Renyi Liu

Renyi Liu
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University | FAFU

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September 2007 - present
University of California, Riverside
January 2006 - August 2007
January 2003 - December 2005
University of Georgia

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The publication of several high‐quality genomes has contributed greatly to clarifying the evolution of citrus. However, due to their complex genetic backgrounds, the origins and evolution of many citrus species remain unclear. We assembled de novo the 294‐Mbp chromosome‐level genome of a more than 200‐year‐old primitive papeda (DYC002). Comparison...
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Balclutha incisa (Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), a leafhopper prevalent in tropical and temperate regions, is notably abundant in grasses and rice. The virome of B. incisa was investigated using deep transcriptome sequencing, leading to the first identification of four viruses belonging to the families Aliusviridae, Iflaviridae, and Totiviridae in...
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Transposable elements (TEs) significantly contribute to the evolution and diversity of plant genomes. In this study, we explored the roles of TEs in the genomes of Citrus and Citrus-related genera by constructing a pan-genome TE library from 20 published genomes of Citrus and Citrus-related accessions. Our results revealed an increase in TE content...
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Leafhoppers are economically important pests and may serve as vectors for pathogenic viruses that cause substantial crop damage. In this study, using deep transcriptome sequencing, we identified three novel viruses within the order Mononegavirales, including two viruses belonging to the family Rhabdoviridae and one to the family Lispiviridae. The c...
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Pyrops candelaria is one of the common pests of fruit trees, but the research on the pathogenic microorganisms it may carry is very limited. Therefore, it is essential to reveal the pathogenic microbes it carries and their potential hazards. This study found a new virus from the transcriptome of P. candelaria, which was first reported in P. candela...
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Pyrops candelaria is one of the common pests of fruit trees, but the research on the pathogenic microorganisms it may carry is very limited. Therefore, it is essential to reveal the pathogenic microbes it carries and their potential hazards. This study found a new virus from the transcriptome of P. candelaria, which was first reported in P. candela...
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Transposable elements (TEs) make up a large portion of plant genomes and play a vital role in genome structure, function, and evolution. Cultivated strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) is one of the most important fruit crops, and its octoploid genome was formed through several rounds of genome duplications from diploid ancestors. Here, we built a pan-...
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Konjac glucomannan (KGM) is a naturally occurring macromolecular polysaccharide that exhibits remarkable film–forming and gel–forming properties, and a high degree of biocompatibility and biodegradability. The helical structure of KGM is maintained by the acetyl group, which plays a crucial role in preserving its structural integrity. Various degra...
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Konjac glucomannan (KGM) is a natural polysaccharide extracted from konjac tubers that has a topological structure composed of glucose and mannose. KGM can be used as a gel carrier to load active molecules in food preservation. The three-dimensional gel network structure based on KGM provides good protection for the loaded active molecules and allo...
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The aster leafhopper Macrosteles fascifrons is a common insect pest that feeds on rice and other plants and may serve as a vector to transmit various viruses. Here, we discovered a novel virus from M. fascifrons using metagenomic sequencing. We obtained its complete genome sequence by contig assembly and rapid amplification of cDNA ends, and verifi...
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Specialized metabolites not only play important roles in biotic and abiotic stress adaptation of tea plants (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) but also contribute to the unique flavor of tea, the most important nonalcoholic beverage. However, the molecular networks and major genes that regulate specialized metabolites in tea plants are not well und...
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The leafhopper Recilia dorsalis (family Cicadellidae, tribe Deltocephalini) is a common pest of rice and a transmitter of various viruses. Here, we discovered a novel virus in an R. dorsalis sample and determined its complete genome sequence by metagenomic sequencing and rapid amplification of cDNA ends. Based on a homology search and phylogenetic...
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Root microbiota is important for plant growth and fitness. Little is known about whether and how the assembly of root microbiota may be controlled by epigenetic regulation, which is crucial for gene transcription and genome stability. Here we show that dysfunction of the histone demethylase IBM1 (INCREASE IN BONSAI METHYLATION 1) in Arabidopsis tha...
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Water deficit is one of the major constraints to crop production and food security worldwide. Some plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) strains are capable of increasing plant drought resistance. Knowledge about the mechanisms underlying bacteria-induced plant drought resistance is important for PGPR applications in agriculture. In this stud...
