Dr. Yang Yaodong 

Professor.

Coconut Research Institute (CRI)

Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS)

Address: No 496, Wenqing Av., Wenchang, 571339, P.R. China

Phone: +86-898-63330470

Fax: +86-898-63330673

E-mail:yyang@catas.cn

Education Background

Yang Yaodong, an Agricultural biotechnologist, received his BSc degree of Marine Biology (1989) from the China Ocean University, China; MSc in Aquaculture from University of Ghent, Belgium and his PhD in Plant Cell and Molecular Biology (2004) from the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Research Area

Dr.Yang joined CATAS in December 2010, bringing more than 15 years’ experience in plant cell and molecular biology research. He worked as a postdoc researcher in Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and as a Research associate in Delaware Biotechnology Institute (USA) for 5 years. Dr. Yang has a solid background in plant cell and molecular biology with emphasis on protein and membrane trafficking and targeting, auxin transport, cell to cell communication and macromolecule trafficking, cold-responsive and adaptation of tropical oil crops, and fat acid synthesis and metabolism regulation, a keen interest in development of molecular markers and functional gene and trait analysis of excellent trait for tropical oil crops, and to carry out important agronomic trait QTL association analysis and positioning for tropical oil crops. In recent years, more than 30 peers-reviewed SCI papers (with total IF>107) have been published on the top journals like The Plant Cell, Nature Cell biology, Current Biology, Plant physiology and so on. As leading scientist of the biotechnology division, Dr.Yang responsible for ensuring the quality and scientific relevance of the research programs and for making sure that the research area under his leadership is regularly reviewed and assessed.

Main Projects

1. Funding for the high-level study abroad talent returning work project of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China (2011)

2. Researches were supported by the International Science and Technology Cooperation projects of Hainan Province [#KJHZ2014-24]

3. The Fundamental Scientific Research Funds for Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences [CATAS-No.1630152017019 and 17CXTD-28]

4. Role of transcription factors EgWRI1s in regulating the differential fatty acid composition formation in oil palm, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC: 31870670)

Main Publications

[1] Yaodong Yang, Ulrich Z. Hammes, Christopher G. Taylor, Daniel P. Schachtman, and Erik Nielsen (2006) High-Affinity Auxin Transport by the AUX1 Influx Carrier Protein.  Current Biology 16: 1160-1160 (SCI IF2006=10.988)

[2]Yaodong Yang, Rabab el Amawi, Julia Bubeck, Rainer Pepperkok, Christophe Ritzenthaler, and David G. Robinson (2005) Dynamics of COPII vesicles and the Golgi apparatus in cultured Nicotiana tabacum BY-2 cells provides evidence for transient association of Golgi stacks with endoplasmic reticulum exit sites.. Plant Cell 17(5): 1513–1531 (SCI IF2005=11.088)

[3]Swarup, K*., Swarup, R*., Benkova, E*., Casimiro, I*., Péret. B*., Yang, Y., Carrier, D., Nielson, E., De Smet, I., Vaneste, S., Parry, G., James, N., Calvo, V., Ljung, K., Kramer, E.M., Graham, N., Marillonnet, S., Patel, K., Jones, J.D.G., Taylor, C.G., Schachtman, D.P., May, S.T., Sandberg, G., Friml, J., Kerr, I., Beeckman, T., Laplaze, L. and Bennett, M.J. (2008) The auxin influx carrier LAX3 promotes lateral root emergence. Nature Cell Biology 10:946-954. （SCI IF2008=17.776）

[4]Gili Ben-Nissan*, Weier Cui*, Dong-Jin Kim*, Yaodong Yang*, Byung-Chun Yoo, Jung-Youn Lee (2008). Arabidopsis Casein Kinase 1-Like 6 (CKL6) Contains Microtubule-Binding Domain and Affects Organization of Cortical Microtubules Plant Physiol. 148:1897-1907（SCI IF2008=6.367）*Co-first author

[5]Inmaculada Contreras*, Yaodong Yang*, David G. Robinson, and Fernando Aniento (2004) Sorting Signals in the Cytosolic Tail of Plant p24 Proteins Involved in the Interaction with the COPII Coat. Plant Cell Physiol. 45: 1779-1786 (SCI IF2004=3.25) *Co-first author

[6]Gili Ben-Nissan, Yaodong Yang, Jung-Youn Lee. (2010) Partitioning of Casein Kinase 1-like 6 to Late Endosome-like Vesicles Protoplasma. 2010 Apr; 240(1-4):45-56.

[7]Benjamin Péret, Kamal Swarup, Alison Ferguson, Malvika Seth, Yaodong Yang,  Stijn Dhondtc,  Nicholas James, Ilda Casimiro, Paula Perry,  Adnan Syed, Haibing Yang, Jesica Reemmer, Edward Venison,  Caroline Howells,  Miguel A. Perez-Amador,Jeonga Yun, Jose Alonso, Gerrit T.S. Beemster,  Laurent Laplaze,  Angus Murphy, Malcolm J. Bennett,Erik Nielsen and Ranjan Swarup. （2012）AUX/LAX Genes Encode a Family of Auxin Influx Transporters That Perform Distinct Functions during Arabidopsis Development. Plant Cell  (IF2011=8.958) Jul;24(7):2874-85.

