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Sheng Yang He is affiliated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with a strong specialization in plant science. They have contributed extensively to the study of molecular biology, insect science, cell biology, and electrical and electronic engineering as it relates to biological systems.

The major scientific topics addressed in their work include:

  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

He has authored several research papers in prominent venues, frequently publishing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Plants
  • Current Biology

Among more recent publications are:

  • Pattern-recognition receptors are required for NLR-mediated plant immunity, 2021, Nature
  • A plant genetic network for preventing dysbiosis in the phyllosphere, 2020, Nature
  • Growth-defense trade-offs in plants, 2022, Current Biology
  • FERONIA restricts Pseudomonas in the rhizosphere microbiome via regulation of reactive oxygen species, 2021, Nature Plants
  • Increasing the resilience of plant immunity to a warming climate, 2022, Nature

Collaborations are a notable aspect of their scientific work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Kinya Nomura
  • Bradley C. Paasch
  • Reza Sohrabi
  • Xiu-Fang Xin
  • Jong Hum Kim

Best Publications

  • JAZ repressor proteins are targets of the SCF COI1 complex during jasmonate signalling

    Bryan Thines;Leron Katsir;Maeli Melotto;Yajie Niu

  • Plant Stomata Function in Innate Immunity against Bacterial Invasion

    Maeli Melotto;William Underwood;Jessica Koczan;Kinya Nomura

  • Jasmonate perception by inositol-phosphate-potentiated COI1-JAZ co-receptor

    Laura B Sheard;Xu-Hui Tan;Haibin Mao;John Withers

  • Growth-defense tradeoffs in plants: a balancing act to optimize fitness.

    Bethany Huot;Jian Yao;Beronda L. Montgomery;Sheng Yang He

  • Innate immunity in plants : an arms race between pattern recognition receptors in plants and effectors in microbial pathogens

    Thomas Boller;Sheng Yang He

  • Harpin, elicitor of the hypersensitive response produced by the plant pathogen Erwinia amylovora

    Zhong-Min Wei;Ron J. Laby;Cathy H. Zumoff;David W. Bauer

  • Plant hormone jasmonate prioritizes defense over growth by interfering with gibberellin signaling cascade

    Dong Lei Yang;Jian Yao;Chuan Sheng Mei;Xiao Hong Tong

  • COI1 is a critical component of a receptor for jasmonate and the bacterial virulence factor coronatine

    Leron Katsir;Anthony L. Schilmiller;Paul E. Staswick;Sheng Yang He

  • Pattern-recognition receptors are required for NLR-mediated plant immunity

    Minhang Yuan;Zeyu Jiang;Guozhi Bi;Kinya Nomura

  • Role of Stomata in Plant Innate Immunity and Foliar Bacterial Diseases

    Maeli Melotto;William Underwood;William Underwood;Sheng Yang He

  • Coronatine promotes Pseudomonas syringae virulence in plants by activating a signaling cascade that inhibits salicylic acid accumulation

    Xiao Yu Zheng;Natalie Weaver Spivey;Weiqing Zeng;Po Pu Liu

  • Plant–Pathogen Warfare under Changing Climate Conditions

    André C. Velásquez;Christian Danve M. Castroverde;Sheng Yang He

  • Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae harpinPss: A protein that is secreted via the hrp pathway and elicits the hypersensitive response in plants

    Sheng Yang He;Hsiou-Chen Huang;Alan Collmer

  • A Pseudomonas syringae type III effector suppresses cell wall-based extracellular defense in susceptible Arabidopsis plants

    Paula Hauck;Roger Thilmony;Sheng Yang He

  • Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000: A Model Pathogen for Probing Disease Susceptibility and Hormone Signaling in Plants

    Xiu Fang Xin;Sheng Yang He

  • Pseudomonas syringae: what it takes to be a pathogen.

    Xiu Fang Xin;Brian Kvitko;Sheng Yang He

  • A bacterial virulence protein suppresses host innate immunity to cause plant disease.

    Kinya Nomura;Sruti DebRoy;Yong Hoon Lee;Nathan Pumplin

  • Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases 3 and 6 Are Required for Full Priming of Stress Responses in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Gerold J.M. Beckers;Michal Jaskiewicz;Yidong Liu;William R. Underwood

  • Genome-wide transcriptional analysis of the Arabidopsis thaliana interaction with the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 and the human pathogen Escherichia coli O157:H7.

    Roger Thilmony;William Underwood;Sheng Yang He

  • Pattern-recognition receptors are required for NLR-mediated plant immunity

    Minhang Yuan;Zeyu Jiang;Guozhi Bi;Kinya Nomura

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Collmer
Alan Collmer Cornell University
Gregg A. Howe
Gregg A. Howe Michigan State University
Mickael Malnoy
Mickael Malnoy Fondazione Edmund Mach
Steven V. Beer
Steven V. Beer Cornell University
Brad Day
Brad Day Michigan State University
Gail M. Preston
Gail M. Preston University of Oxford
James R. Alfano
James R. Alfano University of Nebraska–Lincoln
James M. Tiedje
James M. Tiedje Michigan State University
Karsten Melcher
Karsten Melcher Van Andel Institute
Xinnian Dong
Xinnian Dong Duke University

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