代表性论文
Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles
1. Yan Xue*, Xiaofeng Cao*, Xiangsong Chen*, Xian Deng*, Xing Wang Deng*, Yong Ding*, Aiwu Dong*, Cheng-Guo Duan*, Xiaofeng Fang*, Lei Gong*, Zhizhong Gong*, Xiaofeng Gu*, Chongsheng He*, Hang He*, Shengbo He*, Xin-Jian He*, Yan He*, Yuehui He*, Guifang Jia*, Danhua Jiang*, Jianjun Jiang*, Jinsheng Lai*, Zhaobo Lang*, Chenlong Li*, Qing Li*, Xingwang Li*, Bao Liu*, Bing Liu*, Xiao Luo*, Yijun Qi*, Weiqiang Qian*, Guodong Ren*, Qingxin Song*, Xianwei Song*, Zhixi Tian*, Jia-Wei Wang*, Yuan Wang*, Liang Wu*, Zhe Wu*, Rui Xia*, Jun Xiao*, Lin Xu*, Zheng-Yi Xu*, Wenhao Yan*, Hongchun Yang*, Jixian Zhai*, Yijing Zhang*, Yusheng Zhao*, Xuehua Zhong*, Dao-Xiu Zhou*, Ming Zhou*, Yue Zhou*, Bo Zhu*, Jian-Kang Zhu*, and Qikun Liu. Epigenetics in the modern era of crop improvements. Sci China Life Sci. (2025).
2. Xianwei Song, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Natural polymorphisms of COOL1 contribute to cold tolerance adaptation in maize. Sci China Life Sci. (2025).
3. Can Zhou#, Chunyan Liu#, Bin Yan#, Jing Sun, Shengdong Li , Ji Li, Jia Wang, Xiahe Huang, Wei Yan, Shuying Yang, Chenjian Fu, Peng Qin, Xingxue Fu, Xinghui Zhao, Yaxian Wu, Xianwei Song, Yingchun Wang , Wenfeng Qian, Yuanzhu Yang*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. tRNA selectivity during ribosome-associated quality control regulates the critical sterility-inducing temperature in two-line hybrid rice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 122(6):e2417526122 (2025).
4. Wei Liu#, Ji Li#, Jing Sun#, Chunyan Liu#*, Bin Yan#, Can Zhou, Shengdong Li, Xianwei Song, Wei Yan, Yuanzhu Yang*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. The E3 ligase OsHel2 impedes readthrough of stalled mRNAs to regulate male fertility in thermosensitive genic male sterile rice. Plant Commun. 6(2):101192 (2025).
6. Zhen Wang#*, Xiaofan Zhang#, Chunyan Liu, Susan Duncan, Runlai Hang, Jing Sun, Lilan Luo , Yiliang Ding , and Xiaofeng Cao*. AtPRMT3-RPS2B promotes ribosome biogenesis and coordinates growth and cold adaptation trade-off. Nat Commun. 15(1):8693 (2024).
7. Wenjing An, Mengjie Zhao, Lei Chen, Qiuxin Li, Longjiang Yu, Shuangyan Chen, Jinfang Ma, Xiaofeng Cao, Shuaibin Zhang*, Wei Chi*, and Daili Ji*. LcASR enhances tolerance to abiotic stress in Leymus chinensis and Arabidopsis thaliana by improving photosynthetic performance. Plant J. 120(6):2752-2769 (2024).
8. Cuimei Zhang#, Yajun Tang#, Shanjie Tang#, Lei Chen, Tong Li, Haidi Yuan, Yujun Xu, Yangyan Zhou, Shuaibin Zhang, Jianli Wang, Hongyu Wen, Wenbo Jiang, Yongzhen Pang, Xian Deng, Xiaofeng Cao, Junhui Zhou*, Xianwei Song*, and Qikun Liu*. An inducible CRISPR activation tool for accelerating plant regeneration. Plant Commun. 5(5):100823 (2024).
9. Mingxing Wang#, An-HuiGe#, XingzhuMa#, Xiaolin Wang, Qiujin Xi, Like Wang, Xianwei Song, Mengchen Jiang, Weibing Yang, Jeremy D. Murray, Yayu Wang, Huan Liu, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Ertao Wang*. Dynamic root microbiome sustains soybean productivity under unbalanced fertilization. Nat Commun. 15(1):1668 (2024).
10. Yan Yan#, Haofei Luo#, Yuwei Qin# ,Tingting Yan, Jinbu Jia, Yifeng Hou, Zhijian Liu, Jixian Zhai, Yanping Long*, Xian Deng*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Light controls mesophyll-specific post-transcriptional splicing of photoregulatory genes by AtPRMT5. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 121(6):e2317408121 (2024).
11. Qiangqiang Zhu#, Ayaz Ahmad#, Chunmei Shi, Qi Tang, Chunyan Liu, Bo Ouyang, Yingtian Deng, Feng Li*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Protein arginine methyltransferase 6 mediates antiviral immunity in plants. Cell Host Microbe. 32(9):1566-1578.e5 (2024).
12. Xiangyan Han#, Shanjie Tang#, Xuan Ma#, Wenwen Liu, Ruijuan Yang, Shuaibin Zhang, Ningning Wang, Xianwei Song, Chunxiang Fu*, Rongxin Yang*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Blocking miR528 function promotes tillering and regrowth in switchgrass. Plant Biotechnol J. 22(3):712-721 (2024).
13. Yueying Zhang#, Qianli Dong#, Zhen Wang#, Qinzhe Liu#, Haopeng Yu, Wenqing Sun, Jitender Cheema, Qiancheng You, Ling Ding, Xiaofeng Cao, Chuan He, Yiliang Ding*, and HuakunZhang*. A fine-scale Arabidopsis chromatin landscape reveals chromatin conformation-associated transcriptional dynamics. Nat Commun. 15(1):3253 (2024).
14. Bin Yan#, Chunyan Liu#*, Jing Sun#, Yang Mao#, Can Zhou#, Ji Li, Wei Liu, Shengdong Li, Wei Yan, Chenjian Fu, Peng Qin, Xingxue Fu, Xinghui Zhao, Xianwei Song, Jiawei Nie*, Feng Gao, Yuanzhu Yang*, Yuhang Chen*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Impaired 2',3'-cyclic phosphate tRNA repair causes thermo-sensitive genic male sterility in rice. Cell Res. 34(11):763-775 (2024).
15. Xiu-Li Hou, Xiangyan Han, Ying Meng, Lizhi Wang, Wenqi Zhang, Chao Yang, Hui Li, Shanjie Tang, Zhenhua Guo, Chunyan Liu, Yongmei Qin, Shaohua Zhang, Guanghou Shui, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Xianwei Song*. Acyl carrier protein OsMTACP2 confers rice cold tolerance at the booting stage. Plant Physiol. 195(2):1277-1292 (2024).
16. Gai Huang*, Zhigui Bao, Li Feng , Jixian Zhai, Jonathan F. Wendel, Xiaofeng Cao, and Yuxian Zhu*. A telomere-to-telomere cotton genome assembly reveals centromere evolution and a Mutator transposon-linked module regulating embryo development. Nat Genet. 56(9):1953-1963 (2024).
17. Xiaofeng Cao*. A commentary of "Novel approaches in precise genome manipulations from single nucleotides to large DNA segments": Top 10 Scientific Advances of 2023, China. Fundam Res. 4(3):699-700 (2024).
