ZHANG Xianlong
Title: Professor
Address: College of Plant Science and Technology,
          Huazhong Agricultural University,Wuhan, Hubei, China
Tel: +8627-87280510
Email: xlzhang@mail.hazu.edu.cn
Dr. Zhang is a full professor of Huazhong Agricultural University, vice director of National Key Lab for Crop Genetic Improvement, vice chairman of Chinese Cotton Society. Dr. Zhang is also chief or chief-associate editors for three Chinese academic journals. He holds the national grants such as National High Tech Program, National Basic Research Program, National Transgenic Plant Research Project and National Foundation for Science, etc. His Cotton Group released 5 new varieties for cotton production. Dr. Zhang’s research areas cover plant cell culture and genetic transformation; cotton fiber development; interaction between fungal disease and cotton; and molecular marker development and map construction of cotton.
Recent Publications:
1. Shuangxia Jin, Xianlong Zhang, Henry Daniell, Pinellia ternate agglutinin expression in chloroplasts confers broad spectrum resistance against aphid, whitefly, lepidopteran insects, bacterial and viral pathogens, Plant Biotechnology Journal (accept)
2. Fenglin Deng, Lili Tu, Jiafu Tan, Yang Li, Yichun Nie, and Xianlong Zhang, GbPDF1 (Protodermal factor 1) is involved in fiber initiation and early elongation in cotton via the core Cis-element HDZIP2ATATHB2, Plant Physiology (submitted and revised)
3. Daojun Yuan, Lili Tu, Xianlong Zhang, 2011, Generation, Annotation and Analysis of First Large-Scale Expressed Sequence Tags from Developing Fiber of Gossypium barbadense L., PLoS ONE, 6(7): e22758
4. Li Xu, Longfu Zhu, Lili Tu, Linlin Liu, Daojun Yuan, Li Jin, Lu Long, Xianlong Zhang, 2011, Lignin metabolism has a central role in the resistance of cotton to the wilt fungus Verticillium dahliae as revealed by RNA-Seq dependent transcriptional analysis and histochemistry, J Exp Botany, doi: 10.1093/jxb/err2453. 
5. Yu Yu, daojun Yuan, Shaoguang Liang, Ximei Li, Xiaqing Wang, Zhongxu Lin, Xianlong Zhang, 2011, Genome structure of cotton revealed by a genome-wide SSR genetic map constructed from a BC1 population between gossipium hirsutum and G. barbadebse, BMC Genomics, 12:15
6. Lisong Hu, Xiyan Yang, Daojun Yuan, Fanchang Zeng, Xianlong Zhang, 2011, GhHmgB3 deficiency deregulates proliferation and differentiation of cells during somatic embryogenesis in cotton, Plant Biotechnology J., (in press)
7. Guozheng Yang, Haoyue Tang, Yichun Nie, Xianlong Zhang, 2011, Response of cotton growth, yield, and biomass to nitrogen split application ratio, European J of Agronomy, 35: 164-170
8. Xiyan Yang and Xianlong Zhang*, 2010, Regulation of Somatic Embryogenesis in Higher Plants, Critical Review in Plant Science，29: 36-57