Biography
Bai Yang is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Life Sciences, Peking University, and a Principal Investigator at the Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cologne in 2010, and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research from 2011 to 2016. From 2016 to January 2024, he served as a Professor at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and contributed to the establishment of the China-UK Joint Research Centre on Plant and Microbial Sciences. In February 2024, he joined Peking University. His research focuses on rhizosphere microbiome–plant interactions, investigating crop growth and health from a "microbiota–host synergy" perspective. His findings have been published in journals including Cell, Nature, Science, and Nature Biotechnology. He has been named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher for 2022–2025 and has led key projects such as the National Key Research and Development Program. He is a recipient of the Thousand Young Talents Program, the National Ten-Thousand Talents Program (Leading Scientist), the Science Exploration Award, and the New Cornerstone Investigator Award. His major research achievements are summarized as follows:
1.Establishment of a systematic platform for rhizosphere microbial resources and functional studies. He overcame bottlenecks in rhizosphere microbial isolation and cultivation, building comprehensive strain and genomic resource libraries. In Arabidopsis, he achieved culturability for 64% of abundant bacteria and used synthetic communities to dissect community assembly mechanisms (Nature, 2015). In crops, he developed high-throughput cultivation and precise identification systems (Nature Protocols, 2021). He further constructed the first genome resource of crop rhizosphere bacteria and viruses (Cell, 2025), revealing conserved principles of root colonization and bacterium–virus interactions. From this work, he identified PcrIIC1, a natural enhancer of Cas9 derived from rhizosphere bacteria, which promotes Cas9 dimerization and enhances DNA cleavage activity (Nature, 2024).
2.Elucidation of the functions and mechanisms by which rhizosphere microbiota regulate crop traits. He demonstrated that rhizosphere microbes are as important as host genes in modulating rice tillering: the bacterium Exiguobacterium R2567 produces the cyclic dipeptide cyclo(Leu-Pro), which targets the strigolactone receptor to regulate tillering (Cell, 2025). From a microbiome perspective, he elucidated the mechanism underlying nitrogen-use efficiency in indica rice, revealing the role of NRT1.1B in mediating microbiome selection (Nature Biotechnology, 2019). He also identified beneficial bacteria that suppress wheat Fusarium head blight and characterized their molecular mechanisms (Nature Microbiology, 2022).
3.Clarification of the molecular basis by which plant metabolites shape the rhizosphere microbiome. He systematically demonstrated that plant triterpenoid secondary metabolites selectively modulate rhizosphere bacterial community structure, contributing to plant–microbe coevolution (Science, 2019). He further discovered that sesquarterpenes and coumarins play key regulatory roles in rhizosphere community assembly (PNAS, 2019; Science China Life Sciences, 2019).
Education
2007.09 - 2010.11, Ph.D. in Plant Developmental Biology, University of Cologne, Germany
2005.09 - 2007.06, M.S., Wuhan University, China
2001.09 - 2005.06, B.S., Wuhan University, China
Professional Experience
2024.02 – Present , Tenured Associate Professor, Peking University
2024.02 – Present , Principal Investigator, Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences
2024.02 – Present , Principal Investigator, School of Life Sciences, Peking University
2016.05 - 2024.01, Professor, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2016.05 - 2024.01, Professor, China-UK Joint Research Centre on Plant and Microbial Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences – John Innes Centre
2011.10 - 2016.04, Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
2010.12 - 2011.09, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cologne
Honors and Awards
Third Tencent "New Cornerstone Investigator", 2025
Yifang Scholar, 2024
Fifth Tencent Xplorer Prize, 2023
Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, 2021–2025
Outstanding Young Scientist Award, Chinese Society for Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology, 2022
Rising Stars in Plant Science, 2022
Leading Talent of the "Ten Thousand Talents Program", Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, 2020
National Leading Talents for Science and Technology Innovation (Young and Middle-aged), Ministry of Science and Technology, 2019
National Overseas High-level Talent Recruitment Program (Youth Project) (also known as Thousand Young Talents Program), 2017
Porfessional Society Affiliations
2023–present, Deputy Director, Microbiome Professional Committee, Chinese Society for Microbiology
2023–present, Deputy Director, Professional Committee of Biological and Organic Fertilizers, Chinese Society of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizers
