Jiasen Cheng  

Position Title: Professor

Working Department: College of Plant Science and Technology

Email: jiasencheng@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Address: College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University,Wuhan, Hubei 430070, P.R. China

Research Interest

Plant-Pathogen Interaction

Pathogenesis of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea

Non-coding RNA in Fusarium graminearum

Professional Memberships

Member in CSPP (Chinese Society for Plant Pathology)

Member in APS (The American Phytopathological Society)

Member in GAS (Genetics Society of America)

Education

2003.09-2006.07, Sun Yat-sen University, Ph. D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

2000.09-2003.07, Huazhong Agricultural University, Master in Plant Pathology

1996.09-2000.07, Huazhong Agricultural University, Bachelor in Plant Protection

Working Experience

2016.12-present, Huazhong Agricultural University, Professor

2016.09-2017.09, Texas A&M Universit, Visiting Scholar, Visiting Scholar

2013.02-2014.02, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Visiting Scholar

2008.09-2016.12, Huazhong Agricultural University, Associate Professor

2006.06-2008.09, Sun Yat-sen University, Assistant Professor

Publications

1. Liguang Tang, Guogen Yang, Ming Ma, Xiaofan Liu, Bo Li, Jiatao Xie, Yanping Fu, Tao Chen, Yang Yu, Weidong Chen, Daohong Jiang, Jiasen Cheng*. 2020. An effector of a necrotrophic fungal pathogen targets the calcium-sensing receptor in chloroplasts to inhibit host resistance. Mol Plant Pathol. doi: 10.1111/mpp.12922. (IF: 4.36)

2. Xinqiang Liu, Jiatao Xie, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang, Tao Chen, Jiasen Cheng*. 2020. The Subtilisin-Like Protease Bcser2 Affects the Sclerotial Formation, Conidiation and Virulence of Botrytis cinerea. Int J Mol Sci. 21(2). pii: E603. (IF: 4.32)

3. Guogen Yang, Liguang Tang, Yingdi Gong, Jiatao Xie, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang, Guoqing Li, David B. Collinge, Weidong Chen, Jiasen Cheng*. 2018. A cerato-platanin protein SsCP1 targets plant PR1 and contributes to virulence of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. New Phytologist doi: 10.1111/nph.14842. (IF: 7.330)

4. Wenping Zeng, Jiewang Wang, Yin Wang, Jin Lin, Yanping Fu, Jiatao Xie, Daohong Jiang, Tao Chen, Huiquan Liu, Jiasen Cheng*. 2018. Dicer-Like Proteins Regulate Sexual Development via the Biogenesis of Perithecium-Specific MicroRNAs in a Plant Pathogenic Fungus Fusarium graminearum. Frontiers in Microbiology 9: 818. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00818. (IF: 4.019)

6. Yunkun Dang#, Jiasen Cheng#, Xianyun Sun, Zhipeng Zhou, Yi Liu*. 2016. Antisense transcription licenses nascent transcripts to mediate transcriptional gene silencing. Genes & Development 30: 2417-2432. (IF: 10.042)

7. Xueliang Lyu, Cuicui Shen, Yanping Fu, Jiatao Xie, Daohong Jiang, Guoqing Li, Jiasen Cheng*. 2016. A small secreted virulence-related protein is essential for the necrotrophic interactions of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum with its host plants. PLoS Pathogens 12(2): e1005435. (IF: 7.003)

8. Xueliang Lyu, Cuicui Shen, Yanping Fu, Jiatao Xie, Daohong Jiang, Guoqing Li, Jiasen Cheng*. 2016. The microbial opsin homolog Sop1 is involved in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum development and environmental stress response. Frontiers in Microbiology 6: 1504. (IF: 4.165)

9. Si Liu, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Bo Li, Tao Chen, Yanping Fu, Guoqing Li,Manqun Wang, Huanan Jin, Hu Wan, Daohong Jiang*. 2016. A Fungal DNA virus infects a mycophagous insect and utilizes it as a transmission vector. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1608013113. (IF: 9.423)

10. Xiaoli Zhang#, Xinqiang Liu#, Yanli Zhao, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang, Tao Chen*. 2016. Histone H3 Lysine 9 Methyltransferase DIM5 is required for the development and virulence of Botrytis cinerea. Frontiers in Microbiology 7: 1289. (IF: 4.165)

11. Xiaoxiang Yang , Hui Cui, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie, Daohong Jiang, Tom Hsiang, and Yanping Fu*. 2016. A HOPS protein, CmVps39, is required for vacuolar morphology, autophagy, conidiogenesis and mycoparasitism of Coniothyrium minitans. Environmental Microbiology doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.13334. (IF: 5.932)

12. Xueliang Lyu, Cuicui Shen, Yanping Fu, Jiatao Xie, Daohong Jiang, Guoqing Li, and Jiasen Cheng*. 2015. Comparative genomic and transcriptional analyses of the carbohydrate-active enzymes and secretomes of phytopathogenic fungi reveal their significant roles during infection and development. Scientific Reports 5: 15565. doi: 10.1038/srep15565. (IF: 5.228)

