夏瑞，教授，博士，博/硕士生导师
邮箱：rxia@scau.edu.cn
研究方向：
（1）无患子科植物花性别分化机制研究
（2）岭南特色园艺作物基因组学
（3）南方主要水果花果发育调控机理
（4）生物信息分析工具的开发和数据平台的搭建
个人简介：
2013年获得美国弗吉尼亚理工大学获得园艺学博士，先后在美国特拉华大学植物与土壤科学系、唐纳德.丹佛斯植物科学中心从事博士后研究。2016年入选国家级人才项目，回到华南农业大学园艺学院工作。2019年获得广东省特支计划科技创新领军人才项目支持。课题组详细信息请访问xialab.scau.edu.cn.
科研成果：
长期致力于园艺植物基因组和小分子RNA相关研究，已取得了国际领先的研究成果，在Nature Genetics，Nature Communication, Molecular Plant, The Plant Cell和Genome Biology等学术刊物发表SCI论文40多篇，累计引用>5000次。目前主要利用生物信息学、基因组学及分子生物学等手段，围绕无患子科植物花性别分化机制以及南方主要水果花果发育调控机理等生物学问题开展研究。并已开发一系列生物信息数据分析工具数据库，如TBtools和sRNAanno（www.plantsRNAs.org）等。
科研项目：
(1) 国家自然科学基金面上项目，miR2275在荔枝花性别分化过程中的作用机理研究，2021-01-01 至 2024-12-31, 58万元，主持
(2) 国家自然科学基金面上项目，miR482/2118通过GA信号转导途径参与荔枝果实发育的作用机制研究，2019-01-01 至 2022-12-31, 60万元，主持
(3) 国家科技部, 重点研发项目, 2018YFD1000104，果树成花机制与调控，2018-07 至 2022-12，464万元，在研，主持
代表性论文：
(1)Guibing Hu#, Junting Feng#, Xu Xiang#, Jiabao Wang#, Jarkko Salojärvi#, Chengming Liu#, Zhenxian Wu#, Jisen Zhang, Xinming Liang, Zide Jiang, Wei Liu, Liangxi Ou, Jiawei Li, Guangyi Fan, Yingxiao Mai, Chengjie Chen, Xingtan Zhang, Jiakun Zheng, Yanqing Zhang, Hongxiang Peng, Lixian Yao, Ching Man Wai, Xinping Luo, Jiaxin Fu, Haibao Tang, Tianying Lan, Biao Lai, Jinhua Sun, Yongzan Wei, Huanling Li, Jiezhen Chen, Xuming Huang, Qian Yan, Xin Liu, Leah K. McHale, William Rolling, Romain Guyot, David Sankoff, Chunfang Zheng, Victor A. Albert*, Ray Ming*, Houbin Chen*, Rui Xia* & Jianguo Li* (2022). Two divergent haplotypes from a highly heterozygous lychee genome suggest independent domestication events for early and late-maturing cultivars. Nature Genetics, 54:73-83.
(2)Yanqing Zhang#, Muhammad Waseem#, Zaohai Zeng, Jing Xu, Chengjie Chen, Yuanlong Liu, Jixian Zhai, Rui Xia*. MicroRNA482/2118, a miRNA superfamily essential for both disease resistance and plant development. New Phytologist. 2021 Nov 11. doi: 10.1111/nph.17853.
(3)Chengjie Chen#, Jiawei Li#, Junting Feng, Bo Liu, Lei Feng, Xiaoling Yu, Guanliang Li, Jixian Zhai, Blake C Meyers, Rui Xia*. sRNAanno-a database repository of uniformly annotated small RNAs in plants. Horticulture Research. 2021 Mar 1;8(1):45. doi: 10.1038/s41438-021-00480-8.
(4) Yuanlong Liu, Chong Teng, Rui Xia*, Blake Meyers*. PhasiRNAs in plants: their biogenesis, genic sources, and roles in stress responses, development, and reproduction. The Plant Cell. 2020 Oct;32(10):3059-3080. doi: 10.1105/tpc.20.00335.
(5) Chengjie Chen, Hao Chen, Yi Zhang, Hannah R. Thomas, Margaret H. Frank, Yehua He, Rui Xia*. TBtools: an integrative toolkit developed for interactive analyses of big biological data. Molecular Plant. 2020 Aug 3;13(8):1194-1202. doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2020.06.009.
(6) Hong Zhu#, Chengjie Chen#, Jun Zeng, Ze Yun, Yuanlong Liu, Hongxia Qu, Yueming Jiang*, Xuewu Duan* and Rui Xia*. MicroRNA528, a hub regulator modulating ROS homeostasis via targeting of a diverse set of genes encoding copper-containing proteins in monocots. New Phytologist. 2020 Jan;225(1):385-399. doi: 10.1111/nph.16130.
(7) Chengjie Chen#, Yuanlong Liu#, Rui Xia*. Jack of many trades: the multifaceted role of miR528 in monocots. Molecular Plant. 2019 Aug 5;12(8):1044-1046. doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2019.06.007.
(8) Rui Xia*, Chengjie Chen, Suresh Pokhre, Wuqiang Ma, Kun Huang, Parth Patel, Fuxi Wang, Jing Xu, Zhongchi Liu, Jianguo Li & Blake C. Meyers*. 24-nt reproductive phasiRNAs are broadly present in angiosperms. Nature Communications. 2019 Feb 7;10(1):627. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-08543-0.
(9) Chengjie Chen#, Zaohai Zeng#, Zongrang Liu, Rui Xia*. Small RNAs, emerging regulators critical for the development of horticultural traits. Horticulture Research. 2018 Sep 17;5:63. doi: 10.1038/s41438-018-0072-8.
(10) Wuqiang Ma, Chengjie Chen, Yuanlong Liu, Ming Zeng, Blake C. Meyers, Jianguo Li*, and Rui Xia*. Coupling of microRNA-directed phased small interfering RNA generation from long noncoding genes with alternative splicing and alternative polyadenylation in small RNA-mediated gene silencing. New Phytologist. 2018 Mar;217(4):1535-1550. doi: 10.1111/nph.14934.
(11) Rui Xia*, Jing Xu, Blake C. Meyers*. The emergence, evolution, and diversification of the miR390-TAS3-ARF pathway in land plants. The Plant Cell. 2017 Jun;29(6):1232-1247. doi: 10.1105/tpc.17.
