王玉 准聘助理教授

工作经历：

2024 –         南京大学生命科学学院，准聘助理教授/特聘研究员/博士生导师

2023 – 2024     伊利诺伊大学香槟分校Carl R. Woese基因组生物学研究所，研究科学家

2015 – 2023    伊利诺伊大学香槟分校，博士后，合作导师: Prof. Stephen P. Long

2014 – 2015    中科院CAS-MPG计算生物学研究所，助理研究员

教育经历

2008 – 2014          中国科学院大学（中科院CAS-MPG计算生物学研究所）计算生物学 博士 导师：朱新广研究员

2010.9 - 2010.12  德国马普分子植物生理研究所 交换研究生 导师：Prof. Mark Stitt

2004 – 2008          中国科学技术大学 生物技术 本科

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本课题组重点发展模型驱动的作物设计体系，主要研究方向包括：

1. 植物光合作用多尺度模拟和机制解析
  研究作物光合作用在不同尺度上的调控机制，包括光合酶动力学、C₃/C₄/CAM光合代谢、气体交换、动态光响应、叶片能量平衡以及冠层光分布等过程。通过构建和应用机理模型，定量解析不同生理过程对光合效率和碳同化能力的贡献。

2. 模型驱动的高光效作物设计
  面向作物遗传改良和理想株型设计，利用多尺度模型评估不同光合优化策略的潜在效果，包括提高Rubisco效率、优化C₄光合代谢、加快非光化学猝灭恢复、拓展远红光利用、改善冠层结构等。重点筛选在田间复杂环境下具有稳定增产潜力的光合改良靶点。

3. 作物源—库关系与产量形成机制
  研究光碳/氮同化、同化物运输、籽粒灌浆和库容量之间的协调关系，解析源库协同调控对作物产量、品质和资源利用效率的影响。

4. 气候变化背景下作物生产力与适应性预测
  结合气候数据、作物模型和生理机制模型，评估温度、光照、水分和CO₂变化对作物光合作用、能量平衡和产量形成的影响，探索未来气候条件下稳定提升作物生产力的优化路径。

课题组常年招收博士研究生和硕士研究生，欢迎对本实验室研究方向感兴趣的同学加入。

为下列杂志担任审稿人：The Plant Cell, New Phytologist, Plant Physiology, Plant Biotechnology Journal, Plant Cell and Environment, Journal of Experimental Botany, Frontiers in Plant Science, BMC Plant Biology, The Crop Journal, Scientific Reports, and Plant and Soil.

(*Corresponding authors)

2025

Long SP, Wang Y, Carmo-Silva E, Cavanagh AP, Jonikas MC, Kromdijk J, Long BM, Marshall-Colón A, Shukla D, Wilson RH, Zhu X-G,  Ainsworth EA. 2025. Feeding from the Sun – Successes and Prospects in Bioengineering Photosynthesis for Food Security. Cell. 188 (24), 6700-6719

Wang Y*, Oliver TJ, Croce R, Long SP*. 2025. Addition of longer wavelength absorbing chlorophylls into crops could increase their photosynthetic productivity by 26%. Nature Communications. 16 (1), 7933

Wang Y*. 2025. Unlocking plant metabolic resilience: how enzyme‐constrained metabolic models illuminate thermal responses. New Phytologist. 247: 5-7

Salesse‐Smith CE, Wang Y, Long SP. 2025. Increasing Rubisco as a simple means to enhance photosynthesis and productivity now without lowering nitrogen use efficiency. New Phytologist. 245(3): 951-965.

Pelech EA, Stutz SS, Wang Y, Lochocki EB, Long SP. 2025. Have we selected for higher mesophyll conductance in domesticating soybean? Plant, Cell & Environment. 48(2): 1594-1607.

Gotarkar D, Digrado A, Wang Y, Doran L, Sparrow‐Muñoz I, Chung S, Lisa N, Wasiq F, Amaro G, Blakely B. 2025. Variation in relaxation of non‐photochemical quenching between the founder genotypes of the soybean (Glycine max) nested association mapping population. The Plant Journal. 121(2): e17219.

2024

Long SP, Wang Y, Chan KX 2024. C4 plants with increased photosynthetic efficiency. US Patent.

Vijayakumar S, Wang Y, Lehretz G, Taylor S, Carmo‐Silva E, Long S. 2024. Kinetic  modeling identifies targets for engineering improved photosynthetic  efficiency in potato (Solanum tuberosum cv. Solara). The Plant Journal. 117(2): 561-572.

Wang Y*. 2024. Improving photosynthetic efficiency in fluctuating light to enhance yield of C3 and C4 crops. Crop and Environment. 3 (4), 184-193

He Y, Wang Y, Friedel D, Lang M, Matthews ML. 2024. Connecting detailed photosynthetic kinetics to crop growth and yield: a coupled modelling framework. in silico Plants. 6(2): diae009.