2022–present, Member, Professional Committee of Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Chinese Society of Soil Science
2019–present, Member, Professional Committee of Plant–Microbe Molecular Interactions, Chinese Society for Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology
Editorial Activities
2019–present, Editorial Board Member, New Phytologist
2020–present, Editorial Board Member, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
2020–present, Editorial Board Member, Soil Ecology Letters
2022–present, Editorial Board Member, mLife
2025–present, Editorial Board Member, Current Opinion in Plant Biology
2026–present, Editorial Board Member, Plant Innovation
Meeting Organizers and Seesion Chairs
2026, January 29, invited talk, Paul Schulze-Lefert Farewell Symposium, "My root microbiome research from MPIPZ to future", Cologne, Germany
2025, October 21, invited talk, The 432nd Shuangqing Forum: Microblial Basis of Planetary Health, Hangzhou, China
2025, October 20, invited talk, Cell Symposia: Towards sustainable agriculture: Genomics, bioengineering, and smart technologies in partnership with the Yazhouwan National Laboratory, Sanya, China
2025, October 18, invited talk, The Sixth Meeting of Bergey's International Society for Microbial Systematics, Qingdao, China
2025, August 26, invited talk, 22nd international Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics, Chengdu, China
2025, August 21, invited talk, Plant Genomics in China XXIV, Xizang, China
2025, August 4, invited talk, The 2nd National Young Scientists' Forum on Frontier interdisciplinary Research, Guangzhou, China
2025, July 31, invited talk, 2025 National Academic Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society for Plant Biology (CSPB)，Harbin, China
2025, July 14, invited talk, 2025 IS-MPMI Congress, "Genomic resources and molecular mechanisms of crop root microbiomes to regulate crop architecture", Cologne, Germany
2025, February 22, invited talk,Multidisciplinary intersection of Microbiome, Chemistry, Plant, and medicine，Hong kong, China
2023, June 5–9, invited talk, 33rd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Chiba, Japan
2022, November 4, invited talk, International workshop "Unveiling the secret of underground: technologies for visualizing root and rhizosphere", Japan, online
2022, May 19, Invited talk, University of Amsterdam, Netherland, online
2021, December 1–2, Moderator, IS-MPMI eSymposia, USA, online
2021, May 24–28, Keynote talk, 11rd Symposium of the International Society of Root Research, Missouri, USA, online
2021, February 3, Invited talk, John Innes Center, Norwich, UK, online
2020, December 2–4, Invited talk, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, Japan, online
2019, October 11–14, Invited talk, National Congress of Plant Biology, Chengdu, China
2019, October 27–30, Invited talk, 11th Annual Meeting of Crop Research, Hangzhou, China
2019, October 4–6, Invited talk, 3rd International Conference on Plant Synthetic Biology, Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge, UK
2019, August 6–9, Invited talk, Annual Meeting of Plant Nutrition and Fertilization, Chongqing, China
2019, July 5–8, Invited talk, Annual Meeting of Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology, Jiangxi, China
2019, June 16–21, Invited talk, 30rd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Wuhan, China
2019, June 2–5, Invited talk, 1st International Forum on Crop Science, Wuhan, China
2018, October 2, Invited talk, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany
2018, September 24–28, Co-organizer, First Sino-German Symposium on Plant Health and Microbiomics, Wuhan, China
2017, November 27–29, Plenary talk, 2017 mBiome International Conference, Seoul, Korea
2017, July 23–29, Invited talk, International Botanic Congress, Shenzhen, China
Textbook
Soil Biology
Teaching
Microbiology (Undergraduate, Spring semester, Major required course) – Instructor, Peking University
Microbiome–Host Interactions (Graduate, Fall semester, Elective) – Instructor, Peking University
Microbiology Track (PTN) (Graduate, Spring semester, Elective) – Instructor,2025, 2026
Theoretical Foundations of Modern Biology (Omics) (Graduate, Spring semester, Required course) – Co‑instructor, 2025–present
The Bai Yang laboratory is dedicated to investigating the mechanisms of beneficial interactions between microbiomes and their hosts, with a particular focus on non‑model microorganisms. These non‑model microorganisms constitute the vast majority of microbiomes and form beneficial interactions with hosts, playing critical roles in host growth and health. However, our understanding of them remains very limited.The laboratory's research directions include the following:
Research Direction 1:Using microbiome data analysis, high‑throughput microbial cultivation, and molecular genetic techniques to explore the roles of the rhizosphere microbiome in the growth and health of plants such as rice and Arabidopsis, as well as the underlying molecular mechanisms.