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The evolutionarily conserved target of rapamycin (TOR) kinase acts as a master regulator that coordinates cell proliferation and growth by integrating nutrient, energy, hormone and stress signals in all eukaryotes1,2. Research has focused mainly on TOR-regulated translation, but how TOR orchestrates the global transcriptional network remains unclea...
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Salicylic acid (SA) plays a crucial role in plant immunity. However, its function in plant development is poorly understood. The quiescent center (QC), which maintains columella stem cells (CSCs) in the root apical meristem and typically exhibits low levels of cell division, is critical for root growth and development. Here, we show that the Arabid...
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Jasmonate (JA) regulates various aspects of plant growth and development and stress responses, with prominent roles in male reproductive development and defenses against herbivores and necrotrophic pathogens. JASMONATE-ZIM DOMAIN (JAZ) proteins are key regulators in the JA signaling pathway and function to repress the expression of JA-responsive ge...
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Phosphorus and nitrogen nutrition have profound and complicated innate connections; however, underlying molecular mechanisms are mostly elusive. As a master phosphate signaling component, whether PHR1 directly functions in phosphorus/nitrogen crosstalk remains a particularly interesting question to be tackled. Unlike tip kernel abortion and ear sho...
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Background Plants are naturally associated with root microbiota, which are microbial communities influential to host fitness. Thus, it is important to understand how plants control root microbiota. Epigenetic factors regulate the readouts of genetic information and consequently many essential biological processes. However, it has been elusive wheth...
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TEOSINTE BRANCHED1/CYCLOIDEA/PCF (TCP) family genes, as plant-specific transcription factors, play vital roles in flower pattern, leaf development and plant architecture. Our recent study shows that the TCP gene BRANCHED1 (CsBRC1) specifically regulates shoot branching in cucumber. Here, we found CsBRC1 had a closely related paralogous gene CsBRC1-...
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The tea plant (Camellia sinensis) presents an excellent system to study evolution and diversification of the numerous classes, types and variable contents of specialized metabolites. Here, we investigate the relationship among C. sinensis phylogenetic groups and specialized metabolites using transcriptomic and metabolomic data on the fresh leaves c...
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Submergence and drought stresses are the main constraints to crop production worldwide. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are known to play a major role in plant response to various stresses. In this study, we analyzed the expression of maize and teosinte miRNAs by high-throughput sequencing of small RNA libraries in maize and its ancestor teosinte (Zea mays ssp....
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Chloroplasts mediate genetically controlled cell death via chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signaling. To decipher the mechanism, we examined chloroplast-linked lesion-mimic mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana deficient in plastid division, thereby developing gigantic chloroplasts (GC). These GC mutants, including crumpled leaf (crl), constitutively e...
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Root-associated soil bacteria can strongly influence plant fitness. DNA methylation is an epigenetic mark important to many fundamental biological processes; however, its roles in plant interactions with beneficial microbes remain elusive. Here, we report that active DNA demethylation in Arabidopsis controls root secretion of myo-inositol and conse...
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In species with compound leaves, the positions of leaflet primordium initiation are associated with local peaks of auxin accumulation. However, the role of auxin during the late developmental stages and outgrowth of compound leaves remains largely unknown. Using genome resequencing approaches, we identified insertion sites at four alleles of the LA...
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Domesticated crops with high yield and quality are frequently susceptible to pathogen attack, whereas enhancement of disease resistance generally compromises crop yield. The underlying mechanisms of how plant development and disease resistance are coordinately programed remain elusive. Here, we showed that the basic Helix-Loop-Helix (bHLH) transcri...
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The WUSCHEL-CLAVATA3 pathway genes play essential role in shoot apical meristem maintenance and floral organ development, and under intense selection during crop domestication. The carpel number is an important fruit trait affecting fruit shape, size, and internal quality in cucumber, but the molecular mechanism remains elusive. Here, we found that...
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Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) catalyzes repressive histone 3 lysine-27 trimethylation (H3K27me3) to mediate genome-wide transcriptional repression in plants and animals. PRC2 controls various developmental processes in plants and plays a critical role in the developmental transition to flowering. FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC), first identified in...
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Lateral organ development is essential for cucumber production. The protein kinase PINOID (PID) participates in distinct aspects of plant development by mediating polar auxin transport in different species. Here, we obtained a round leaf (rl) mutant that displayed extensive phenotypes including round leaf shape, inhibited tendril outgrowth, abnorma...
