Dr. Lingling Ye is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Emerging Agricultural Technology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, starting in August 2025. She is interested in root cambium development, hormone-mediated plant growth and cell wall metabolism. She has published first-author or co-first author papers in Nature Plants, Current Biology and Plant Physiology.

Hormonal regulation of vasculature development and evolution

Education Background

Bachelor’s Degree (September 2007–July 2011): Anhui Normal University

Ph.D. (September 2011–January 2017): Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professional Experience

2025.08-Present: Associate Professor, Institute of Emerging Agricultural Technology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology

2017.3-2025.8: Postdoc, Institute of Biotechnology, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki (Finland)

1. 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).

2. Munan Lyu, Hiroyuki Iida, Thomas Eekhout, Meeri Mäkelä, Sampo Muranen, Lingling Ye, Anne Vatén, Brecht Wybouw, Xin Wang, Bert De Rybel, Ari Pekka Mähönen. 2025. The dynamic and diverse nature of parenchyma cells in the Arabidopsis root during secondary growth. Nature Plants

3. Riikka Mäkilä, Brecht Wybouw, Ondrej Smetana, Leo Vainio, Anna Sole Gil, Munan Lyu, Lingling Ye, Xin Wang, Riccardo Siligato, Ari Pekka Mähönen. 2023. Gibberellic acid links polar auxin transport to stem cell fate decision in vascular cambium. Nature Plants

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

6. Lingling Ye#, Bin Wang#, Wengen Zhang, Hongyan Shan, Hongzhi Kong. 2016. Gain of an auto-regulatory site led to divergence of the Arabidopsis APETALA1 and CAULIFLOWER duplicate genes in the time, space and level of expression and regulation of one paralog by the other. Plant Physiology

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