Research Direction 2:Leveraging microbial genomic and metagenomic resources to efficiently mine the as‑yet‑undiscovered “dark matter” in microorganisms, and to explore novel biological processes and their potential for practical applications.
Research Direction 3:Combining microbial molecular genetics and bioinformatics approaches to develop key technologies that advance the field of microbiome research.
1. Jingying Zhang, Weidong Liu, Binglei Wang, Qianhang Zhai, Yang Bai*. (2026). Plant microbiome regulation for sustainable agriculture. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 98: 103444.
2. Nannan Li#*, Guoliang Li#, Xiaofang Huang#, Lige Ma#, Danning Wang#, Yu Luo#, Xulv Cao, Yantao Zhu, Jianxin Mu, Ran An, Jianhua Zhao, Yongfeng Wang, Cuiling Yang, Hao Chen, Ying Xu, Lixi Jiang, Meng Luo, Xiaodan Li, Yachen Dong, Xinping Chen, Frank Hochholdinger, Yong Jiang, Jochen C. Reif, Daojie Wang*, Yanfeng Zhang*, Yang Bai*, Peng Yu*. (2026). Large-scale multi-omics unveils host microbiome interactions driving root development and nitrogen acquisition. Nature Plants, 12: 319-336.
3. Jingying Zhang#, Bing Wang#, Haoran Xu#, Weidong Liu#, Jingwei Yu#, Qiuxia Wang#, Hong Yu#, Jinwei Wei#, Rui Dai, Jinghang Zhou, Yuhang He, Di Zou, Jinhua Yang, Xinwei Ban, Qingliang Hu, Xiangbing Meng, Bin Hu, Mingyu Wang, Peiyong Xin, Jinfang Chu, Changsheng Li, Ruben Garrido-Oter, Peng Yu, Aalt Dirk Jan van Dijk, Lemeng Dong, Harro Bouwmeester, Song Gao*, Ancheng Huang*, Chengcai Chu*, Jiayang Li*, Yang Bai*. (2025). Root Microbiota Regulates Tiller Number in Rice. Cell, 188:2521-2539.
4. Rui Dai#, Jingying Zhang#, Fang Liu#, Haoran Xu, Jing-Mei Qian, Shani Cheskis, Weidong Liu, Binglei Wang, Honghui Zhu, Lotte J. U. Pronk, Marnix H. Medema, Ronnie de Jonge, Corné M.J. Pieterse, Asaf Levy, Klaus Schlaeppi, Yang Bai*. (2025). Crop root bacterial and viral genomes unveil unexplored species and microbiome patterns. Cell, 188:3152-3166.
5. Jing-Mei Qian, Kangping Li, Weidong Liu, Jingyi Zhang, Allan Wylie, Brian Arnall, Mark J. Krzmarzick, Ertao Wang, Giles E. D. Oldroyd, Yang Bai*, Feng Feng*, Jingying Zhang*. (2025). Chitooligosaccharide receptors modulate root microbiota to enhance symbiosis and growth in Medicago. Current Biology, 35: 3930-3942.
6. Haoran Xu, Weidong Liu, Yuhang He, Di Zou, Jinghang Zhou, Jingying Zhang*, Yang Bai*. (2025). Plant-root microbiota interactions in nutrient utilization. Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering, 12: 16-26.
