STAFF
Associate Professor Taibo Liu
College of Life Sciences,
South China Agricultural University,
Guangzhou, Guangdong 510642, China
Tel: +86-20-38297785 (O)
E-mail: taiboliu2008@126.com
Education
Ph.D. (Plant Molecular Biology)
Tohoku University, Japan, 2014
M.S. (Biology)
Chongqing University, China, 2007
Professional Biography
Dr. Taibo Liu pursued my Ph. D. degree at Tohoku University in Japan from Oct. 2010 to Mar. 2014. Now, he is mainly working on auxin- and polyamine- mediated rice and tomato development, especially the molecular mechanisms for flower and fruit development.
Area of Expertise Selected Publishment
Auxin; Polyamine; RopGEF; signal transduction; floral organ development; fruit development
Selected Publishment
Zhen Yu, Dongyu Jia, Taibo Liu*.Polyamine oxidases play various roles in plant development and abiotic stress tolerance. Plants, 2019, 8: 184.
Jiaqing Huang, Huili Liu, Thomas Berberich,Yuting Liu, Li-zhen Tao *, Taibo Liu*. Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor 7B(RopGEF7B) is involved in floral organ developmentin Oryza sativa. Rice, 2018, 11: 42.
Yanwei Hao#, Binbin Huang#, Dongyu Jia, Taylor Mann, Xinyi Jiang, Yuxing Qiu, Masaru Niitsu, Thomas Berberich, Tomonobu Kusano, Taibo Liu*. Identification of seven polyamine oxidase genes in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) and their expression profiles under physiological and various stress condition. Journal of Plant Physiology, 2018, 228: 1-11.
Taibo Liu, Binbin Huang, Lin Chen, Zhiqiang Xian, Riyuan Chen, Yanwei HAO*, Genome-wide identification, phylogenetic analysis, and expression profiling of polyamine synthesis gene family members in tomato. Gene, 2018, Gene, 2018, 661: 1-10.
Taibo Liu, Dong Wook Kim, Masaru Niitsu, Shunsuke Maeda, Masao Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Kamio, Thomas Berberich, Tomonobu Kusano*. (2014) Polyamine oxidase 7, a terminal catabolism-type enzyme, is specifically expressed in anther organ of Oryza sativa. Plant Cell Physiology, 55 (6):1110-1122.
Taibo Liu, Dong Wook Kim, Masaru Niitsu, Thomas Berberich, Tomonobu Kusano*. (2014) Oryza sativa polyamine oxidase 1 back-converts tetraamines, spermine and thermospermine, to spermidine. Plant Cell Reports, 33:143-151.
G.H.M. Sagor†, Taibo Liu†, Hideki Takahashi, Masaru Niitsu, Thomas Berberich, Tomonobu Kusano*. (2013) Longer uncommon polyamines have a stronger defense gene-induction activity and a higher suppressing activity of Cucumber mosaic virus multiplication compared to that of spermine in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Reports, (2013) 32:1477-1488.
Taibo Liu, Dong Wook Kim, Masaru Niitsu, Thomas Berberich, Tomonobu Kusano*. (2014) POLYAMINE OXIDASE 1 from rice (Oryza sativa) is a functional ortholog of Arabidopsis POLYAMINE OXIDASE 5. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 9:e29773.
Taibo Liu, Hayato Dobashi†, Dong Wook Kim, GHM Sagor, Masaru Niitsu, Thomas Berberich, Tomonobu Kusano*. (2014) Arabidopsis mutant plants with diverse defects in polyamine metabolism show unequal sensitivity to exogenous cadaverine probably based on their spermine content.Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 20 (2):151-159.
Tomonobu Kusano*, Dong Wook Kim, Taibo Liu, Thomas Berberich. (2014) Polyamine catabolism in plants. In Polyamine: A universal molecular nexus for growth, survival and specialised metabolism. (eds. Kusano T, Suzuki H) (Book), Springer, pp. 77-88.