Dr. Yao Xiao

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsPlant and Cell Developmental Biology,Plant Genetics and Genomics
Keywordsgravitropism, protein polarity, protein kinase, auxin

Current contact address

CountryPeople's Republic of China
CityGuangzhou
InstitutionGuangzhou University (GU)
InstituteSchool of Life Sciences

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Claus SchwechheimerPlant Systems Biology, Technische Universität München, Freising
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2021

Programme(s)

2020Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2026Alkistis E. Lanassa Bassukas, Yao Xiao, Namuk Kim, Claus Schwechheimer: PAX-regulated self-organizing polarity drives procambial strand formation. In: Nature Plants, 2026,
2025Yao Xiao Melina Zourelidou Alkistis E Lanassa Bassukas Benjamin Weller Dorina P Janacek Jan Šimura Karin Ljung Ulrich Z Hammes Jia Li Claus Schwechheimer: The protein kinases KIPK and KIPK-LIKE1 suppress overbending during negative hypocotyl gravitropic growth in Arabidopsis . In: The Plant cell, 2025,
2024Alina Graf, Alkistis Eleftheria Lanassa Bassukas, Yao Xiao, Inês C. R. Barbosa, Julia Mergner, Peter Grill, Bernhard Michalke, Bernhard Kuster & Claus Schwechheimer: D6PK plasma membrane polarity requires a repeated CXX(X)P motif and PDK1-dependent phosphorylation. In: Nature Plants, 10, 2024, 300–314
2022A.E. Lanassa Bassukas, Yao Xiao, Claus Schwechheimer: Phosphorylation control of PIN auxin transporters. In: Current Opinion in Plant Biology 65, 2022,