7. Shouyue Zhang#, Ao Sun#, Jing-Mei Qian#, Shuo Lin, Wenjing Xing, Yun Yang, Han-Zhou Zhu, Xin-Yi Zhou, Yan-Shuo Guo, Yun Liu, Yu Meng, Shu-Lin Jin, Wenhao Song, Cheng-Ping Li, Zhaofu Li, Shuai Jin, Jian-Hua Wang, Meng-Qiu Dong, Caixia Gao, Chunlai Chen*, Yang Bai*, Jun-Jie Gogo Liu*. (2024). Pro-CRISPR PcrIIC1-associated Cas9 system for enhanced bacterial immunity. Nature, 630: 484–492.
8. Qin Han, Guanghui Zhu, Hongmei Qiu, Mingbo Li, Jiaming Zhang, Xinying Wu, Renhao Xiao, Yan Zhang, Wei Yang, Bing Tian, Lanxi Xu, Jiayang Zhou, Yutong Li, Yueqiang Wang*, Yang Bai*, Xia Li*. (2024). Quality traits drive the enrichment of Massilia in the rhizosphere to improve soybean oil content. Microbiome, 12: 244.
9. Limeng Liu#*, Xusheng Hao#, Yang Bai*, Ye Tian*. (2024). The soil Mycobacterium sp. promotes health and longevity through different bacteria-derived molecules in Caenorhabditis elegans. Aging Cell, 00, e14416.
10. Jingying Zhang, Haoran Xu, Yang Bai*. (2024). Root microbiota: Connecting nitrogen metabolism and theanine synthesis in tea plants. Current Biology, 34: 135-137.
11. Weidong Liu, Haoran Xu, Jinghang Zhou, Yuhang He, Di Zou, Yang Bai*, Jingying Zhang*. (2024). The plant microbiota: From theoretical advances to applications.
12. Xiaochen Wang, Jingying Zhang, Xinjun Lu, Yang Bai*, Guodong Wang*. (2024). Two diversities meet in the rhizosphere: root specialized metabolites and microbiome. Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 51: 467-478.
13. Zengwei Feng, Qiuhong Liang, Qing Yao*, Yang Bai*, Honghui Zhu*. (2024). The role of the rhizobiome recruited by root exudates in plant disease resistance: current status and future directions. Environmental Microbiome, 19:91.
14. Lanxiang Wang, Yue Liu, Haoran Ni, Wenlong Zuo, Haimei Shi, Weixin Liao, Hongbin Liu, Jiajia Chen, Yang Bai, Hong Yue, Ancheng Huang, Jonathan Friedman, Tong Si, Yinggao Liu, Moxian Chen, Lei Dai*. (2024). Systematic characterization of plant-associated bacteria that can degrade indole-3-acetic acid. PLoS biology, 22: e3002921.
15. Yanjun Li, Cunhu Wang, Lei Zheng, Wenjing Ma, Mingjia Li, Zilong Guo, Qingsong Zhao, Kefei Zhang, Ran Liu, Yucheng Liu, Zhixi Tian, Yang Bai, Yongjia Zhong, Hong Liao. (2023). Natural variation of GmRj2/Rfg1 determines symbiont differentiation in soybean. Current Biology, 33:2478-2490.e5.
16. Jingying Zhang, Weidong Liu, Jingshu Bu, Yanbing Lin, Yang Bai*. (2023). Host genetics regulate the plant microbiome. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 72:102268.
17. Sunde Xu#, Yong-Xin Liu#, Tomislav Cernava#, Hongkai Wang, Yaqi Zhou, Tie Xia, Shugeng Cao, Gabriele Berg, Xing-Xing Shen, Ziyue Wen, Chunshun Li, Baoyuan Qu, Hefei Ruan, Yunrong Chai, Xueping Zhou, Zhonghua Ma, Yan Shi, Yunlong Yu*, Yang Bai*, Yun Chen*. (2022). Fusarium fruiting body microbiome member Pantoea agglomerans inhibits fungal pathogenesis by targeting lipid rafts. Nature Microbiology, 7: 831–843.
18. Xuhui Deng, Na Zhang, Yuchan Li, Chengzhi Zhu, Baoyuan Qu, Hongjun Liu, Rong Li*, Yang Bai, Qirong Shen, Joana Falcao Salles. (2022). Bio-organic soil amendment promotes the suppression of Ralstonia solanacearum by inducing changes in the functionality and composition of rhizosphere bacterial communities. New Phytologist, 235: 1558–1574.
