2019年入选中科院青年创新促进会会员，2021年获国家自然科学基金委“优秀青年基金”资助，获第二届优秀女青年奖，担任The Innovation 青年编委
重点研究新型植物激素独脚金内酯的合成及作用机理，包括：独脚金内酯调控地上株型进而提高作物产量的分子网络，独脚金内酯调控作物抗逆的分子机制，独脚金内酯调控作物根系构型及其与微生物互作进而提升养分利用效率的机理。通过定向改良独脚金内酯合成及信号途径提高作物产量、耐逆性以及养分利用效率，培育抗寄生作物。
代表论著
1. Li X #, Yan Z#, Zhang M, Wang J, Xin P, Cheng S, Kou L, Zhang X, Wu S, Chu J, Yi C, Ye K, Wang B*, Li J*. (2022). SnoRNP is essential for thermospermine-mediated development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Sci. China Life Sci. doi.org/10.1007/s11427-022-2235-4
2. Liu H, Liu S, Yu H, Huang X, Wang Y, Jiang L, Meng X, Liu G, Chen M, Jing Y, Yu F, Wang B*, Li J*.(2022) An engineered platform for reconstituting functional multisubunit SCF E3 ligase in vitro. Mol. Plant 15: 1285-1299. (被Mol. Plant专文评述)
3. Jia M#, Luo N#, Meng X, Song X, Jing Y, Kou L, Liu G, Huang X, Wang Y, Li J, Wang B*, Yu H*. (2022) OsMPK4 promotes phosphorylation and degradation of IPA1 in response to salt stress to confer salt tolerance in rice. J. Genet. Genomics 49: 766-775.
4. Song X, Meng X, Guo H, Cheng Q, Jing Y, Chen M, Liu G, Wang B, Wang Y, Li J, Yu H. (2022) Targeting a gene regulatory element enhances rice grain yield by decoupling panicle number and size. Nat. Biotechnol.. 40: 1403. (入选ESI高被引论文)
5. Chen R#, Deng Y#, Ding Y#, Guo J#, Qiu J#, Wang B#, Wang C#, Xie Y#, Zhang Z#, Chen J, Chen L, Chu C, He G, He Z, Huang X, Xing Y, Yang S, Xie D*, Liu Y*, Li J*. (2022). Rice functional genomics: decades' efforts and roads ahead. Sci. China Life Sci. 65:33-92.
6. Wang, B and Li, J. (2021). Rice geographic adaption to poor soil: novel insights for sustainable agriculture. Mol. Plant 14: 369-371.
7. Wang, L#, Wang, B#*, Yu H, Guo H, Lin T, Kou L, Wang A, Shao N, Ma H, Xiong G, Li X, Yang J, Chu J, and Li, J*. (2020). Transcriptional regulation of strigolactone signalling in Arabidopsis. Nature 583: 277-281. (被Trends Plant Sci., Mol. Plant, Sci. China Life Sci.以及植物学报专文评述，入选ESI高被引论文)
8. Liu X#, Hu Q#, Yan J#, Sun K, Liang Y, Jia M, Meng X, Fang S, Wang Y, Jing Y, Liu G, Wu D, Chu C, Smith S M, Chu J*, Wang Y, Li J, and Wang B*. (2020). zeta-Carotene Isomerase Suppresses Tillering in Rice through the Coordinated Biosynthesis of Strigolactone and Abscisic Acid. Mol. Plant 13: 1784-1801.
9.Wang, L#, Xu, Q#, Yu, H, Ma, H, Li, X, Yang, J, Chu, J, Xie Q, Wang Y, Smith, SM, Li, J, Xiong, G*, and Wang, B*. (2020). Strigolactone and karrikin signaling pathways elicit ubiquitination and proteolysis of SMXL2 to regulate hypocotyl elongation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell 32: 2251-2270. (入选ESI高被引论文)
10. Wang Y#, Shang L#, Yu H#, Zeng L#, Hu J, Ni S, Rao Y, Li S, Chu J, Meng X, Wang L, Hu P, Yan J, Kang S, Qu M, Lin H, Wang T, Wang Q, Hu X, Chen H, Wang B, Gao Z, Guo L, Zeng D, Zhu X, Xiong G*, Li J*, and Qian Q*. (2020). A strigolactone biosynthesis gene contributed to the green revolution in rice. Mol. Plant 13, 923-932.
11. Zheng J#, Hong K#, Zeng L#, Wang L, Kang S, Qu M, Dai J, Zou L, Zhu L, Tang Z, Meng X, Wang B, Hu J, Zeng D, Zhao Y, Cui P, Wang Q, Qian Q, Wang Y, Li J, and Xiong G. (2020). Karrikin Signaling Acts Parallel to and Additively with Strigolactone Signaling to Regulate Rice Mesocotyl Elongation in Darkness. Plant Cell 32, 2780-2805.
12. Wang B and Li J (2019). Understanding the molecular bases of agronomic trait improvement in rice. Plant Cell 31: 1416-1417.
13. Shao G#, Lu Z#, Xiong J, Wang B, Jing Y, Meng X, Liu G, Ma H, Liang Y, Chen F, Wang Y, Li J, Yu H (2019). Tiller bud formation regulators MOC3 and MOC1 cooperatively promote tiller bud outgrowth by activating FON1 expression in rice. Mol Plant. 12, 1090-1102.
14. Wang B, Smith SM*, and Li J*. (2018). Genetic control of shoot architecture. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 69: 437-468. (入选ESI高被引论文)
15. Yao R#, Wang L#, Li Y#, Chen L#, Li S, Du X, Wang B, Yan J, Li J*, and Xie D*. (2018). Rice DWARF14 acts as an unconventional hormone receptor for strigolactones. J. Exp. Bot. 69: 2355-2365.
16. Bai, S, Yu, H, Wang, B, and Li, J (2018). Retrospective and perspective of rice breeding in China. J. Genet. Genomics 45, 603-612.
17. Wang B, Wang Y, Li, J. (2017). Strigolactones. In: Hormone Metabolism and Signaling in Plants (eds. Li J, Li C, Smith SM) Academic Press Elsevier (London UK), 327-359.
18. Hu Q#, He Y#, Wang L, Liu S, Meng X, Liu G, Jing Y, Chen M, Song X, Jiang L, Yu H, Wang B*, and Li J* (2017). DWARF14, a receptor covalently linked with the active form of strigolactones, undergoes strigolactone-dependent degradation in rice. Front. Plant Sci. 8: 1935.
19. Wang B#, Chu J#, Yu T#, Xu Q, Sun X, Yuan J, Xiong G, Wang G, Wang Y, and Li J (2015). Tryptophan-independent auxin biosynthesis contributes to early embryogenesis in Arabidopsis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112: 4821-4826. (被 Faculty of 1000推荐)
20. Wang L#, Wang B #, Jiang L, Liu X, Li X, Lu Z, Meng X, Wang Y, Smith SM, and Li J (2015). Strigolactone signaling in Arabidopsis regulates shoot development by targeting D53-Like SMXL repressor proteins for ubiquitination and degradation. Plant Cell 27: 3128-3142. (被Plant Cell专文评述，入选ESI高被引论文)
21. Zhang R, Wang B, Li J and Wang Y (2008) Arabidopsis Indole synthase (INS), a homolog of Trp synthase (TSA1), is an enzyme involved in Trp-independent metabolites biosynthesis pathway. J Integ Plant Biol 50: 1070-1077.
22. Wang B, Li J and Wang Y (2006) Advances in understanding roles of auxin involved in modulating plant architecture. Chin Bull Bot 23: 443-458.
