Jincheng Long

Personal Profile

Jun. 2022 – Present Principal Investigator, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences

Sep.2018 – Jun.2022 Postdoctoral researcher, John Innes Centre, UK

Jun. 2012 – Jun.2018 PhD student, China Agricultural University

Sep.2008 – Jun.2012 Undergraduate student, China Agricultural University

Research Work

Maize is one of the crops that are widely planted globally. Due to global warming, the frequency of extreme weather is increasing, which has already caused great yield loss of maize. The reproduction organ of maize, anther, is very sensitive to heat and therefore cannot produce health pollen when heat occurred, which influence kernel formation. Our lab is attempting to clone QTLs or genes that confer thermotolerance in maize anthers. Besides, we are also very interested in the question of how epigenetic regulatory pathways work during response of maize anther to heat.

Main Achievements

 

Publications

1. Long J#, Walker J#, She W#, Aldridge B, Gao H, Deans S, Vickers M, Feng X. (2021) Nurse cell-derived small RNA defined paternal epigenetic inheritance in Arabidopsis. Science 373:eabh0556. (# co-first author)

 

2. Long J#, Liu J#, Xia A#, Springer N, He Y. (2021) Maize decrease in DNA methylation 1 targets RNA-directed DNA methylation on active chromatin. Plant Cell 33:2183-2196.

 

3. Christophorou N, She W, Long J, Hurel A, Beaubiat S, Idir Y, Tagliaro-Jahns M, Chambon A, Solier V, Vezon D, Grelon M, Feng X, Bouché N, Mézard C. (2020) AXR1 affects DNA methylation independently of its role in regulating meiotic crossover localization. PLOS Genetics 16:e1008894.

 

4. Long J#, Xia A#, Liu J, Jing J, Wang Y, Qi C, He Y. (2019) Decrease in DNA methylation 1 (DDM1) is required for the formation of mCHH islands in maize. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 61:749-764.

 

5. Xue M#, Long J#, Jiang Q, Wang M, Chen S, Pang Q, He Y. (2015) Distinct patterns of the histone marks associated with recruitment of the methionine chain-elongation pathway from leucine biosynthesis. Journal of Experimental Botany 66:805-12.