Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province
Doctor; Lecturer
Graduate Academic Advisor for College of Plant Protection 
Email:xiaosong04005@163.com 
Tel:15229246296

Research Focus

1 The National Key Research and Development Plan: Research and Development of Efficient Chemical Prevention and Control Technology for Apple Main Diseases, 2016/01-2020/12, 1370000 yuan.
2 The National Natural Science Foundation of China: Identification and Regulatory Mechanisms of Small RNAs Mediated by AGO Proteins of Valsa mali, 2016/01-2018/12, 264000 yuan.
3 The China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Special Funding: The molecular mechanisms between apple tree and valsa canker pathogen cross-species regulated by small RNAs, 2016/07-2018/03, 150000 yuan.

Representative Papers 

[1] Hao Feng, Bing Wang, Qiong Zhang, et al. Exploration of microRNAs and their targets engaging in the resistance interaction between wheat and stripe rust. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2015, 6: 469.
[2] Hao Feng, Xiaojie Wang, Qiong Zhang, et al. Monodehydroascorbate reductase gene, regulated by the wheat PN-2013  miRNA, contributes to adult wheat plant resistance to stripe rust through ROS metabolism. BBA-Gene Regulatory Mechanism, 2014, 1839(1): 1-12.
[3] Hao Feng, Xiaoyuan Duan, Qiong Zhang, et al. The target gene of tae-miR164, a novel NAC transcription factor from the NAM subfamily, negatively regulates resistance of wheat to stripe rust. Molecular Plant Pathology, 2014, 15(3): 284-296. 
[4] Hao Feng, Qiong Zhang, Qiuling Wang, et al. Target of tae-miR408, a chemocyanin-like protein gene (TaCLP1), plays positive roles in wheat response to high-salinity, heavy cupric stress and stripe rust. Plant Molecular Biology, 2013, 83(4-5): 433-443.
[5] Hao Feng, Qiong Zhang, Huayi Li, et al. vsiRNAs derived from the miRNA-generating sites of pri-tae-miR159a based on the BSMV system play positive roles in the wheat response to Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici through the regulation of taMyb3 expression. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 2012, 68: 90-95. 

Major and Research Direction

My basic studies mainly focus on the roles of small RNAs in plant immunity, fungi pathogenesis, molecular plant-microbial interaction. Meanwhile, I also do some work on cloning and characterization of pathogenicity-related genes, screening of resistance germplasm resources to apple valsa canker, exploring of the resistance mechanism and developing the integrated disease prevention and control technologies.