周文焜，教授，博士生导师，2013年博士毕业于中国科学院遗传与发育生物学研究所，2014-2019年在荷兰瓦赫宁根大学植物发育生物学系从事博士后研究，2020年以“杰出人才”引进中国农业大学生物学院，任教授，入选中国农业大学人才培育发展支持计划青年新星A类，入选国家青年创新人才项目，学术成果发表于Cell、Nature、Dev Cell、EMBO J、PNAS、Plant Cell、Molecular Plant、New Phytologist等国际主流学术期刊，主持国家自然科学基金面上项目2项，任Molecular Plant Feature editor，参与Molecular Plant、New Phytologist、Plant Physiology、Plant Communications、JIPB等国际学术期刊同行评审工作。

植物固着生长的特点决定了其必须通过对生长发育的改变以适应不断变化的环境条件。因此，植物显示出惊人的生长发育可塑性。在长期的进化过程中，植物形成了复杂精细的调控机制以平衡用于生长发育和胁迫反应的资源分配。植物生长发育最初的细胞来源是位于茎端和根端生长点的干细胞。植物能够通过超强的可塑性生长能力适应不断变化的环境条件，暗示植物能够通过干细胞感受逆境信号进而调整生长发育进程。

我们将主要以模式植物和作物玉米根系作为研究对象，通过细胞生物学，遗传学，生物化学，生理学和分子生物学等技术手段来研究植物根干细胞响应生物/非生物胁迫的调控机理。通过研究干细胞感受逆境信号进而调整生长发育进程的分子机理以打破植物抗逆反应和生长发育的负相关，为作物高产高抗遗传改良提供理论指导和技术借鉴。

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