1. Heng Zhang, Yuanyuan Li, Jian-Kang Zhu (2018) Developing naturally stress-resistant crops for a sustainable agriculture. Nature Plants, 4: 989-996.
2. Yuanyuan Li, David Heckmann, Martin J Lercher, Veronica G Maurino (2016) Combining genetic and evolutionary engineering to establish C4 metabolism in C3 plants. Journal of Experimental Botany, 68 (2): 117-125.
3. Jiajia Xu, Andrea Br？utigam, Yuanyuan Li, Andreas P. M. Weber, Xin-Guang Zhu (2016) Systems analysis of cis-regulatory motifs in C4 photosynthesis genes using maize and rice leaf transcriptomics data during a process of de-etiolation. Journal of Experimental Botany, 67(17): 5105–5117. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erw461
4. Yuanyuan Li (corresponding author), Xiuling Ma, Jialei Zhao, Jiajia Xu, Junfeng Shi, Xin-Guang Zhu, Yanxiu Zhao, Hui Zhang (2015) Developmental genetic mechanisms of C4 syndrome based on transcriptome analysis of C3 cotyledons and C4 assimilating shoots in Haloxylon ammodendron. PLoS ONE, 10(7): e0117175
5. Yuanyuan Li, Jiajia Xu, Noor UI Haq, Hui Zhang, Xin-Guang Zhu (2014) Was low CO2 a driving force of C4 evolution: Arabidopsis responses to long-term low CO2 stress. Journal of Experimental Botany, 65(13): 3657-3667
6. Ghazanfar Abbas Khan, Samir Bouraine, Yuanyuan Li, Matthieu de Carbonnel, Pierre Berthomieu, Yves Poirier and Hatem Rouached (2014) Coordination between zinc and phosphate homeostasis involves the transcription factor PHR1, the phosphate exporter PHO1 and its homologue PHO1;H3 in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany, 65(3): 871-884
7. Jiajia Xu*, Yuanyuan Li*, Xiuling Ma, Jianfeng Ding, Kai Wang, Sisi Wang, Ye Tian, Hui Zhang, Xin-Guang Zhu (2013) Whole transcriptome analysis using next-generation sequencing of model species Setaira viridis to support C4 photosynthesis research. Plant Molecular Biology, 83(1-2): 77-87 (*co-first author)
8. Li Yuan-Yuan, Zhang Hui, Zhu Xin-Guang (2011). C4 rice: are we ready for the challenge? A historical perspective. Plant Physiology Journal (ISSN 2095-1108), 47(12): 1127-1136
9. Fan Lai, Jennifer Thacker, Yuanyuan Li and Peter Doerner (2007) Cell division activity determines the magnitude of phosphate starvation responses in Arabidopsis The Plant Journal, 50(3): 545-556
10. Zhang Qiu-Fang, Li Yuan-Yuan, Pang Cai-Hong, Lu Cong-Ming and Wang Bao-Shan (2005) NaCl enhances thylakoid-bound SOD activity in the leaves of C3 halophyte Suaeda salsa L. Plant Science, 168(2): 423-430.
11. LI Yuan-Yuan, GUO Jian-Rong, YANG Ming-Feng, WANG Bao-Shan (2003) Effects of KCl and NaCl Treatment on Growth and Water Metabolism of Halophyte Suaeda salsa Seedlings. Journal of Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology (ISSN 1671-3877), 29(6):576-580(in Chinese).
