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  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Zhenbiao Yang is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, their work focuses on various subfields, including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The main topics covered by Zhenbiao Yang include Plant Molecular Biology Research, Plant Reproductive Biology, Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls, Tea Polyphenols and Effects, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Plant Nutrient Uptake and Metabolism, and Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance.

Yang has published extensively with multiple frequent co-authors, including Wenxin Tang, Wenwei Lin, Tongda Xu, Jingzhe Guo, and Xue Pan. Their research has appeared in several prominent scientific journals and repositories. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Current Biology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Developmental Cell

Some of Yang's recent published papers are:

  • TMK-based cell-surface auxin signalling activates cell-wall acidification, 2021, Nature
  • Metabolite signatures of diverse Camellia sinensis tea populations, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Mechano-transduction via the pectin-FERONIA complex activates ROP6 GTPase signaling in Arabidopsis pavement cell morphogenesis, 2021, Current Biology
  • Arabidopsis pavement cell morphogenesis requires FERONIA binding to pectin for activation of ROP GTPase signaling, 2021, Current Biology
  • Auxin-induced signaling protein nanoclustering contributes to cell polarity formation, 2020, Nature Communications

In recognition of contributions to science, Zhenbiao Yang was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Analysis of the small GTPase gene superfamily of Arabidopsis.

    Vanessa Vernoud;Amy C. Horton;Zhenbiao Yang;Erik Nielsen;Erik Nielsen

  • Arabidopsis Interdigitating Cell Growth Requires Two Antagonistic Pathways with Opposing Action on Cell Morphogenesis

    Ying Fu;Ying Gu;Zhiliang Zheng;Geoffrey Wasteneys

  • Small GTPases: Versatile Signaling Switches in Plants

    Zhenbiao Yang

  • Control of Pollen Tube Tip Growth by a Rop GTPase–Dependent Pathway That Leads to Tip-Localized Calcium Influx

    Hai Li;Yakang Lin;Rachel M. Heath;Michael X. Zhu

  • Cell surface- and rho GTPase-based auxin signaling controls cellular interdigitation in Arabidopsis.

    Tongda Xu;Mingzhang Wen;Shingo Nagawa;Ying Fu

  • The Arabidopsis Rop2 GTPase is a positive regulator of both root hair initiation and tip growth.

    Mark A. Jones;Jun-Jiang Shen;Ying Fu;Hai Li

  • The CLAVATA1 receptor-like kinase requires CLAVATA3 for its assembly into a signaling complex that includes KAPP and a Rho-related protein.

    Amy E. Trotochaud;Tong Hao;Guang Wu;Zhenbiao Yang

  • ROP Gtpase–Dependent Dynamics of Tip-Localized F-Actin Controls Tip Growth in Pollen Tubes

    Ying Fu;Guang Wu;Zhenbiao Yang

  • ABP1 Mediates Auxin Inhibition of Clathrin-Dependent Endocytosis in Arabidopsis

    Stephanie Robert;Jürgen Kleine-Vehn;Elke Barbez;Michael Sauer

  • RopGAP4-dependent Rop GTPase rheostat control of Arabidopsis oxygen deprivation tolerance.

    Airica Baxter-Burrell;Zhenbiao Yang;Patricia S. Springer;Julia Bailey-Serres

  • Brassinosteroids Interact with Auxin to Promote Lateral Root Development in Arabidopsis

    Fang Bao;Junjiang Shen;Shari R. Brady;Gloria K. Muday

  • A Small-Molecule Screen Identifies l-Kynurenine as a Competitive Inhibitor of TAA1/TAR Activity in Ethylene-Directed Auxin Biosynthesis and Root Growth in Arabidopsis

    Wenrong He;Javier Brumos;Hongjiang Li;Hongjiang Li;Yusi Ji

  • A Rho family GTPase controls actin dynamics and tip growth via two counteracting downstream pathways in pollen tubes

    Ying Gu;Ying Fu;Peter Dowd;Shundai Li

  • The ROP2 GTPase Controls the Formation of Cortical Fine F-Actin and the Early Phase of Directional Cell Expansion during Arabidopsis Organogenesis

    Ying Fu;Hai Li;Zhenbiao Yang

  • Cell Surface ABP1-TMK Auxin-Sensing Complex Activates ROP GTPase Signaling

    Tongda Xu;Tongda Xu;Tongda Xu;Ning Dai;Jisheng Chen;Shingo Nagawa;Shingo Nagawa

  • Cell polarity signaling in Arabidopsis.

    Zhenbiao Yang

  • Rho-GTPase–dependent filamentous actin dynamics coordinate vesicle targeting and exocytosis during tip growth

    Yong Jik Lee;Amy Szumlanski;Erik Nielsen;Zhenbiao Yang

  • NADPH oxidase-dependent reactive oxygen species formation required for root hair growth depends on ROP GTPase

    Mark A. Jones;Marjorie J. Raymond;Zhenbiao Yang;Nicholas Smirnoff

  • A ROP GTPase signaling pathway controls cortical microtubule ordering and cell expansion in Arabidopsis.

    Ying Fu;Ying Fu;Tongda Xu;Lei Zhu;Mingzhang Wen

  • ROP GTPase-dependent actin microfilaments promote PIN1 polarization by localized inhibition of clathrin-dependent endocytosis.

    Shingo Nagawa;Tongda Xu;Tongda Xu;Deshu Lin;Deshu Lin;Pankaj Dhonukshe

Frequent Co-Authors

Ying Fu
Ying Fu ZheJiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Jiří Friml
Jiří Friml Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Yuan Qin
Yuan Qin Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Bir Bhanu
Bir Bhanu University of California, Riverside
Jian-Kang Zhu
Jian-Kang Zhu Southern University of Science and Technology
Atle M. Bones
Atle M. Bones Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Youngsook Lee
Youngsook Lee University of Wisconsin–Madison
Geoffrey O. Wasteneys
Geoffrey O. Wasteneys University of British Columbia
James D. Metzger
James D. Metzger The Ohio State University
Alan M. Jones
Alan M. Jones University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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