2023 and before

First and co-first author publications

Wang Y, Smith JAC, Zhu X-G, Long SP. (2023). Rethinking the potential productivity of crassulacean acid metabolism by integrating metabolic dynamics with shoot architecture, using the example of Agave tequilana. New Phytologist. 239 (6), 2180-2196

Wang Y*, Stutz SS*, Bernacchi, CJ, Boyd RA, Ort DR, LongSP. (2022). Increased bundle sheath leakiness of CO₂ during photosynthetic induction shows a lack of coordination between the C4 and C3 cycles. New Phytologist. 236, 1661–1675

Shameer S*, Wang Y*, Ratcliffe G, LongSP, Sweetlove LJ. (2022). A hybrid kinetic and constraint-based model of leaf metabolism allows detailed predictions of metabolic changes in different environments. The Plant Journal. 109 (1), 295-313 (*equal contribution)

Wang Y, Chan KX, Long SP. (2021).Towards a dynamic photosynthesis model to guide yield improvement in C4 crops.The Plant Journal. 107 (2), 343-359. 2021.The Most Outstanding Original Article 2021, The Plant Journal

Wang Y, Burgess SJ, de Becker E, Long SP. (2020) Photosynthesis in the fleeting shadows: An overlooked opportunity for increasing crop productivity? The Plant Journal. 101(4), 874-884.

Kannan K*, Wang Y*, Lang M, Challa GS, Long SP, Marshall-Colon A. (2019). Combining gene network, metabolic, and leaf-level models show means to future-proof soybean photosynthesis under rising CO₂. in silico Plants 1 (1), diz008. (*equal contribution)

Wang Y, Song Q, Jaiswal D, de Souza AP, Long SP, Zhu X-G. (2017). Development of a three-dimensional ray-tracing model of sugarcane canopy photosynthesis and its application in assessing impacts of varied row spacing. Bioenergy Research. 2017 1;10(3):626-34.

Wang Y, Bräutigam A, Weber APM, Zhu X-G. (2014). Three distinct biochemical subtypes of C4 photosynthesis? – A modeling analysis. Journal of Experimental Botany 65(13):3567-78.

Wang Y, Long SP, Zhu X-G.(2014). Elements Required for an Efficient NADP-ME Type C4 Photosynthesis-- Exploration using a systems model of C4 photosynthesis. Plant Physiology 164(4):2231-46.

Selected Co-Author publications

Vijayakumar S, Wang Y, Lehretz G, Taylor S, Carmo-Silva E, Long S (2024). Kinetic modeling identifies targets for engineering improved photosynthetic efficiency in potato (Solanum tuberosum cv. Solara). The Plant Journal, 117(2), 561-572.

Cho YB, Stutz SS, Jones SI, Wang Y, Pelech EA, Ort DR. (2023). Impact of pod and seed photosynthesis on seed filling and canopy carbon gain in soybean. Plant physiology, 193 (2), 966-979.

Long SP, Burgess SJ, Carmo-Silva E, Lawson T, Taylor SH, DeSouza AP, Leonelli L, Wang Y. (2022) Into the shadows and back into the sunlight – Photosynthesis in fluctuating light. Annual Review of Plant Biology. 73, 617-648.

Zhao H, Wang Y, Lyu MJA, Zhu X-G. (2022). Two Major Metabolic Factors for an Efficient NADP-ME Type C4 Photosynthesis. Plant Physiology. 189 (1), 84-98

Sales CRG, Wang Y, Evers JB, Kromdijk J. (2021). Improving C4 photosynthesis to increase productivity under optimal and sub-optimal conditions. Journal of Experimental Botany.72(17), 5942-5960

De Souza AP, Wang Y, Orr DJ, Carmo‐Silva E, Long SP. (2020). Photosynthesis across African cassava germplasm is limited by Rubisco and mesophyll conductance at steady state, but by stomatal conductance in fluctuating light. New Phytologist. 225 (6), 2498-2512

Acevedo-Siaca, LG, Coe R, Wang Y, Kromdijk J, Quick WP, Long SP. (2020). Variation in photosynthetic induction between rice accessions and its potential for improving productivity. New Phytologist.227 (4), 1097-1108

Song Q, Wang Y, Qu M, Ort DR, Zhu X-G. (2017). The impact of modifying photosystem antenna size on canopy photosynthetic efficiency—Development of a new canopy photosynthesis model scaling from metabolism to canopy level processes. Plant, cell & environment. 40(12):2946-57.

Tao Y, Wang Y, Rogers JT, Wang F. (2014). Perturbed iron distribution in Alzheimer's disease serum, cerebrospinal fluid, and selected brain regions: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 42 (2), 679-690

Zhu X-G, Wang Y, Ort DR, Long SP. (2013). e-Photosynthesis: a comprehensive dynamic mechanistic model of C3 photosynthesis: from light capture to sucrose synthesis. Plant Cell & Environment 36, 1711–1727.

Wang J, Wang Y, Wang Z, Liu L, Zhu X-G and Ma XT. (2011). Synchronization of cytoplasmic and transferred mitochondrial ribosomal protein gene expression in land plants is linked to telo-box motif enrichment. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:161.

Wu X, Wang Y, Tao L. (2011). Sulfhydryl compounds reduce Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation by inhibiting PIA biosynthesis. FEMS microbiology letters. 316 (1), 44-50.