Colleges & Faculties

I. Personal Information

Tingting Xiao, Ph.D, Professor, Master’s supervisor."Beijing Overseas Talents Gathering Program" Expert. Dr. Xiao was born in Zibo, Shandong Province. She obtained her bachelor's degree from Shandong Agricultural University. From 2007 to 2017, she studied at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, where she earned her master's and doctoral degrees and completed her postdoctoral research. From 2017 to 2022, she conducted further postdoctoral research at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, where she later worked as a research scientist. She joined Beijing University of Agriculture (BUA) in October 2022.

II. Research Interests

Dr. Xiao's research group focuses on the molecular mechanisms and applications related to root stress resistance in stone fruit trees (such as peach, apricot, and plum). The team is currently engaged in thefollowing three research areas:

Mechanisms underlying crown gall formation in fruit trees caused by Agrobacterium-induced root tumors.

Causes and prevention strategies of replant disease (soil sickness) in peach orchards.

Breeding of stone fruit rootstocks resistant to crown gall disease and replant problems.

III. Major Achievements

1.Ting Ting Xiao, Alejandro Aragón Raygoza, Juan Caballero Pérez, Gwendolyn Kirschner, Yanming Deng, Brian Atkinson, Craig Sturrock, Vinicius Lube, Jian You Wang, Gilles Lubineau, Salim Al-Babili, Alfredo Cruz Ramírez, Malcolm Bennett, Ikram Blilou, Emergent Protective Organogenesis in Date Palms: A Morpho-Devo-Dynamic Adaptive Strategy during Early Development, The Plant Cell, Volume 31, Issue 8, August 2019, Pages 1751–1766, https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00008.

2.Defeng Shen, Ting Ting Xiao, Robin van Velzen, Olga Kulikova, Xiaoyun Gong, René Geurts, Katharina Pawlowski, Ton Bisseling, A Homeotic Mutation Changes Legume Nodule Ontogeny into Actinorhizal-Type Ontogeny, The Plant Cell, Volume 32, Issue 6, June 2020, Pages 1868–1885, https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00739.

3.Ting Ting Xiao, Gwendolyn K Kirschner, Boubacar A Kountche, Muhammad Jamil, Maria Savina, Vinicius Lube, Victoria Mironova, Salim al Babili, Ikram Blilou, A PLETHORA/PIN-FORMED/auxin network mediates prehaustorium formation in the parasitic plant Striga hermonthica, Plant Physiology, Volume 189, Issue 4, August 2022, Pages 2281–2297,https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac215.

4.Zheng X, Zhang Y, Balakrishna A, Liew KX, Kuijer HNJ, Xiao TT, Blilou I, Al-Babili S. Installing the neurospora carotenoid pathway in plants enables cytosolic formation of provitamin A and its sequestration in lipid droplets. Mol Plant. 2023 Jun 5;16(6):1066-1081. doi: 10.1016/j.molp.2023.05.003. Epub 2023 May 16. PMID: 37198885.

5.Ting Ting Xiao, Sophia Müller, Defeng Shen, Jieyu Liu, Kelvin Adema, Amber van Seters, Henk Franssen, Ton Bisseling, Olga Kulikova, Wouter Kohlen, Nodule organogenesis in Medicago truncatula requires local stage-specific auxin biosynthesis and transport, Plant Physiology, Volume 197, Issue 4, April 2025, kiaf133, https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiaf133.

IV.Contact information

Postal address:  College of Plant Science and Technology, Beijing University of Agriculture, No. 7, Beinong Road, Huilongguan, Changping, Beijing, 102206

Contact number: 18515678619

Email: xiaoting-@hotmail.com