19. Bo Bai, Weidong Liu, Xingyu Qiu, Jie Zhang, Jingying Zhang*, Yang Bai*. (2022). The root microbiome: Community assembly and its contributions to plant fitness. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 64: 230–243.
20. Kunkun Fan, Hannah Holland-Moritz, Corinne Walsh, Xisheng Guo, Daozhong Wang, Yang Bai, Yong-guan Zhu, Noah Fierer, Haiyan Chu. (2022). Identification of the rhizosphere microbes that actively consume plant-derived carbon. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 166: 108577.
21. Jingying Zhang#, Yong-Xin Liu#, Xiaoxuan Guo, Yuan Qin, Ruben Garrido-Oter*, Paul Schulze-Lefert*, Yang Bai*. (2021). High-throughput cultivation and identification of bacteria from the plant root microbiota. Nature Protocols, 16: 988–1012.
22. Jing-Mei Qian & Yang Bai*. (2021). Stuck on you: Bacterial-auxin-mediated bacterial colonization of plant roots. Cell Host & Microbe, 29: 1471–1473.
23. Zhiyao Lv#, Rui Dai#, Haoran Xu#, Yongxin Liu, Bo Bai, Ying Meng, Haiyan Li, Xiaofeng Cao*, Yang Bai*, Xianwei Song*, Jingying Zhang*. (2021). The rice histone methylation regulates hub species of the root microbiota. Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 48: 836–843.
24. Yong-Xin Liu#*, Yuan Qin#, Tong Chen#, Meiping Lu, Xubo Qian, Xiaoxuan Guo, Yang Bai*. (2021). A practical guide to amplicon and metagenomic analysis of microbiome data. Protein Cell, 12: 315–330.
25. Pengfan Zhang, Stjin Spaepen, Yang Bai, Stephane Hacquard, Ruben Garrido-Oter. (2021). Rbec: a tool for analysis of amplicon sequencing data from synthetic microbial communities. ISME Communications, 1: 73.
26. Baoyuan Qu, Yuan Qin, Yang Bai*. (2020). From signaling to function: how strigolactones regulate plant development. Science China Life Sciences, 63: 1768–1770.
27. Xiaoxuan Guo#, Xiaoning Zhang#, Yuan Qin#, Yong-Xin Liu, Jingying Zhang, Na Zhang, Kun Wu, Baoyuan Qu, Zishan He, Xin Wang, Xinjian Zhang, Stéphane Hacquard, Xiangdong Fu*, Yang Bai*. (2020). Host-associated quantitative abundance profiling reveals the microbial load variation of root microbiome. Plant Communications, 1: 100003.
28. Qin Han, Qun Ma, Yong Chen, Bing Tian, Lanxi Xu, Yang Bai*, Wenfeng Chen*, Xia Li*. (2020). Variation in rhizosphere microbial communities and its association with the symbiotic efficiency of rhizobia in soybean. The ISME Journal, 14: 1915–1928.
29. Wei Wang#, Jing Yang#, Jian Zhang, Yong-Xin Liu, Caiping Tian, Baoyuan Qu, Chulei Gao, Peiyong Xin, Shujing Cheng, Wenjing Zhang, Pei Miao, Lei Li, Xiaojuan Zhang, Jinfang Chu, Jianru Zuo, Jiayang Li, Yang Bai, Xiaoguang Lei*, Jian-Min Zhou*. (2020). An Arabidopsis secondary metabolite directly targets expression of the bacterial type III secretion system to inhibit bacterial virulence. Cell Host & Microbe, 27: 601–613.
30. Ancheng C. Huang#, Ting Jiang#, Yong-Xin Liu, Yue-Chen Bai, James Reed, Baoyuan Qu, Alain Goossens, Hans-Wilhelm Nützmann, Yang Bai*, Anne Osbourn*. (2019). A specialized metabolic network selectively modulates Arabidopsis root microbiota. Science, 364: eaau6389.
