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Overview

Wei-Cai Yang is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has produced extensive research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their scholarly work predominantly focuses on Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Cell Biology, and Surgery.

The core topics Wei-Cai Yang explores include Plant Reproductive Biology, Plant Molecular Biology Research, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Plant and animal studies, Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, and Microtubule and mitosis dynamics.

Wei-Cai Yang has published research in several venues multiple times. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Plants
  • Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
  • Cell
  • Journal of genetics and genomics/Journal of Genetics and Genomics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wei-Cai Yang include:

  • Integration of ovular signals and exocytosis of a Ca2+ channel by MLOs in pollen tube guidance, 2020, Nature Plants
  • The functions of kinesin and kinesin-related proteins in eukaryotes, 2020, Cell Adhesion & Migration
  • PINOID regulates floral organ development by modulating auxin transport and interacts with MADS16 in rice, 2020, Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • The Arabidopsis TRM61/TRM6 complex is a bona fide tRNA N1-methyladenosine methyltransferase, 2020, Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Central-cell-produced attractants control fertilization recovery, 2023, Cell

Collaborations have been a significant part of Wei-Cai Yang's career. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Hong-Ju Li
  • Pengfei Jia
  • Dong-Qiao Shi
  • Jiang-Guo Meng
  • Iftikhar Ali

Best Publications

  • The FERONIA Receptor-like Kinase Mediates Male-Female Interactions During Pollen Tube Reception

    Juan Miguel Escobar-Restrepo;Norbert Huck;Sharon Kessler;Valeria Gagliardini

  • The SPOROCYTELESS gene of Arabidopsis is required for initiation of sporogenesis and encodes a novel nuclear protein.

    Wei-Cai Yang;De Ye;Jian Xu;Venkatesan Sundaresan

  • VANGUARD1 Encodes a Pectin Methylesterase That Enhances Pollen Tube Growth in the Arabidopsis Style and Transmitting Tract

    Lixi Jiang;Shu Lan Yang;Li Fen Xie;Ching San Puah

  • The Cotton ACTIN1 Gene Is Functionally Expressed in Fibers and Participates in Fiber Elongation

    Xue Bao Li;Xue Bao Li;Xiao Ping Fan;Xiu Lan Wang;Lin Cai

  • High-Efficiency Genome Editing in Arabidopsis Using YAO Promoter-Driven CRISPR/Cas9 System.

    Liuhua Yan;Shaowei Wei;Yaorong Wu;Ruolan Hu

  • Tapetum determinant1 is required for cell specialization in the Arabidopsis anther.

    Shu Lan Yang;Li Fen Xie;Hui Zhu Mao;Ching San Puah

  • Analysis of Flanking Sequences from Dissociation Insertion Lines: A Database for Reverse Genetics in Arabidopsis

    Serguei Parinov;Mayalagu Sevugan;De Ye;Wei-Cai Yang

  • Strigolactone Biosynthesis in Medicago truncatula and Rice Requires the Symbiotic GRAS-Type Transcription Factors NSP1 and NSP2

    Wei Liu;Wei Liu;Wouter Kohlen;Alessandra Lillo;Rik Op den Camp

  • Characterization of GmENOD40, a gene showing novel patterns of cell-specific expression during soybean nodule development

    W.C. Yang;P. Katinakis;P. Hendriks;A. Smolders

  • Allosteric receptor activation by the plant peptide hormone phytosulfokine

    Jizong Wang;Hongjun Li;Zhifu Han;Heqiao Zhang

  • Ethylene provides positional information on cortical cell division but is not involved in Nod factor-induced root hair tip growth in Rhizobium-legume interaction

    R. Heidstra;W.C. Yang;Y. Yalcin;S. Peck

  • A Novel Class of MYB Factors Controls Sperm-Cell Formation in Plants

    Nicolas Rotman;Anjusha Durbarry;Anthony Wardle;Wei Cai Yang

  • A receptor heteromer mediates the male perception of female attractants in plants

    Tong Wang;Liang Liang;Yong Xue;Peng-Fei Jia

  • Female Gametophyte Development in Flowering Plants

    Wei-Cai Yang;Dong-Qiao Shi;Yan-Hong Chen

  • Rhizobium nod factors reactivate the cell cycle during infection and nodule primordium formation, but the cycle is only completed in primordium formation.

    W C Yang;C de Blank;I Meskiene;H Hirt

  • Comparative genomics of the nonlegume Parasponia reveals insights into evolution of nitrogen-fixing rhizobium symbioses.

    Robin van Velzen;Rens Holmer;Fengjiao Bu;Luuk Rutten

  • The Central Cell Plays a Critical Role in Pollen Tube Guidance in Arabidopsis

    Yan-Hong Chen;Hong-Ju Li;Dong-Qiao Shi;Li Yuan

  • Targeted Degradation of the Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor ICK4/KRP6 by RING-Type E3 Ligases Is Essential for Mitotic Cell Cycle Progression during Arabidopsis Gametogenesis

    Jingjing Liu;Yiyue Zhang;Genji Qin;Tomohiko Tsuge

  • Developmental aspects of the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis.

    Henk J. Franssen;Irma Vijn;Wei Cai Yang;Ton Bisseling

  • SLOW WALKER1, Essential for Gametogenesis in Arabidopsis, Encodes a WD40 Protein Involved in 18S Ribosomal RNA Biogenesis

    Dong-Qiao Shi;Dong-Qiao Shi;Jie Liu;Yan-Hui Xiang;De Ye

Frequent Co-Authors

Ton Bisseling
Ton Bisseling Wageningen University & Research
Venkatesan Sundaresan
Venkatesan Sundaresan University of California, Davis
Qi Xie
Qi Xie Chinese Academy of Sciences
Renze Heidstra
Renze Heidstra Wageningen University & Research
René Geurts
René Geurts MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Jie Liu
Jie Liu Duke University
Heribert Hirt
Heribert Hirt King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Katharina Pawlowski
Katharina Pawlowski Stockholm University
Ueli Grossniklaus
Ueli Grossniklaus University of Zurich
Menno Schilthuizen
Menno Schilthuizen Naturalis Biodiversity Center

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