I am a phytopathologist at Sichuan Agricultural University, China. My research is mainly focused on the interaction mechanisms between rice fungal pathogens and hosts. I have worked on the cytology, morphology, histologic pathology, genomics and epidemiology of rice sheath blight and kernel smut disease pathogens, and illustrated the effectors and evolution mechanism against hosts. A second line of research deals with defenses against Lepidoptera, Homoptera and nematode pests. We clone plant defensive genes, do functional verification, create transgenic crops but we are also interested in the genomics of Bacillus thuringiensis, a Gram-positive bacteria that often is used as a biological pesticide.
In the Bergelson lab, I am investigating the fitness of Pseudomonas syringae among different crops.
One can find me in the following website：
> ResearchGate profile
> Google Scholar profile
Current project
> Fitness mechanism of Pseudomonas syringae in crops
Publications
Lei D, Lin R, Yin C, Li P, Zheng A. Global protein-protein interaction network of rice sheath blight pathogen. J Proteome Res. 2014 Jul 3;13(7):3277-93. doi: 10.1021/pr500069r.
Aiping Zheng, Runmao Lin, Danhua Zhang, etc. The evolution and pathogenic mechanisms of the rice sheath blight pathogen. Nature Communications. 2013, 4: 1424 doi:10.1038/ncomms2427.
Li S, Li W, Huang B, Cao X, Deng Q, Wang S, Zheng A, Zhu J, Liu H, Wang L, Li P. Natural variation in PTB1 regulates rice seed setting rate by controlling pollen tube growth. Nature Communications. 2013, 4:2793. doi: 10.1038/ncomms3793.
Guan P, Ai P, Dai X, Zhang J, Xu L, Deng Q, Li S, Wang S, Liu H, Wang L, Li P, Zheng A. Complete genome sequence of Bacillus thuringiensis serovar Sichuansis strain MC28. J Bacteriol. 2012 Dec;194(24):6975. doi: 10.1128/JB.01861-12.