18. Haofei Luo#, Xiaofei Wang#, Changqing You#, Xuedan Wu#, Duofeng Pan#, Zhiyao Lv#, Tong Li, Dongmei Zhang, Zhongbao Shen, Xiaodong Zhang, Guodao Liu, Kaixuan He, Qingtong Ye, Yajun Jia, Qinghua Zhao, Xian Deng, Xiaofeng Cao*, Xianwei Song*, and Gai Huang*. Telomere-to-telomere genome of the allotetraploid legume Sesbania cannabina reveals transposon-driven subgenome divergence and mechanisms of alkaline stress tolerance. Sci China Life Sci. 67(1):149-160 (2024).
19. Jiaping Zhu, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Xian Deng*. Epigenetic and transcription factors synergistically promote the high temperature response in plants. Trends in Biochem Sciences. 48(9):788-800(2023).
20. Xiaofeng Zu#, Lilan Luo#*, Zhen Wang#, Jie Gong, Chao Yang, Yong Wang, Chunhui Xu, Xinhua Qiao, Xian Deng, Xianwei Song, Chang Chen, Bao-Cai Tan, and Xiaofeng Cao*. A mitochondrial pentatricopeptide repeat protein enhances cold tolerance by modulating mitochondrial superoxide in rice. Nat Commun. 14(1):6789 (2023).
21. Zhelong Lin#, Lei Chen#, Shanjie Tang, Mengjie Zhao, Tong Li, Jia You, Changqing You, Boshu Li, Qinghua Zhao, Dongmei Zhang, Jianli Wang, Zhongbao Shen, Xianwei Song, Shuaibin Zhang*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Efficient CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing in sheepgrass (Leymus chinensis). Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 65(11):2416-2420 (2023).
22. Tong Li#, Shanjie Tang#, Wei Li#, Shuaibin Zhang, Jianli Wang, Duofeng Pan, Zhelong Lin, Xuan Ma, Yanan Chang, Bo Liu, Jing Sun, Xiaofei Wang, Mengjie Zhao, Changqing You, Haofei Luo, Meijia Wang, Xingguo Ye, Jixian Zhai, Zhongbao Shen, Huilong Du*, Xianwei Song*, Gai Huang*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Genome evolution and initial breeding of the Triticeae grass Leymus chinensis dominating the Eurasian Steppe. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 31;120(44):e2308984120(2023).
23. Lilan Luo, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Nodule-specific energy sensors determine symbiotic nitrogen fixation by regulating phosphoenolpyruvate allocation. Science China Life Sciences. 66(3):643-645(2023).
24. Fuyan Si#, Haofei Luo#, Chao Yang#, Jie Gong, Bin Yan, Chunyan Liu, Xianwei Song*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Mobile ARGONAUTE 1d binds 22-nt miRNAs to generate phasiRNAs important for low-temperature male fertility in rice. Science China Life Sciences. 66(2):197-208(2023).
25. Weipeng Mo#, Yi Shu#, Bo Liu, Yanping Long, Tong Li, Xiaofeng Cao, Xian Deng*, and Jixian Zhai*. Single-molecule targeted accessibility and methylation sequencing of centromeres, telomeres and rDNAs in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants. 9(9):1439-1450(2023).
26. Xiaoba Wu#*, Liqiong Xie#, Xizhe Sun, Ningning Wang, E. Jean Finnegan, Chris Helliwell, Jialing Yao, Hongyu Zhang, Xianjun Wu, Phil Hands, Falong Lu, Lisong Ma, Bing Zhou, Abed Chaudhury, Xiaofeng Cao, and Ming Luo*.Mutation in Polycomb repressive complex 2 gene OsFIE2 promotes asexual embryo formation in rice. Nat Plants. 9(11):1848-1861 (2023).
27. Jingqiu Lan#, NingWang#, YutaoWang, Yidan Jiang, HaoYu, Xiaofeng Cao, and Genji Qin*. Arabidopsis TCP4 transcription factor inhibits high temperature-induced homeotic conversion of ovules. Nat Commun. 14(1):5673 (2023).
28. Fuyan Si#, Haofei Luo#, Chao Yang, Jie Gong, Bin Yan, Chunyan Liu, Xianwei Song*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Mobile ARGONAUTE 1d binds 22-nt miRNAs to generate phasiRNAs important for low-temperature male fertility in rice. Sci China Life Sci. 66(2):197-208 (2023).
29. Zhen Wang#, Jing Sun#, Xiaofeng Zu#, Jie Gong#, Hongjing Deng, Runlai Hang, Xiaofan Zhang, Chunyan Liu, Xian Deng, Lilan Luo, Xiangjin Wei*, Xianwei Song*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Pseudouridylation of chloroplast ribosomal RNA contributes to low temperature acclimation in rice. New Phytol. 236: 1708–1720 (2022).
30. Yifeng Hou, Yan Yan, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Epigenetic regulation of thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. aBiotech. 3: 12–24 (2022).
31. Kaixuan He#, Hailiang Mei#, Jiaping Zhu, Qi Qiu, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Xian Deng*. The Histone H3K27 Demethylase REF6/JMJ12 Promotes Thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis. National Science Review. 9: nwab213 (2022).
32. Wei Liu#, Jing Sun#, Ji Li, Chunyan Liu, Fuyan Si, Bin Yan, Zhen Wang, Xianwei Song, Yuanzhu Yang, Yuxian Zhu*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Reproductive tissue-specific translatome of a rice thermo-sensitive genic male sterile line. J Genet Genomics. 49: 624-635 (2022).
33. Fuyan Si#, Chao Yang#, Bin Yan, Wei Yan, Shanjie Tang, Yan Yan, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Xianwei Song*. Control of OsARF3a by OsKANADI1 contributes to lemma development in rice. Plant J. 110(6):1717-1730 (2022).
34. Shanjie Tang#, Chao Yang#, Dong Wang, Xian Deng, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Xianwei Song*. Targeted DNA demethylation produces heritable epialleles in rice. Sci China Life Sci. 65(4): 753-756 (2022).
35. Yuan Zong, Yijing Liu, Chenxiao Xue, Boshu Li, Xiangyang Li, Yanpeng Wang, Ji Li, Guanwen Liu, Xingxu Huang, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Caixia Gao. An engineered prime editor with enhanced editing efficiency in plants. Nat Biotech. 40: 1394–1402 (2022).
36. Haiyan Cao, Yali Liang, Liping Zhang, Zhiqiang Liu, Danmei Liu, Xiaofeng Cao, Xian Deng*, Zhuping Jin*, and Yanxi Pei*. AtPRMT5-mediated AtLCD methylation improves Cd2+ tolerance via increased H2S production in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 190 (4): 2637-2650 (2022).
37. Xian Deng, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Reconciliation between high yield and disease resistance (Research Highlight). Nat. Rev. Genet. 23: 262–263 (2022).
38. Bin Yan, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Thermotolerance in rice. Sci China Life Sci. 65 (6): 1257–1258 (2022).
39. Zhen Wang, and Xiaofeng Cao*. A new thermosensor from rice. Mol Plant. 15 (7): 1090-1091 (2022).
40. Yanxiao Niu#, Jiaoteng Bai#, Xinye Liu#, Hao Zhang#, Jingpei Bao, Weishuang Zhao, Yifeng Hou, Xian Deng, Chao Yang, Lin Guo, Ziyue Geng, Honglian Xie, Hongyuan Wu, Meng Shen, Xiaojie Lou, Wenqiang Tang, Xigang Liu, Daye Sun, Xiaofeng Cao, and Shuzhi Zheng*. HISTONE DEACETYLASE 9 transduces heat signal in plant cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 119(45):e2206846119 (2022).