31. Jingying Zhang#, Yong-Xin Liu#, Na Zhang#, Bin Hu#, Tao Jin#, Haoran Xu, Yuan Qin, Pengxu Yan, Xiaoning Zhang, Xiaoxuan Guo, Jing Hui, Shouyun Cao, Xin Wang, Chao Wang, Hui Wang, Baoyuan Qu, Guangyi Fan, Lixing Yuan, Ruben Garrido-Oter, Chengcai Chu*, Yang Bai*. (2019). NRT1.1B is associated with root microbiota composition and nitrogen use in field-grown rice. Nature Biotechnology, 37: 676–684.
32. Evan Bolyen#, Jai Ram Rideout#, Matthew R. Dillon#, Nicholas A. Bokulich#, Christian C. Abnet, Gabriel A. Al-Ghalith, Harriet Alexander, Eric J. Alm, Manimozhiyan Arumugam, Francesco Asnicar, Yang Bai, Jordan E. Bisanz, Kyle Bittinger, Asker Brejnrod, Colin J. Brislawn, C. Titus Brown, Benjamin J. Callahan, Andrés Mauricio Caraballo-Rodríguez, John Chase, Emily K. Cope, Ricardo Da Silva, Christian Diener, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Gavin M. Douglas, Daniel M. Durall, Claire Duvallet, Christian F. Edwardson, Madeleine Ernst, Mehrbod Estaki, Jennifer Fouquier, Julia M. Gauglitz, Sean M. Gibbons, Deanna L. Gibson, Antonio Gonzalez, Kestrel Gorlick, Jiarong Guo, Benjamin Hillmann, Susan Holmes, Hannes Holste, Curtis Huttenhower, Gavin A. Huttley, Stefan Janssen, Alan K. Jarmusch, Lingjing Jiang, Benjamin D. Kaehler, Kyo Bin Kang, Christopher R. Keefe, Paul Keim, Scott T. Kelley, Dan Knights, Irina Koester, Tomasz Kosciolek, Jorden Kreps, Morgan G. I. Langille, Joslynn Lee, Ruth Ley, Yong-Xin Liu, Erikka Loftfield, Catherine Lozupone, Massoud Maher, Clarisse Marotz, Bryan D. Martin, Daniel McDonald, Lauren J. McIver, Alexey V. Melnik, Jessica L. Metcalf, Sydney C. Morgan, Jamie T. Morton, Ahmad Turan Naimey, Jose A. Navas-Molina, Louis Felix Nothias, Stephanie B. Orchanian, Talima Pearson, Samuel L. Peoples, Daniel Petras, Mary Lai Preuss, Elmar Pruesse, Lasse Buur Rasmussen, Adam Rivers, Michael S. Robeson, Patrick Rosenthal, Nicola Segata, Michael Shaffer, Arron Shiffer, Rashmi Sinha, Se Jin Song, John R. Spear, Austin D. Swafford, Luke R. Thompson, Pedro J. Torres, Pauline Trinh, Anupriya Tripathi, Peter J. Turnbaugh, Sabah Ul-Hasan, Justin J. J. van der Hooft, Fernando Vargas, Yoshiki Vázquez-Baeza, Emily Vogtmann, Max von Hippel, William Walters, Yunhu Wan, Mingxun Wang, Jonathan Warren, Kyle C. Weber, Charles H. D. Williamson, Amy D. Willis, Zhenjiang Zech Xu, Jesse R. Zaneveld, Yilong Zhang, Qiyun Zhu, Rob Knight, J. Gregory Caporaso*. (2019). Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2. Nature Biotechnology, 37: 852–857.
33. Mathias J. E. E. E. Voges, Yang Bai, Paul Schulze-Lefert, Elizabeth S. Sattely*. (2019). Plant-derived coumarins shape the composition of an Arabidopsis synthetic root microbiome. PNAS. 116: 12558–12565.
