Jian Zhang PhD

Jian Zhang PhD

Professor of Pesticidelogist

Master's supervisor

State Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide (link to the main page of the lab)

Contact details

222, Building D, State Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide, East Campus, Guizhou University; email:jianzhang@gzu.edu.cn; phone number:0851-88292170

Qualifications

BSc –University of Jinan, China 2013

MSc – Guizhou University, China 2017

PhD – Guizhou University, China 2022

Positions held

2022 – present Professor – Guizhou University, China

Profile

Jian Zhang is a young teacher at the State Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide, mainly engaged in the creation of green pesticides and the development of clean production processes. Under the guidance of Academician Baoan Song, he created the plant immune activator vanisulfane and the mesoionic insecticide Yizuochongmiding. He has published 18 SCI papers in internationally renowned journals such asJ. Agric. Food Chem., Org. Lett., and has been granted 4 invention patents.

Selected recent publications

Xu, Y., Zhang, T. T., Mu, S. M., Peng, Y. Q., Wu, D. P., Yang, L., Li, Q., Wu, Z. X and Zhang, J (2025) Discovery of arbutin as novel potential antiviral agent against tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 73: 3967−3976.

Yang, L., Peng, Y. Q., Xu, Y., Li, Q., Wu, D. P., Zhang, T. T., Xiao, S. H., Hu,D. Y and Zhang, J (2025)Pyrido[1,2 a]pyrimidinone mesoionic compounds containing a hydrazone moiety as novel plant immune inducer against viral infections. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 73: 20069−20080.

Wu, D. P., Mu, S. M., Xu, Y., Yang, L., Li, Q., Xiao, S. H., Hu,D. Y and Zhang, J (2025) Pyrido[1,2-a]pyrimidinone mesoionic compounds containing dithioacetal moiety: design, synthesis, insecticidal/antiviral activity and mechanism. Pest Management Science DOI: 10.1002/ps.70090.

Du, T. T., Lu, S. Y., Zhu, Z. N., Zhu, M., Zhang, Y., Zhang, J and Chen, J. X (2025) Pyrazole derivatives: Recent advances in discovery and development of pesticides. Chinese Chemical Letters 39: 110912.

Cui, H. H., Wu, Z. X., Zhang, L. M., Wu, D. P., Hu,D. Y and Zhang, J (2024). Discovery of pyrido[1,2-α] pyrimidinone mesoionic compounds as potential control agents against potato virus Y. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 72: 12925−12934.

Yang, Y. C., Wu, S., Zhao, C. N., He, H. F., Wu, Z. X., Zhang, J and Song, R. J (2024) Design, synthesis, and insecticidal activity of pyridino[1,2a]pyrimidines containing indole moeites at the 1position. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 72: 11331−11340.

Cai, Q. F., Song, H. Y., Zhang, Y., Zhu, Z. N., Zhang, J and Chen, J. X (2024) Quinoline derivatives in discovery and development of pesticides. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 72: 12373−12386.

Wang, E. F., Luo, J. B., Zhang, L. M., Zhang, J and Jiang, Y. J (2024) Copper-catalyzed oxidative [3 + 2] cycloaddition of enamines and pyridotriazoles toward indolizines. Organic Letters 26: 1249−1254.

Liu, B. R., Shi, T. Z., Yang, H. Y., Jian Zhangand Li, Y. H (2024). Size-dependent effect on controllable release and ffeld insecticidal efffcacy of diamide insecticide polylactic acid microspheres delivery systems against Ostrinia nubilalis. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 278: 134659.

Cui, H. H., Wu, Z. X., Zhang, L. M., Ma, Q. Q., Cai, D., Zhang, J and Hu, D. Y (2023) Design, synthesis, antibacterial activity, and mechanism of novel mesoionic compounds based on natural pyrazole isolated from an endophytic fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides.Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 71: 10018−10027.

Tang,X., Lei,L., Liao,A. J., Sun,W., Zhang, J and Wu, J (2023) Morpholine derivatives in agrochemical discovery and development.Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry71: 13197−13208.

Zhang, J., Song, R. J., Wu, S., Cai, D., Wu, Z. X., Hu, D. Y and Song, B. A (2022) Design, synthesis, and insecticidal activity of novel pyrido[1,2 a]pyrimidinone mesoionic compounds containing an indole moiety as potential acetylcholine receptor insecticides. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 70: 5349−5356.

Zhang, J., Song, R. J., Wu, S., Cai, D., Wu, Z. X., Liu, Z. J.,Hu, D. Y and Song, B. A(2021) Discovery of pyrido[1,2-a]pyrimidinone mesoionic compounds incorporating a dithioacetal moiety as novel potential insecticidal agents.Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 69: 15136-15144.

Zhang, J., He, F. C., Chen, J. X., Wang, Y. J., Yang, Y. Y., Hu, D. Y and Song, B. A (2021) Purine nucleoside derivatives containing a sulfa ethylamine moiety: Design, synthesis, antiviral activity, and mechanism. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 69: 5575−5582.

Zhang, J., Zhao L., Zhu, C., Wu, Z. X., Zhang, G. P., Gan, X. H., Liu, D. Y., Pan, J. K.,Hu, D. Y and Song, B. A(2017) Facile synthesis of novel vanillin derivatives incorporating a bis(2-hydroxyethyl)dithhioacetal moiety as antiviral agents.Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry65: 4582-4588.