本团队针对当前我国小麦生产中面临的突出问题，主要从事小麦茎基腐病、纹枯病、低温抗性、株型、面粉加工品质等相关的重要功能基因挖掘及分子育种工作，旨在为我国小麦分子育种领域提供重要基因和品种资源以及相应技术支撑。近年来，团队在PNAS、Nature Communications、Science Advances、Science Bulletin、Advanced Science、Journal of Integrative Plant Biology、Plant Biotechnology Journal、Journal of Advanced Research等国际知名期刊上发表高水平研究论文160余篇；主持国家重点计划战略性国际合作重点专项和政府间国际合作重点专项、国家自然基金国际合作研究项目和区域创新重点项目等国家级项目20余项，其中国家级重点项目7项；授权国际发明专利1项，国家发明专利23项；培育出豫农268、269等系列新品种；团队牵头研发的小麦高密度基因芯片、克隆基因TaRD21A、审定品种豫农268均进行了转让，累计转化金额2680万元；获得科技成果奖励7项，其中主持河南省科技进步一等奖1项、河南省科技进步二等奖2项、河南省自然科学奖二等奖1项；团队带头人陈锋教授入选国家万人计划领军人才、国务院政府特殊津贴等。
研究方向：
       1. 小麦主要流行病害抗性基因挖掘及遗传机制解析；
       2. 小麦产量品质性状基因挖掘及遗传机制解析；
       3. 小麦高密度基因芯片研发及多组学图谱构建；
       4. 小麦种质资源创制和标记辅助育种。
团队组成：
       带头人：陈锋
       成    员：任妍、贾奥琳、董中东、赵磊、张宁、孙丛苇、阳霞、余晓东、裴丹、闫妍、张灵然。
代表成果：
       1. 小麦抗逆高产遗传机制解析及新品种培育。河南省科技进步一等奖励（2025年）；
       2. 小麦分子育种技术体系构建及高产抗病新品种选育。河南省科技进步二等奖（2022年）；
       3. 小麦产量相关性状基因挖掘及其对农艺的影响。河南省自然科学二等奖（2020年）；
       4. 小麦籽粒硬度分子遗传基础及其对加工品质影响的研究。河南省科技进步二等奖（2015年）。
代表性论文：

1. Ning Zhang#*, Lu Liu#, Songgang Li, Yuhui Wei, Wanting Ren, Mengyao Li, Simin Zhao, Zhipeng Sun, Xia Yang, Yan Ren, Mei Yang, Guangming He, Xing Wang Deng*, Feng Chen*. TaHSP18.6 and TaSRT1 interact to confer resistance to Fusarium crown rot by regulating auxin content in common wheat. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2025, 122(28):e2500029122. (IF=9.1)
2. Ning Zhang#, Songgang Li#, Zhipeng Sun, JingjingDai,Shuyu Zhang, Daiying Chen, Lei Zhao, Aolin Jia, Feng Chen*. A lectin receptor-like kinase TaSRK that is deacetylated by TaHDA9 regulates wheat grain length by mediating the Photosystem II protein TaPsbO. Science Bulletin, 2025,70(19):3120-3124. (IF=21.1)
3. Xia Yang, Leilei Zhang, Jiajie Wei, Lexin Liu, Di Liu, Xiangning Yan, Minjie Yuan, Lingran Zhang, Ning Zhang, Yan Ren, Feng Chen*. A TaSnRK1α-TaCAT2 model mediates resistance to Fusarium crown rot by scavenging ROS in common wheat. Nature Communications, 2025,16(1):2549 (IF=15.7)
4. Ning Zhang*, Li Tang, Songgang Li, Lu Liu, Mengjuan Gao, Sisheng Wang, Daiying Chen, Yichao Zhao, Ruiqing Zheng, Armin Soleymaniniya, Lingran Zhang, Wenkang Wang, Xia Yang, Yan Ren, Congwei Sun, Mathias Wilhelm, Daowen Wang*, Min Li*, Feng Chen*. Integration of multi-omics data accelerates molecular analysis of common wheat traits. Nature Communications, 2025,16(1):2200. (IF=15.7)
5. Congwei Sun, Zhenhai Jing, Xiaoqian Chen, Jiahui Chen, Qiaoqiao Shang, Hui Jin, Zhonghu He, Jizeng Jia, Yan Ren, Lei Zhao, Lifeng Gao*, Zhonghu He*, Feng Chen*. Reconciliation of Wheat 660K and 90K SNP arrays and their utilization in dough rheological properties of bread wheat. Journal of Advanced Research, 2025, S2090-1232(25)00030-X. (IF=13)
6. Lingran Zhang, Ning Zhang, Sisheng Wang, Hongyan Tian, Lu Liu, Dan Pei, Xiaodong Yu, Lei Zhao, Feng Chen*. A TaSnRK1α modulates TaPAP6L-mediated wheat cold tolerance through regulating endogenous jasmonic acid. Advanced Science, 2023, 10(31): 2303478. 10.1002/advs.202303478 (IF=14.3)
7. Ning Zhang, Sisheng Wang, Simin Zhao, Daiying Chen, Hongyan Tian, Jia Li, Lingran Zhang, Songgang Li, Lu Liu, Chaonan Shi, Xiaodong Yu, Yan Ren, Feng Chen*. Global crotonylatome and GWAS revealed a TaSRT1-TaPGK model regulating wheat cold tolerance through mediating pyruvate. Science Advances, 2023, 9(19):eadg1012. 10.1126/sciadv.adg1012 (IF=11.7）
8. Peng Liu#, Chaonan Shi#, Shuang Liu, Jiajia Lei, Qisen Lu, Haichao Hu, Yan Ren, Ning Zhang, Congwei Sun, Lu Chen, Yaoyao Jiang, Lixiao Feng, Tianye Zhang, Kaili Zhong, Jiaqian Liu, Juan Zhang, Zhuo Zhang, Bingjian Sun, Jianping Chen*, Yimiao Tang*, Feng Chen*, Jian Yang*. A papain-like cysteine protease-released small signal peptide confers wheat resistance to wheat yellow mosaic virus. Nature Communications, 2023, 14: 7773. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-43643-y (IF=14.7)
9. Guoguo Lv, Yixiao Zhang, Lin Ma, Xiangning Yan, Mingjie Yuan, Jianhui Chen, Yongzhen Cheng, Xi Yang, Qi Qiao, Leilei Zhang, Mohsin Niaz, Xiaonan Sun, Qijun Zhang, Shaobin Zhong, Feng Chen*. A cell wall invertase modulates resistance to fusarium crown rot and sharp eyespot in common wheat. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2023, 65 (7): 1814-1825. (IF=11.4）
10. Zhao Lei, Zheng Yueting, Wang Ying, Wang Shasha, Wang Tongzhu, Wang Canguan, Chen Yue, Zhang Kunpu, Zhang Ning, Dong Zhongdong, Chen Feng*. A HST1-like gene controlled tiller angle through regulating endogenous auxin in common wheat. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 2023, 21:122-135 (IF=10.1）