Lingjing Chen
Ph.D. 1988, The Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China,
Lab Responcibiligy. Chemical safety
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY: American Society of Plant Biologists
Field of Interest: Plant embryology, shoot architecture, bioinformatics and systematics.
PATENT:
United States Patent #6,376,751. Approved date: April 23, 2002
Inventors: Sung, Z. Renee; Aubert, Dominique; Chen, Lingjing
Title: Nucleic acids encoding EMF1 that control reproductive development in plants
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Phylogenetic analysis of Arabidopsis PcG protein EMF2 (in preparation)
Z.R. Sung, L.-J. Chen, Y.-H. Moon, and N. Yoshida, 2003, Molecular Mechanism of Shoot Determinancy and
Flowering in Arabidopsis, HortScience, Vol. 38, No. 7, 1325-1327.
Yong-Hwan Moon, Lingjing Chen, Rong Long Pan, Hur-Song Chang, Tong Zhu, Daniel M. Maffeo, and Z. Renee
Sung, 2003, EMF Genes Maintain Vegetative Development by Repressing the Flower Program in Arabidopsis. Plant
Cell, 15 (3): 681-693.
Z Renee Sung, Lingjing Chen, Yong-Hwan Moon and Kvin
Lertpiriyapong, 2003, Mechanisms of floral repression in Arabidopsis.
Current Opinion in Plant Biology 6 (1): 29-35.
Avsian-Kretchmer O, Cheng JC, Chen L, Moctezuma E, Sung ZR., 2002:
Indole acetic acid distribution coincides with vascular differentiation pattern during Arabidopsis leaf ontogeny. Plant
Physiol.130(1):199-209.
Nobumasa Yoshida, Yukihiro Yanai, Lingjing Chen, Yoshihiro Kato, Junzo Hiratsuka, Tatsushi Miwa, Z. Renee Sung,
and Shigeru Takahashi, 2001: EMBRYONIC FLOWER2, a Novel Polycomb Group Protein Homolog, Mediates
Shoot Development in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 13(11): 2471-81.
Dominique Aubert, Lingjing Chen, Yong-Hwan Moon, David Martin,
Linda A. Castle, Chang-Hsien Yang, and Zinmay R. Sung, 2001: EMF1, A Novel Protein Involved in the Control of
Shoot Architecture and Flowering in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 13(8): 1865-75.
Bai S, Chen L, Yund MA, Sung ZR., 2000: Mechanisms of plant embryo development. Curr. Top. Dev. Biol.,50:
61-88.
USEful LINK:
Chemical safety: [New lab members are encouraged to visit the following EH&S sites for campus policy]
UCB Office of Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S): http://ehs.berkeley.edu/
Campus Chemical Waste Management: http://mpl.ehs.berkeley.edu/
Campus Chemical Exchange Service: http://www.ehs.berkeley.edu/Database/CHEX.html
Material Safety Data Sheets: http://ehs.berkeley.edu/whatwedo/healthsafety/msds.html
Chemical Inventory: http://ehs.berkeley.edu. Click on "New Chemical Inventory Software" to download 4D Client
6.8 for Macintosh
Log on: Kvin Lert
Password: Sung361
Flowering Plants in California: http://www.calflora.org/
Flowering plants worldwide:
Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden:
http://www.rbge.org.uk/rbge/web/index.jsp
Royal Botanic Garden, Kew: http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/
Missouri Botanical Garden: http://www.mobot.org/
Europe flora: http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/aart/
Lab retreats: http://nature.berkeley.edu/~lchen2/picnic17
LAB EXPERIENCE
In the lab, I have been working on characterization and cloning of the intriguing EMF genes that are required for
Arabidopsis shoot development.
EMAIL: lchen2@nature.berkeley.edu