Wen Yingqiang
Professor
Horticulture
Northwest A&F University
China
Biography
Wen Yingqiang, male, born in October 1974, Huxian，Shaanxi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, tutor for graduates. Graduated from Northwest Agricultural College with bachelor of Pomology in 1997 and worked in the same school so far. 2002, 2011 graduated from Northwest A&F University with a master degree in pomology and with a doctorate degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 11/2007~09/2010, as a visiting Ph.D. student sponsored by Chinese government to go to Professor Shunyuan Xiao’s lab at the University of Maryland to study the mechanism of non-host resistance in plants.
Research Interest
（i） the mechanism of disease resistance and drought tolerance in grape using omics tools; （ii） fruit quality formation in grape.
Publications
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Wang, Wenming, Wen, Yingqiang, Berkey, Robert, and Xiao, Shunyuan. （2009） Specific targeting of RPW8.2 to the interfacial membrane encasing the fungal haustorium renders broad-spectrum resistance to powdery mildew in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 21, 2898-2913
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Wenming Wang, Robert Berkey, Yingqiang Wen, and Shunyuan Xiao. （2010） Accurate and adequate spatiotemporal expression and localization of RPW8.2 is key to activation of resistance at the host-pathogen interface. Plant signaling & behavior, 5:8, 1002-1005
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Yingqiang Wen, Wenming Wang, Jiayue Feng, Ming-Cheng Luo, Kenichi Tsuda, Fumiaki Katagiri, Gary Bauchan and Shunyuan Xiao. （2011） Identification and utilization of a Sow thistle powdery mildew as a poorly-adapted pathogen to dissect post-invasion nonhost resistance mechanisms in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany, 62, 2117-2129
