Dr. Xiangui Zhou is a Research Assistant Professor. He received his Bachelor's degree from Huazhong Agricultural University and completed his Master's and Ph.D. studies at China Agricultural University. After obtaining his Ph.D., he studied and worked at Peking University, Southern University of Science and Technology, and Shenzhen University.

Plant Pathology、Plant Physiology, Plant Optogenetics

Education Background

2010.09-2017.06: Ph.D in China Agricultural University, Supervisor: Prof. Guo Zejian;

2006.09-2010.06: B.S. in Huazhong Agricultural University.

Professional Experience

2025.07-Present: Faculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Assistant Research Professor;

2022.06-2025.06: College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Associate Researcher;

2019.07-2022.05: Department of Biology, Southern University of Science and Technology, Visiting Scholar;

2017.07-2019.06: School of Life Sciences/Modern Agricultural College, Peking University, Postdoctoral( Fellow Supervisor: Academician Deng Xingwang).

He has published a total of nine SCI papers, including six as first author (including co-first author) and corresponding author (including co-corresponding author) in journals such as Plant Cell, Journal of Experimental Botany, and Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. His publications have been cited over 300 times. He also serves as an independent reviewer for several international journals, including the Journal of Plant Physiology.

Representative publications (# Authors contributed equally):

1. Zhou X^#, *., Sun Z^#., Huang Y., He D., Lu L., Wei M., Lin S., Luo W., Liao X., Jin S., Guo M., Hao L., Jiang Z*. (2025) WRKY45 positively regulates salinity and osmotic stress responses in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 219:109408 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2024.109408 (First Author/Co-corresponding Author)

2. Wang, S^#., Han, S^#., Zhou, X^#., Zhao, C., Guo, L., Zhang, J., Liu, F., Huo, Q., Zhao, W., Guo, Z., Chen X*. (2023) Phosphorylation and ubiquitination of OsWRKY31 are integral to OsMKK10-2-mediated defense responses in rice. Plant Cell 35:2391-2412. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad064 (# Co-First Author)

3. Xing Q^#., Zhou X^#., Cao Y., Peng J., Zhang W., Wang X., Wu J., Yan J*. (2023) The woody plant-degrading pathogen Lasiodiplodia theobromae effector LtCre1 targets the grapevine sugar signaling protein VvRHIP1 to suppress host immunity. Journal of Experimental Botany 74: 2768–2785 https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad055 (# Co-First Author)

4. Jiang D., He Y., Zhou X., Cao Z., Pang L., Zhong S., Jiang L., and Li R*. (2022) Arabidopsis HOPS subunit VPS41 carries out plant-specific roles in vacuolar transport and developmental regulation. Plant Physiology 189; 1416–1434

5. Liu J., Chen X., Liang X., Zhou X., Yang F., Liu J., He S., Guo Z*. (2016) Alternative splicing of rice WRKY62 and WRKY76 transcription factor genes in pathogen defense. Plant physiology 171(2):142