Bao-Hua Song

Bao-Hua Song

Associate Professor

Email: bsong5@uncc.edu

Tel: 704-687-8670

Education and Training

• Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University, Durham, NC
• Max Planck Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
• Ph.D., Beijing Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Research Interest

Ecological and  Agriculture  Genomics: Research in my lab focuses on understanding molecular mechanisms and evolution of complex trait variation related to agriculture and human health integrating genetics, biochemistry, evolution, and omics approaches.

I am recruiting prospective graduate students. If you are interested in joining this active international team, please contact me at bsong5(at)uncc(doc)edu. 

Funding

• NIH-National Institutes of Health
• NCBC-North Carolina Biotechnology Center
• UNCC-University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• CRI-Charlotte Research Institute
• Monsanto Company
• NCSPA-North Carolina Producers Association

Selected Publications

• Zhang H, Yasmin F#,  Song B-H*. Neglected treasure in the wild – Legume wild relatives in food security and human health. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 2019. 49: 17-26  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2019.04.004. (#Graduate Student)
• Kofsky J#, Zhang H, Song B-H*. The untapped genetic reservoir: The past, current, and future applications of the wild soybean (Glycine soja).  Frontiers in Plant Science. 2018. 9, 949. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.00949 (#Graduate Student)
• Zhang H, Kjemtrup-Lovelace S, Li C, Chen LP^#, and Song B-H*. Comparative RNA-Seq Analysis Uncovers a Complex Regulatory Network for Soybean Cyst Nematode Resistance in Wild Soybean. Scientific reports. Aug 29;7(1):9699. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-09945-0. PubMed PMID: 28852059; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5575055. . (# REU Student)
• Luo Y&, Reid R&, Freese D^#, Li C, Watkins J, Shi H, Zhang H, Loraine A*, and Song B-H*. Salt tolerance response revealed by RNA-Seq in a diploid halophytic wild relative of sweet potato. 2017, Scientific Reports. 2017 Aug 29;7(1):9624. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-09241-x. PubMed PMID: 28852001; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5575116. (& Co-first Author) (#Graduate Student) 
• Leamy LJ, Zhang H, Li C, Chen CY, Song B-H*. A genome-wide association study of seed composition traits in wild soybean (Glycine soja). BMC Genomics. 2017 Jan 5;18(1):18. doi: 10.1186/s12864-016-3397-4. PubMed PMID: 28056769; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5217241.
• Zhang H, Mittal N#, Leamy JL, Barazani O, and Song B-H*. Back into the Wild – Apply untapped genetic diversity of wild relatives for crop improvement. 2016 Evolutionary Applications. 1752-4571. DOI: 10.1111/eva.12434 (# Graduate student).
• Zhang H, Li C, Davis EL, Wang J, Griffin JD. kofsky J#, and Song B-H*.  Genome-Wide Association Analysis of Resistance to Soybean Cyst Nematode (Heterodera glycines) HG Type 2.5.7 in Wild Soybean (Glycine soja). 2016 Frontiers in Plant Science. 7: 1214.doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01214 (#Graduate Student) 
• Leamy JL, Lee C-R, Song Q, Mujacic I#, Luo Y, Chen CY, Li C, Kjemtrup S, and Song B-H*. Environmental versus geographical effects on genomic variation in a wild soybean (Glycine soja) across its native range in Northeast Asia. 2016. Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2351.  (# undergraduate student).
• Luo Y*, Hu J-Y, Li L, Luo Y-L, Wang P-F and Song B-H* Genome-wide analysis of gene expression reveals gene regulatory networks that regulate chasmogamous and cleistogamous flowering in Pseudostellaria heterophylla (Caryophyllaceae). 2016. BMC Genomics 17: 382.  DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-2732-0
• Prasad, KVS& , Song B-H& , Olson-Manning C&, Anderson JT, LeeC-R,  Schranz ME, Windsor AJ, Clauss MJ,  Manzaneda AJ, Naqvi I, Reichelt M,  Gershenzon J, Rupasinghe SG, Schuler V, Mitchell-Olds T, A novel gain-of-function polymorphism controlling complex traits and fitness in nature. Science (& Co-first Author). 2012, 337-1081-1084
• Gossmann TI, Song B-H, Windsor AJ, Mitchell-Olds T and Eyre-Walker, Genome wide analyses reveal little evidence for adaptive evolution in plants. Molecular Biology and Evolution 2010, 27: 1822-1832
• Song B-H, Windsor A, Ramos-Onsins S, Schmid KJ, Schranz ME, Heidel A, Mitchell-Olds T, Multilocus nucleotide diversity, population structure and linkage disequilibrium of a wild Arabidopsis relative − Boechera stricta. Genetics 2009, 181: 1021–1033
• Song B-H and Mitchell-Olds T, High genetic diversity and population differentiation in Boechera fecunda, a rare relative of Arabidopsis. Molecular Ecology 2007, 16: 4079-4088
• Schranz ME, Song B-H, Winsor AJ and Mitchell-Olds T, Comparative genomics in the Brassicaceae: the need for family- a family-wide perspective. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 2007, 10: 168-175
• Song B-H, Clauss M, Pepper A, Mitchell-Olds T, Spatial patterns of microsatellite variation in Boechera stricta, a close relative of Arabidopsis. Molecular Ecology 2006, 15:357–369
• Song B-H, Wang X-Q, Wang X-R, Ding K-Y, Hong D-Y, Cytoplasmic composition of Pinus densata and population establishment of the diploid hybrid pine. Molecular Ecology 2003, 12: 2995-3001
• Song B-H, Wang X-Q, Wang X-R, Sun L-J, Hong D-Y, Peng P-H, Maternal Lineage of Pinus densata, a diploid hybrid. Molecular Ecology 2002, 11: 1057-1063