Yongjun Feng

1991.9 -- 1995.7 Shandong University Microbial Engineering Bachelor
1995.9-1998.7 Master of Fermentation Engineering, Shandong University
1998.9-2001.7 Doctor of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
2001.9-2003.9 Postdoctoral Fellow, Lecturer, Department of Biology, Tsinghua University
2003.9-2012.6 Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, Beijing Institute of Technology
2012.7-Present Professor, School of Life Sciences, Beijing Institute of Technology
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(1) Molecular mechanism of endophyte and plant interaction: Endophytes can settle in healthy plants and establish harmonious association with them, and regulate plant growth by combining nitrogen fixation and growth hormone synthesis, etc. Our research group has been committed to the study of the interaction mechanism between rice and endophytes for a long time, and is good at the signal regulation mechanism of bacterial physiological processes, especially the study of Pantobacteria bacteria has an important position in the world.
(2) Synergistic regulation of soybean flowering and podding and nodule nitrogen fixation: Soybean is a photcyclically sensitive crop, and vegetative growth represented by nodule and nitrogen fixation is contradictory with reproductive development represented by flowering and pod setting. Our research group has found that soybean transcription factor GmNMHC5 plays a dual regulatory role in the process of flower formation and nodule formation, and has been committed to studying the synergistic regulatory mechanism of GmNMHC5. To explore the possible ways to coordinate the relationship between carbon and nitrogen metabolism, vegetative growth and reproductive development of soybean.
(3) Synthetic biology of plant natural products: Many natural products from plants have important and extensive application value, and the construction of microbial cell factories to achieve their synthesis is an ideal way to change the traditional way of obtaining them. This research group is committed to the construction of microbial cell factories of echinacea and other plant natural products to achieve green manufacturing.
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