Chengsong Zhao

The Arabidopsis amino acid transporter UmamiT20 confers susceptibility to B. cinerea

The paper shows that the Arabidopsis amino acid transporter UmamiT20 contributes to susceptibility to the necrotrophic fungus B. cinerea by facilitating amino acid transport, suggesting a broader role for nutrient transporters in plant-pathogen interactions.

EBSn, a robust synthetic reporter for monitoring ethylene responses in plants

The paper develops and tests EBSn, a synthetic ethylene-inducible promoter that outperforms existing reporters in sensitivity and tissue coverage in Arabidopsis and tomato.

Development of modular geminivirus-based vectors for high cargo expression and gene targeting in plants

The paper develops a modular geminivirus-based vector system for improved protein expression and gene targeting in plants, showing that native promoters and removal of virion-sense genes enhance reporter expression without affecting replicon accumulation.

DASH: A versatile and high-capacity gene stacking system for plant synthetic biology

The paper introduces DASH, a gene stacking system for plant synthetic biology that overcomes limitations of existing methods by combining Golden Gate, recombineering, and recombinase systems.

Targeted DNA ADP-ribosylation triggers templated repair in bacteria and base mutagenesis in eukaryotes

This paper introduces append editing, a method that uses ADP-ribosylation to achieve distinct genome editing outcomes in bacteria and eukaryotes.