34. Qingwen Chen#, Ting Jiang#, Yong-Xin Liu, Haili Liu, Tao Zhao, Zhixi Liu, Xiaochao Gan, Asis Hallab, Xuemei Wang, Juan He, Yihua Ma, Fengxia Zhang, Tao Jin, M.Eric Schranz, Yong Wang, Yang Bai*, Guodong Wang*. (2019). Recently duplicated sesterterpene (C25) gene clusters in Arabidopsis thaliana modulate root microbiota. Science China Life Sciences, 62: 947–958.
35. Yong-Xin Liu, Yuan Qin, Yang Bai*. (2019). Reductionist synthetic community approaches in root microbiome research. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 49: 97–102.
36. Chunlei Zhang, Youming Zhang, Zhaojun Ding*, Yang Bai*. (2019). Contribution of microbial inter-kingdom balance to plant health. Molecular Plant, 12: 148–149.
37. Kabin Xie*, Liang Guo, Yang Bai, Wende Liu, Jianbing Yan, Marcel Bucher*. (2019). Microbiomics and plant health: an interdisciplinary and international workshop on the plant microbiome. Molecular Plant, 12: 1–3.
38. Jingying Zhang#, Na Zhang#, Yong-Xin Liu#, Xiaoning Zhang, Bin Hu, Yuan Qin, Haoran Xu, Hui Wang, Xiaoxuan Guo, Jingmei Qian, Wei Wang, Pengfan Zhang, Tao Jin*, Chengcai Chu*, Yang Bai*. (2018). Root microbiota shift in rice correlates with resident time in the field and developmental stage. Science China Life Sciences, 61: 613–621.
39. Jun Yuan, Jun Zhao, Tao Wen, Mengli Zhao, Rong Li, Pim Goossens, Qiwei Huang, Yang Bai, Jorge M. Vivanco, George A. Kowalchuk, Roeland L. Berendsen, Qirong Shen*. (2018). Root exudates drive the soil-borne legacy of aboveground pathogen infection. Microbiome, 6: 156.
40. Hirokazu Toju*, Kabir G. Peay, Masato Yamamichi, Kazuhiko Narisawa, Kei Hiruma, Ken Naito, Shinji Fukuda, Masayuki Ushio, Shinji Nakaoka, Yusuke Onoda, Kentaro Yoshida, Klaus Schlaeppi, Yang Bai, Ryo Sugiura, Yasunori Ichihashi, Kiwamu Minamisawa, E. Toby Kiers. (2018). Core microbiomes for sustainable agroecosystems. Nature Plants, 4: 247–257.
41. Kunkun Fan, Pamela Weisenhorn, Jack A Gilbert, Yu Shi, Yang Bai, Haiyan Chu*. (2018). Soil pH correlates with the co-occurrence and assemblage process of diazotrophic communities in rhizosphere and bulk soils of wheat fields. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 121: 185–192.
42. Wei Wang#, Bin Hu#, Dingyang Yuan, Yongqiang Liu, Ronghui Che, Yingchun Hu, Shujun Ou, Zhihua Zhang, Hongru Wang, Hua Li, Zhimin Jiang, Zhengli Zhang, Xiaokai Gao, Yahong Qiu, Xiangbing Meng, Yong-Xin Liu, Yang Bai, Yan Liang, Yi-Qin Wang, Lianhe Zhang, Legong Li, Sodmergen Sodmergen, Hai-Chun Jing, Jiayang Li, Chengcai Chu*. (2018). Expression of the nitrate transporter gene OsNRT1.1A/OsNPF6.3 confers high yield and early maturation in rice. The Plant Cell, 30: 638–651.
