理学博士，2020年获中国科学院大学博士学位，长期关注并致力于植物次生代谢和非生物胁迫应答的分子机制研究，包括番茄人工驯化过程耐盐性丢失的分子机制解析、模式植物拟南芥拟应答干旱、冷胁迫等机制研究及重要次生代谢产物合成通路解析等。2022年加入南方科技大学前沿生物技术研究院朱健康院士课题组，主要从事番茄功能代谢物的合成调控机制研究及营养强化。近年来在Nature Communications、The EMBO Journal、Molecular Plant、Plant Biotechnology Journal、Plant Physiology、Journal of Integrative Plant Biology等国际主流杂志发表一作（含共一）论文多篇，先后主持国家自然科学基金青年项目、中国博士后科学基金、深圳市优秀科技创新人才培养项目（博士启动），曾获南方科技大学第九批校长卓越博士后称号、中科院朱李月华优秀博士生奖学金等荣誉。
番茄次生代谢及营养强化
2014/09-2020/07 中国科学院大学 遗传学 博士
2010/09-2014/06 中山大学 生物技术 学士
2022/10至今 南方科技大学前沿生物技术研究院 研究助理教授
2020/07-2022/09 南方科技大学生命科学学院生物系 博士后
1. 南方科技大学第九批校长卓越博士后
2. 中科院朱李月华优秀博士生奖学金
1. Yechun Hong#, Zongjun Yu#, Qian Zhou, Chunyu Chen, Yuqiong Hao, Zhen Wang, Jian-Kang Zhu, Hongwei Guo and Ancheng C. Huang*. NAD+ deficiency primes defense metabolism via 1O2-escalated jasmonates biosynthesis in plants. Nature Communications, 2024, 15(1):6652.
2. Zhen Wang#*, Yechun Hong#, Dianjue Li, Zhiqiang Wang, Zhen-Fei Chao, Yongdong Yu, Guangtao Zhu* and Jian-Kang Zhu*. Association analysis provides insights into molecular evolution in salt tolerance during tomato domestication. Plant Physiology, 2024, kiae516
3. Yechun Hong#, Yang Gao#, Jia Pang, Huazhong Shi, Tingting Li, Huiying Meng, Dali Kong, Yunjuan Chen, Jian-Kang Zhu* and Zhen Wang*. The Sm core protein SmEb regulates salt stress responses through maintaining proper splicing of RCD1 pre-mRNA in Arabidopsis. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2023, 65(6):1383-1393.
4. Yechun Hong#, Xijin Guan#, Xu Wang#, Dali Kong, Shuojun Yu, Zhiqiang Wang, Yongdong Yu, Zhen-Fei Chao, Xue Liu, Sanwen Huang, Jian-Kang Zhu, Guangtao Zhu*, and Zhen Wang*. Natural variation in SlSOS2 promoter hinders salt resistance during tomato domestication. Horticulture Research, 10(1): uhac244. (2023)
5. Huiying Meng#, Yunjuan Chen#, Tingting Li, Huazhong Shi, Shuojun Yu, Yang Gao, Zhiqiang Wang, Xu Wang, Jian‐Kang Zhu, Yechun Hong* and Zhen Wang*. APETALA2 is involved in ABA signaling during seed germination. Plant Molecular Biology 112, 99–103 (2023).
6. Zhen Wang#, Yechun Hong#, Juanjuan Yao, Huan Huang, Bilian Qian, Xue Liu, Yunjuan Chen, Jia Pang, Xiangqiang Zhan, Jian-Kang Zhu, and Jianhua Zhu*. Modulation of Plant Development and Chilling Stress Responses by Alternative Splicing Events under Control of the Spliceosome Protein SmEb in Arabidopsis. Plant, Cell & Environment, 2022, 45, 2762-2779
7. Yechun Hong#, Qian Zhou#, Yuqiong Hao, and Ancheng C Huang*. Crafting plant root metabolome for improved microbe-assisted stress resilience. New Phytologist, 2022, 234, 1945-1950.
8. Zhen Wang#, Yechun Hong#, Yumei Li, Huazhong Shi, Juanjuan Yao, Xue Liu, Fuxing Wang, Sanwen Huang, Guangtao Zhu*, and Jian-Kang Zhu*. Natural variations in SlSOS1 contribute to the loss of salt tolerance during tomato domestication. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 2021, 19 (1), pp.20-22
9. Xiangfeng, Kong#, Yechun Hong#, Yi-Feng Hsu, Huan Huang, Xue Liu, Zhe Song, and Jian-Kang Zhu*. SIZ1-mediated SUMOylation of ROS1 enhances its stability and positively regulates active DNA demethylation in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant, 2020, 13(13): 1-9.
10. Zhen Wang#, Yechun Hong#, Guangtao Zhu#, Yumei Li, Qingfeng Niu, Juanjuan Yao, Kai Hua, Jinjuan Bai, Yingfang Zhu, Huazhong Shi, Sanwen Huang*, and Jian-Kang Zhu*. Loss of salt tolerance during tomato domestication conferred by variation in a Na+/K+ transporter. The EMBO Journal, 2020, 39(10):e103256.
11. Yechun Hong#, Zhen Wang#*, Huazhong Shi, Juanjuan Yao, Xue Liu, Fuxing Wang, Liang Zeng, Zhi Xie, and Jian-Kang Zhu*. Reciprocal regulation between nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide metabolism and abscisic acid and stress response pathways in Arabidopsis. PLOS Genetics, 2020, 16(6):e1008892
12. Yechun Hong#, Zhen Wang#, Xue Liu, Juanjuan Yao, Xiangfeng Kong, Huazhong Shi, and Jian-Kang Zhu*. Two chloroplast proteins negatively regulate plant drought resistance through separate pathways. Plant Physiology, 2020, 182(2) 1007-1021