13. Xueliang Lyu, Cuicui Shen, Jiatao Xie, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang, Zijin Hu, Lihua Tang, Liguang Tang, Feng Ding, Kunfei Li, Songsong Wu, Yanping Hu, Lilian Luo, Yuanhao Li, Qihua Wang, Guoqing Li, Jiasen Cheng*. 2015. Genes associated with the plant carbon fixation pathway in a fungal plant pathogen. Scientific Reports 5: 12952. doi: 10.1038/srep12952. (IF: 5.228)

14. Yi Lou, Yongchao Han, Long Yang, Mingde Wu, Jing Zhang, Jiasen Cheng, Moying Wang, Daohong Jiang, Guoqing Li*. 2015. CmpacC regulates mycoparasitism, oxalate degradation and antifungal activity in the mycoparasitic fungus Coniothyrium minitans. Environmenatal Microbiology 17(11): 4711-4729. (IF: 5.932)

15. Lijiang Liu, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Yanping Fu, Guoqing Li, Xianhong Yi, Daohong Jiang*. 2014. Fungal negative-stranded RNA virus that is related to bornaviruses and nyaviruses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 111 (33): 12205-12210. (IF: 9.674)

16. Xueqiong Xiao, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Guoqing Li, Xianhong Yi, Daohong Jiang, Yanping Fu*. 2014. Novel secretory protein Ss-Caf1 of the plant-pathogenic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is required for host penetration and normal sclerotial development. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 27(1): 40-55. (IF: 3.944)

17. Xiao Yu#, Bo Li#, Yanping Fu, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Said A. Ghabrial, Li G, Xianhong Yi, Daohong Jiang*. 2013. Extracellular transmission of a DNA mycovirus and its use as a natural fungicide. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 110(4): 1452-1457. (IF: 9.809)

18. Wenjun Zhu, Wei Wei, Yanping Fu, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie, Guoqing Li, Xianhong Yi, Zensheng Kang, Dickman MB, Daohong Jiang*. 2013. A secretory protein of necrotrophic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum that suppresses host resistance. PLoS One 8(1): e53901. (IF: 3.534)

19. Wei Wei, Wenjun Zhu, Jiasen Cheng, Jiatao Xie, Bo Li, Daohong Jiang, Guoqing Li, Xianhong Yi, Yanping Fu*. 2013. CmPEX6, a gene involved in peroxisome biogenesis, is essential for parasitism and conidiation by the sclerotial parasite Coniothyrium minitans. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 79(12): 3658-66. (IF: 3.952)

20. Jiahong Zhou, Yanping Fu, Jiatao Xie, Bo Li, Daohong Jiang, Guoqing Li, Jiasen Cheng*. 2012. Identification of microRNA-like RNAs in a plant pathogenic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum by High-throughput sequencing. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 278(4): 275-282. (IF: 2.881)

21. Yang Yu, Daohong Jiang, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Guoqing Li, Xianhong Yi, Yanping Fu*. 2012. Ss-Sl2, a novel cell wall protein with PAN modules, is essential for sclerotial development and cellular integrity of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. PLoS One 7(4): e34962. (IF: 3.730)

22. Huiquan Liu, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang*, Guoqing Li, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Youliang Peng, Said A Ghabrial, and Xianhong Yi. 2011. Widespread Endogenization of Densoviruses and Parvoviruses in Animal and Human Genomes. Journal of Virology 85(19): 9863-9876. (IF: 5.402)

23. Xiao Yu#, Bo Li#, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang*, Said A Ghabrial, Guoqing Li, Youliang Peng, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Junbin Huang, and Xianhong Yi. 2011. A geminivirus-related DNA mycovirus that confers hypovirulence to a plant pathogenic fungus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 107:8387-8392. (IF: 9.681)

24. Huiquan Liu, Yanping Fu, Daohong Jiang*, Guoqing Li, Jiatao Xie, Jiasen Cheng, Youliang Peng, Said A Ghabrial, and Xianhong Yi. 2010. Widespread horizontal gene transfer from double-stranded RNA viruses to eukaryotic nuclear genomes. Journal of Virology 84: 1876-11887. (IF: 5.189)

25. Dongmin Kuang, Yan Wu, Nini Chen, Jiasen Cheng, Shimei Zhuang, Limin Zheng*. 2007. Tumor-derived hyaluronan induces formation of immunosuppressive macrophages through transient early activation of monocytes. Blood 110(2): 587-595. (IF 10.896)

26. Jiasen Cheng, Dehua Huo, Dongmin Kuang, Jine Yang, Limin Zheng, Shimei Zhuang*. 2007. Human Macrophages Promote the Motility and Invasiveness of Osteopontin- Knockdown Tumor Cells. Cancer Research 67(11): 5141-5147. (IF: 7.672)

27. Jiasen Cheng, Daohong Jiang*, Xianhong Yi, Yanping Fu, Guoqing Li and John M Whipps. 2003. Production, survival and efficacy of Coniothyrium minitans conidia produced in shaken liquid culture. FEMS Microbiology Letters 227 (1): 127-131. (IF: 1.932)

28. Jiasen Cheng, Daohong Jiang*, Yanping Fu, Guoqing Li, Youliang Peng and Said A Ghabrial. 2003. Molecular characterization of a dsRNA totivirus infecting the sclerotial parasite Coniothyrium minitans. Virus Research 93: 41-50. (IF: 1.719)