马海港，男，汉族，江苏新沂人，中共党员，博士，扬州大学"青年百人"特聘教授，扬州市“绿扬金凤”优秀博士，《Crop Health》期刊青年编委。研究方向为作物的免疫机制，主要通过遗传学、分子生物学、生物化学等多种学科手段发掘小麦等作物的抗病基因并解析作物抗/感病的分子机制。主持/参与多项国家和省部级科研项目，以第一作者/通讯作者身份在Molecular Plant，Plant Journal等SCI期刊发表多篇学术论文，授权多项国家发明专利，获得多项高校、跨国企业和国际学术会议的奖励。

代表性学术论文：

1. Haigang Ma*, Yongjiang Liu, Xueyan Zhao, Suhong Zhang, Hongxiang Ma*. Exploring

    and applying genes to enhance the resistance to Fusarium head blight in wheat.

    Front Plant Sci, 2022, 13:1026611. (co-corresponding author)

2. Haigang Ma*, Yujiao Gao, Yonggang Wang, Yi Dai, Hongxiang Ma*. Regulatory mech-

    anisms of mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade in plants: More than sequential 

    phosphorylation. Int J Mol Sci, 2022, 23:3572. (co-corresponding author)

3. Peilun Wang^#, Juan Li^#, Zhenzhen Zhang, Qinglu Zhang, Xianghua Li, Jinghua Xiao, 

    Haigang Ma*, Shiping Wang*. OsVQ1 links rice immunity and flowering via interaction 

    with a mitogen-activated protein kinase OsMPK6. Plant Cell Rep, 2021, 40:1989-1999.

    (co-corresponding author)

4. Na Li^#, Zeyu Yang^#, Juan Li, Wenya Xie, Xiaofeng Qin, Yuanrong Kang, Qinglu Zhang, 

    Xianghua Li, Jinghua Xiao, Haigang Ma*, Shiping Wang*. Two VQ proteins are substr-

    ates of the OsMPKK6-OsMPK4 cascade in rice defense against bacterial blight. Rice, 

    2021, 14:39. (co-corresponding author)

5. Haigang Ma*, Juan Li, Ling Ma, Peilun Wang, Yuan Xue, Ping Yin, Jinghua Xiao, Shiping 

    Wang. Pathogen-inducible OsMPKK10.2-OsMPK6 cascade phosphorylates the Raf-like 

    kinase OsEDR1 and inhibits its scaffold function to promote rice disease resistance. Mol 

    Plant, 2021, 14:620-632. (corresponding author; editor's highlight)

6. Haigang Ma, Jie Chen, Zhenzhen Zhang, Ling Ma, Zeyu Yang, Qinglu Zhang, Xianghua 

    Li, Jinghua Xiao, Shiping Wang. MAPK kinase 10.2 promotes disease resistance and dr-

    ought tolerance by  activating different MAPKs in rice. Plant J, 2017, 92:557-570.