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  • Dr. Duoduo (Dora) Wang is an Assistant Professor in Plant Physiology at the University of New Hampshire. She earned her Ph.D. in Plant Biotechnology at the University of Nottingham in 2018, followed by postdoctoral research at the University of Florida and Cornell University, respectively. Her research is focused on understanding the physiological, genetic and molecular basis of fruit ripening and plant response to environmental stresses, and developing novel crop genotypes with desirable traits using advanced molecular breeding strategies including CRISPR technologies. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for The Journal of Horticultural Science & Biotechnology.

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title
    2024 Double CRISPR knockout of pectin degrading enzymes improves tomato shelf‐life while ensuring fruit quality.  PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET.  6:330-340. 2024
    2023 Elucidating the role of SlXTH5 in tomato fruit softening.  Horticultural Plant Journal.  9:777-788. 2023
    2023 Pectin: a critical component in cell-wall-mediated immunity..  Trends in Plant Science.  28:10-13. 2023
    2022 Molecular and biochemical basis of softening in tomato..  Mol Hortic.  2:5. 2022
    2021 Development and application of molecular markers for TSW (thousand-seed weight) related gene BnaGRF7.C02 in Brassica napus.  Oil Crop Science.  6:145-150. 2021
    2021 Host susceptibility factors render ripe tomato fruit vulnerable to fungal disease despite active immune responses..  Journal of Experimental Botany.  72:2696-2709. 2021
    2019 Generation of a selectable marker free, highly expressed single copy locus as landing pad for transgene stacking in sugarcane.  Plant Molecular Biology: An International Journal on Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry.  100:247-263. 2019
    2018 Fruit Softening: Revisiting the Role of Pectin.  Trends in Plant Science.  23:302-310. 2018
    2017 Tomato Flavor: Lost and Found?.  Molecular Plant.  10:782-784. 2017
    2016 Genetic improvement of tomato by targeted control of fruit softening.  Nature Biotechnology.  34:950-952. 2016
    2013 Antifungal Activity of Hypothemycin against Peronophythora Litchii In Vitro And In Vivo.  Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.  61:10091-10095. 2013
    Advances and Challenges in CRISPR/Cas-Based Fungal Genome Engineering for Secondary Metabolite Production: A Review.  Journal of Fungi.  9:362-362.
    Characterisation of CRISPR mutants targeting genes modulating pectin degradation in ripening tomato.  Plant Physiology.  pp.01187.2018-pp.01187.2018.
    Genome-wide identification of the pectin methylesterase inhibitor genes in Brassica napus and expression analysis of selected members.  Frontiers in Plant Science.  13.
    Modification of Pectin and Hemicellulose Polysaccharides in Relation to Aril Breakdown of Harvested Longan Fruit.  International Journal of Molecular Sciences.  14:23356-23368.
    Multiallelic, Targeted Mutagenesis of Magnesium Chelatase With CRISPR/Cas9 Provides a Rapidly Scorable Phenotype in Highly Polyploid Sugarcane.  Frontiers in Genome Editing.  3.
    Pectin, Lignin and Disease Resistance in Brassica napus L.: An Update.  Horticulturae.  9:112-112.
    The Discovery of the Potential Attractive Compounds of Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel).  Horticulturae.  10:299-299.
    The Effects of Nine Compounds on Aldehyde-Oxidase-Related Genes in Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel).  Genes.  15:35-35.

    Article

    Year Title
    2020 Tomato fruit susceptibility to fungal disease can be uncoupled from ripening by suppressing susceptibility factors 2020

    Education And Training

  • Ph.D. Plant Sciences, University of Nottingham

    • Full Name

  • Duoduo (Dora) Wang