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Small signaling peptides, generated from larger protein precursors, are important components to orchestrate various plant processes such as development and immune responses. However, small signaling peptides involved in plant immunity remain largely unknown. Here, we developed a pipeline using transcriptomicsand proteomics‐based screening to identi...
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Shoot branching is an important agronomic trait that directly determines plant architecture and affects crop productivity. To promote crop yield and quality, axillary branches need to be manually removed during cucumber production for fresh market and thus are undesirable. Auxin is well known as the primary signal imposing for apical dominance and...
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Significance Feeding the increasing world population continues to be a great challenge in agriculture. In this study, we demonstrate that OsRac1 Rho-like GTPase from plants (ROP GTPase), an important signaling protein, promotes rice grain yield at least in part through its promotion of grain size. OsRac1 increases grain size by regulating OsMAPK6 a...
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Background: There have been few studies on the partial defoliation response of grass. It has been unclear how partial defoliation may affect roots at the levels of nutrient accumulation and transcriptional regulation. Hereby we report a comprehensive investigation on molecular impacts of partial defoliation by using a model grass species, Brachypo...
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Photodamage of the PSII reaction center (RC) is an inevitable process in an oxygen-rich environment. The damaged PSII RC proteins (Dam-PSII) undergo degradation via the thylakoid membrane-bound FtsH metalloprotease, followed by posttranslational assembly of PSII. While the effect of Dam-PSII on gene regulation is described for cyanobacteria, its ro...
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Persistent propagative plant viruses are usually transmitted between a vector insect and a host plant. To adapt to the two different organisms, viruses may show distinct genomic replication or gene expression patterns. To verify this hypothesis, we applied an aboslute real-time quantitative PCR method to measure and compare the replication levels o...
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Fruit length is a prominent agricultural trait during cucumber (Cucumis sativus) domestication and diversifying selection; however, the regulatory mechanisms of fruit elongation remain elusive. We identified two alleles of the FRUITFULL (FUL)-like MADS-box gene CsFUL1 with 3393C/A Single Nucleotide Polymorphism variation among 150 cucumber lines. W...
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The plant hormone auxin has crucial roles in almost all aspects of plant growth and development. Concentrations of auxin vary across different tissues, mediating distinct developmental outcomes and contributing to the functional diversity of auxin. However, the mechanisms that underlie these activities are poorly understood. Here we identify an aux...
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Broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) is the most water-efficient cereal and one of the earliest domesticated plants. Here we report its high-quality, chromosome-scale genome assembly using a combination of short-read sequencing, single-molecule real-time sequencing, Hi-C, and a high-density genetic map. Phylogenetic analyses reveal two sets of h...
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Chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signaling is essential for the coupled expression of photosynthesis-associated nuclear genes (PhANGs) and plastid genes (PhAPGs) to ensure the functional status of chloroplasts in plants. Although various signaling components involved in the process have been identified in Arabidopsis thaliana, the biological relev...
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Persistent plant viruses circulate between host plants and vector insects, possibly leading to the genetic divergence in viral populations. We analyzed the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of Rice stripe virus (RSV) when it incubated in the small brown planthopper and rice. Two SNPs, which lead to nonsynonymous substitutions in the disease-sp...
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Significance Using strawberry fruit as a model system, we uncover the mechanistic interactions between auxin, gibberellic acid (GA), and abscisic acid (ABA) that regulate the entire process of fruit development. Interlinked regulatory loops control ABA levels during fruit development. During the early stages, auxin/GA turns on a feedback loop to ac...
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Wheat spike development is a coordinated process of cell proliferation and differentiation with distinctive phases and architecture changes. However, the dynamic alteration of gene expression in this process remains enigmatic. Here, we characterized and dissected bread wheat spike into six developmental stages, and used genome-wide gene expression...
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Background: Most plant viruses depend on vector insects for transmission. Upon viral infection, virus-derived small interfering RNAs (vsiRNAs) can target both viral and host transcripts. Rice stripe virus (RSV) is a persistent-propagative virus transmitted by the small brown planthopper (Laodelphax striatellus, Fallen) and can cause a severe disea...
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Background: The majority of eukaryote genomes can be actively transcribed into non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), which are functionally important in development and evolution. In the study of maize, an important crop for both humans and animals, aside from microRNAs and long non-coding RNAs, few studies have been conducted on intermediate-size ncRNAs. Re...