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。讲授《分子生物学导论》、《专业导论》、《现代农业生物技术育种》等本科生课程。科研方向为作物的免疫机制及遗传育种，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/感病基因并解析作物抗/感病的分子机制，培育小麦新品种。主持国家自然科学基金面上、青年项目，国家重点研发计划子课题，江苏省重点研发计划等科研项目。以第一作者/通讯作者身份在Molecular Plant、Plant Journal等期刊发表多篇学术论文，授权多项国家发明专利，教学与科研获得多项高校、跨国企业和国际会议等奖励。
代表性学术论文：
1. Haigang Ma*, Yongjiang Liu, Suhong Zhang, Jianfeng Sha, Yawen Sun, Zhiruo Hu, Linjun Gong, Yi Dai, Yujiao Gao, Yonggang Wang, Hongxiang Ma*. Wheat resistance to Fusarium head blight and breeding strategies. Crop Health, 2025, 3:9. (co-corresponding author)
2. 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)
3. 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 substrates of the OsMPKK6-OsMPK4 cascade in rice defense against bacterial blight. Rice, 2021, 14:39. (co-corresponding author)
4. 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)
5. 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 drought tolerance by activating different MAPKs in rice. Plant J, 2017, 92:557-570.
