English Name：XU Pengjun

中文名：徐蓬军

Phone：+86 532 88701012

Email：xupengjun@caas.cn

Academic Title：Professor

Supervisor：Master Supervisor

Department：Tobacco Research Institute

Group：Plant Protection

Research Area：

Prof. Pengjun Xu is currently working in Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences (Qingdao, China). As visiting researcher, Pengjun had been working in the lab of IPEG for two years funded by Newton International Fellowship (2017-2019). Pengjun’s research aims to understand the coevolution between insects and microorganism. Pengjun’s current research focused on two areas: (1) interactions between viruses and their insect hosts, (2) the adaptive evolution of insects by horizontal gene transfer and gene duplication.

Publications:

1.Su C, Liu S, Sun M, Yu Q, Li C, Graham RI, Wang X, Wang X, Xu P, Ren G: Delivery of Methoprene-Tolerant dsRNA to Improve RNAi Efficiency by Modified Liposomes for Pest Control. ACS applied materials & interfaces 2023, 15(10):13576-13588.

2.Xu P, Rice A, Li T, Wang J, Yang X, Yuan H, Graham RI, Wilson K: Partiti-like viruses from African armyworm increase larval and pupal mortality of a novel host: the Egyptian cotton leafworm. Pest Manag Sci 2022, 78(4):1529-1537.

3.Li T, LI c, Wu Y, Li s, Yuan G, Xu P: Identification of a Novel Densovirus in Aphid, and Uncovering the Possible Antiviral Process During Its Infection. Frontiers in immunology 2022, 13:905628.

4.Xiao Y, Li W, Yang X, Xu P, Jin M, Yuan H, Zheng W, Soberon M, Bravo A, Wilson K et al: Rapid spread of a densovirus in a major crop pest following wide-scale adoption of Bt-cotton in China. Elife 2021, 10:e66913.

5.Liu Y, Zhang D, Yang L, Dong Y, Liang G, Donkersley P, Ren G, Xu P, Wu K: Analysis of phototactic responses in Spodoptera frugiperda using Helicoverpa armigera as control. Journal of Integrative Agriculture 2021, 20(3):821-828.

6.Yuan H, Xu P, Xiao Y, Yang L, Yang X, Wu K: Infection of cotton bollworm by Helicoverpa armigera iflavirus decreases larval fitness. J Invertebr Pathol 2020, 173:107384.

7.Xu P, Yang L, Yang X, Li T, Graham RI, Wu K, Wilson K: Novel partiti-like viruses are conditional mutualistic symbionts in their normal lepidopteran host, African armyworm, but parasitic in a novel host, Fall armyworm. PLoS Pathog 2020, 16(6):e1008467.

8.Xu P, Lu B, Liu J, Chao J, Donkersley P, Holdbrook R, Lu Y: Duplication and expression of horizontally transferred polygalacturonase genes is associated with host range expansion of mirid bugs. BMC Evol Biol 2019, 19(1):12.

9.Xu P, Feuda R, Lu B, Xiao H, Graham RI, Wu K: Functional opsin retrogene in nocturnal moth. Mobile DNA 2016, 7:18.

10.Xu P, Liu Y, Graham RI, Wilson K, Wu K: Densovirus Is a Mutualistic Symbiont of a Global Crop Pest (Helicoverpa armigera) and Protects against a Baculovirus and Bt Biopesticide. PLoS Pathog 2014, 10(10):e1004490.