1. Plant virology
2. Disease-resistant transgenic plants and plant bioreactors
3. Optimization of transgene expression in plants

Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, 1967

   

1979-1981  Visiting Scholar in Laboratory of Molecular Biology, The State University of Ghent, Belgium. 
1985-1988  Visiting Scientist in Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University, USA. 
1989-1995  Rockefeller Foundation Biotechnology Career Fellowship.

1968  Research Assistant Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
1978  Research Associate Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
1986  Associate Research Fellow Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
1990  Research Fellow Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
1992-1999  Deputy Director Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
2003  Academician Chinese Academy of Sciences 
2000-2004  Director Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
1991-2001  Deputy Director CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology 
2001-2003  Director CAS Key Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology 
2004-2011  Director State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics 
2006-2011  Visiting Professor Centre for Plant Sciences, University of Leeds 
2007  Fellow the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World

1987 Science and Technology Advancement Prize Second-class awarded by Chiense Academy of Sciences 2
1990 Science and Technology Advancement Prize Second-class awarded by Chiense Academy of Sciences 1
1991 Science and Technology Advancement Prize first-class awarded by Chiense Academy of Sciences 1
1993 Science and Technology Advancement Prize first-class awarded by Chiense Academy of Sciences 1
1993 Science and Technology Advancement Prize first-class awarded by Henan Province 1

1994 Young and Middle-aged expert with Outstanding Contributions titled by Ministry of Personnel
1996 Third-class prize awarded by National Commission of Science and Technology for Chinese National Programs for High Technology Research and Development (863 Plan)
2001 Advanced Individual for the 15th Anniversary of Chinese National Programs for High Technology Research and Development (863 Plan) awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China
2005 Science and Technology Advancement Prize awarded by The Holeung Ho Lee Foundation

FANG_RX complete list of publications 20120412.pdf

Prof. Rongxiang Fang has been conducting basic and applied research in plant virology and plant biotechnology. In 1985, he published the complete genome sequence of the Xinjiang strain of Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV), the first plant virus to be sequenced in China. Later on he cloned and sequenced the coat protein gene of a number of plant viruses. He also completed the whole-genome sequence analysis on Rice yellow stunt rhabdovirus, revealing a new gene in the virus not present in other rhabdoviruses. In this virus, he further identified a protein with a function in virus cell-to-cell movement, representing the first example of viral movement proteins of plant rhabdoviruses. In plant biotechnology, he successfully developed the transgenic tobacco plants resistant to both Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) and Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) by simultaneously expressing TMV and CMV coat proteins in plants. The transgenic tobacco plants were planted as early as 1992 at the largest scale in the world at that time. The same strategy was later applied to produce virus-resistant chili pepper which was granted a license for commercialization in 2001. In the field of plant gene expression, he analyzed and improved the CaMV 35S promoter which has been widely used in plant molecular biology and plant biotechnology. He dissected the promoter of the rice cell wall glycine-rich protein gene and identified the DNA sequence responsible for vascular tissue-specific expression of the promoter. At the translational level of gene expression, he found that fusion of a CMV coat protein polypeptide can significantly augment expression of foreign proteins in higher plants, and further developed a more useful strategy by fusing the CMV peptide and the ubiquitin monomer in tandem with the foreign protein, allowing release of the foreign protein in its natural form in plant cells.

1． R. Zhou, Z. Zhang, Q. Wu, R. Fang*, K. Mang, Y. Tian and G. Wang.
Large-scale performance of transgenic tobacco plants resistant to both tobacco mosaic virus and cucumber mosaic virus. (Invited speaker)
3rd International Symposium on the Biosafety Results of Field Tests of Genetically Modified Plants and Microorganisms
November 13-16, 1994. Monterey, California, USA. 

2． Rong-Xiang Fang*
Development and Application of Virus-Resistant Transgenic Plants (Plenary Lecture)
5th Pacific Rim Biotechnology Conference and BioExpo ？96
Novermber 12-15, 1996. Seoul, Korea.

已指导学生

曲静  博士研究生  071007-遗传学  

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王莉  博士研究生  071007-遗传学  

孙其红  博士研究生  071007-遗传学  

张莉莉  博士研究生  071007-遗传学  

米凯霞  博士研究生  071007-遗传学  

刘宗旨  博士研究生  071007-遗传学  

杨艳梅  博士研究生  071007-遗传学  

叶健  博士研究生  071007-遗传学  

蔡传奇  博士研究生  071010-遗传学  

苏鸓  博士研究生  071007-遗传学  

腊平  博士研究生  071007-遗传学  

黄彦威  博士研究生  071007-遗传学  

耿云峰  博士研究生  071007-遗传学  

贾洪革  博士研究生  071007-遗传学  

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李云娜  硕士研究生  071007-遗传学  

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张璇  硕士研究生  085238-生物工程  

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张天昊  博士研究生  071007-遗传学  

黄卫阔  博士研究生  071007-遗传学  

1． Asia-Pacific Biotech News (Editor)
2． Chinese Journal of Virology (Associate Editor-in-chief)
3． Journal of Agricultural Biotechnology (Editor)
4． Chinese Journal of Biotechnology (Associate Editor-in-chief)
5． Science in China Series C (Associate Editor-in-chief

Lab Meeting at Fengshan on July 11-12, 2011