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Li JH, Tian CF, Xia YH, Mutanda I, Wang KB, Wang Y*. (2018) Production of plant-specific flavones baicalein and scutellarein in an engineered E. coli from available phenylalanine and tyrosine. Metab Eng. Doi: 10.1016/j.ymben.2018.11.008

Liu HL, E HC, Xie DA, Cheng WB, Tao WQ, Wang Y*. (2018) Acylated Aminooligosaccharides with Inhibitory Effects against α-Amylase from Streptomyces sp. HO1518. Mar Drugs. 16(11). pii: E403.

Liu CM, Cheng JF, Zhuang YL, Ye LH, Li ZJ, Wang YJ, Qi MF, Zhang YJ*. (2018) Polycomb repressive complex 2 attenuates ABA-induced senescence in Arabidopsis. Plant J. doi: 10.1111/tpj.14125

Jiang YN, Xie QJ, Wang WX, Yang J, Zhang XW, Yu N, Zhou Y, Wang ET*. (2018) Medicago AP2-domain Transcription Factor WRI5a Is a Master Regulator of Lipid Biosynthesis and Transfer During Mycorrhizal Symbiosis. Mol Plant. 11(11):1344-1359.

Yang XQ, Feng P, Yin Y, Bushley K, Spatafora JW, Wang CS*. (2018) Cyclosporine biosynthesis in Tolypocladium inflatum benefits fungal adaptation to the environment. mBio. 9(5). pii: e01211-18.

Yang J, Fu MM, Ji C, Huang YC, Wu YR*. (2018) Maize Oxalyl-CoA Decarboxylase1 Degrades Oxalate andAffects the Seed Metabolome and Nutritional Quality. Plant Cell. 30(10):2447-2462.

Dai ZY, Wang J, Yang XY, Lu H, Miao XX, Shi ZY*. (2018) Modulation of plant architecture by the miR156f-OsSPL7-OsGH3.8 pathway in rice. J Exp Bot. 69(21):5117-5130.

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Xu J, Dong QL, Yu Y, Niu BL, Ji DF, Li MW,Huang YP, Chen X, Tan AJ*. (2018) Mass spider silk production through targeted gene replacement in Bombyx mori. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 115(35):8757-8762.

Wang HX*, Wang CY, Fan WJ, Yang J, Appelhagen I, Wu YL, Zhang P*. (2018) A novel glycosyltransferase catalyses the transfer of glucose to glucosylated anthocyanins in purple sweet potato. J Exp Bot. 69(22):5444-5459.

Liu Y, Xu Li, Ma D, Chen Z, Wang JW, Liu H*. (2018) CIB1 and CO interact to mediate CRY2 regulation of flowering. EMBO Reports. 19(10). pii: e45762.

Zhang ZJ, Niu BL, Ji DF, Li MW, Li K, James AA*, Tan AJ*, Huang YP*. (2018) Silkworm genetic sexing through W chromosome-linked, targeted gene integration. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 115(35):8752-8756.

Chen P, Jing XY, Ren J, Cao H, Hao P*, Li X*. (2018) Modeling BioNano optical data and simulation study of genome map assembly. Bioinformatics. 34(23):3966-3974.

Qi MF, Li ZJ, Liu CM, Hu WY, Ye LH, Xie YL, Zhuang YL, Zhao F, Teng W, Zheng Q, Fan ZJ, Xu L, Lang ZB, Tong YP*, Zhang YJ*. (2018) CGT-seq: epigenome-guided de novo assembly of the core genome for divergent populations with large genome. Nucleic Acids Res. 46(18):e107.

Qi FF, Lei C, Li FW, Zhang XW, Wang J, Zhang W, Fan Z, Li WC, Tang GL, Xiao YL*, Zhao GP, Li SY*. (2018) Deciphering the late steps of rifamycin biosynthesis. Nature Communications. 9(1):2342.

Li WC, Zhou YQ, You WJ ,Yang MQ, Ma YR, Wang ML, Wang Y, Yuan SG, Xiao YL*. (2018) Development of Photoaffinity Probe for the Discovery of Steviol Glycosides Biosynthesis Pathway in Stevia rebuadiana and Rapid Substrate Screening. ACS Chemical Biology. 13(8):1944-1949.

Zhou YQ, Li WC, You WJ, Di ZG, Wang ML, Zhou HY, Yuan SG, Wong NK, Xiao YL*. (2018) Discovery of Arabidopsis UGT73C1 as a steviol-catalyzing UDP-glycosyltransferase with chemical probes. Chemical Communications. 54(52):7179-7182.

Jing XY, Xie BR, Chen LX, Zhang NB, Jiang YY, Qin H, Wang HB, Hao P*, Yang S*, Li X*. (2018) Implementation of the CRISPR-Cas13a system in fission yeast and its repurposing for precise RNA editing. Nucleic Acids Res. 46(15):e90.

Sun YW, Chen Z, Li JX, Li JH, Lv HJ, Yang JY, Li WW, Xie DA, Xiong ZQ, Zhang P, Wang Y*. (2018) Diterpenoid UDP-glycosyltransferases from Chinese Sweet Tea and Ashitaba Complete the Biosynthesis of Rubusoside. Mol Plant. 11(10):1308-1311.

