Dr. Andan Zhu is a professor at the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and PI of the Plant Genomics and Computational Biology Research Group. Before that, he earned his Ph.D. from Huazhong Agricultural University in 2012, followed by postdoctoral trainings at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and University of Texas-Austin. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles, such as Nature Genetics, Nature Plants, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Plant Cell, New phytologist, etc.

ORCHID id: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4417-565X
Scholar profile: Andan Zhu

Research Interests:

 Wild Crop Relatives
 Genome evolution
 Domestication
 Polyploidy
 Genomics of horticultural plants (strawberry, orchids)

Research Projects:

"Hundred Talents Program" of The Chinese Academy of Sciences

Publications:

1.Xin Jin, Haiyuan Du, Maoxian Chen, Xu Zheng, Yiying He, Andan Zhu. A fully phased octoploid strawberry genome reveals the evolutionary dynamism of centromeric satellites. 2025. Genome Biology 26(1)-17
2. Xin Jin, Haiyuan Du, Chumeng Zhu, Hong Wan, Fang Liu, Jiwei Ruan, Jeffrey P Mower, Andan Zhu. Haplotype-resolved genomes of wild octoploid progenitors illuminate genomic diversifications from wild relatives to cultivated strawberry Nature Plants 9 (8), 1252-1266
3. Fang Liu#, Weishu Fan#, Jun-Bo Yang, Chun-Lei Xiang, Jeffrey P Mower, De-zhu Li *, Andan Zhu*. Episodic and GC-biased bursts of intragenomic and interspecific synonymous divergence in Ajugoideae (Lamiaceae) mitogenomes. 2020. New Phytologist 228: 1107-1114
4. Wenhu Guo#, Andan Zhu#, Weishu Fan, Robert P Adams, Jeffrey P Mower*, Extensive Shifts from Cis-to Trans-splicing of Gymnosperm Mitochondrial Introns. 2020. Molecular Biology and Evolution 37(6),1615-1620
5. W Fan, W Guo, L Funk, JP Mower*, A Zhu *. Complete loss of RNA editing from the plastid genome and most highly expressed mitochondrial genes of Welwitschia mirabilis. 2019. Science China Life Sciences 62(4), 498-506
6. Nengguo Tao*, Yue Chen, Yalan Wu, Xiao Wang, Lu Li, Andan Zhu*. The terpene limonene induced the green mold of citrus fruit through regulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) homeostasis in Penicillium digitatum spores. 2019. Food Chemistry 277, 414-422
7. A Zhu#, W Fan#, RP Adams, JP Mower, Phylogenomic evidence for ancient recombination between plastid genomes of the Cupressus-Juniperus-Xanthocyparis complex (Cupressaceae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 18(1),137
8. Guo W, Zhu A, Fan W, Mower JP. Complete mitochondrial genomes from the ferns Ophioglossum californicum and Psilotum nudum are highly repetitive with the largest organellar introns. 2017. New Phytologist 213 (1), 391-403
9. Zhu A, Guo W, Gupta S, Mower JP. Evolution dynamics of the plastid inverted repeat: the effects of the expansion, contraction, and loss on substitution rates. 2016. New Phytologist 209(4), 1747-1756
10. Grewe F, Zhu A, Mower JP. Loss of a Trans-Splicing nad1 Intron from Geraniaceae and Transfer of the maturase gene matR to the Nucleus in Pelargonium.2016. Genome Biology and Evolution 8(10), 3193-3201
11. Park S, Grewe F, Zhu A, Ruhlman TA, Sabir J, Mower JP, Jansen RK. Dynamic evolution of Geranium mitochondrial genomes through multiple horizontal and intracellular gene transfers. 2016. New Phytologist 208(2), 570-583
12. Zhu A , Guo W, Jain K, Mower JP. Unprecedent heterogeneity in the synonymous substition rate within a plant genome. 2014. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31 (5): 1228-1236
13. Ding Y, Chang J, Ma Q, Liu S, Jin S, Han J, Xu R, Zhu A , Guo J, Luo Y, Xu J, Xu Q, Zeng Y, Deng X, Cheng Y. Network analysis of postharvest senescence process in Citrus fruits revealed by transcripyomics and metabolomic profiling. 2015. Plant Physiology 168(1):357-376
14. Xu Q, LL Chen, Ruan X, Chen D, Zhu A , Chen C, Bertrand D,WB Jiao, ... The draft genome of the sweet orange (Citrus sinensis). 2013. Nature Genetics 45(1): 59-66