Ⅰ. 教学工作

本科生课程：《花卉学》《观赏植物发育生物学》

研究生课程：《高级园艺作物栽培生理学》

Ⅱ. 科研工作

科研项目

国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目“bHLH转录因子ROX调控菊花头状花序程序化发育的光响应分子机制”，2025-2027，主持

国家重点研发计划,课题‘花卉优异基因资源挖掘与利用’，2022-2027年，参与

论文著作

1.   Xuening Liu^*, Mingzheng Han, Tianhua Jiang, Lei Liu, Jiayi Luo, Ying Lu, Yafei Zhao, Cai-Zhong Jiang, Junping Gao, Bo Hong, Chao Ma^#. 2024. AGAMOUS-LIKE 24 senses continuous inductive photoperiod in the inflorescence meristerm to promote anthesis in chrysanthemum. The Plant Cell 36(10):4658–4671.

2.  Lei Liu^*, Yujin Xue, Jiayi Luo, Mingzheng Han, Xuening Liu, Tianhua Jiang, Yafei Zhao, Yanjie Xu, Chao Ma^#. 2023. Developing a UV-visible reporter-assisted CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system to alter flowering time in Chrysanthemum indicum. Plant Biotechnol Journal 21(8):1519–1521.

3.   Yafei Zhao*, Suvi K. Broholm, Feng Wang, Anneke S. Rijpkema, Tianying Lan, Victor A. Albert, Teemu H. Teeri, and Paula Elomaa^#. 2020. TCP and MADS-box transcription factor networks regulate heteromorphic flower type identity in Gerbera hybrida. Plant Physiology 184: 1455–1468.

4.   Yafei Zhao*, Kai Pfannebecker, Anna Barbara Dommes, Oriane Hidalgo, Annette Becker and Paula Elomaa^#. 2018. Evolutionary diversification of CYC/TB1-like TCP homologs and their recruitment for the control of branching and floral morphology in Papaveraceae (basal eudicots). New Phytologist 220: 317-331.

5.   Paula Elomaa^#*, Yafei Zhao, Teng Zhang. 2018. Flower heads in Asteraceae - recruitment of conserved developmental regulators to control the flower-like inflorescence architecture. Horticulture Research 5: 36.

6.   Teng Zhang*, Yafei Zhao, Inka Juntheikki, Katriina Mouhu, Suvi K. Broholm, Anneke S. Rijpkema, Lisa Kins, Tianying Lan, Victor A. Albert, Teemu H. Teeri and Paula Elomaa^#. 2017. Dissecting functions of SEPALLATA-like MADS box genes in patterning of the pseudanthial inflorescence of Gerbera hybrida. New Phytologist 216: 939–954.

7.   Yafei Zhao*, Teng Zhang*, Suvi Broholm, Sari Tähtiharju, Kati Mouhu, Victor A. Albert, Teemu H. Teeri, Paula Elomaa. 2016. Evolutionary co-option of floral meristem identity genes for patterning of the flower-like Asteraceae inflorescence. Plant Physiology 172: 284-296.

8.   Karolina Stefanowicz*, Nausicaä Lannoo, Yafei Zhao, Lore Eggermont, Jonas Van Hove, Bassam Al Atalah and Els J. M. Van Damme^#. Glycan-binding F-box protein from Arabidopsis thaliana protects plants from Pseudomonas syringae infection. 2016. BMC Plant Biology 16(1):213.