Publications
Peer-reviewed journals
Undergraduate students under my supervision are underlined.
Joydeep Chakraborty, Guy Sobol, Fan Xia, Ning Zhang, Gregory B Martin, Guido Sessa (2024). PP2C phosphatase Pic14 negatively regulates tomato Pto/Prf-triggered immunity by inhibiting MAPK activation. The Plant Journal doi: 10.1111/tpj.16937.
Fan Xia, Ning Zhang, Renee Smith, Joydeep Chakraborty, Guy Sobol, Xuemei Tang, Zhangjun Fei, Guido Sessa, Gregory Martin (2024). Related PP2C phosphatases Pic3 and Pic12 negatively regulate immunity in tomato to Pseudomonas syringae. Plant Physiology:1-17.
Danielle M. Stevens, Alba Moreno-Perez, Alexandra J. Weisberg, Charis Ramsing, Judith Fliegmann, Ning Zhang, Melanie Madrigal, Gregory Martin, Adam Steinbrenner, Georg Felix, Gitta Coaker (2024). Natural variation of immune epitopes reveals intrabacterial antagonism. PNAS 121 (23): e2319499121.
Ning Zhang, Joyce Gan, Lauren Carneal, Juliana González-Tobón, Melanie Filiatrault, Gregory B. Martin (2024). Helper NLRs Nrc2 and Nrc3 act co-dependently with Prf/Pto and activate MAPK signaling to induce immunity in tomato. The Plant Journal 117 (1): 7-22. (Research highlight and Cover feature)
Ye Jin Ahn, Haseong Kim, Sera Choi, Carolina Mazo-Molina, Maxim Prokchorchik, Ning Zhang, Boyoung Kim, Hyunggon Mang, Hayeon Yoon, Cécile Segonzac, Gregory B. Martin, Alex Schultink, Kee Hoon Sohn (2023). Ptr1 and ZAR1 immune receptors confer overlapping and distinct bacterial pathogen effector specificities. New Phytologist 239: 1935-1953.
Romina N. Ramos, Ning Zhang, Diana B. Lauff, Gregory B. Martin, Marina A. Pombo, Hernan G Rosli (2023). Loss-of-function mutations in WRKY22 and WRKY25 impair stomatal-mediated immunity and PTI and ETI responses against Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato. Plant molecular biology 112: 161-177.
Guy Sobol, Bharat Bhusan Majhi, Metsada Pasmanik-Chor, Ning Zhang, Holly M. Roberts, Gregory B. Martin, Guido Sessa (2023). Tomato receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase Fir1 is involved in flagellin signaling and pre-invasion immunity. Plant Physiology 192 (1): 565-581.
Ning Zhang, Chloe Hecht, Xuepeng Sun, Zhangjun Fei, Gregory B. Martin (2022). Loss of function of the bHLH transcription factor Nrd1 in tomato enhances resistance to Pseudomonas syringae. Plant Physiology 190 (2): 1334-1348.
Li Wang, Hilal Betul Kaya, Ning Zhang, Rhitu Rai, Matthew R. Willmann, Sara C. D. Carpenter, Andrew C. Read, Federico Martin, Zhangjun Fei, Jan E. Leach, Gregory B. Martin, Adam J. Bogdanove (2021). Spelling changes and fluorescent tagging with prime editing vectors for plants. Frontiers in Genome Editing 3: 7.
Ning Zhang, Marina A Pombo, Hernan G Rosli, Gregory B. Martin (2020). Tomato wall-associated kinase SlWak1 depends on Fls2/Fls3 to promote apoplastic immune responses to Pseudomonas syringae. Plant Physiology 183 (4): 1869-1882.
Ning Zhang, Holly M. Roberts, Joyce Van Eck, Gregory B. Martin (2020). Generation and molecular characterization of CRISPR/Cas9-induced mutations in 63 immunity-associated genes in tomato reveals specificity and a range of gene modifications. Frontiers in Plant Science 11:10.
Yi Zheng*, Ning Zhang*(co-first author), Gregory Martin, Zhangjun Fei (2019). Plant Genome Editing Database (PGED): A call for submission of information about genome-edited plant mutants. Molecular Plant 12 (2): 127-129.
Ning Zhang, Leah K. McHale, John J. Finer (2019). Changes to the core and flanking sequences of G-box elements lead to increases and decreases in gene expression in both native and synthetic soybean promoters. Plant Biotechnology Journal 17(4):724-735.
Thomas B. Jacobs, Ning Zhang, Dhruv Patel, Gregory B. Martin (2017). Generation of a collection of mutant tomato lines using pooled CRISPR libraries. Plant Physiology 174(4):2023-2037.
Trudi N.L. Grant, Carola M. De La Torre, Ning Zhang, John J. Finer (2017). Synthetic introns help identify sequences in the 5′ UTR intron of the Glycine max polyubiquitin (Gmubi) promoter that give increased promoter activity. Planta 245(4): 849-860.
Ning Zhang, Leah K. McHale, John J. Finer (2016). A leader intron of a soybean elongation factor 1A (eEF1A) gene interacts with soybean promoter elements to regulate gene expression. PLoS ONE 11(11): e0166074.
Ning Zhang, Leah K. McHale, John J. Finer (2015). Isolation and characterization of "GmScream" promoters that regulate highly expressing soybean (Glycine max Merr.) genes. Plant Science 241:189-198.
Ning Zhang, Wei Fang, Yan Shi, Qian Q. Liu, Hai Y. Yang, Ren Y. Gui, Xin C. Lin (2010). Somatic embryogenesis and organogenesis in Dendrocalamus hamiltonii. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 103(3):325-332.
BOOK CHAPTERS
John J. Finer and Ning Zhang (2024). Chapter 11: Transgenic plant production. In Book: Plant biotechnology and genetics: principles, techniques and applications. Ed. Neal Stewart. John Wiley & Sons.
Andika Gunadi, Ning Zhang, John J. Finer (2021). Chapter 10: Genome editing of promoter regions: Targeted modification of promoters. In Book: Genome editing for precision crop breeding, 247-277. Ed. Matthew R. Willmann. Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK.
PATENT
Xinchun Lin, Ning Zhang, Qiaolu Zang, Ling Zhou, Qianqian Liu, Liling Song, Fei Zhuge, Xiaoqin Wang (2021). Methods of plantlet regeneration of the bamboo species Dendrocalamus hamiltonii. Patent ID: ZL 2015 1 0961204.6