Dr. ZENG received his B.S. and master from Huazhong Agricultural University and Ph.D. from Wuhan Botanical Garden, CAS. In 2015.10-2016.10, he joined in the lab of Prof. Li Li at Cornell University to study carotenoid biosynthesis in tomato and Arabidopsis. He joined SCBG to study the biosynthesis and regulation of specialized metabolites in Goji (Lycium spp.) and Grona styracifolia since 2010.
1. Zeng Shaohua#, Lin Shuang, Jiang Rong, Wei Jinrong, Wang Ying, Biotechnology advances in natural food colorant acylated anthocyanin production. Food Frontiers, 2025, DOI:10.1002/fft2.527
2. Ai Peiyan*, Wei Guo*, A Biao, Yang Chao, Wang Ying#, Zeng Shaohua#, Multi-omics reveal the molecular basis of LrAN2 overexpression in black goji callus promoting the excessive accumulation of petanin, a promising food blue colorant, Food Frontiers, 2024, 5(4):2221-2234
3. Zeng Shaohua*,#, Wang Zhiqiang*, Shi Dingding*, Yu Fangqin, Liu Ting, Peng Ting, Bi Guiqi, Yan Jianbin Ying Wang#. The high-quality genome of Grona styracifolia uncover the genomic mechanism of high level of schaftoside, a promising drug candidate for treatment of COVID-19, Horticulture Research, 2024, 11(5):uhae089
4. Yang Xiaoman*, Yang Meizhen*, Ye Peng, Li Hanxiang, Li Zhongxi, Zeng Shaohua#, Wang Ying#. Characterization of dicaffeoylspermidine derivatives related glucosyltransferases during fruit development of goji berry, Food Chemistry, 2024, 442: 138432
5. Guoqi Zheng*,#, Zhiqiang Wang*, Jinrong Wei, Juanhong Zhao, Chen Zhang, Juanjuan Mi, Yuan Zong, Genhong Liu, Ying Wang, Xing Xu, Shaohua Zeng#. Fruit development and ripening orchestrating the biosynthesis and regulation of Lycium barbarum polysaccharides in goji berry, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2024, 254: 127970
6. Shaohua Zeng#, Shuang Lin, Zhiqiang Wang, Yuan Zong, Ying Wang. The health-promoting anthocyanin petanin in Lycium ruthenicum fruit: A promising natural colorant, Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2024, 64(28): 10484-10497
7. Jinrong Wei*, Chahel A*, Yuan Ni, Xiaoyi Wei, Yuling Zhao, Ying Wang#, Shaohua Zeng#. Lycium RIN negatively modulate the biosynthesis of kukoamine A in hairy roots through decreasing thermospermine synthase expression, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2023, 252: 126246
8. Zhiqiang Wang, Wenyang Zhang, Wenjie Huang, A Biao,.Shuang Lin, Ying Wang, Shijuan Yan#, Shaohua Zeng#, (2023) Salt stress affects the fruit quality of Lycium ruthenicum Murr, Industrial Crops and Products 193: 116240
9. Peiyan Ai*, Dinglei Xue*, Ying Wang, Shaohua Zeng# (2023) An efficient improved CRISPR mediated gene function analysis system established in Lycium ruthenicum Murr. Industrial Crops and Products 192:116142
10. Suqi Mo*，Biao A*, Wang Zhiqiang, Shuang Lin, Tianshun Yang, Lizhu Pan, Ying Wang, Shaohua Zeng# (2022) Spatio transcriptome uncover novel insight into the Lycium ruthenicum seedling tolerant to salt stress, Industrial Crops and Products, 177:114502.
12. Zeng Shaohua#, Huang Shanshan, Yang Tianshun, Ai Peiyan, Li Li, Wang Ying#, (2020) Comparative proteomic and ultrastructural analysis shed light on fruit pigmentation distinct in two Lycium species, Industrial Crops and Products, 147, 112267
13. Yang Xiaoman, Lin Shuang, Jia Yongxia, Rehman Fazal, Zeng Shaohua#, Wang Ying#. (2020). Anthocyanin and spermidine derivative hexoses coordinately increase in the ripening fruit of Lycium ruthenicum. Food Chemistry, 311:125874.
14. Sun Tianhu*,#, Hazra Abhijit*, Lui Andy, Zeng Shaohua, Wang Xin, Rao Sombir, Owens Lauren A., Fei Zhangjun, Zhao Yunde, Mazourek Michael, Giovannoni James G., Li Li#. GLKs directly regulate carotenoid biosynthesis via interacting with GBFs in plants. New Phytologist 2025, 10.1111/nph.20457
15. Yazdani M, Sun Zhaoxia, Yuan Hui, Zeng Shaohua, Thannhauser TW, Vrebalov J, Ma Q, Xu Y, Fei Zhangjun, Van Eck J, Tian S, Tadmor Y, Giovannoni JJ, Li Li. (2019) Ectopic expression of ORANGE promotes carotenoid accumulation and fruit development in tomato Plant Biotechnology Journal. 17(1):33-49
16. Liu Yifei, Li Dawei, Zhang Qiong, Song Chi, Zhong Caihong, Zhang Xudong, Wang Ying, Yao Xiaohong, Wang Zupeng, Zeng Shaohua, Guo Yangtao, Wang Suaibin, Li Xinwei, Li Li, Liu Chunyan, McCann C. Honour, He Weiming, Niu Y, Chen M, Du Liuwen, Gong Junjie, Datson Paul, Hilario Elena, Huang Hongwen# (2017) Rapid radiations of both kiwifruit hybrid lineages and their parents shed light on a two-layer mode of species diversification. New Phytologist, 215(2): 877-890