Wing's pioneering work on the genome biology of rice and other crop plants has empowered the agricultural community across the globe to address both fundamental and applied research in pursuit of the 10 billion people question: How can we sustainably grow enough nutritious food to feed the world by 2050 without destroying our planet? Wing’s approach to this question is to identify, understand, and harness the majority of natural variation that already exists in cultivated rice and its wild ancestors, and to use that information to create the next generation of green super crops. Since rice is the most important food crop on the planet, his team is developing new crop varieties that are higher yielding and more nutritious while having a smaller environmental footprint.

• Twelve Platinum-Standard Reference Genomes Sequences (PSRefSeq) that complete the full range of genetic diversity of Asian rice, Zhou, Y., D. Chebotarov, D. Kudrna, V. Llaca, S. Lee, S. Rajasekar, N. Mohammed, N. Al-Bader, C. Sobel-Sorenson, P. Parakkal, L.J. Arbelaez, N. Franco, N. Alexandrov, N.R.S. Hamilton, H. Leung, R. Mauleon, M. Lorieux, A. Zuccolo, K. McNally, J. Zhang, R.A. Wing, BioRxiv, 2019. Accepted (2020) in Scientific Data. 
• The Genomics of Oryza Species Provides Insights into Rice Domestication and Heterosis, Chen, E., X. Huang, Z. Tian, R.A. Wing* & B. Han* (*Co-corresponding authors), Annual Review of Plant Biology, 2019, 70:639-665.
• Rapid evolution of protein diversity by de novo origination in Oryza, Zhang, Li, C. Zhang, Y. Ren, T. Yang, G. Li, A.R. Gschwend, Y. Yu, G. Hou, J. Zi, R. Zhou, B. Wen, J. Zhang, K. Chougule, M. Wang, D. Copetti, G. Jin, J. Chen, Z. Peng, Y. Ouyang, R.A. Wing*, S. Liu*, M. Long* (*Co-corresponding authors), Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2019, 3:679-690.
• The rice genome revolution: from an ancient grain to Green Super Rice, Wing, R.A, M.D. Purugganan & Q. Zhang, Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018, 19:505-517.
• Harnessing natural variation across 3,000 rice genomes: SNP discovery, population structure and genome diversity, Wang, W. et. al., Nature, 2018, 557:43-49.
• Genomes of 13 domesticated and wild rice relatives reveal genetic conservation, turnover and innovation across the genus Oryza, Stein, J.C. et al., Nature Genetics, 2018, 50:285-296.
• The genome of African rice (Oryza glaberrima): Evidence for independent domestication, Wang, M. et al., Nature Genetics, 2014, 46:982-988.
• Conservation and purifying selection of transcribed genes in recombination-free centromeres, Fan, C., J. Walling, J. Zhang, J. Jiang, & R.A. Wing, Plant Cell, 2011, 8:2821-2830.
• The physical and genetic framework of the maize B73 genome, Wei, F. et al.,  PloS Genetics, 2009, 5: e1000715.
• The B73 Maize Genome: Complexity, Diversity, and Dynamics, Schnable, P.S. et al., Science, 2009, 326:1112-1115.
• Dynamic evolution of Oryza genomes is revealed by comparative genomic analysis of a genus-wide vertical data set, Ammiraju, JSS, F. Lu, A. Sanyal, Y. Yu, X. Song, N. Jiang, A.C. Pontaroli, T. Rambo, J. Currie, K. Collura, J. Talag, C. Fan, J.L. Goicoechea, A. Zuccolo, J. Chen, J.L. Bennetzen, M. Chen, S. Jackson, & R.A. Wing, Plant Cell, 2008, 20:3191-3209.
• Doubling genome size without polyploidization: dynamics of retrotransposition-driven genomic expansions in Oryza australiensis, a wild relative of rice, Piegu, B., R. Guyot, N. Picault, A. Roulin, A. Saniyal, H. Kim, K. Collura, D.S. Brar, S. Jackson, R.A. Wing, & O. Panaud, Genome Research, 2006, 16:1262-1269.
• The map based sequence of the rice genome, The International Rice Genome Sequencing Project, (Lead authors listed as Principal Investigators: T. Sasaki, R. Buell, B. Han, F. Quetier, R.A. Wing, W.R. McCombie, Y.I. Hsing, A.K. Tyagi, N.K. Singh, J. Messing, J.H. Hahn, A. Vanavichit, A.C. Oliveria), Nature, 2005, 436:793-800.
• In-depth view of structure, activity, and evolution of rice chromosome 10, The Rice Chromosome 10 Sequencing Consortium, (R. Buell, J. Messing, W.R. McCombie & R.A. Wing – corresponding authors), Science, 2003, 300:1566-1569.
• JOINTLESS is a MADS-box gene controlling tomato flower abscission zone development, Mao, L., D. Begum, H.W. Chuang, M.A. Budiman, E.J. Szymkowiak, E.E. Irish, & R.A. Wing, Nature, 2000, 406:910-913.
• Draft sequence of the rice genome, Goff, S.A. et al., Science, 2002, 296:92-100.
• An integrated physical and genetic map of the rice genome, Chen M., G. Presting, Barbazuk W.B., Goicoechea J.L., Blackmon B, Fang G, Kim HR, Frisch DA, Yu Y, Higingbottom S, Phimphilai K, Phimphilai S, Thurmond S, Gaudette B, Li P, Liu J, Hatfield J, Main D, Sun S, Farrar K, Henderson C, Barnett L, Costa R, Williams B, Walser S, Atkins M, Hall C, Bancroft I, Salse J, Regad F, Mohapatra T, Singh NK, Tyagi AK, Soderlund C, Dean RA, & R.A. Wing, Plant Cell, 2002, 14:537-545.
• Construction and characterization of a bacterial artificial chromosome library for Sorghum bicolor, Woo S.-S., J. Jiang, B.S. Gill, A.H. Paterson, & R.A. Wing, Nucleic Acids Research, 1994, 22:4922-4931.

