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Zuhua He is a researcher affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their work primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant emphasis on plant science, exemplified by 75 publications in this subfield. In addition, Zuhua He has contributed to molecular biology, genetics, cell biology, and agronomy and crop science research.

The scientist's research topics include plant-microbe interactions and immunity, plant parasitism and resistance, molecular biology of plants, virus research related to plants, and studies on plant pathogenic bacteria. They also investigate genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, as well as mechanisms of plant pathogens and resistance.

Zuhua He has published in various scientific venues repeatedly, with notable frequent publications in:

  • Science China Life Sciences
  • Nature
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Stress Biology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their recent publications include:

  • Growth-defense trade-offs in plants, 2022, Current Biology
  • Ca2+ sensor-mediated ROS scavenging suppresses rice immunity and is exploited by a fungal effector, 2021, Cell
  • Exploiting Broad-Spectrum Disease Resistance in Crops: From Molecular Dissection to Breeding, 2020, Annual Review of Plant Biology
  • Rice functional genomics: decades' efforts and roads ahead, 2021, Science China Life Sciences
  • An SHR-SCR module specifies legume cortical cell fate to enable nodulation, 2020, Nature

Zuhua He frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, including Yiwen Deng, Jiyun Liu, Qun Li, Xiaoyuan Li, and Ertao Wang, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Two Faces of One Seed: Hormonal Regulation of Dormancy and Germination

    Kai Shu;Xiao Dong Liu;Qi Xie;Zu Hua He

  • Control of rice grain-filling and yield by a gene with a potential signature of domestication

    Ertao Wang;Jianjun Wang;Xudong Zhu;Wei Hao

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

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

  • Auxin controls seed dormancy through stimulation of abscisic acid signaling by inducing ARF-mediated ABI3 activation in Arabidopsis

    Xiaodong Liu;Hong Zhang;Yang Zhao;Zhengyan Feng

  • Epigenetic regulation of antagonistic receptors confers rice blast resistance with yield balance.

    Yiwen Deng;Keran Zhai;Zhen Xie;Dongyong Yang

  • Perception of Brassinosteroids by the Extracellular Domain of the Receptor Kinase BRI1

    Zuhua He;Zhi Yong Wang;Jianming Li;Qun Zhu

  • ELONGATED UPPERMOST INTERNODE Encodes a Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenase That Epoxidizes Gibberellins in a Novel Deactivation Reaction in Rice

    Yongyou Zhu;Takahito Nomura;Yonghan Xu;Yingying Zhang

  • Functional analysis of rice NPR1-like genes reveals that OsNPR1/NH1 is the rice orthologue conferring disease resistance with enhanced herbivore susceptibility.

    Yuexing Yuan;Sihui Zhong;Qun Li;Zengrong Zhu

  • Dual Regulation Role of GH3.5 in Salicylic Acid and Auxin Signaling during Arabidopsis-Pseudomonas syringae Interaction

    Zhongqin Zhang;Qun Li;Zhimiao Li;Paul E. Staswick

  • Roles of plant hormones and their interplay in rice immunity.

    Dong Lei Yang;Yinong Yang;Zuhua He

  • The receptor kinase CERK1 has dual functions in symbiosis and immunity signalling

    Xiaowei Zhang;Wentao Dong;Jongho Sun;Feng Feng

  • Genetic and epigenetic control of plant heat responses

    Junzhong Liu;Lili Feng;Jianming Li;Zuhua He

  • The Rice 14-3-3 Gene Family and its Involvement in Responses to Biotic and Abiotic Stress

    Fang Chen;Qun Li;Liangxian Sun;Zuhua He

  • Ca2+ sensor-mediated ROS scavenging suppresses rice immunity and is exploited by a fungal effector.

    Mingjun Gao;Yang He;Xin Yin;Xiangbin Zhong

  • An H3K27me3 demethylase-HSFA2 regulatory loop orchestrates transgenerational thermomemory in Arabidopsis.

    Junzhong Liu;Lili Feng;Lili Feng;Xueting Gu;Xian Deng

  • Genetic characterization and fine mapping of the blast resistance locus Pigm(t) tightly linked to Pi2 and Pi9 in a broad-spectrum resistant Chinese variety.

    Yiwen Deng;Xudong Zhu;Ying Shen;Zuhua He

  • A natural tandem array alleviates epigenetic repression of IPA1 and leads to superior yielding rice

    Lin Zhang;Hong Yu;Bin Ma;Guifu Liu

  • A DELLA protein complex controls the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in plants.

    Nan Yu;Dexian Luo;Xiaowei Zhang;Junzhong Liu

  • Inducible overexpression of Ideal Plant Architecture1 improves both yield and disease resistance in rice.

    Mingming Liu;Zhenying Shi;Xiaohan Zhang;Mingxuan Wang

  • Overexpression of receptor-like kinase ERECTA improves thermotolerance in rice and tomato

    Hui Shen;Xiangbin Zhong;Fangfang Zhao;Yanmei Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Ertao Wang
Ertao Wang Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences
Jianming Li
Jianming Li University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Christopher J. Lamb
Christopher J. Lamb John Innes Centre
Yonggen Lou
Yonggen Lou Zhejiang University
Joanne Chory
Joanne Chory Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Pamela C. Ronald
Pamela C. Ronald University of California, Davis
Bao-Rong Lu
Bao-Rong Lu Fudan University
Qian Qian
Qian Qian Rice University
Zhi-Yong Wang
Zhi-Yong Wang Carnegie Institution for Science
Yinong Yang
Yinong Yang Pennsylvania State University

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