博士后：
张晓妮 （华中农业大学）；邹益（华南农业大学）；向坤莉（中科院植物研究所）；贺文创（华中农业大学）；阚胜龙（中科院植物研究所）

科研助理：
彭丹；兰岚；付高飞

博士研究生：

1.稻属异源四倍体物种形成中核质互作的研究， 31970244，国家自然科学基金面上项目，2020.1-2023.12，29万（预算58万），主持人。

2.植物线粒体基因组低突变率的进化与遗传机制研究，3217020726，国家自然科学基金面上项目，2022.1-2025.12，0万（预算58万），主持人。

3.康乃馨花瓣形态建成关键基因DcaRBE和DcaUFO的克隆及功能分析,3200180775，2021.01-2024.12，14万(预算24万)，课题负责人

代表性成果文章：

1.      Zhiqiang Wu, Waneka G, Broz AK, King CR, Sloan DB. 2020. MSH1 is required for maintenance of the lowmutation rates in plant mitochondrial and plastid genomes. Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences USA 117 (28):16448-16455.

2.      Zhiqiang Wu, Liao XZ, ZhangXN, Tembrock LR, Broz A. 2021. Genomic architectural variation of plantmitochondria—A review of multichromosomal structuring. Journal of Systematicsand Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12655.

3.      Amanda K. Broz†, Gus Waneka†, Zhiqiang Wu†, Matheus Fernandes Gyorfy, Daniel B. Sloan。 2021. Detecting de novo mitochondrial mutations inangiosperms with highly divergent evolutionary rates Genetics.218(1), iyab039. (†并列第一作者)

4.      Zhiqiang Wu, Sloan DB, Brown CW, Rosenblueth M, Palmer JD, Ong HC. 2017. Mitochondrial retroprocessingpromoted functional transfers of rpl5 to the nucleus in grasses. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34(9):2340-2354.

5.      Zhqiang Wu,Cuthbert JM, Taylor DR, Sloan DB. 2015.The massive mitochondrial genome of the angiosperm Silene noctiflora is evolving by gain or loss of entire chromosomes.Proceedings of the National Academy ofSciences USA. 112 (30): 10185–10191. (Science杂志对本文进行了报道).

6.      Zhiqiang Wu, Waneka G, Sloan DB. 2020. The tempo and mode ofangiosperm mitochondrial genome divergence inferred from intraspecificvariation in Arabidopsis thaliana. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics.10(3):1077-1086.

7.      Zhiqiang Wu*,Sloan DB. 2019. Recombination andintraspecific polymorphism for the presence and absence of entire chromosomes inmitochondrial genomes. Heredity. 122: 647–659 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-018-0153-3.(同时作为通讯作者).

8.      Zhiqiang Wu*,Stone JD, Štorchová H, Sloan DB*. 2015.High transcript abundance, RNA editing, and small RNAs in intergenic regionswithin the massive mitochondrial genome of the angiosperm Silene noctiflora. BMC Genomics.16: 938. (同时作为通讯作者).

9.       Cuihua Gu, Tembrock LR, Zheng SY, Zhiqiang Wu* 2018. The completechloroplast genome of Catha edulis: A comparative analysis of genome featureswith related species. Internationaljournal of molecular sciences 19 (2), 525. (作为通讯作者)

10.   Zhiqiang Wu and Song Ge. 2012. The phylogeny of the BEP clade in grasses revisited: Evidencefrom the whole-genome sequences of chloroplasts. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62: 573-578.