Guo T, Chen K, Dong NQ, Shi CL, Ye WW, Gao JP, Shan JX*, Lin HX*. (2018) GRAIN SIZE AND NUMBER1 Negatively Regulates the OsMKKK10-OsMKK4-OsMPK6 Cascade to Coordinate the Trade-off between Grain Number per Panicle and Grain Size in Rice. Plant Cell. 30(4):871-888.

Tian X, Ruan JX, Huang JQ, Yang CQ, Fang X, Chen ZW, Hong H, Wang LJ, Mao YB, Lu S, Zhang TZ*, Chen XY*. (2018) Characterization of gossypol biosynthetic pathway. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 115(23):E5410-E5418.

Zhou Y, Wang YJ, Krause K, Yang TT,. Dongus JA, Zhang YJ, Turck F. (2018) Telobox motifs recruit CLF/SWN–PRC2 for H3K27me3 deposition via TRB factors in Arabidopsis. Nature Genetics. 50(5):638-644.

Liu W, Xu L*. (2018) Recruitment of IC-WOX genes in root evolution. Trends Plant Sci. 23(6):490-496.

Zhang H, Liu YJ, Nie XQ, Liu LX, Hua Q, Zhao GP, Yang C*. (2018) The cyanobacterial ornithine-ammonia cycle involves an arginine dihydrolase. Nat Chem Biol. 14(6):575-581.

Wang QL, Sun AZ, Chen ST, Chen LS, Guo FQ*. (2018) SPL6 represses signaling outputs of ER Stress in control of panicle cell death in rice. Nature Plants. 4(5):280-288.

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Guo J, Tang HW, Li J, Perrimon N*, Yan D*. (2018) Xio is a component of the Drosophila sex determination pathway and RNA N₆-methyladenosine methyltransferase complex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 115(14):3674-3679.

Wu XX, Diane L.H, Allen G.S, Liu YJ, Shen LQ, Zhuang NN, Michael T.L, Zhang Y. (2018) Structural insights into the unique mechanism of transcription activation by Caulobacter crescentus GcrA. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(6):3245-3256.

Li SY, Cheng QX, Liu JK, Nie XQ, Zhao GP , Wang J*. (2018) CRISPR-Cas12a has both cis- and trans-cleavage activities on single-stranded DNA. Cell Res. 28(4):491-493.

Lei C, Wang JZ, Liu YY, Liu XQ, Zhao GP, Wang J*. (2018) A feedback regulatory model for RifQ-mediated repression of rifamycin export in Amycolatopsismediterranei. Microbial Cell Factories. 17(1):14.

Li ZD, Liu XQ, Wang JZ, Wang Y, Zheng GS, Lu YH, Zhao GP, Wang J*. (2018) Insight into the molecular mechanism of the transcriptional regulation of amtB operon in Streptomyces coelicolor. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9:264.

Li ZQ, You L, Yan D, James AA, Huang YP, Tan AJ*. (2018) Bombyxmori histone methyltransferase BmAsh2 is essential for silkworm piRNA-mediated sex determination. PLoS Genet. 14(2):e1007245.

Sun ZF, Li M, Zhou Y, Guo TT, Liu Y, Zhang H, Fang YD*. (2018) Coordinated regulation of Arabidopsis microRNA biogenesis and red light signaling through Dicer-like 1 and phytochrome-interacting factor 4. PLoS Genet. 14(3):e1007247.

Ran XJ, Liu J, Qi MF, Wang YJ, Cheng JF, Zhang YJ*. (2018) GSHR, a Web-Based Platform Provides Gene Set-Level Analyses of Hormone Responses in Arabidopsis. Front Plant Sci. 9:23.

Luo JS#, Huang J#, Zeng DL#, Peng JS, Zhang GB, Ma HL, Guan Y, Yi HY, Fu YL, Han B, Lin HX, Qian Q*, Gong JM*. (2018) A defensin-like protein drives cadmium efflux and allocation in rice. Nat Commun. 9(1):645.

Liu C, Zheng S, Gui JS, Fu CJ, Yu HS, Song DL, Shen JH, Qin P, Liu XM, Han B, Yang YZ, Li LG*. (2018) Shortened Basal Internodes Encodes a Gibberellin 2-Oxidase and Contributes to Lodging Resistance in Rice. Mol Plant. 11(2):288-299.

Liang T, Mei S, Shi C, Yang Y, Peng Y, Ma L, Wang F, Li X, Huang X, Yin Y, Liu H*. (2018) UVR8 interacts with BES1 and BIM1 to regulate transcription and photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis. Developmental Cell. 44(4):512-523.e5.

Qi GN#, Yao FY#, Ren HM, Sun SJ, Tan YQ, Zhang ZC, Qiu BS, Wang YF*. (2018) The S-Type Anion Channel ZmSLAC1 Plays Essential Roles in Stomatal Closure by Mediating Nitrate Efflux in Maize. Plant Cell Physiol. 59(3):614-623.

Yang Y, Liang T, Zhang L, Shao K, Gu X, Shang R, Shi N, Li X, Zhang P, Liu H*. (2018) UVR8 interacts with WRKY36 to regulate HY5 transcription and hypocotyl elongation in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants. 4(2):98-107.

YuanTL , Huang WJ, He J, Zhang D*, Tang WH*. (2018) Stage-specific gene profiling of germinal cells helps delineate the mitosis/meiosis transition. Plant Physiol. 176(2):1610-1626.

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