Chloroplast Stress Signaling Group

This opens exciting new directions for studying how plants fine-tune their growth and stress responses depending on their environment.

These findings suggest that EX1 has “dual functions”: in the light, it mainly controls stress-related genes, while in the dark, it shifts gears to regulate growth-related genes.

Our team’s latest study, published in Science Advances, reveals a surprising new role for EXECUTER1 (EX1), a protein known for sensing harmful singlet oxygen in plants. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

TOC33 mediates 1O2-EX1 signaling from the chloroplast to the nucleus. Our coordinated work with Prof. Liangsheng Wang’s group has been accepted in Molecular Plant!! Congratulations!! cell.com/molecular-plan…

2025 CAS-JIC Annual Symposium

My outstanding PhD student, Jingzhi, has successfully passed the PhD defense. Congratulations, Dr. Jingzhi Zhang! 🎉

Such insights could help design plants that better withstand environmental stressors by enhancing chloroplast resilience and overall photosynthetic efficiency.

One immediate next step is to explore how these membrane dynamics might impact chloroplast-to-nucleus signaling, as there are intriguing hints that membrane fluidity could modulate retrograde signaling.

We are delighted to announce the publication of our manuscript " Temperature-driven changes in membrane fluidity differentially impact FILAMENTATION TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE H2-mediated photosystem II repair" as a Breakthrough Report in The Plant Cell.  academic.oup.com/plcell/article…

今回の上海滞在では、CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciencesも訪問（金曜日） @Chanhong_Lab, @jdmurray44 Many thanks for hosting me! I really enjoyed Korean dinner🍖

Thank @Chanhong_Lab and @AlbertoPMacho for inviting me to the Songjian campus of the CEMPS! It’s a great honor to serve as the first invited speaker at your new auditorium. We were impressed by your new building and labs.