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Genomes and GenesSpecies | Shucai WangSummaryAffiliation: Northeast Normal University Location: Changchun, China Summary: My research mainly focuses on the roles of transcription factors on signalling transduction and plant growth and development,including single MYBs regulated trichome patterning, ARFS mediated auxin signalling, ethylene regulated plant growth and development. If you are interested in any of the projects, you are welcome to join my lab. Currently I have postdoc and graduate student positions open. Foreigners are welcome! Publications
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Role of a heterotrimeric G protein in regulation of Arabidopsis seed germinationHemayet Ullah
Department of Agronomy, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, People s Republic of China
Plant Physiol 129:897-907. 2002..A lack of BR responsiveness is also apparent in gpa1 roots and hypocotyls suggesting that BR signal transduction is likely coupled by a heterotrimeric G protein at various points in plant development...
OVATE FAMILY PROTEIN4 (OFP4) interaction with KNAT7 regulates secondary cell wall formation in Arabidopsis thalianaEryang Li
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Plant J 67:328-41. 2011..We propose that KNAT7 forms a functional complex with OFP proteins to regulate aspects of secondary cell wall formation...- SNP discovery in black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) by population transcriptome resequencingArmando Geraldes
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Mol Ecol Resour 11:81-92. 2011..We hope that this resource will stimulate further research in expression profiling, detection of alternative splicing and adaptive evolution in poplar... - Involvement of Arabidopsis RACK1 in protein translation and its regulation by abscisic acidJianjun Guo
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Plant Physiol 155:370-83. 2011..Taken together, these results suggest that RACK1 may be required for normal production of 60S and 80S ribosomes and that its action in these processes may be regulated by ABA... - Temporal control of trichome distribution by microRNA156-targeted SPL genes in Arabidopsis thalianaNan Yu
National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, 200032 Shanghai, PR China
Plant Cell 22:2322-35. 2010..These results demonstrate that the miR156-regulated SPLs establish a direct link between developmental programming and trichome distribution... - Distinct relationships between GLABRA2 and single-repeat R3 MYB transcription factors in the regulation of trichome and root hair patterning in ArabidopsisShucai Wang
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4
New Phytol 185:387-400. 2010..These findings reveal distinct relationships between GL2 and single MYBs in the regulation of trichome vs root hair development, and provide new insights into the molecular mechanism of epidermal patterning... - Dissection of the relationship between RACK1 and heterotrimeric G-proteins in ArabidopsisJianjun Guo
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada
Plant Cell Physiol 50:1681-94. 2009..Taken together, these findings revealed some fundamental differences in the relationship of RACK1 and G-proteins between Arabidopsis and mammals... - Arabidopsis mitogen-activated protein kinase MPK12 interacts with the MAPK phosphatase IBR5 and regulates auxin signalingJin Suk Lee
Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Plant J 57:975-85. 2009..Our results demonstrate that IBR5 is a bona fide MAPK phosphatase, and suggest that MPK12 is both a physiological substrate of IBR5 and a novel negative regulator of auxin signaling in Arabidopsis... - Arabidopsis transient expression analysis reveals that activation of GLABRA2 may require concurrent binding of GLABRA1 and GLABRA3 to the promoter of GLABRA2Shucai Wang
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Plant Cell Physiol 49:1792-804. 2008..These results provide new insight into the interplay of GL1 and GL3 transcription factors in the activation of GL2... - Comprehensive analysis of single-repeat R3 MYB proteins in epidermal cell patterning and their transcriptional regulation in ArabidopsisShucai Wang
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
BMC Plant Biol 8:81. 2008..In addition, the transcriptional regulation of these single-repeat R3 MYB genes remains largely unknown... - Loss-of-function mutations in the Arabidopsis heterotrimeric G-protein alpha subunit enhance the developmental defects of brassinosteroid signaling and biosynthesis mutantsYajun Gao
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
Plant Cell Physiol 49:1013-24. 2008..Taken together, these results provided the first genetic evidence that G-protein- and BR-mediated pathways may be converged to modulate cell proliferation in a cell/tissue-specific manner... 
TRICHOMELESS1 regulates trichome patterning by suppressing GLABRA1 in ArabidopsisShucai Wang
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Development 134:3873-82. 2007..These results provide the first molecular and genetic evidence that an R3 MYB may negatively regulate trichome cell specification in a novel manner by directly suppressing the transcription of GL1...- Arabidopsis Ovate Family Protein 1 is a transcriptional repressor that suppresses cell elongationShucai Wang
Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Plant J 50:858-72. 2007..Taken together, our results indicate that AtOFP1 is an active transcriptional repressor that has a role in regulating cell elongation in plants... - Transfection assays with protoplasts containing integrated reporter genesShiv Tiwari
Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
Methods Mol Biol 323:237-44. 2006..A protocol for carrying out transient expression assays with Arabidopsis leaf mesophyll protoplasts containing single-copy integrated reporter genes is described... - NPH4/ARF7 and ARF19 promote leaf expansion and auxin-induced lateral root formationJill C Wilmoth
Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB no 3280, Coker Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3280, USA
Plant J 43:118-30. 2005..Auxin induces the ARF19 gene, and NPH4/ARF7 and ARF19 together are required for expression of one of the arf19 mutant alleles, suggesting that a positive feedback loop regulates leaf expansion and/or lateral root induction... - AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR7 restores the expression of auxin-responsive genes in mutant Arabidopsis leaf mesophyll protoplastsShucai Wang
Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
Plant Cell 17:1979-93. 2005..In the presence of auxin, however, brassinolide modestly enhanced auxin-responsive gene expression... - Functional characterization of TRICHOMELESS2, a new single-repeat R3 MYB transcription factor in the regulation of trichome patterning in ArabidopsisLijun Gan
College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
BMC Plant Biol 11:176. 2011..Previously we identified a novel single-repeat MYB transcription factor, TRICHOMELESS1 (TCL1), which negatively regulates trichome formation on the inflorescence stems and pedicels by directly suppressing the expression of GL1... - Arabidopsis ovate family proteins, a novel transcriptional repressor family, control multiple aspects of plant growth and developmentShucai Wang
Key Laboratory of Molecular Epigenetics of MOE and Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
PLoS ONE 6:e23896. 2011....