Xiang Zhou PhD

Associate Professor of Pesticide Science

Master’s Supervisor

State Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide 

Contact details

Room 216, Building D, East Campus, Guizhou University

Email xiangzhou@gzu.edu.cn; zhoux1534@163.com

Phone +86(851)8829-2171

Fax +86(851)8829-2170

Qualifications

BSc – Yili Normal University, China 2014

PhD – Guizhou University, China 2020

Positions held

2021-present Associate Professor – Guizhou University, China

Profile

Xiang is an associate professor at the State Key Laboratory of Green Pesticides, and the Ministry of Education Centre for R&D of Fine Chemicals at Guizhou University. His research areas include structural optimization of natural pesticides, green agrochemical discovery and their structure-activity relationship (SAR) and action mechanisms, agriculture sensing applications, and nano-based smart pesticide formulation. He has published more than 50 scientific works in internationally renowned journals such as Adv. Funct. Mater., J. Agric. Food Chem., Pest Manage. Sci., Ind. Crop. Prod., Eur. J. Med. Chem. His research has been supported by numerous national grants.

Selected recent publications (*corresponding authors)

Yang, J.; Ye, H. J.; Xiang, H. M.; Zhou, X. *; Wang, P. Y.; Liu, S. S.; Yang, B. X.; Yang, H. B.; Liu, L. W.; Yang, S.* Photo-Stimuli Smart Supramolecular Self-Assembly of Azobenzene/beta-Cyclodextrin Inclusion Complex for Controlling Plant Bacterial Diseases. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2023, 10.1002/adfm.202303206.

Liu, S. S.; Zeng, D.; Hu, J. H.; Yang, B. X.; Yang, J.; Zhou, X.*; Wang, P. Y.; Wu, Z. B.; Yang, S.* Novel spiro chromanone-2,4’-piperidine -4-one derivatives as potential inhibitors of fatty acid synthesis in pathogens: Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation. Eur. J. Med. Chem., 2023, 250, 115215.

Chen, J. Y.; Tang, A. L.; Yang, P.; Yang, L. L.; Tan, S.; Ma, W. J.; Liu, S. T.; Huang, H. Y.; Zhou, X.*; Liu, L. W.; Yang, S.* Highly Selective and Rapid “Turn-On” Fluorogenic Chemosensor for Detection of Salicylic Acid in Plants and Food Samples. ACS sensors, 2023, 8(11), 4020-4030.

Ding, Y. G.; Chen, A. Q.; Wang, N.; Long, Z. Q.; Liu, H. W.; Xie, J.; Liu, S. T.; Qi, P. Y.; Zhou, X.*; Liu, L. W.; Yang S.* Discovery of novel 3-(piperazin-1-yl)propan-2-ol decorated carbazole derivatives as new membrane- targeting antibacterial agents. Arabian Journal of Chemistry, 2023, 16, 104991.

He, J.J.; Li, T.; Liu, H. W.; Yang, L. L.; Yang, Y. H.; Tao, Q. Q.; Zhou, X.*; Wang, P. Y.; Yang S.* Ion exchange pattern-based 18β-glycyrrhetinic acid containing pyridinium salts derivatives as novel antibacterial agents with low toxicity. Arabian Journal of Chemistry, 2023, 16, 104771.

Chu, P. L.; Feng, Y. M.; Long, Z. Q.; Xiao, W. L.; Ji, J.; Zhou, X.*; Qi, P.Y.; Zhang, T. H.; Zhang, H.; Liu, L. W.; Yang, S.* Novel Benzothiazole Derivatives as Potential Anti-Quorum Sensing Agents for Managing Plant Bacterial Diseases: Synthesis, Antibacterial Activity Assessment, and SAR Study. J. Agric. Food Chem., 2023, 71, 6525-6540.

Yang, B. X.; Li, Z. X.; Liu, S. S.; Yang, J.; Wang, P. Y.; Liu, H. W.; Zhou, X.*; Liu, L. W.; Wu, Z. B.; Yang S.* Novel cinnamic acid derivatives as a versatile tool for developing agrochemicals for controlling plant virus and bacterial diseases by enhancing plant defense responses. Pest Manage. Sci., 2023, 79, 2556-2570.

Zhang, J. J.; Feng, Y. M.; Zhang, J. R.; Xiao, W. L.; Liu, S. S.; Zhou, X.*; Zhang, H.; Wang, P. Y.; Liu, L. W.; Yang, S.* Resistance-driven innovations in the discovery of bactericides: novel triclosan derivatives decorating isopropanolamine moiety as promising anti-biofilm agents against destructive plant bacterial diseases. Pest Manage. Sci., 2023, 79, 2443-2455.

Zhou, X.; Ye, H. J.; Gao, X. H.; Feng, Y. M.; Shao, W. B.; Qi, P. Y.; Wu, Z. B.; Liu, L. W.; Wang, P. Y.*; Yang, S.* The discovery of natural 4'-demethylepipodophyllotoxin from renewable Dysosma versipellis species as a novel bacterial cell division inhibitor for controlling intractable diseases in rice. Ind. Crop. Prod., 2021, 174, 114182.

Zhou, X.; Feng, Y. M.; Qi, P. Y.; Shao, W. B.; Wu, Z. B.; Liu, L. W.; Wang, Y.; Ma, H. D.; Wang, P. Y.; Yang, S*. Synthesis and Docking Study of N-(Cinnamoyl)-N‘-(Substituted)acryloyl Hydrazide Derivatives Containing Pyridinium Moieties as a Novel Class of FtsZ Inhibitors against the Intractable Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae Infections in Rice. J. Agric. Food Chem., 2020, 68, 8132–8142.