41. Lilan Luo, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Nodule-specific energy sensors determine symbiotic nitrogen fixation by regulating phosphoenolpyruvate allocation. Sci China Life Sci. 66(3):643-645 (2023).
42. Zhi-Hong Liu#, Shanjie Tang#, Wentao Hu, Ruo Lv, Hailiang Mei, Rongxin Yang, Xianwei Song, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Dong Wang*. Precise editing of methylated cytosine in Arabidopsis thaliana using a human APOBEC3Bctd-Cas9 fusion. Sci China Life Sci.65(1):219-222 (2022).
44. Kaixuan He#, Hailiang Mei#, Jiaping Zhu, Qi Qiu, Xiaofeng Cao*, Xian Deng*. The Histone H3K27 Demethylase REF6/JMJ12 Promotes Thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis. National Science Review. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab213 (2021).
45. Shanjie Tang#, Chao Yang#, Dong Wang, Xian Deng, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Xianwei Song*. Targeted DNA demethylation produces heritable epialleles in rice. Sci China Life Sci. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-021-1974-7 (2021).
46. Yifeng Hou#, Jing Sun#, Baixing Wu#, Yangyang Gao, Hongbo Nie, Zhentian Nie, Shuxuan Quan, Yong Wang*, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Sisi Li*. CPSF30-L-mediated recognition of mRNA m6A modification controls alternative polyadenylation of nitrate signaling-related gene transcripts in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant. 14(4):688-699 (2021).
47. Runlai Hang#, Zhen Wang#, Chao Yang, Lilan Luo, Beixin Mo, Xuemei Chen, Jing Sun*, Chunyan Liu*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Protein arginine methyltransferase 3 fine-tunes the assembly/disassembly of pre-ribosome to repress nucleolar stress by interacting with RPS2B in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant. 14(2):223-236 (2021).
48. Zhiyao Lv
#, Rui Dai
#, Haoran Xu
#, Yongxin Liu, Bo Bai, Ying Meng, Haiyan Li,
Xiaofeng Cao*, Yang Bai*, Xianwei Song*, and Jingying Zhang*. The rice histone methylation regulates hub species of the root.
Journal of Genetics and Genomics,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgg.2021.06.005 (2021).
49. Xuan Ma#*, Chunyan Liu#, Xiaocong Kong, Jing Liu, Siju Zhang, Shanshan Liang, Weijiang Luan*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Extensive profiling of the expressions of tRNAs and tRNA derived fragments (tRFs) reveals the complexities of tRNA and tRF populations in plants. Sci China Life Sci. 64(4):495-511 (2021).
50. Kaixuan He, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Xian Deng*. Histone methylation in epigenetic regulation and temperature responses. Curr Opin in Plant Biol. 61:102001 (2021).
51. Xuan Ma*, Chunyan Liu, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Plant transfer RNA-derived fragments: Biogenesis and functions. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 63(8):1399-1409 (2021).
52. Xiu-Li Hou, Wen-Qiang Chen, Yifeng Hou, Hua-Qin Gong, Jing Sun, Zhen Wang, Heng Zhao, Xiaofeng Cao, Xiu-Fen Song*, and Chun-Ming Liu*. DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASE 27 Regulates MicroRNA Biogenesis, Zygote Division and Stem Cell Homeostasis. The Plant Cell. 33(1):66-84 (2021).
53. Jinbu Jia#, Yanping Long#, Hong Zhang, Zhuowen Li, Zhijian Liu, Yan Zhao, Dongdong Lu, Xianhao Jin, Xian Deng, Rui Xia, Xiaofeng Cao, and Jixian Zhai*. Post-transcriptional splicing of nascent RNA contributes to widespread intron retention in plants. Nature Plants. 6(7):780-788 (2020).
54. Xiaofei Yang, Jitender Cheema, Yueying Zhang, Hongjing Deng, Susan Duncan, Mubarak Ishaq Umar, Jieyu Zhao, Qi Liu, Xiaofeng Cao*, Chun Kit Kwok*, and Yiliang Ding*. RNA G-quadruplex structures exist and function in vivo in plants. Genome Biology. 21(1): 226 (2020).
55. Jun Wang#, Chaoyi Yu#, Shuaibin Zhang, Juanying Ye, Hang Dai, Hongkuan Wang, Jiyue Huang, Xiaofeng Cao, Jinbiao Ma*, Hong Ma*, and Yingxiang Wang*. Cell-type-dependent histone demethylase specificity promotes meiotic chromosome condensation in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants. 6(7):823-837(2020).
56. Taolan Zhao#, Huan Qing#, Jing Sun#, Chunyan Liu#, Xiuli Hou, Xiang Yu, Ian M. Silverman, Yi Zhang, Brian D. Gregory, Chunming Liu, Wenfeng Qian*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Impact of poly(A)-tail G-content on Arabidopsis PAB binding and their role in enhancing translational efficiency. Genome Biology.20(1):189 (2019)
57. Rongxin Yang, Pingchuan Li, Hailiang Mei, Dong Wang, Jing Sun, Chao Yang, Lili Hao, Shouyun Cao, Chengcai Chu, Songnian Hu, Xianwei Song*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Fine-tuning of miR528 accumulation modulates flowering time in rice. Molecular Plant. 12(8)1103-11132019. (Cover story)
58. Qi Qiu#, Hailiang Mei#, Xian Deng#, Kaixuan He#, Qingqing Yao, Baixing Wu, Jixiang Zhang, Falong Lu, Jinbiao Ma* and Xiaofeng Cao*. DNA methylation repels REF6 targeting in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications. 10(1): 2063 (2019)
59. Shuzhi Zheng#, Hongmiao Hu#, Huimin Ren, Zhenlin Yang, Qi Qiu, Weiwei Qi, Xinye Liu, Xiaomei Chen, Xiekui Cui, Sisi Li, Bing Zhou, Daye Sun*, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Jiamu Du*. The Arabidopsis H3K27me3 demethylase JUMONJI 13 is a temperature- and photoperiod-dependent flowering repressor. Nature Communications. 10(1):1303 (2019)
60. Junzhong Liu#, Lili Feng#, Xueting Gu#, Xian Deng#, Qi Qiu, Qun Li, Yingying Zhang, Muyang Wang, Yiwen Deng, Ertao Wang, Yuke He, Isabel B？urle, Jianming Li, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Zuhua He*. An H3K27me3 demethylase-HSFA2 regulatory loop orchestrates transgenerational thermomemory in Arabidopsis. Cell Research 29(5):379-390 (2019).
61. Peng Liu#, Shuaibin Zhang#, Bing Zhou#, Xi Luo, Xiao Feng Zhou, Bin Cai, Yin Hua Jin, De Niu, Jinxing Lin, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Jing Bo Jin*. The Histone H3K4 Demethylase JMJ16 Represses Leaf Senescence in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 31(2):430-443 (2019).
62. Wei Zeng#, Xinhua Dai#, Jing Sun#, Yifeng Hou, Xuan Ma, Xiaofeng Cao*, Yunde Zhao, and Youfa Cheng*. Modulation of Auxin signaling and development by polyadenylation machinery. Plant Physiology. 179(2):686-699 (2019).
63. Xianwei Song#, Yan Li#, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Yijun Qi*. MicroRNAs and their regulatory roles in plant--environment interactions. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 70:489-525 (2019).
