He is currently focuses on:

• Working on Sclerotinia sclerotiorum resistance in Brassica napus.
• Exploiting glucosinolate biosynthesis and transport pathway in Brassica napus.
• Creating excellent germplasm resources based on genetic mechanism of important agronomic traits by using genome editing tools and traditional genetic approaches.

Publications

1. Yizhou He, Yan Li, Zetao Bai, Meili Xie, Rong Zuo, Jie Liu, Jing Xia, Xiaohui Cheng, Yueying Liu, Chaobo Tong, Yuanyuan Zhang and Shengyi Liu (2022). Genome-wide identification and functional analysis of cupin_1 domain-containing members involved in the responses to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and abiotic stress in Brassica napus. Frontiers in Plant Science.
2. Jie Liu, Rong Zuo, Yizhou He, Cong Zhou, Lingli Yang, Rafaqat Ali Gill, Zetao Bai, Xiong Zhang, Yueying Liu, Xiaohui Cheng and Junyan Huang (2022). Analysis of Tissue-Specific Defense Responses to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in Brassica napus. Plants (Basel, Switzerland).
3. Yan Li, Yizhou He, Zhixin Liu, Tian Qin, Lei Wang, Zhihui Chen, Biaoming Zhang, Haitao Zhang, Haitao Li, Li Liu, Jian Zhang and Wenya Yuan (2022). OsSPL14 acts upstream of OsPIN1b and PILS6b to modulate axillary bud outgrowth by fine-tuning auxin transport in rice. The Plant journal.
4. Yizhou He, Zhiquan Yang, Minqiang Tang, Qing-Yong Yang, Yuanyuan Zhang and Shengyi Liu (2022). Enhancing canola breeding by editing a glucosinolate transporter gene lacking natural variation. Plant physiology.
5. Dian Wang, Junyan Huang, Yizhou He, Gongke Zhou, Shengyi Liu and Guohua Chai (2018). Arabidopsis NIMIN1,2 mediate redox homeostasis and JA/ET pathways to modulate Botrytis cinerea resistance. Oil Crop Science.
6. Ying Yang, Debao Fu, Chunmei Zhu, Yizhou He, Huijun Zhang, Tao Liu, Xianghua Li and Changyin Wu (2015). The RING-Finger Ubiquitin Ligase HAF1 Mediates Heading date 1 Degradation during Photoperiodic Flowering in Rice. The Plant cell.