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Yong-Ling Ruan is affiliated with the University of Newcastle Australia in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with substantial contributions also in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work bridges several subfields including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Genetics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to plant biology, including:

  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Plant responses to water stress
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

Yong-Ling Ruan has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • The Plant Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Plants
  • New Phytologist

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Yong-Ling Ruan are:

  • Synchronization of developmental, molecular and metabolic aspects of source-sink interactions, 2020, Nature Plants
  • Raffinose synthase enhances drought tolerance through raffinose synthesis or galactinol hydrolysis in maize and Arabidopsis plants, 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • MdERDL6-mediated glucose efflux to the cytosol promotes sugar accumulation in the vacuole through up-regulating TSTs in apple and tomato, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cell Wall Invertase Is Essential for Ovule Development through Sugar Signaling Rather Than Provision of Carbon Nutrients, 2020, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Enhancing crop yields through improvements in the efficiency of photosynthesis and respiration, 2022, New Phytologist

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Mingjun Li
  • Baiquan Ma
  • Lingcheng Zhu
  • Fengwang Ma
  • Owen K. Atkin

These collaborations span multiple publications and reflect interdisciplinary approaches within the fields of plant molecular biology and agricultural science. Yong-Ling Ruan's research addresses key challenges concerning plant nutrient metabolism, responses to environmental stresses such as drought and elevated CO2, as well as improvements in photosynthetic efficiency and crop yield.

Best Publications

  • Sucrose metabolism: gateway to diverse carbon use and sugar signaling.

    Yong-Ling Ruan

  • Sugar Input, Metabolism, and Signaling Mediated by Invertase: Roles in Development, Yield Potential, and Response to Drought and Heat

    Yong-Ling Ruan;Ye Jin;Ye Jin;Yue-Jian Yang;Guo-Jing Li

  • Gossypium barbadense and Gossypium hirsutum genomes provide insights into the origin and evolution of allotetraploid cotton.

    Yan Hu;Yan Hu;Jiedan Chen;Lei Fang;Lei Fang;Zhiyuan Zhang

  • Suppression of Sucrose Synthase Gene Expression Represses Cotton Fiber Cell Initiation, Elongation, and Seed Development

    Yong-Ling Ruan;Danny J. Llewellyn;Robert T. Furbank

  • Molecular regulation of seed and fruit set

    Yong-Ling Ruan;John William Patrick;Mondher Bouzayen;Mondher Bouzayen;Sonia Osorio

  • The Control of Single-Celled Cotton Fiber Elongation by Developmentally Reversible Gating of Plasmodesmata and Coordinated Expression of Sucrose and K+ Transporters and Expansin

    Yong-Ling Ruan;Danny J. Llewellyn;Robert T. Furbank

  • Understanding and manipulating sucrose phloem loading, unloading, metabolism, and signalling to enhance crop yield and food security

    David M. Braun;Lu Wang;Yong-Ling Ruan

  • Posttranslational elevation of cell wall invertase activity by silencing its inhibitor in tomato delays leaf senescence and increases seed weight and fruit hexose level.

    Ye Jin;Ye Jin;Di-An Ni;Yong-Ling Ruan

  • Genetic evidence that the two isozymes of sucrose synthase present in developing maize endosperm are critical, one for cell wall integrity and the other for starch biosynthesis.

    P. S. Chourey;E. W. Taliercio;S. J. Carlson;Y.-L. Ruan

  • The cellular pathway of postphloem sugar transport in developing tomato fruit

    Yong-Ling Ruan;John W. Patrick

  • Molecular Evolution of Grass Stomata.

    Zhong-Hua Chen;Zhong-Hua Chen;Guang Chen;Fei Dai;Yizhou Wang

  • Regulation of cell division and expansion by sugar and auxin signaling.

    Lu Wang;Yong-Ling Ruan

  • The Differential Expression of Sucrose Synthase in Relation to Diverse Patterns of Carbon Partitioning in Developing Cotton Seed.

    Y. L. Ruan;P. S. Chourey;D. P. Delmer;L. Perez-Grau

  • An update on source-to-sink carbon partitioning in tomato.

    Sonia Osorio;Yong-Ling Ruan;Alisdair R. Fernie

  • Modification of sucrose synthase gene expression in plant tissue and uses therefor

    Danny Llwellyn;Robert Furbank;Yong-Ling Ruan

  • Evolution of Sucrose Metabolism: The Dichotomy of Invertases and Beyond

    Hongjian Wan;Limin Wu;Yuejian Yang;Guozhi Zhou

  • Signaling Role of Sucrose Metabolism in Development

    Yong-Ling Ruan

  • Evidence That High Activity of Vacuolar Invertase Is Required for Cotton Fiber and Arabidopsis Root Elongation through Osmotic Dependent and Independent Pathways, Respectively

    Lu Wang;Xiao-Rong Li;Heng Lian;Di-An Ni

  • Genotypic and developmental evidence for the role of plasmodesmatal regulation in cotton fiber elongation mediated by callose turnover.

    Yong Ling Ruan;Shou Min Xu;Rosemary White;Robert T. Furbank

  • Overexpression of a Potato Sucrose Synthase Gene in Cotton Accelerates Leaf Expansion, Reduces Seed Abortion, and Enhances Fiber Production

    Shou-Min Xu;Elizabeth Brill;Danny J. Llewellyn;Robert T. Furbank

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert T. Furbank
Robert T. Furbank Australian National University
John W. Patrick
John W. Patrick University of Newcastle Australia
Danny J. Llewellyn
Danny J. Llewellyn Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Tianzhen Zhang
Tianzhen Zhang Zhejiang University
Xiao-Ya Chen
Xiao-Ya Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sergey Shabala
Sergey Shabala University of Western Australia
Alisdair R. Fernie
Alisdair R. Fernie Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Prem S. Chourey
Prem S. Chourey United States Department of Agriculture
Christina E. Offler
Christina E. Offler University of Newcastle Australia
Wangzhen Guo
Wangzhen Guo Nanjing Agricultural University

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