64. Runlai Hang, Zhen Wang, Xian Deng, Chunyan Liu, Bin Yan, Chao Yang, Xianwei Song, Beixin Mo, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Ribosomal RNA biogenesis and its response to chilling stress in Oryza sativa. Plant Physiology. 177(1):381-397 (2018).
65. Hongjing Deng, Jitender Cheema, Hang Zhang, Hugh Woolfenden, Matthew Norris, Zhenshan Liu, Qi Liu, Xiaofei Yang, Minglei Yang, Xian Deng, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Yiliang Ding*. Rice In Vivo RNA structurome reveals RNA secondary structure conservation and divergence in plants. Molecular Plant. 11(4):607-622 (2018).
66. Zhenlin Yang, Qi Qiu, Wei Chen, Bei Jia, Xiaomei Chen, Hongmiao Hu, Kaixuan He, Xian Deng, Sisi Li, W. Andy Tao, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Jiamu Du*. Structure of Arabidopsis JMJ14-H3K4me3 complex reveal insight into the substrate specificity of KDM5 subfamily histone demethylase. The Plant Cell. 30(1):167–177 (2018).
67. Xian Deng, Qi Qiu, Kaixuan He, and Xiaofeng Cao*. The seekers: how epigenetic modifying enzymes find their hidden genomic targets in Arabidopsis. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 45(Pt A):75-81 (2018)
68. Cheng-Guo Duan*, Jian-Kang Zhu*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Retrospective and perspective of plant epigenetics in China. Journal of Genetics and Genomics. 45(11):621-638 (2018).
69. Jianguo Wu#, Rongxin Yang#, Zhirui Yang#, Shengze Yao, Shanshan Zhao, Yu Wang, Pingchuan Li, Xianwei Song, Lian Jin, Tong Zhou, Ying Lan, Lianhui Xie, Xueping Zhou, Chengcai Chu, Yijun Qi, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Yi Li*. ROS accumulation and antiviral defence control by microRNA528 in rice. Nature Plant. 3:16203 (2017).
70. Xiangjin Wei#, Xianwei Song#, Liya Wei#, Shaoqing Tang, Jing Sun, Peisong Hu*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. An epiallele of eice AK1 affects photosynthetic capacity. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 59 (3):158-163 (2017).
71. Jiliang Hu#, Huanjie Yang#, Jinye Mu, Tiancong Lu, Juli Peng, Xian Deng, Zhaosheng Kong, Shilai Bao, Xiaofeng Cao, and Jianru Zuo*. Nitric oxide regulates protein methylation during stress responses in plants. Mol Cell. 67(4):702-710 (2017).
72. Peng Wang#, Xuan Cui#, Chunsheng Zhao, Liyan Shi, Guowei Zhang, Fenglong Sun, Xiaofeng Cao, Li Yuan, Qiguang Xie, and Xiaodong Xu*. COR27 and COR28 encode nighttime repressors integrating Arabidopsis circadian clock and cold response. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 59(2):78-85 (2017).
73. Xianwei Song and Xiaofeng Cao*. Context and complexity: Analyzing methylation in trinucleotide sequences. Trends in Plant Science. 22(5):351-353 (2017).
74. Xianwei Song and Xiaofeng Cao*. Transposon-mediated epigenetic regulation contributes to phenotypic diversity and environmental adaptation in rice. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 36:111-118 (2017).
75. Xian Deng and Xiaofeng Cao*. Roles of pre-mRNA splicing and polyadenylation in plant development. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 35:45-53 (2017).
76. Xia Cui#, Falong Lu#, Qi Qiu#, Bing Zhou#, Lianfeng Gu, Shuaibin Zhang, Yanyuan Kang, Xiekui Cui, Xuan Ma, Qingqing Yao, Jinbiao Ma, Xiaoyu Zhang, and Xiaofeng Cao*. REF6 recognizes a specific DNA sequence to demethylate H3K27me3 and regulate organ boundary formation in Arabidopsis. Nature Genetics. 48(6):694-699 (2016).
77. Xian Deng#, Tiancong Lu#, Lulu Wang#, Lianfeng Gu#, Jing Sun, Xiangfeng Kong, Chunyan Liu*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Recruitment of the NineTeen Complex to the activated spliceosome requires AtPRMT5. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 113(19):5447-5452 (2016).
78. Chenlong Li, Lianfeng Gu, Lei Gao, Chen Chen, Chuang-Qi Wei, Qi Qiu, Chih-Wei Chien, Suikang Wang, Lihua Jiang, Lian-Feng Ai, Chia-Yang Chen, Songguang Yang, Vi Nguyen, Yanhua Qi, Michael P Snyder, Alma L Burlingame, Susanne E Kohalmi, Shangzhi Huang, Xiaofeng Cao, Zhi-Yong Wang, Keqiang Wu, Xuemei Chen, and Yuhai Cui*. Concerted genomic targeting of H3K27 demethylase REF6 and chromatin-remodeling ATPase BRM in Arabidopsis. Nature Genetics. 48(6):687-693 (2016).
79. Shengben Li#, Brandon Le#, Xuan Ma#, Shaofang Li#, Chenjiang You, Yu Yu, Bailong Zhang, Lin Liu, Lei Gao, Ting Shi, Yonghui Zhao, Beixin Mo, Xiaofeng Cao, and Xuemei Chen*. Biogenesis of phased siRNAs on membrane-bound polysomes in Arabidopsis. eLife. 5:e22750 (2016).
80. Zhe Wu#, Danling Zhu#, Xiaoya Lin#, Jin Miao#, Lianfeng Gu, Xian Deng, Qian Yang, Kangtai Sun, Danmeng Zhu, Xiaofeng Cao, Tomohiko Tsuge, Caroline Dean, Takashi Aoyama, Hongya Gu, and Lijia Qu*. RNA binding proteins RZ-1B and RZ-1C play critical roles in regulating pre-mRNA splicing and gene expression during development in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 28(1):55-73 (2016).
81. Dayong Li#, Zhiyuan Huang#, Shu-Hui Song#*, Yeyun Xin#*, Donghai Mao#, Qiming Lv#, Ming Zhou, Dong-Mei Tian, Mingfeng Tang, Qi Wu, Xue Liu, Tingting Chen, Xianwei Song, Xiqin Fu, Bingran Zhao, Chengzhi Liang, Aihong Li, Guozhen Liu, Shigui Li, Songnian Hu, Xiaofeng Cao, Jun Yu, Longping Yuan*, Caiyan Chen*, and Lihuang Zhu*. Integrated analysis of phenome, genome and transcriptome of hybrid rice uncovered multiple heterosis-related loci for yield increase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 113(41):E6026-E6035 (2016).
82. Dongmei Bai, Jinfang Zhang, Tingting Li, Runlai Hang, Yong Liu, Yonglu Tian, Dadu Huang, Linglong Qu, Xiaofeng Cao, Jiafu Ji, and Xiaofeng Zheng*. The ATPase hCINAP regulates 18S rRNA processing and is essential for embryogenesis and tumour growth. Nature Communications. 7:12310 (2016).
83. Chao Luo#, Xiaoteng Cai#, Jin Du, Taolan Zhao, Pengfei Wang, Pingxia Zhao, Rui Liu, Qi Xie, Xiaofeng Cao, and Chengbin Xiang*. PARAQUAT TOLERANCE3 is an E3 ligase that switches off activated oxidative response by targeting histone-modifying PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASE4b. PLoS Genetics. 12(9):e1006332 (2016).
