l Oct. 22, 2017, Mango TV (Hunan TV) reported Dr. Jianqiang Wu on his research on parasitic plant dodder (https://www.mgtv.com/b/308803/4143327.html?fpa=se).

l Oct. 2017, Dr. Jinfeng Qi was selected as a member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS.

l Oct.16, 2017, Ph.D. student Juan Song received the China National Scholarship.

l Oct. 10, 2017, the paper “Transcriptomics and alternative splicing analyses reveal large differences between maize lines B73 and Mo17 in response to aphid Rhopalosiphum padi infestation” in Frontiers in Plant Science was published. (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2017.01738/full)

l Aug. 08, 2017, the PNAS paper "Stem parasitic plant Cuscuta australis (dodder) transfers herbivory-induced signals among plants" was published. (http://www.pnas.org/content/114/32/E6703.long)

l Aug. 2017, Dr. Jianqiang Wu receive the approval of his proposal from CAS to work with international collaborators on dodder-mediated inter-plant nutrient signaling.

l Aug. 2017, Drs. Lei Wang and Jinfeng Qi both received a regular grant from the Natural Science Foundation of China

l Aug. 2017, Ph.D. student Jingxiong Zhang’s articles about dodders were published online on the Myzaker (http://app.myzaker.com/news/article.php?pk=599e78469490cb780500004b), CAS website (http://www.cas.cn/zkyzs/2017/08/112/kyjz/201707/t20170731_4610299.shtml) and People’s Daily (http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2017-08/21/nw.D110000renmrb_20170821_5-18.htm)

l July 19, 2017, the PLoS One paper " Salt-tolerant and -sensitive alfalfa (Medicago sativa) cultivars have large variations in defense responses to the lepidopteran insect Spodoptera litura under normal and salt stress condition" was published online. (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0181589)

l Sept. 2017, Lei Gao and Jiaxin Wen joined the Wu lab as master students.