Peng He PhD

Professor of Entomology

Master's Supervisor

State Key Laboratory of Green Pesticides

Contact details

427 Physical and Chemical Building, East Campus, Guizhou University

Email: phe1@gzu.edu.cn

Phone: +86 851-88292090

Qualifications

BSc – Guizhou University, China 2007

PhD – Nanjing Agricultural University, China 2012

Positions held

2022-present, Professor - Guizhou University, China

2012-2021, Lecturer, Associate Professor - Guizhou University, China

Profile

Professor He works on insect chemical ecology and green pesticides. His research and work dominantly focus on the chemosensory mechanisms of pests at peripheral level such as rice planthoppers, moths, and cockroaches and further exploration of pest attractants, repellents and disruptors. He investigates development of RNAi or gene knockout biopesticides based on nanomaterial carriers and efficacy lethal gene targets. His research has been supported by numerous national and provincial grants. He also has served on editorial boards of some renowned scientific journals and several committees in China. He has published more than 60 scientific works. He has supervised undergraduate and Master’s students in these fields, and his master's students have received national scholarships multiple times.

Selected recent publications (* corresponding authors) 

Ma, Y.-F.; Zhao, Y.-Q.; Zhou, Y.-y.; Feng, H.-Y.; Gong, L.-L.; Zhang, M.-Q.; Hull, J. J.; Dewer, Y.; Roy, A.; Smagghe, G. *; He, M. *; He, P. *, Nanoparticle-delivered RNAi-based pesticide target screening for the rice pest white-backed planthopper and risk assessment for a natural predator. Sci. Total Environ. 2024, 926. (Lead contact)

Long, G.-J.; Liu, X.-Z.; Guo, H.; Zhang, M.-Q.; Gong, L.-L.; Ma, Y.-F.; Dewer, Y.; Mo, W.-J.; Ding, L.-W.; Wang, Q.; He, M. *; He, P. *, Oral-based nanoparticle-wrapped dsRNA delivery system: a promising approach for controlling an urban pest, Blattella germanica. J. Pest Sci. 2024, 97, 739-755. (Lead contact)

Ma, Y. F.; Zhang, M. Q.; Gong, L. L.; Liu, X. Z.; Long, G. J.; Guo, H.; Hull, J. J.; Dewer, Y.; He, M.; He, P., Efficient nanoparticle‐based CRISPR‐Cas13d induced mRNA disruption of an eye pigmentation gene in the white‐backed planthopper, Sogatella furcifera. Insect Sci. 2023, 30, 1552-1564. (Lead contact)

Guo, H.; Long, G. J.; Liu, X. Z.; Ma, Y. F.; Zhang, M. Q.; Gong, L. L.; Dewer, Y.; Hull, J. J.; Wang, M. M.; Wang, Q.; He, M.*; He, P.*, Functional characterization of tyrosine melanin genes in the white-backed planthopper and utilization of a spray-based nanoparticle-wrapped dsRNA technique for pest control. Int. J. Biol. Macromol. 2023, 230, 123123. (Lead contact).

Ma, Y.-F.; Gong, L.-L.; Zhang, M.-Q.; Liu, X.-Z.; Guo, H.; Hull, J. J.; Long, G.-J.; Wang, H.; Dewer, Y.; Zhang, F.; He, M.*; He, P.*, Two Antenna-Enriched Carboxylesterases Mediate Olfactory Responses and Degradation of Ester Volatiles in the German Cockroach Blattella germanica. J. Agric. Food Chem. 2023, 71, 4789-4801. (Lead contact)

Liu, X. Z.; Guo, H.; Long, G. J.; Ma, Y. F.; Gong, L. L.; Zhang, M. Q.; Hull, J. J.; Dewer, Y.; Liu, L. W.; He, M.*; He, P.*, Functional characterization of five developmental signaling network genes in the white-backed planthopper: Potential application for pest management. Pest Manag Sci 2023, 79, 2869-2881 (Lead contact).

Guo, H.; Liu, X. Z.; Long, G. J.; Gong, L. L.; Zhang, M. Q.; Ma, Y. F.; Hull, J. J.; Dewer, Y.; He, M.*; He, P.*., Functional characterization of developmentally critical genes in the white-backed planthopper: Efficacy of nanoparticle-based dsRNA sprays for pest control. Pest Manag Sci 2023, 79, 1048-1061. (Lead contact)

Wang, M. M.; Long, G. J.; Guo, H.; Liu, X. Z.; Wang, H.; Dewer, Y.; Li, Z. Q.; Liu, K.; Zhang, Q. L.; Ma, Y. F.; He, P. *; He, M. *, Two carboxylesterase genes in Plutella xylostella associated with sex pheromones and plant volatiles degradation. Pest Manag Sci 2021, 77, 2737-2746. (Lead contact)

Wang, M. M.; He, M.; Wang, H.; Ma, Y. F.; Dewer, Y.; Zhang, F.; He, P. *, A candidate aldehyde oxidase in the antennae of the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.), is potentially involved in the degradation of pheromones, plant-derived volatiles and the detoxification of xenobiotics. Pestic. Biochem. Physiol. 2021, 171, 104726. (Independent corresponding author)

He, P. *†; Ma, Y. F. †; Wang, M. M.; Wang, H.; Dewer, Y.; Abd El-Ghany, N. M.; Chen, G. L.; Yang, G. Q.; Zhang, F.; He, M. *, Silencing the odorant coreceptor (Orco) disrupts sex pheromonal communication and feeding responses in Blattella germanica: toward an alternative target for controlling insect-transmitted human diseases. Pest Manag Sci 2021, 77, 1674-1682. (First author/Lead contact)

Wang, H.; Ma, Y. F.; Wang, M. M.; Chen, G. L.; Dewer, Y.; He, M.; Zhang, F.; Yang, Y. F.; Liu, J. F.; He, P. *, Expression, Affinity, and Functional Characterization of the Specific Binding of Two Putative Pheromone-Binding Proteins in the Omnivorous German Cockroach Blattella germanica. J. Agric. Food Chem. 2020, 68, 13573-13583. (Independent corresponding author)

He P*, Chen GL, Li S, Wang J, Ma YF, Pan YF, He M*: Evolution and functional analysis of odorant-binding proteins in three rice planthoppers: Nilaparvata lugens, Sogatella furcifera, and Laodelphax striatellus. Pest Manag Sci 2019, 75(6):1606-1620. (First author/Lead contact)