84. Kai Shu#, Qian Chen#, Yaorong Wu, Ruijun Liu, Huawei Zhang, Pengfei Wang, Yanli Li, Shengfu Wang, Sanyuan Tang, Chunyan Liu, Wenyu Yang, Xiaofeng Cao, Giovanna Serino*, and Qi Xie*. ABI4 mediates antagonistic effects of abscisic acid and gibberellins at transcript and protein levels. The Plant Journal. 85(3):348-361 (2016).
85. Yanchong Yu#, Zhenhua Liu#, Long Wang#, Sang-Gyu Kim, Pil J. Seo, Meng Qiao, Nan Wang, Shuo Li, Xiaofeng Cao, Chung-Mo Park, and Fengning Xiang*. WRKY71 accelerates flowering via the direct activation of FLOWERING LOCUS T and LEAFY in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Journal. 85(1):96-106 (2016).
86. Fangfang Jiang, Falong Lu, Peixue Li, Wei Liu*, Lu Zhao, Qifu Wan, Xiaofeng Cao, Lei Zhang, and Yong Q. Zhang*. Drosophila homolog of FMRP maintains genome integrity by interacting with Piwi. Journal of Genetics and Genomics. 43(1):11-24 (2016).
87. Xian Deng, Xianwei Song, Liya Wei, Chunyan Liu, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Epigenetic regulation and the epigenomic landscape in rice. National Science Review. 3(3):309-327 (2016).
88. Liya Wei and Xiaofeng Cao*. The effect of transposable elements on phenotypic variation: insights from plants to humans. SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences. 59(1): 24-37 (2016).
89. Yong Zhang#, Lianfeng Gu#, Yifeng Hou#, Lulu Wang, Xian Deng, Runlai Hang, Dong Chen, Xiansheng Zhang, Yi Zhang, Chunyan Liu*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Integrative genome-wide analysis reveals HLP1, a novel RNA-binding protein, regulates plant flowering by targeted alternative polyadenylation. Cell Research. 25(7):864-76 (2015).
90. Shuaibin Zhang#, Bing Zhou#, Yanyuan Kang, Xia Cui, Ao Liu, Angelique Deleris , Maxim V. C. Greenberg, Xiekui Cui, Qi Qiu, Falong Lu, James A. Wohlschlegel, Steven E. Jacobsen, and Xiaofeng Cao*. C-terminal domains of histone demethylase JMJ14 interact with a pair of NAC transcription factors to mediate specific chromatin association. Cell Discovery. 1:15003 (2015).
91. Xiangqian Zhang#, Jing Sun#, Xiaofeng Cao, and Xianwei Song*. Epigenetic mutation of RAV6 affects leaf angle and seed size in rice. Plant Physiology. 169(3):2118-2128 (2015).
92. Jianguo Wu#, Zhirui Yang#, Yu Wang, Lijia Zheng, Ruiqiang Ye, Yinghua Ji, Shanshan Zhao, Shaoyi Ji, Ruofei Liu, Le Xu, Hong Zheng, Yijun Zhou, Xin Zhang, Xiaofeng Cao, Lianhui Xie, Zujian Wu*, Yijun Qi*, and Yi Li*. Viral-inducible Argonaute18 confers broad-spectrum virus resistance in rice by sequestering a host microRNA. eLIFE. 4:e05773 (2015).
94. Liya Wei
#, Lianfeng Gu
#, Xianwei Song
#, Xiekui Cui, Zhike Lu, Ming Zhou, Lulu Wang, Fengyi Hu, Jixian Zhai, Blake C. Meyers, and
Xiaofeng Cao*.
Dicer-like 3 produces transposable element-associated 24-nt siRNAs that control agricultural traits in rice.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 111(10):3877-3882 (2014).
95. Runlai Hang, Chunyan Liu, Ayaz Ahmad, Yong Zhang, Falong Lu, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Arabidopsis Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 3 regulates ribosome biogenesis by affecting precursor ribosomal RNA processing. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 111(45):16190-16195 (2014).
96. Hai Zhou#, Ming Zhou#, Yuanzhu Yang, Jing Li, Liya Zhu, Dagang Jiang, Jingfang Dong, Qinjian Liu, Lianfeng Gu, Lingyan Zhou, Mingji Feng, Peng Qin, Xiaochun Hu, Chengli Song, Jinfeng Shi, Xianwei Song, Erdong Ni, Xiaojin Wu, Qiyun Deng, Zhenlan Liu, Mingsheng Chen, Yao-Guang Liu, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Chuxiong Zhuang*. RNase ZS1 processes UbL40 mRNAs and controls thermo-sensitive genic male sterility in rice. Nature Communications. 5:4884 (2014).
97. Pedro Crevillén, Hongchun Yang, Xia Cui, Michael Greeff, Martin Trick, Qi Qiu, Xiaofeng Cao, and Caroline Dean*. Epigenetic reprogramming that prevents transgenerational inheritance of the vernalized state. Nature. 515(7528):587-590 (2014).
98. Lanjuan Hu#, Ning Li#, Chunming Xu#, Silin Zhong#, Xiuyun Lin, Jingjing Yang, Tianqi Zhou, Anzhi Yuliang, Xiaofeng Cao, Assaf Zemach, Sachin Rustgi, Diter von Wettstein*, and Bao Liu*. Mutation of a major CG methylase in rice causes genome-wide hypomethylation, dysregulated genome-expression and seedling-lethality. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 111 (29):10642-10647 (2014).
99. Sang Chul Choi, Shinyoung Lee, Sung-Ryul Kim, Yang-Seok Lee, Chunyan Liu, Xiaofeng Cao, and Gynheung An*. Trithorax group protein Oryza sativa trithorax1 controls flowering time in rice via interaction with early heading date3. Plant Physiology. 164(3):1326-1337 (2014).
100. Xiekui Cui and Xiaofeng Cao*. Epigenetic regulation and functional exaptation of transposable elements in higher plants. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 21:83-88 (2014)
101. Xia Cui
#*, Falong Lu
#, Yue Li, Yongming Xue,
Yanyuan Kang, Shuaibin Zhang, Qi Qiu, Xiekui Cui, Shuzhi Zheng, Bin Liu, Xiaodong Xu, and
Xiaofeng Cao.
Ubiquitin-specific proteases UBP12 and UBP13 act in circadian clock and photoperiodic flowering regulation in
Arabidopsis.
Plant Physiology. 162(2):897-906 (2013).
102. Shengben Li, Lin Liu, Xiaohong Zhuang, Yu Yu, Xigang Liu, Xia Cui, Lijuan Ji, Zhiqiang Pan,
Xiaofeng Cao, Beixin Mo, Fuchun Zhang, Natasha Raikhel, Liwen Jiang, and Xuemei Chen*.
MicroRNAs inhibit the translation of target mRNAs on the endoplasmic reticulum in
Arabidopsis.
Cell. 153(3):562-574 (2013).
103. Kai Shu, Huawei Zhang, Shengfu Wang, Yaorong Wu, Sanyuan Tang, Chunyan Liu,
Xiaofeng Cao, and Qi Xie*.
ABI4 regulates primary seed dormancy by regulating the biogenesis of abscisic acid and gibberellins in
Arabidopsis.
PLoS Genetics. 9(6):e1003577 (2013).
104. Jixian Zhai, Yuanyuan Zhao, Stacey A. Simon, Sheng Huang, Katherine Petsch, Siwaret Arikit, Manoj Pillay, Lijuan Ji, Meng Xie,
Xiaofeng Cao, Bin Yu, Marja Timmermans, Bing Yang, Xuemei Chen, and Blake C. Meyers*.
