Lu, Pingli, Associate Professor

Email: pinglilu@fudan.edu.cn

From 1996 to 2000, Pingli Lu studied horticultural science at Henan Agricultural University of China, obtaining his B.A. in Agriculture. In 2001, he went to China Agricultural University in Beijing for his Ph.D. study. He obtained his Ph.D in Plant Science from CAU in 2006. From 2007 to 2012, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Pennsylvania State University with Professor Hong Ma, studying plant meiotic recombination and anther development. In 2013, he became an associate professor at Fudan University, studying plant reproductive biology and crop genetics.

Research Interests

Dr. Pingli Lu is highly interested in plant reproductive development, such as molecular mechanisms controlling plant male fertility and meiotic recombination. The Lab also conducts crop genetics to make effort to improve rice performance.  

Awards

Shanghai Pujiang Program

Selected publications

1. Xu P, Su H, Chen W, and Lu P. (2018) The Application of a Meiocyte-Specific CRISPR/Cas9 (MSC) System and a Suicide-MSC System in Generating Inheritable and Stable Mutations in Arabidopsis. Front Plant Sci. 9, 1007.
2. Li X, Ye J, Ma H, and Lu P. (2018) Proteomic analysis of lysine acetylation provides strong evidence for involvement of acetylated proteins in plant meiosis and tapetum function. Plant J. 93, 142-154.
3. Ye J, Zhang Z, Long H, Zhang Z, Hong Y, Zhang X, You C, Liang W, Ma H, and Lu P. (2015) Proteomic and phosphoproteomic analyses reveal extensive phosphorylation of regulatory proteins in developing rice anthers. Plant J. 84, 527-544.
4. Lu P, Wijeratne A, Wang Z, Copenhaver G, and Ma H. (2014) Arabidopsis PTD is required for type I crossover formation and affects recombination frequency in two different chromosomal regions. J Genet Genomics. 41, 165-175.
5. Lu P, Chai M, Yang J, Ning G, Wang G, and Ma H. (2014) The Arabidopsis CALLOSE DEFECTIVE MICROSPORE1 gene is required for male fertility through regulating callose metabolism during microsporogenesis. Plant Physiol .164, 1893-1904.
6. Lu P, Han X, Qi J, Yang J, Wijeratne A, Li T, and Ma H. (2012) Analysis of Arabidopsis genome-wide variations before and after meiosis and meiotic recombination by resequencing Landsberg erecta and all four products of a single meiosis. Genome Res. 22, 508-518.
7. Yang H^*, Lu P^*, Wang Y, and Ma H. (2011) The transcriptome landscape of Arabidopsis male meiocytes from high-throughput sequencing: the complexity and evolution of the meiotic process. Plant J. 65, 503-516.