Yinong Yang

Professor, Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology

Yinong Yang

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Signal perception and transduction in rice-pathogen interactions. Molecular and genomic strategies for increasing disease resistance and drought tolerance in cereal crops.

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Genes Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats Rice Oryza Gene Editing Proteins Mutation Dna Rna Nucleotides Guide Rna Phosphorylation Immunity Disease Resistance Mitogen Activated Protein Kinase Adenine Mitogen Activated Protein Kinases Pathogens Phosphotransferases Phenotype Genome Genomics Methodology Gels Crops

Most Recent Publications

Fine-tuning OsCPK18/OsCPK4 activity via genome editing of phosphorylation motif improves rice yield and immunity

Hong Li, Yun Zhang, Caiyun Wu, Jinpeng Bi, Yache Chen, Changjin Jiang, Miaomiao Cui, Yuedan Chen, Xin Hou, Meng Yuan, Lizhong Xiong, Yinong Yang, Kabin Xie, 2022, Plant Biotechnology Journal on p. 2258-2271

Cas12a-Based Diagnostics for Potato Purple Top Disease Complex Associated with Infection by ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma trifolii’-Related Strains

Matthew S. Wheatley, Qin Wang, Wei Wei, Kristi D. Bottner-Parker, Yan Zhao, Yinong Yang, 2022, Plant Disease on p. 2039-2045

Predictable NHEJ insertion and assessment of HDR editing strategies in plants.

Kutubuddin Molla, Justin Shih, Yinong Yang, 2022, Frontiers in Genome Editing on p. 825236

Highly Sensitive and Rapid Detection of Citrus Huanglongbing Pathogen ('Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus') Using Cas12a-Based Methods

Matthew S. Wheatley, Yong Ping Duan, Yinong Yang, 2021, Phytopathology on p. 2375-2382

CRISPR-Cas12a-based DNA detection for fast pathogen diagnosis and GMO test in plants.

Y.-M. Zhang, Yinong Yang, K Xie, 2021, on p. 221-233

Versatile applications of the CRISPR/cas toolkit in plant pathology and disease management

Matthew S. Wheatley, Yinong Yang, 2021, Phytopathology on p. 1080-1090

Targeted mutation of transcription factor genes alters metaxylem vessel size and number in rice roots

Jenna Reeger, Matthew Wheatley, Yinong Yang, Kathleen Brown, 2021, Plant Direct on p. e00328

A versatile nanoluciferase toolkit and optimized in-gel detection method for protein analysis in plants

Hong Li, Caiyun Wu, Manman Du, Yache Chen, Xin Hou, Yinong Yang, Kabin Xie, 2021, Molecular Breeding

A FLASH pipeline for arrayed CRISPR library construction and the gene function discovery of rice receptor-like kinases

Kaiyuan Chen, Runnan Ke, Manman Du, Yuqing Yi, Yache Chen, Xiaochun Wang, Lu Yao, Hao Liu, Xin Hou, Lizhong Xiong, Yinong Yang, Kabin Xie, 2021, Molecular Plant

Single-nucleotide editing for zebra3 and wsl5 phenotypes in rice using CRISPR/Cas9-mediated adenine base editors

Kutubuddin A. Molla, Justin Shih, Yinong Yang, 2020, aBIOTECH on p. 106-118

Most-Cited Papers

Boosting CRISPR/Cas9 multiplex editing capability with the endogenous tRNA-processing system

Kabin Xie, Bastian Minkenberg, Yinong Yang, 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 3570-3575

RNA-Guided genome editing in plants using a CRISPR-Cas system

Kabin Xie, Yinong Yang, 2013, Molecular Plant on p. 1975-1983

Genome-wide prediction of highly specific guide RNA spacers for CRISPR-Cas9-mediated genome editing in model plants and major crops

Kabin Xie, Jianwei Zhang, Yinong Yang, 2014, Molecular Plant on p. 923-926

CRISPR/Cas-Mediated Base Editing: Technical Considerations and Practical Applications

Kutubuddin A. Molla, Yinong Yang, 2019, Trends in Biotechnology on p. 1121-1142

Roles of plant hormones and their interplay in rice immunity

Dong Lei Yang, Yinong Yang, Zuhua He, 2013, Molecular Plant on p. 675-685

Transgenic rice with inducible ethylene production exhibits broad-spectrum disease resistance to the fungal pathogens Magnaporthe oryzae and Rhizoctonia solani

Emily E. Helliwell, Qin Wang, Yinong Yang, 2013, Plant Biotechnology Journal on p. 33-42

The rice blast resistance gene Ptr encodes an atypical protein required for broad-spectrum disease resistance

Haijun Zhao, Xueyan Wang, Yulin Jia, Bastian Minkenberg, Matthew Wheatley, Jiangbo Fan, Melissa H. Jia, Adam Famoso, Jeremy D. Edwards, Yeshi Wamishe, Barbara Valent, Guo Liang Wang, Yinong Yang, 2018, Nature Communications

Direct phosphorylation and activation of a mitogen-activated protein kinase by a calcium-dependent protein kinase in rice

Kabin Xie, Jianping Chen, Qin Wang, Yinong Yang, 2014, Plant Cell on p. 3077-3089

Discovery of rice essential genes by characterizing a CRISPR-edited mutation of closely related rice MAP kinase genes

Bastian Minkenberg, Kabin Xie, Yinong Yang, 2017, Plant Journal on p. 636-648

CRISPR/Cas9-Enabled Multiplex Genome Editing and Its Application

Bastian Minkenberg, Matthew Wheatley, Yinong Yang, 2017, on p. 111-132

News Articles Featuring Yinong Yang

Jan 31, 2023

Five Penn State faculty elected to 2022 cohort of AAAS Fellows

Five Penn State faculty members in areas ranging from the geosciences and atmospheric science to plant ecology and genome editing have been elected to the 2022 cohort of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.

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May 10, 2021

CRISPR/Cas technology could enable early diagnosis of devastating citrus disease

Penn State and U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists have used cutting-edge CRISPR/Cas technology to develop a diagnostic test that could enable early diagnosis of citrus greening, or Huanglongbing, a serious disease that threatens worldwide citrus production.

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Sep 07, 2018

A fast-moving future for gene-edited foods

Unlike older genetic-modification methods, the new techniques are precise, fast and inexpensive, and companies hope they will avoid the negative reputation and regulatory hurdles that hobbled the first generation of genetically modified foods.

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Aug 28, 2018

Can CRISPR help us stop wasting so much food?

CRISPR. It’s not what’s for dinner. Not yet, at least. But the hot genetic editing technology could be instrumental in reducing the multi-billion global problem of food spoilage and waste.

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Aug 28, 2018

PROCESSED FOOD: Genetically modified or gene-edited: Is there a difference?

In a gleaming laboratory hidden from the highway by a Hampton Inn and a Denny’s restaurant in Roseville, Minnesota, a researcher with the biotech firm Calyxt works the controls of a boxy robot.

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Aug 27, 2018

White Button Mushrooms as a Prebiotic May Help Improve Glucose Regulation

Eating white button mushrooms can create subtle shifts in the microbial community in the gut, which could improve the regulation of glucose in the liver, according to a team of researchers at Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.

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