Plant microRNAs display differential 3’ truncation and tailing modifications that are ARGONAUTE1 dependent and conserved across species. The Plant Cell. 25(7):2417-2428 (2013).
105. Xiekui Cui
#, Ping Jin
#, Xia Cui, Lianfeng Gu, Zhike Lu, Yongming Xue, Liya Wei, Jianfei Qi, Xianwei Song, Ming Luo, Gynheung An, and
Xiaofeng Cao*.
Control of transposon activity by a histone H3K4 demethylase in rice.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 110(5):1953-1958 (2013).
106. Lulu Wang, Xianwei Song, Liangfeng Gu, Xin Li, Shouyun Cao, Chengcai Chu, Xia Cui, Xuemei Chen, and
Xiaofeng Cao*.
NOT2proteins promote polymerase II-dependent transcription and interact with multiple miRNA biogenesis factors in
Arabidopsis.
The Plant Cell. 25(2):715-727 (2013).
107. Jungil Yang, Shinyong Lee, Runlai Hang, Sung-Ryul Kim, Yang-Seok Lee, Xiaofeng Cao, Richard Amasino, and Gynheung An*.
OsVIL2 Functions with PRC2 to Induce Flowering by Repressing
OsLFL1in Rice.
The Plant Journal. 73(4):566-578 (2013).
108. Liguo Zhang#, Zhijun Cheng#, Ruizhen Qin, Yang Qiu, Jiu-Lin Wang, Xiekui Cui, Lianfeng Gu, Xin Zhang, Xiuping Guo, Dan Wang, Ling Jiang, Chuan-yin Wu, Haiyang Wang, Xiaofeng Cao, and Jianmin Wan*. Identification and characterization of an Epi-Allele of FIE1 reveals a regulatory linkage between two epigenetic marks in rice. The Plant Cell. 24(11):4407-4421 (2012).
109. Lifang Niu
#, Falong Lu
#, Taolan Zhao
#, Chunyan Liu, and
Xiaofeng Cao*. The enzymatic activity of
Arabidopsisprotein arginine methyltransferase 10 is essential for flowering time regulation.
Protein & Cell. 3(6):450-459 (2012).
110. Changhui Sun
#, Jun Fang
#, Taolan Zhao, Bo Xu, Fantao Zhang, Linchuan Liu, Jiuyou Tang, Genfa Zhang, Xiaojian Deng, Fan Chen, Qian Qian,
Xiaofeng Cao,
and Chengcai Chu*.
TheHistone methyltransferase SDG724 mediates H3K36me2/3 deposition at
MADS50 and
RFT1, and promotes flowering in rice.
The Plant Cell. 24(8):3235-3247 (2012).
111. Xianwei Song
#, Dekai Wang
#, Lijia M
#a, Zhiyu Chen, Pingchuan Li, Xia Cui, Chunyan Liu, Shouyun Cao, Chengcai Chu, Yuezhi Tao, and
Xiaofeng Cao*.
Rice RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 6 acts in small RNA biogenesis and spikelet development.
The Plant Journal. 71(3):378-389 (2012).
112. Xianwei Song
#, Pingchuan Li
#, Jixian Zhai
#, Ming Zhou
#, Lijia Ma, Bin Liu, Dong-Hoon Jeong, Mayumi Nakano, Shouyun Cao, Chunyan Liu, Chengcai Chu, Xiu-Jie Wang, Pamela J. Green, Blake C. Meyers, and
Xiaofeng Cao*.
Roles of DCL4 and DCL3b in rice phased small RNA biogenesis.
The Plant Journal. 69(3):462-474 (2012).
114. Xin Li
#, Jingde Zhu
#, Fengyi Hu
#, Song Ge
#, Mingzhi Ye, Hui Xiang, Guojie Zhang, Xiaoming Zheng, Hongyu Zhang, Shilai Zhang, Qiong Li, Ruibang Luo, Chang Yu, Jian Yu, Jingfeng Sun, Xiaoyu Zou,
Xiaofeng Cao, Xianfa Xie*, Jun Wang*, and Wen Wang*.
Single-base resolution maps of cultivated and wild rice methylomes and regulatory roles of DNA methylation in plant gene expression.
BMC Genomics. 13:300 (2012).
115. Ahmad and
Xiaofeng Cao*.
Plant PRMTs broaden the scope of argininemethylation.
Journal of Genetics and Genomics. 39(5):195-236 (2012).
116. The EPIC Planning Committee: Fred Berger,
Xiaofeng Cao, Vicki Chandler, Liz Dennis, Rob Martienssen, Blake Meyers, Craig Pikaard, Jim Peacock, Eric Richards, Doris Wagner*, Detlef Weigel, Vincent Colot, Roger Deal, Caroline Dean, Joe Ecker, Mary Gehring, Zhizhong Gong, Brian Gregory, Gutierrez Rodrigo, Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Mitsuyasu Hasebe, Il-Doo Hwang, Steven E. Jacobsen, Tetsuji Kakutani, Jiayang Li, Scott Michaels, Yoo-Sun Noh, Nick Provart, and Matt Vaughn.
Reading the Second Code: Mapping epigenomes to understand plant growth, development, and adaptation to the environment.
The Plant Cell. 24(6):2257-2261 (2012).
117. Falong Lu
#, Xia Cui
#, Shuaibin Zhang, Thomas Jenuwein, and
Xiaofeng Cao*.
ArabidopsisREF6 is ahistone H3 lysine 27 demethylase.
Nature Genetics. 43(7):715-719 (2011).
118. Yuan Cheng, Monica Frazier, Falong Lu,
Xiaofeng Cao, and Matthew R. Redinbo*.
Crystal structure of the plant epigenetic protein arginine methyltransferase 10.
Journal of Molecular Biology. 414(1):106-122 (2011).
119. Xigang Liu
#, Yun Ju Kim
#, Ralf Müller, Rae Eden Yumul, Chunyan Liu, Yanyun Pan,
Xiaofeng Cao, Justin Goodrich, and Xuemei Chen*.
AGAMOUS terminates floral stem cells by directly repressing the stem cell maintenance gene
WUSCHEL through the recruitment of polycomb group proteins in
Arabidopsis.
The Plant Cell. 23(10):3654-3670 (2011).
121. Lijuan Ji, Xigang Liu, Jun Yan, Wenming Wang, Rae Eden Yumul, Yun Ju Kim, Thanh Theresa Dinh, Jun Liu, Xia Cui, Binglian Zheng, Manu Agarwal, Chunyan Liu,
Xiaofeng Cao, Guiliang Tang, and Xuemei Chen
*.
ARGONAUTE10 and
ARGONAUTE1 regulate the termination of floral stem cells through two microRNA in
Arabidopsis. PLoS Genetics. 7(3): e1001358 (2011).
122. Xian Deng
#, Lianfeng Gu
#,
Chunyan Liu
#, Tiancong Lu
#, Falong Lu, Zhike Lu, Peng Cui, Yanxi Pei, Baichen Wang, Songnian Hu, and
Xiaofeng Cao*.
Arginine methylation mediated by the
Arabidopsishomolog of PRMT5 is essential for proper pre-mRNA splicing.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 107(44):19114-19119 (2010).
123. Soichi Inagaki, Asuka Miura-Kamio, Yasukazu Nakamura, Falong Lu, Xia Cui,
Xiaofeng Cao*, Hiroshi Kimura, Hidetoshi Saze, and Tetsuji Kakutani*.
Autocatalytic differentiation of epigenetic modifications within the
Arabidopsisgenome.
EMBO Journal.
29(20):3496-3506 (2010).
124. Falong Lu
#, Xia Cui
#, Shuaibin Zhang, Chunyan Liu, and
Xiaofeng Cao*.
JMJ14 is an H3K4 demethylase and regulates flowering time in
Arabidopsis.
Cell Research. 20(3):387-390 (2010).
125. Ming Zhou, Lianfeng Gu, Pingchuan Li, Xianwei Song, Liya Wei, Zhiyu Chen, and
Xiaofeng Cao*
. Degradome sequencing reveals endogenous small RNA targets in rice (
Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica).
Frontier in Biology. 5(1):67-90 (2010).
126. Ian R. Henderson, Simon R. Chan, Xiaofeng Cao, Lianna Johnson, and Steven E. Jacobsen*. Accurate sodium bisulfite sequencing in plants. Epigenetics. 5(1):29-31 (2010).
127. Xinyu Jian, Lin Zhang, Guanglin Li, Liang Zhang, Xiujie Wang, Xiaofeng Cao, Xiaohua Fang, and Fan Chen*.
Identification of novel stress-regulated microRNAs from
Oryza sativaL.
Genomics. 95(1):47-55 (2010).
128. Chunyan Liu, Falong Lu, Xia Cui, and
Xiaofeng Cao*.
Histone methylation in higher plants.
Annu Rev. Plant Biol. 6:395-425 (2010).
129. Ayaz Ahmad, Yong Zhang, and
Xiaofeng Cao*
. Decoding the epigenetic language of plant development.
Molecular Plant. 3(4):719-728 (2010).
130. Yanwei Wang, Pingchuan Li,
Xiaofeng Cao, Xiujie Wang, Aimin Zhang, and Xia Li*.
Identification and expression analysis of miRNAs from nitrogen-fixing soybean nodules.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.
378(4):799-803 (2009).
131. Séverine Lacombe#, Hiroshi Nagasaki#, Carole Santi#, David Duval, Beno？t Piégu, Martine Bangratz, Jean-Christophe Breitler, Emmanuel Guiderdoni, Christophe Brugidou, Xiaofeng Cao, Claire Brice, Olivier Panaud, Wojciech Karlowski, Yutaka Sato*, and Manuel Echeverria*. Identification of precursor transcripts for 6 novel mirnas expands the diversity on the genomic organisation and expression of miRNA genes in rice. BMC Plant Biology. 8:123 (2008).
132. Lifang Niu#, Yong Zhang#, Yanxi Pei, Chunyan Liu, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Redundant requirement for a pair of PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE4 homologs for the proper regulation of Arabidopsis flowering time. Plant Physiology. 148(1):490-503 (2008).
133. Dongfen Zhang, Qiuying Yang, Yong Ding, Xiaofeng Cao, Yongbiao Xue, and Zhukuan Cheng*. Cytological characterization of the tandem repetitive sequences and their methylation status in the Antirrhinum majus Genome. Genomics. 92(2):107-114 (2008).
134. Falong Lu#, Guanglin Li#, Xia Cui#, Chunyan Liu, Xiu-Jie Wang, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Comparative Analysis of JmjC domain-containing proteins reveals the potential histone demethylases in Arabidopsis and rice. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 50(7):886-896 (2008).
135. Jixian Zhai, Jun Liu, Bin Liu, Pingchuan Li, Blake C. Meyers, Xuemei Chen, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Small RNA-directed epigenetic natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS Genetics. 4(4):e1000056 (2008).
136. Cheng Lu, Dong-Hoon Jeong, Karthik Kulkarni, Manoj Pillay, Kan Nobuta, Rana German, Shawn R. Thatcher, Christopher Maher, Lifang Zhang, Doreen Ware, Bin Liu, Xiaofeng Cao, Blake C. Meyers, and Pamela J. Green*. Genome-wide analysis for discovery of rice microRNAs reveals natural antisense microRNAs (nat-miRNAs). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 105(12):4951-4956 (2008).
137. Blake C. Meyers*, Michael J. Axtel*, Bonnie Bartel, David P. Bartel, David Baulcombe, John L. Bowman, Xiaofeng Cao, James C. Carrington, Xuemei Chen, Pamela J. Green, Sam Griffiths-Jones, Steven E. Jacobsen, Allison C. Mallory, Robert A. Martienssen, R. Scott Poethig, Yijun Qi, Herve Vaucheret, Franck Vazquez, Olivier Voinnet, Detlef Weigel, and Jian-Kang Zhu. Criteria for annotation of plant microRNAs. The Plant Cell. 20(12):3186-3190 (2008).
138. Lifang Niu#, Falong Lu#, Yanxi Pei, Chunyan Liu, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Regulation of flowering time by a protein arginine methyltransferase, AtPRMT10. EMBO Reports. 8(12):1190-1195 (2007).
139. Bin Liu, Zhiyu Chen, Xianwei Song, Chunyan Liu, Xia Cui, Xianfeng Zhao, Jun Fang, Wenying Xu, Huiyong Zhang, Xiujie Wang, Chengcai Chu, Xingwang Deng, Yongbiao Xue, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Oryza sativa Dicer-like4 reveals a key role for small interfering RNA silencing in plant development. The Plant Cell. 19(9):2705-2718 (2007).
140. Dongsheng Yan#, Yong Zhang#, Lifang Niu#, Yi Yuan, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Identification and characterization of two closely related histone H4 arginine 3 methyltransferases in Arabidopsis thaliana. Biochemical Journal. 408(1):113-121 (2007).
141. Yanxi Pei#, Lifang Niu#, Falong Lu#, Chunyan Liu#, Jixian Zhai, Xiangfeng Kong, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Mutations in the type II protein arginine methyltransferase AtPRMT5 result in pleiotropic developmental defects in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiology. 144(4):1913-1923 (2007).
142. Weiwei Deng#, Chunyan Liu#, Yanxi Pei, Xian Deng, Lifang Niu, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Involvement of the histone acetyltransferase AtHAC1 in the regulation of flowering time via repression of FLC in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiology. 143(4):1660-1668 (2007).
143. Yong Ding, Xia Wang, Lei Su, Jixian Zhai, Shouyun Cao, Dongfen Zhang, Chunyan Liu, Yuping Bi, Qian Qian, Zhukuan Cheng, Chengcai Chu*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. SDG714, a histone H3K9 methyltransferase involves in Tos17 DNA methylation and transposition in Oryza sativa L. The Plant Cell. 19(1):9-22 (2007).
144. Ran Xia#, Junguo Wang#, Chunyan Liu, Yu Wang, Youqun Wang, Jixian Zhai, Jun Liu, Xuhui Hong, Xiaofeng Cao, Jian-Kang Zhu, and Zhizhong Gong*. ROR1/RPA2A encoding a putative replication protein a2 is required for maintaining epigenetic gene silencing and important for root and shoot meristem development in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 18(1):85-103 (2006).
145. Bin Liu#, Pingchuan L# , Xin Li, Chunyan Liu, Yunru Cao, Chengcai Chu, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Loss of function of OsDCL1 affects microRNA accumulation and causes developmental defects in rice. Plant Physiology. 139(1):296-305 (2005).
146. Wenli Zhang, Chuandeng Yi, Weidong Bao, Bin Liu, Jiajun Cui, Hengxiu Yu, Xiaofeng Cao, Minghong Gu, Min Liu, and Zhukuan Cheng*. The transcribed 165-bp CentO satellite is the major functional centromeric element in the wild rice species Oryza punctata. Plant Physiology. 139(1):306-315 (2005).
