrus fruits.

    Shouchuang Wang;Hong Tu;Jian Wan;Wei Chen

  • Genetic analysis of the metabolome exemplified using a rice population.

    Liang Gong;Wei Chen;Yanqiang Gao;Xianqing Liu

  • A Novel Polyamine Acyltransferase Responsible for the Accumulation of Spermidine Conjugates in Arabidopsis Seed

    Jie Luo;Jie Luo;Christine Fuell;Adrian Parr;Lionel Hill

  • Characterization and Metabolic Diversity of Flavonoids in Citrus Species

    Shouchuang Wang;Chenkun Yang;Hong Tu;Junjie Zhou

  • The application of loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) in food testing for bacterial pathogens and fungal contaminants.

    Ludwig Niessen;Jie Luo;Carla Denschlag;Rudi F. Vogel

Frequent Co-Authors

Alisdair R. Fernie
Alisdair R. Fernie Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Takayuki Tohge
Takayuki Tohge Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Cathie Martin
Cathie Martin Norwich Research Park
Sibin Yu
Sibin Yu Huazhong Agricultural University
Jianbing Yan
Jianbing Yan Huazhong Agricultural University
Caiguo Xu
Caiguo Xu Huazhong Agricultural University
Sanwen Huang
Sanwen Huang Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Lizhong Xiong
Lizhong Xiong Huazhong Agricultural University
Guo-Liang Wang
Guo-Liang Wang The Ohio State University
Qifa Zhang
Qifa Zhang Huazhong Agricultural University

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