Gao Zhimin, professor and doctoral supervisor, serves as Director of Research Institute of Genetic Sciences of Bamboo and Rattan Resources of the International Centre for Bamboo and Rattan (ICBR).

He is a dynamic scientist in the field of Forest Tree Genetics and Breeding, who is working on the molecular basis of growth and development for bamboo and rattan. He has made outstanding achievements in bamboo and rattan genomics and functional gene research, and has successively presided over more than 10 national and provincial level research projects. His representative achievements have been published in the journals of Nature Genetics, Nature Communications and Plant Physiology, etc. He is the editorial board member of Scientia Silvae Sinicae, Forestry Science Research and World Bamboo and Rattan. He has been honored as an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the national ecological construction, an outstanding forestry science and technology worker in China, and an Communist Party member of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration. He was selected into the "Hundred Thousand Talent Project" of the State Forestry Administration and enjoys the special allowance of the State Council.

Email:gaozhimin@icbr.ac.cn

The main papers published in recent years are as follows:

[1] Zhu C, Lin Z, Yang K, Lou Y, Liu Y, Li T, Li H, Di X, Wang J, Sun H, Li Y, Li X, Gao Z*. A bamboo 'PeSAPK4-PeMYB99-PeTIP4-3' regulatory model involved in water transport[J]. New Phytologist, 2024, 243(1): 195-212.

[2] Liu Y, Zhu C, Yue X, Lin Z, Li H, Di X, Wang J, Gao Z*. Evolutionary relationship of moso bamboo forms and a multihormone regulatory cascade involving culm shape variation[J]. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 2024, 22(9): 2578-2592.

[3] Yang K, Li Z, Zhu C, Liu Y, Li H, Di X, Song X, Ren H, Gao Z*. A hierarchical ubiquitination-mediated regulatory module controls bamboo lignin biosynthesis[J]. Plant Physiology, 2024, kiae480.

[4] Zhu C, Lin Z, Liu Y, Li H, Di X, Li T, Wang J, Gao Z*. A bamboo HD-Zip transcription factor PeHDZ72 conferred drought tolerance by promoting sugar and water transport[J]. Plant, Cell & Environment, 2024, doi: 10.1111/pce.15105.

[5] Li T, Lin Z, Zhu C, Yang K, Sun H, Li H, Wang J, Gao Z*. Identification and characterization of FBA genes in moso bamboo reveals PeFBA8 related to photosynthetic carbon metabolism[J]. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2024, 275(Pt 1): 132885.

[6] Lin Z, Zhu C, Liu Y, Li H, Li T, Di X, Wang J, Yang K, Sun H, Gao Z*. Identification of pectin acetylesterase genes in moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) reveals PePAE6 involved in pectin accumulation of leaves[J]. Industrial Crops & Products, 2024, 222: 119650.

[7] Liu Y, Zhu C, Lin Z, Li H, Di X, Yue X, Gao Z*. Systematic identification and validation of the reference genes from 446 transcriptome datasets of moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis)[J]. Horticultural Plant Journal, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.hpj.2023.11.007.

[8] Zhu C, Lin Z, Liu Y, Li H, Di X, Li T, Wang J, Gao Z*. A bamboo bHLH transcription factor PeRHL4 has dual functions in enhancing drought and phosphorus starvation tolerance[J]. Plant, Cell & Environment, 2024, 47(8): 3015-3029.

[9] Sun H Y, Lou Y F, Li H, Di X L, Gao Z*. Unveiling the intrinsic mechanism of photoprotection in bamboo under high light[J]. Industrial Crops & Products, 2024, 209: 118049.

[10] Sun H, Wang S, Yang K, Zhu C, Liu Y, Gao Z*. Development of dual-visible reporter assays to determine the DNA-protein interaction[J]. The Plant Journal, 2023, 113(5): 1095-1101.

[11] Li Y, Zhang D, Zhang S, Lou Y, An X, Jiang Z, Gao Z*. Transcriptome and miRNAome analysis reveals components regulating tissue differentiation of bamboo shoots[J]. Plant Physiology, 2022, 188(4): 2182-2198.

[12] Yang K, Zhu C, Zhang J, Li Z, Yuan T, Song X, Gao Z*. Nitrogen fertilization in bamboo forest accelerates the shoot growth and alters the lignification process in shoots[J]. Industrial Crops and Products, 2022, 187: 115368.

[13] Yang K, Li L, Lou Y, Zhu C, Li X, Gao Z*. A regulatory network driving shoot lignification in rapidly growing bamboo[J]. Plant Physiology, 2021, 187(2): 900-916.

[14] Zhao H, Sun S, Ding Y, Wang Y, Yue X, Du X, Wei Q, Fan G, Sun H, Lou Y, Yang H, Wang J, Xu X, Li L, Yang K, Xu H, Wang J, Zhu C, Wang S, Shan X, Hou Y, Wang Y, Fei B, Liu X, Jiang Z, Gao Z*. Analysis of 427 genomes reveals moso bamboo population structure and genetic basis of property traits[J]. Nature Communications, 2021, 12(1): 5466.