• PhD, Genetics, University of California, Davis, USA, 1987
• BA, Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 1980

• 2019-present: Director, Center for Desert Agriculture; Professor, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
• 2019-present: Regents Professor, University of Arizona
• 2002-present: Professor, School of Plant Sciences; Founding Director, Arizona Genomics Inst.; Member, BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona
• 2005-present: Bud Antle Endowed Chair of Excellence in Agriculture & Life Sciences, University of Arizona
• 2008-present: Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
• 1997-2002: Founding Director, Genomics Institute, Clemson University
• 1996-2002 : Associate & Full Professor and Coker Endowed Chair of Plant Molecular Genetics, Departments of Agronomy and Biological Sciences, Clemson University
• 1991-1996: Assistant & Associate Professor, Department of Soil and Crop Science, Texas A&M University
• 1990-1991: Research Associate, Cornell University, NSF Plant Science Center, Ithaca NY
• 1987-1990: USDA/ARS Postdoctoral Fellow, Plant Gene Expression Center, UC Berkeley

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• American Society for Plant Biology (ASPB)
• Indian National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)

• 2022 Foreign Fellow, Indian National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
  
• 2019-present Regents Professor, University of Arizona
• 2016-present Honorary Professor, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
• 2015 International Beijing Da Bei Nong Technology Group Science & Technology Award 
• 2014-present AXA Chair in Genome Biology and Evolutionary Genomics, AXA Research Foundation (500,000 Euros) https://www.axa-research.org/en/project/rod-wing 
• 2011 Extraordinary Faculty Award – UA Alumni Association & College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
• 2010 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 2009-2010 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (60,000 Euros)
• 2008 Award for Research Excellence - Arizona BioIndustry Association
• 2008 Technology Innovation Award – UA Innovation Awards
• 2006-present First Holder of the Shennong Professorship – Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
• 2005-present First Holder, Bud Antle Endowed Chair of Excellence in Agriculture & Life Sci. 
• 2005 Researcher of the Year – College of Agriculture & Life Sci., UA
• 2004 USS Arizona Outstanding University Achievement Honoree – Rice Genome Sequencing Project
• 2004 USDA Secretary’s Honor Award for Superior Service, Group Leader - United States Rice Genome Consortia
• 1997-2003 Honorary Scientist of the Rural Development Administration, Korean Rice Genome
• 1996-2002 First Holder of the Robert and Lois Coker Endowed Chair of Molecular Genetics
• 1988-1990 USDA/ARS Terry Kinney Postdoctoral Fellowship, PGEC/UC Berkeley

• Plant Science
• Bioscience
• Center for Desert Agriculture (CDA)
• Red Sea Research Center (RSRC)
• Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE)