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Xin WANG

Assistant Professor
  • Department of Biological Sciences
  • E-mail:

    wangxin@suat-sz.edu.cn

Xin WANG, Assistant Professor at the Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology (SUAT), primarily focuses on plant vascular cambium development and gene editing research. He has made significant progress in areas such as cytokinin-mediated regulation of cambial activity, plasticity of plant root system development, and plant-induced gene editing. He has published multiple papers in leading journals including Nature Plants and Current Biology, with his work cited over 600 times.

Research Areas

1. Regulation and application of plant vascular cambium development;

2. Plant gene editing and its applications;

3. Molecular improvement of root and tuber crops based on synthetic biology strategies.

Education and Professional Experience

Education:

Sep 2014-Mar 2022, University of Helsinki, Finland, Ph.D

Sep 2011-Jul 2014, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, M.S.

Sep 2007-Jul 2011, Northwest A&F University, B.S.

Professional Experience:

Aug 2025-Present, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Assistant Professor

Apr 2022-Aug 2025, University of Helsinki, Finland, Postdoctoral Researcher

Representative Publications

Selected publications

1. Xin Wang*, Lingling Ye, Jing Zhang, Charles W. Melnyk, Ari Pekka Mähönen*. 2025. Cell fate plasticity of xylem-pole-pericycle lineage in Arabidopsis roots. Molecular plant (provisional accept).

2. Lingling Ye#, Xin Wang#, Juan José Valle-Delgado, Julia P. Vainonen, Isaac Wopereis, Kavindra Kumar Kesari, Junko Takahashi, Maija Sierla, Ari Pekka Mähönen. 2025. Cambium LBDs promote radial growth by regulating PLL-mediated pectin metabolism. Nature plants (accepted in principle).

3. Xin Wang#; Riikka Mäkilä#, Ari Pekka Mähönen. 2023. From procambium patterning to cambium activation and maintenance in the Arabidopsis root. Current Opinion in Plant Biology.

4. Lingling Ye, Xin Wang*, Munan Lyu, Riccardo Siligato, Gugan Eswaran, Leo Vainio, Tiina Blomster, Jing Zhang, Ari Pekka Mähönen*. 2021. Cytokinins initiate secondary growth in the Arabidopsis root through a set of LBD genes. Current biology.

5. Xin Wang, Lingling Ye, Munan Lyu, Robertas Ursache, Ari Löytynoja, Ari Pekka Mähönen. 2020. An inducible genome editing system for plants. Nature plants.

(#, co-first author; *, co-corresponding author)


职称 Assistant Professor 系别 Department of Biological Sciences
邮箱 wangxin@suat-sz.edu.cn 职称2

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