Research Direction: Redox signaling in plant

Office phone: +86(0)2788661237-8069

Email: shengchun_li@163.com

Education

03/2009-07/2013    Ph.D., Université Paris Sud, France

04/2011-05/2011    Short-term exchange (Alison BAKER'S Lab), Centre for Plant Sciences,

                                University of Leeds, UK

09/2008-02/2009    Ph.D. Candidate, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

09/ 2006-06/2008   M.S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China                    

09/2002-06/2006    B.E., Wuhan Polytechnic University, China                    

Work Experience

09/2023-                 College of Life Sciences, Hubei University,  Professor

07/2017-08/2023    College of Life Sciences, Hubei University,  Associate Professor

06/2015-06/2016    College of Life Sciences, Hubei University,  Lecturer

07/2014-05/2015    ABLife, Inc. (Wuhan, China)，Director of Scientific Department

10/2013-06/2014    Instititute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,

                                Visiting Scholar in Chentao Lin's Lab

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NO. 32071477), 01/2021-12/2024

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NO. 31700227), 01/2018-12/2020

Publications (*corresponding author, #equal contribution)

1.  Li S^*. (2023) Novel insight into functions of ascorbate peroxidase in plants: more than a simple antioxidant enzyme. Redox Biology 64, 102789. (IF₂₀₂₃ = 11.4)

2. Li S, Kim DS, Zhang J. (2023) Plastid-mediated RNA interference: a potential strategy for efficient insect pest control. Plant Cell & Environment 46, 2595–2605.

3. Yang S, Deng Y, Li S^*. (2022) Advances in plastid transformation for metabolic engineering in higher plants. aBIOTECH 3, 224–232.

4. Li S, Shen P, Wang B, Tian M, Chen T, Han Y. (2022) Modification of chloroplastic antioxidant capacity by plastid transformation technology in tobacco. Methods in Molecular Biology 2526, 3–13.

5. Chen Q, Shen P, Bock R, Li S^*, Zhang J^*. (2022) Comprehensive analysis of plastid gene expression during fruit development and ripening of kiwifruit. Plant Cell Reports 41, 1103–1114.

6. Li S^*, Ding H, Deng Y, Zhang J. (2021) Knockdown of quinolinate phosphoribosyltransferase results in decreased salicylic acid -mediated pathogen resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana. International Journal of Molecular Science 22, 8484.

7. Li S, Chang L, Zhang J. (2021) Advancing organelle genome transformation and editing for crop improvement. Plant Communications 2, 100141. (IF₂₀₂₃ = 10.5)

8. Zhang T, Ma M, Chen T, Zhang L, Fan L, Zhang W, Wei B, Zhang D, Li S, Xuan W, Noctor G, Han Y. (2020) Arabidopsis S-nitrosoglutathione reductase1 coordinates glutathione-mediated activation of salicylic acid pathway in response to intracellular oxidative stress. Plant Cell & Environment 43, 1175-1191.

9. Ding H, Wang B, Han Y, Li S*. (2020) Dehydroascorbate reductase, a pivotal regulator in ascorbate-glutathione pathway in plants. Journal of Experimental Botany 71, 3405-3416.

10. Xu S, Zhang Y, Li S, Chang L, Wu Y, Zhang J. (2020) Plastid-expressed Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cry3Bb confers high mortality to a leaf eating beetle in poplar. Plant Cell Reports 39, 317-323.

11. Durian G, Jeschke V, Vuorinen K, Rahikainen M, Gollan P, Glawischnig E, Winter Z, Li S, Noctor G, Aro EM, Kangasjärvi J, Overmyer K, Burow M, Kangasjärvi S. (2020) Protein phosphatase 2A-B′γ controls Botrytis cinerea resistance and developmental leaf senescence. Plant Physiology 182, 1161-1181.
    

12. Zhang Y, Xu L, Li S*, Zhang J*. (2019) Bacteria-mediated RNA interference for management of Plagiodera versicolora (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Insects 10, 415.

13. Wang B, Ding H, Chen Q, Ouyang L, Li S*, Zhang J*. (2019) Enhanced tolerance to methyl viologen-mediated oxidative stress via  AtGR2 expression from chloroplast genome. Frontiers in Plant Science 10, 1178.
    

14. Wu Y, Xu L, Chang L, Ma M, You L, Jiang C, Li S, Zhang J. (2019) Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cry1C expression from the plastid genome of poplar leads to high mortality of leaf eating caterpillars.Tree Physiology 39, 1525-1532.

15. You L, Song Q, Wu Y, Li S, Jiang C, Chang L, Yang X, Zhang J. (2019) Accumulation of glycine betaine in transplastomic potato plants expressing choline oxidase confers improved drought tolerance. Planta 249, 1963-1975.

16. Chen Q, Wang B, Ding H, Zhang J*, Li S*. (2019) The role of NADP-malic enzyme in plants under stress. Plant Science 281, 206-212.

17. Wu Y, You L, Li S, Ma M, Wu M, Ma L, Bock R, Chang L, Zhang J. (2017) In vivo assembly in Escherichia coli of transformation vectors for plastid genome engineering. Frontiers in Plant Science 8,1454.

18. Rahantaniaina MS, Li S,  Chatel-Innocenti G, Tuzet A, Mhamdi A, Vanacker H, Noctor G. (2017) Glutathione oxidation in response to intracellular H2O2: key but overlapping roles for dehydroascorbate reductases. Plant Signaling & Behavior 12, e1356531

19. Rahantaniaina MS^#, Li S^#, Chatel-Innocenti G, Andrée Tuzet A, Issakidis-Bourguet E, Mhamdi A, Noctor G. (2017) Chloroplastic and cytosolic dehydroascorbate reductases co-operate in oxidative stress-driven activation of the salicylic acid pathway. Plant Physiology 174, 956-971. 

20. Li S, Mhamdi A, Trotta A, Kangasjärvi S, Noctor G (2014) The protein phosphatase subunit PP2A-B'γ is required to suppress daylength-dependent pathogenesis responses triggered by intracellular oxidative stress. New Phytologist 202, 145-160.

21. Li S#, Mhamdi A#, Dizengremel P, Jolivet Y, Noctor G. (2013) Analysis of knockout mutants suggests that Arabidopsis NADP-MALIC ENZYME2 does not play an essential role in determining phenotypes or regulating redox state in response to oxidative stress of intracellular or extracellular origin. Journal of Experimental Botany 64, 3605-3614.