张鹏，研究员、博士生导师。山东泰安人。中国科学院上海生命科学研究院植物生理生态研究所研究组长，2006年入选中国科学院百人计划，并与瑞士联邦理工大学（苏黎世，ETH Zurich）联合成立上海木薯生物技术中心，主要从事薯类生物技术的研究。2004年获Eiselen Foundation Ulm的Jubilee Prize 2003奖。
主要研究内容：
研究目标是通过分子生物技术，有针对性地改良和提高木薯和甘薯的品质、产量、抗逆性和抗病能力，进一步提高它们在生物质能应用上的潜力和优势。目前重点开展：1、木薯和甘薯离体植株再生和遗传转化系统的建立和优化；2、利用过表达或RNA干扰技术对木薯和甘薯之糖及淀粉合成与降解途径进行修饰；3、通过表达抗逆境基因来改良对逆境的适应能力，特别是干旱、低温及盐碱；4、提高抗病虫害和抗病毒病的能力，特别是非洲木薯双生病毒、甘薯RNA病毒及茎线虫；5、利用提高自由基清除机制延长储藏根的采后贮存时间；6、木薯和甘薯功能基因组学及重要基因和启动子的分离与功能验证。
近年代表性论文
1. Vanderschuren H, Akbergenov R, Pooggin M, Hohn T, Gruissem W, Zhang P (2007) Transgenic cassava resistance to African cassava mosaic virus is enhanced by viral DNA-A bidirectional promoter-derived siRNAs. Plant Molecular Biology (in press)
2. Vanderschuren H, Stupak M, Fütterer J, Gruissem W and Zhang P (2007) Engineering resistance to geminiviruses - Review and perspectives. Plant Biotechnology Journal 5, 207-220.
3. Stupak M, Vanderschuren H, Gruissem W and Zhang P (2006) Biotechnological approaches to cassava protein improvement. Trends in Food Science and Technology 17，634-641.
4. Sautter C, Poletti S, Zhang P and Gruissem W (2006) Biofortification of essential nutritional compounds and trace elements in rice and cassava. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society 65, 153-159.
5. Akbergenov R, Si-Ammour A, Blevins T, Amin I, Kutter C, Vanderschuren H, Zhang P, Gruissem W, Meins F Jr, Hohn T, Pooggin MM (2006) Molecular characterization of geminivirus-derived small RNAs in different plant species. Nucleic Acids Research 34(2), 462-471.
6. Zhang P, Vanderschuren H, Fütterer J and Gruissem W (2005) Resistance to cassava mosaic disease in transgenic cassava expressing antisense RNAs targeting virus replication genes. Plant Biotechnology Journal 3, 385-397.
7. Taylor N, Chavarriaga P, Raemakers K, Siritunga D and Zhang P (2004) Development and application of transgenic technologies in cassava. Plant Molecular Biology 56, 671-688.
8. Zhang P, Bohl-Zenger S, Puonti-Kaerlas J, Potrykus I and Gruissem W (2003) Two cassava promoters related to vascular expression and storage root formation. Planta 218, 192-203.
9. Zhang P, Jaynes JM, Potrykus I, Gruissem W and Puonti-Kaerlas J (2003) Transfer and expression of an artificial storage protein (ASP1) gene in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz). Transgenic Research 12, 243-250.
10. Zhang P and Gruissem W (2003) Efficient replication of cloned African cassava mosaic virus in cassava leaf disks. Virus Research 92, 47-54.
E-mail: zhangpeng@sibs.ac.cn
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