XIANG Chengbin
Title: Professor, Doctoral Supervisor
Address: School of Life Sciences,
          University of Science and Technology of China
          No. 443 Huangshan Road,
          Hefei, Anhui Province, China
Tel: 0551-3607332
Email: xiangcb@ustc.edu.cn / xiangcb@gmail.com
Education Background:
Post-doc, University of Idaho, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Iowa State University‎
1992   Ph.D., University of Idaho
1987   M.Sc., University of California, Riverside
1982   B.A., Southwest Agricultural University
Working Experiences:
    2001.8-2002.7  Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, Iowa State University
    1999.7-2001.8  Assistant Scientist, Department of Botany, Iowa State University
Research Interests:
Plants response to abiotic stress, including the hereditary basis and molecular mechanism to drought, salinity and low sulphur. The function of natural antioxidants—glutathione and its regulation mechanism. The excavation of stress resistant gene and transgenic technology.
Selected Publications：
1.Yu H, Chen X, Hong YY, Wang Y, Xu P, Ke SD, Liu HY, Zhu JK, Oliver DJ, Xiang CB (2008). Activated Expression of an Arabidopsis HD-START Protein Confers Drought Tolerance with Improved Root System and Reduced Stomatal Density. Plant Cell 20: 1134-1151.
2.Jin Du, Yue-Ping Huang, Jing Xi, Min-Jie Cao, Wan-Song Ni, Xi Chen, Jian-Kang Zhu, David J. Oliver, Cheng-Bin Xiang(2008). Functional gene-mining for salt-tolerance genes with the power of Arabidopsis. Plant Journal DOI: 10.1111/j.1365 - 313 X.2008.03602.x.
3.Rama Devi, Xi Chen, David J. Oliver, and Chengbin Xiang (2006). A Novel High-throughput Genetic Screen for Stress-Responsive Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana Revealed Novel Loci Involving Stress Responses. Plant Journal 47:652-663.
4.Xiang, C. and Oliver, D.J. (2001). The biological functions of glutathione revisited in transgenic plants with altered glutathione levels. Plant Physiology 126:564-574.
5.Xiang, C., and Oliver, D.J. (1998). Glutathione metabolic genes coordinately respond to heavy metals and jasmonic acid in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 10:1539-1550.