147. Hong Li#, Lin Xu#, Hua Wang, Zheng Yuan, Xiaofeng Cao, Zhongnan Yang, Dabing Zhang, Yuquan Xu, and Hai Huang*. The Putative RNA-dependent rna polymerase RDR6 acts synergistically with ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 and 2 to repress BREVIPEDICELLUS and microRNA165/166 in Arabidopsis leaf development. The Plant Cell. 17(8):2157-2171 (2005).
148. Tetsu Kinoshita*, Asuka Miura, Yeonhee choi, Yuki Kinoshita, Xiaofeng Cao, Steven E. Jacobsen, Robert L. Fischer, and Tetsuji Kakutani*. One-way control of FWA imprinting in Arabidopsis endosperm by DNA methylation. Science. 303(5657):521-523 (2004).
149. Daniel Zilberman, Xiaofeng Cao, Lisa K. Johansen, Zhixin Xie, James C. Carrington, and Steven E. Jacobsen*. Role of Arabidopsis ARGONAUTE4 in RNA-directed DNA methylation triggered by inverted repeats. Current Biology. 14(13):1214-1220 (2004).
150. Xiaofeng Cao, Werner Aufsatz, Daniel Zilberman, M. Florian Mette, Michael S. Huang, Marjori Matzke, and Steven E. Jacobsen*. Role of the DRM and CMT3 methyltransferases in RNA-directed DNA methylation. Current Biology. 13(24):2212-2217 (2003).
151. Daniel Zilberman, Xiaofeng Cao, and Steven E. Jacobsen*. ARGONAUTE4 control of locus-specific siRNA accumulation and DNA and histone methylation. Science. 299(5607):716-719 (2003).
152. Xiaofeng Cao and Steven E. Jacobsen*. Role of the Arabidopsis DRM methyltransferases in de novo DNA methylation and gene silencing. Current Biology. 12(13):1138-1144 (2002a).
153. Xiaofeng Cao and Steven E. Jacobsen*. Locus specific control of asymmetric and CpNpG methylation by the DRM and CMT3 methyltransferase genes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 99 Suppl 4(Suppl 4):16491-16498 (2002b).
154. James P. Jackson, Anders M. Lindroth, Xiaofeng Cao, and Steven E. Jacobsen*. Control of CpNpG DNA methylation by the KRYPTONITE histone H3 methyltransferase. Nature. 416(6880):556-560 (2002).
155. Lianna M. Johnson, Xiaofeng Cao, and Steven E. Jacobsen*. Interplay between two epigenetic marks: DNA methylation and histone H3 lysine 9 methylation. Current Biology. 12(16):1360-1367 (2002).
156. Anders Lindroth#, Xiaofeng Cao#, James P. Jackson#, Daniel Zilberman, Claire M. McCallum, Steven Henikoff, and Steven E. Jacobsen*. Requirement of Chromomethylase3 for maintenance of CpXpG methylation. Science. 292(5524):2077-2080 (2001).
157. Xiaofeng Cao#, Nathan M. Springer#, Michael G. Muszynski, Ronald L. Phillips, Shawn Kaeppler, and Steven E. Jacobsen*. Conserved plant genes with similarity to mammalian de novo DNA methyltransferases. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 97(9):4979-4984 (2000).
158. Xiaofeng Cao, Sally W. Rogers, Juliet Butler, Leonard Beevers, and John C. Rogers*. Structural requirements for ligand binding by a probable plant vacuolar sorting receptor. The Plant Cell. 12(4):493-506 (2000).
159. Steven E. Jacobsen*, Hajime Sakai, E. Jean Finnegan, Xiaofeng Cao, and Elliot. M. Meyerowitz. Ectopic hypermethylation of floral specific genes in Arabidopsis. Current Biology. 10(4):179-186 (2000).
160. Xiaofeng Cao, Paul Linstead, Fred Berger, Joe Kieber, and Liam Dolan*. Differential ethylene sensitivity of epidermal cells is involved in the establishment of cell pattern in the Arabidopsis root. Physiologia Plantarum. 106(3):311-317 (1999).
161. Liam Dolan, Paul Linstead, Catherine Kidner, Kurt Boudonck, Xiaofeng Cao, and Frederic Berger. Cell fate in plants: lessons from the Arabidopsis root. Symposium of Society for Experimental Biology. 51:11-17 (1998).
162. Mian Xia#, Yuxian Zhu*, Xiaofeng Cao, Lingtao You, and Zhangliang Chen. Cloning, sequencing and analysis of a gene encoding Escherichia coli proline dehydrogenase. FEMS Microbiology Letters.127(3):235-242 (1995).
163. Xiaofeng Cao, Zhibin Lu, Yuxian Zhu, Naisui Pan, and Zhangliang Chen. Cloning and sequencing of a tomato cDNA of ethylene-forming enzyme. Chinese Science Bulletin. 39(5):430-434 (1994).
164. Xiaofeng Cao, Rongchen Wang, Lungfei Yen, Zhibin Lu, Naisui Pan, and Zhangliang Chen. Construction of a pea tendril cDNA library and sequence analysis of a pea actin cDNA, PEAc1. Chinese Science Bulletin. 39(4):332-337 (1994).
Comments and Book Chapter:
166. 邓娴*, 李彤, 曹晓风*. 基因编辑在饲草育种中的应用与展望. 植物学报. 2023, (2): 233 -240 .
167. Chunyan Liu, Bo Cao, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Biogenesis, action and biological functions of an Arabidopsis 5′tRF, 5′tsR-Ala. SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences. doi:10.1007/s11427-021-2053-4 (2022).
168. Chao Yang, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Small RNA flow from tapetum cells to germ cells in plants. SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences. 64(11):1977-1979 (2021).
169. Xuan Ma, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Cotton variant genomes—a breakthrough in population genetics analysis. SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences. 61(7):869-870 (2018).
170. Xuan Ma, Beixin Mo, and Xiaofeng Cao*. New players in ABA signaling: identification of PUB12/13 involved in degradation of ABA co-receptor ABI1. SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences. 58(11):1173-1174 (2015).
171. Xiaofeng Cao. Whole genome sequencing of cotton—a new chapter in cotton genomics. SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences. 58(5):515-516 (2015).
172. Xiaofeng Cao. Special issue on epigenetic inheritance by histone modifications, histone variants and non-coding RNAs. Frontier in Biology. 6(2):87-87 (2011)
173. Xianwei Song, Xiuying Liu, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Xiujie Wang*. Non-coding regulatory RNAs. Genetics and Genomics of Rice. Edited by Qifa Zhang and Rod Wing, Beijing 5:145-160 (2013).
174. Xiaofeng Cao*, and Ruiming Xu. The Secret of Epigenetics. (Science Press, 2018, Beijing)
Protocols:
175. Xuan Ma, Chunyan Liu, Lianfeng Gu, Beixin Mo, Xiaofeng Cao, and Xuemei Chen*. TarHunter, a tool for predicting conserved microRNA targets and target. Bioinformatics. 34(9):1574-1576 (2018).
176. Xianwei Song and Xiaofeng Cao*. Small RNA extraction and detection in rice (Oryza sativa). Curr. Protoc. Plant Biol. 1(1):79-87 (2016).
177. Runlai Hang, Xian Deng*, Chunyan Liu, Beixin Mo, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Circular RT-PCR assay using Arabidopsis samples. Bio-protocol. 5(14):e1533. (2015).
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