[8]Yong Xiao, Yaodong Yang#, Hongxing Cao, Haikuo Fan, Zilong Ma, Xintao Lei1, Annaliese S. Mason , Zhihui Xia, Xi Huang. (2012) Efficient isolation of high quality RNA from tropical palms for RNA-seq analysis. Plant Omics 5(6):584-589, 2012 (#Corresponding Author)

[9] Haikuo Fan, Yong Xiao, Yaodong Yang#, Wei Xia, Annaliese S. Mason, Zhihui Xia, Fei Qiao, Songlin Zhao, Haoru Tang. (2013) RNA-Seq analysis of Cocos nucifera: transcriptome sequencing and de novo assembly for subsequent functional genomics approaches. PLoS ONE 8(3): e59997. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059997, (#Corresponding Author).

[10]Yong Xiao, Yi Luo, Yaodong Yang#, Haikuo Fan, Songlin Zhao, Ross Sager and  Fei Qiao. (2013)Development of microsatellite markers in Cocos nucifera and their application in evaluating the level of genetic diversity of Cocos nucifera. Plant Omics 6(3):193 -200 (#Corresponding Author).

[11]Xiao Yong, Wei Xia, Yaodong Yang#, Annaliese S. Mason, Xintao Lei, Zilong Ma (2013) Characterization and evolution of conserved miRNA through duplication events in date palm (Phoenix dactylifera)  PloS ONE 8(8): e71435. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071435 (#Corresponding Author).

[12]Wei Xia, Yong Xiao, Zheng Liu, Yi Luo, AnnalieseS. Mason, Haikuo Fan, Yaodong Yang, Songlin Zhao, Ming Peng (2014) Development of gene-based simple sequence repeat markers for association analysis in Cocos nucifera. Molecular Breeding 01/2014; DOI:10.1007/s11032-014-0055-x

[13]Wei Xia, Zheng Liu, Yaodong Yang#, Yong Xiao, Annaliese S. Mason, Songlin Zhao, Zilong Ma. (2014) Selection of reference genes for quantitative real-time PCR in Cocos nucifera during abiotic stress. Botany 2014, 92(3): 179-186, 10.1139/cjb-2013-0212  (#Corresponding Author)

[14]Wei Xia*, Annaliese S Mason, Yong Xiao, Zheng Liu, Yaodong Yang, Xintao Lei, Xiaoming Wu, Zilong Ma, Ming Peng (2014) Analysis of multiple transcriptomes of the African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) to identify reference genes for RT-qPCR. Journal of Biotechnology 05/2014.

[15]Numrah Nisar, Amber Aleem, Faiza Saleem, Fakhra Aslam, Ammara Shahid, Hina Chaudhry, Kausar Malik, Abdulhadi Albaser, Amjad Iqbal, Rashad Qadri, Yaodong Yang# (2017) Reduction of reactive red 241 by oxygen insensitive azoreductase purified from a novel strain Staphylococcus KU898286. PLoS ONE 12(5): e0175551. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0175551，(#Corresponding Author)

[16]Yong Xiao; Pengwei Xu; Haikuo Fan; Luc Baudouin; Wei Xia; Stéphanie Bocs; Junyang Xu; Qiong Li; Anping Guo; Lixia Zhou; Jing Li; Yi Wu; Zilong Ma; Alix Armero; Auguste Emmanuel Issali; Na Liu; Ming Peng; Yaodong Yang# (2017) The genome draft of coconut (Cocos nucifera). GigaScience 6(11):1-11 (#Corresponding Author) （IF=7.267）

[17]Rashad Qadri, Amjad Iqbal, Yi Wu, Jing Li and Yaodong Yang#（2018）A modified protocol for total RNA isolation from different oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) tissues using cetyltrimethylammonium bromide. Current Science (2018, #Corresponding Author) (IF=0.883)

[18]Amjad Iqbal*, Yaodong Yang#, Rashad Qadri, Yi Wu, Jing Li, Farooq Shah, Muhammad Hamayun and Anwar Hussain (2018) QRREM method for the isolation of high quality RNA from the complex matrices of coconut. Bioscience Reports  (#Corresponding Author) (IF=2.899) https://doi.org/10.1042/BSR20181163

[19]Yi Wu, Yaodong Yang#, Rashad Qadri, Amjad Iqbal, Jing Li, Haikuo Fan, Yaoting Wu* （2018）Development of SSR Markers for Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) by Selectively Amplified Microsatellite (SAM) and Its Applications. Tropical plant biology，DOI: 10.1007/s12042-018-9215-1  (#Corresponding Author) (IF=1.686)

[20]Amjad Iqbal, Yaodong Yang#, Farooq Shah, Tariq Shah, Muhammad Hamayun, Anwar Hussain, Zafar Hayat Khan (2019). Efficient, cheap and reliable method for the extraction of gDNA from the hard and complex tissues of coconut. Fresenius Environmental Bulletin. (#Corresponding Author)