43. Alexander Sczyrba#*, Peter Hofmann#, Peter Belmann#, David Koslicki, Stefan Janssen, Johannes Dröge, Ivan Gregor, Stephan Majda, Jessika Fiedler, Eik Dahms, Andreas Bremges, Adrian Fritz, Ruben Garrido-Oter, Tue Sparholt Jørgensen, Nicole Shapiro, Philip D. Blood, Alexey Gurevich, Yang Bai, Dmitrij Turaev, Matthew Z. DeMaere, Rayan Chikhi, Niranjan Nagarajan, Christopher Quince, Fernando Meyer, Monika Balvočiūtė, Lars Hestbjerg Hansen, Søren J. Sørensen, Burton K. H. Chia, Bertrand Denis, Jeff L. Froula, Zhong Wang, Robert Egan, Dongwan Don Kang, Jeffrey J. Cook, Charles Deltel, Michael Beckstette, Claire Lemaitre, Pierre Peterlongo, Guillaume Rizk, Dominique Lavenier, Yu-Wei Wu, Steven W. Singer, Chirag Jain, Marc Strous, Heiner Klingenberg, Peter Meinicke, Michael D. Barton, Thomas Lingner, Hsin-Hung Lin, Yu-Chieh Liao, Genivaldo Gueiros Z. Silva, Daniel A. Cuevas, Robert A. Edwards, Surya Saha, Vitor C. Piro, Bernhard Y. Renard, Mihai Pop, Hans-Peter Klenk, Markus Göker, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Tanja Woyke, Julia A. Vorholt, Paul Schulze-Lefert, Edward M. Rubin, Aaron E. Darling, Thomas Rattei, Alice C. McHardy*. (2017). Critical assessment of metagenome interpretation—a benchmark of metagenomics software. Nature Methods, 14: 1063.
44. Tao Jin#, Yayu Wang#, Yueying Huang#, Jin Xu#, Pengfan Zhang, Nian Wang, Xin Liu, Haiyan Chu, Guang Liu, Honggang Jiang, Yuzhen Li, Jing Xu, Karsten Kristiansen, Liang Xiao, Yunzeng Zhang, Gengyun Zhang, Guohua Du, Houbao Zhang, Hongfeng Zou, Haifeng Zhang, Zhuye Jie, Suisha Liang, Huijue Jia, Jingwang Wan, Dechun Lin, Jinying Li, Guangyi Fan, Huanming Yang, Jian Wang, Yang Bai*, Xun Xu*. (2017). Taxonomic structure and functional association of foxtail millet root microbiome. GigaScience, 6: 1–12.
45. Shujuan Tian#, Jingjing Wu#, Fen Li, Jianwei Zou, Yuwen Liu, Bing Zhou, Yang Bai, Meng-Xiang Sun*. (2016). NtKRP, a kinesin-12 protein, regulates embryo/seed size and seed germination via involving in cell cycle progression at the G2/M transition. Scientific Reports, 6: 35641.
46. Daniel B. Müller, Christine Vogel, Yang Bai, Julia A. Vorholt*. (2016). The plant microbiota: systems-level insights and perspectives. Annual Review of Genetics, 50: 211–234.
47. Yang Bai#, Daniel Müller#, Girish Srinivas#, Ruben Garrido-Oter#, Eva Potthoff, Matthias Rott, Nina Dombrowski, Philipp Münch, Stijn Spaepen, Mitja Remus-Emsermann, Bruno Hüttel, Alice McHardy, Julia Vorholt*, Paul Schulze-Lefert*. (2015). Functional overlap of the Arabidopsis leaf and root microbiota. Nature, 528: 364–369.
48. Christos Zamioudis, Jolanda Korteland, Johan A. Van Pelt, Muriël van Hamersveld, Nina Dombrowski, Yang Bai, Johannes Hanson, Marcel C. Van Verk, Hong-Qing Ling, Paul Schulze-Lefert & Corné M. J. Pieterse. (2015). Rhizobacterial volatiles and photosynthesis-related signals coordinate MYB72 expression in Arabidopsis roots during onset of induced systemic resistance and iron-deficiency responses. The Plant Journal, 84: 309-322.
49. Yang Bai, Prasad Vaddepalli, Lynette Fulton, Hemal Bhasin, Martin Hülskamp & Kay Schneitz. (2013). ANGUSTIFOLIA is a central component of tissue morphogenesis mediated by the atypical receptor-like kinase STRUBBELIG. BMC Plant Biology, 13: 16.
50. Yang Bai, Stefanie Falk, Arp Schnittger, Marc J. Jakoby & Martin Hülskamp. (2010). Tissue layer specific regulation of leaf length and width in Arabidopsis as revealed by the cell autonomous action of ANGUSTIFOLIA. The Plant Journal 61: 191–199.
