Li-Rong Zeng

Postdoctoral Associate

Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from Ohio State University

Research Summary

Lirong is investigating the role of plant LysM receptors in the immune response and, correspondingly, the role that some bacterial virulence proteins may play in interfering with these receptors.

Publications

Vega-Sánchez, M.E.*, Zeng, L.*, Chen,S., Leung, H., and Wang, G.L. 2008. SPIN1, a K homology domain protein negatively regulated and ubiquitinated by the E3 ligase SPL11, is involved in flowering time control in rice. Plant Cell (* signifies co-first authors)

Rosebrock, T.R., Zeng, L., Brady, J.J., Abramovitch, R.B., Xiao, F., and Martin, G.B. 2007. A bacterial E3 ubiquitin ligase targets a host protein kinase to disrupt plant immunity. Nature 448(7151): 370-374

Zeng, L., Vega-Sanchez, M.E., Zhu, T., and Wang, G.L. 2006. Ubiquitination-mediated protein degradation and modification: an emerging theme in plant-microbe interactions. Cell Res 16(5): 413-426

Qu, S., Liu, G., Zhou, B., Bellizzi, M., Zeng, L., Dai, L., Han, B., and Wang, G.L. 2006. The broad-spectrum blast resistance gene Pi9 encodes a nucleotide-binding site-leucine-rich repeat protein and is a member of a multigene family in rice. Genetics 172(3): 1901-1914

Zeng, L., Qu, S., Bordeos, A., Yang, C., Baraoidan, M., Yan, H., Xie, Q., Nahm, B.H., Leung, H., and Wang, G.L. 2004. Spotted leaf11, a negative regulator of plant cell death and defense, encodes a U-box/armadillo repeat protein endowed with E3 ubiquitin ligase activity. Plant Cell 16(10): 2795-2808

Wang, G.L., Wu, C., Zeng, L., He, C., Baraoidan, M., de Assis Goes da Silva, F., Williams, C.E., Ronald, P.C., and Leung, H. 2004. Isolation and characterization of rice mutants compromised in Xa21-mediated resistance to X. oryzae pv. oryzae. Theor Appl Genet 108(3): 379-384

Liu, G., Qu, S., Zhou, B., Zeng, L., and Wang, G.L. 2004. Broad-spectrum resistance genes Pi2(t) and Pi9(t) are clustered on chromosome 6. in Proceedings of the 3rd International Rice Blast Conference Rice Blast: Interaction with Rice and Control (ed. S. Kawasaki), pp. 79-86. Kluwer Academic Publishers, ordrecht, The Netherlands

Zeng, L., Yin, Z., Chen, J., Leung, H., and Wang, G.L. 2002. Fine genetic mapping and physical delimitation of the lesion mimic gene Spl11 to a 160-kb DNA segment of the rice genome. Mol Genet Genomics 268(2): 253-261

Liu, G., Lu, G., Zeng, L., and Wang, G.L. 2002. Two broad-spectrum blast resistance genes, Pi9(t) and Pi2(t), are physically linked on rice chromosome 6. Mol Genet Genomics 267(4): 472-480

Wang, G.L., He, C.-Z., Wu, J., Yin, Z., Baraoidan, M., Zeng, L., Ronald, P.C., Khush, G.S., and Leung, H. 2000. Genetic Dissection of Disease Resistance Pathways in Rice. in Advances in Rice Blast Research (ed. L. M.H., N. J.L., T. N.J., and T. D.), pp. 63-72. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands

Yin, Z., Chen, J., Zeng, L., Goh, M., Leung, H., Khush, G.S., and Wang, G.L. 2000. Characterizing rice lesion mimic mutants and identifying a mutant with broad-spectrum resistance to rice blast and bacterial blight. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 13(8): 869-876

Zeng, L., Zhang, E.-X., Lin, Z., Yu, L., and Xiao, X. 1999. Studies on the stability of Cu, Zn-SOD in Grassostrea rivularis. J Oceanography Taiwan Strait 18(1): 87-91

Zeng, L., Zhang, E.-X., Lin, Z., and Yu, L. 1998. Purification and Characterization of Copper-Zinc Superoxide Dismutase from Ostrea rivularis Gould. Chinese J Biochem Mol Biol 14(5): 583-587

He, J., Dai, J., Zhou, Y., Zhang, H., Liu, X., Ou, S., Zhou, M., Yang Y., Zeng, L. 1994. Theory of Ecological Heredity in Male sterility and two-line hybrid plants (II) General Procedures for the Selection of Ecological Male Sterile Wheat Lines Proc Hunan Agricultural Univ 5: 412-417