Clubroot disease caused by Plasmodiophora brassicae is a devastating disease to Brassicaceae crops. Our aim is to exploit and utilize plant resistant genes to prevent and control this notorious disease and our current research directions mainly include:

• Exploiting clubroot disease resistant materials and genes;
• Understanding the underlying clubroot resistance mechanisms and plant-P. brassicae(clubroot disease pathogen) interactions;
• Developing integral techniques to prevent and control the clubroot disease.

Funding

1. Deciphering the function and mechanism of plasma membrane lipid component phosphatidylinositol 4,5-biphosphate for plasmodesmata-mediated plant cell-to-cell transport regulation. 580,000, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 32170366, 2022.1-2025.12
2. Research on the regulatory mechanisms of Plasmodesmata-localized protein PP1 in cruciferous clubroot resistance. 200, 000, Knowledge Innovation Program of Wuhan-Basic Research, 2022020801010296, 2022.6-2024.6
3. Exploiting and utilizing the sclerotia stem rot resistance genes in Brassica napus. 1,000,000, the National Key Research and Development Program of China, 2020.1-2021.6
4. Using genome wide association study to identify clubroot-resistant genes from canola on the basis of genome-resequencing data. 200, 000, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 31601628, 2017.1-2019.12