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1. Xianwei Song#*, Shanjie Tang#, Hui Liu#, Ying Meng, Haofei Luo, Bao Wang, Xiu-Li Hou, Bin Yan, Chao Yang, Zhenhua Guo, Lizhi Wang, Shukun Jiang, Xian Deng and Xiaofeng Cao*. Inheritance of acquired adaptive cold tolerance in rice through DNA methylation. Cell. (2025) (In press).
2. Zhen Wang#*, Xiaofan Zhang#, Can Zhou, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Control of seed-to-seedling transition by an upstream open reading frame in ABSCISIC ACID DEFICIENT2. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. (2025) (In press).
3. 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. Jan 8. doi: 10.1007/s11427-024-2784-3 (2025).
4. 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).
5. 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).
7. 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).
8. Mingxing Wang#, An-Hui Ge#, Xingzhu Ma#, 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).
9. 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).
10 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 (2024).
11 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 (2024).
12 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 (2024). (Cover story)
13 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 (2024).
14 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 (2024).
15 Jiaping Zhu, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Xian Deng*. Epigenetic and transcription factors synergistically promote the high temperature response in plants. Trends Biochem Sci. 48(9):788 (2023).
16 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).
17 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). J Integr Plant Biol. 65(11):2416 (2023).
18 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).
19 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 (2023). (Cover story)
20 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 (2022).
21 Yifeng Hou, Yan Yan, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Epigenetic regulation of thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. aBiotech. 3: 12 (2022).
22 Kaixuan He#, Hailiang Mei#, Jiaping Zhu, Qi Qiu, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Xian Deng*. The Histone H3K27 Demethylase REF6/JMJ12 promotes thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis. Nat Sci Rev. 9: nwab213 (2022).
23 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 (2022).
24 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 (2022).
25 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 (2022).
26 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 (2022).
27 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 (2022).
28 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. Mol Plant. 14(4):688 (2021).
29 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. Mol Plant. 14(2):223 (2021).
30 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.
J Genet Genomics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgg.2021.06.005 (2021).
31 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 (2021).
32 Kaixuan He, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Xian Deng*. Histone methylation in epigenetic regulation and temperature responses. Curr Opin in Plant Biol. 61:102001 (2021).
33 Xuan Ma*, Chunyan Liu, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Plant transfer RNA-derived fragments: Biogenesis and functions. J Integr Plant Biol. 63(8):1399 (2021).
34 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 Biol. 21(1): 226 (2020).
35 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 Biol. 20(1):189 (2019)
36 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. Mol Plant. 12(8):1103 (2019). (Cover story)
37 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. Nat Commun. 10(1): 2063 (2019)
38 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. Nat Commun. 10(1):1303 (2019)
39 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 Res. 29(5):379 (2019).
40 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. Plant Cell. 31(2):430 (2019).
41 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 Physiol. 179(2):686 (2019).
42 Xianwei Song#, Yan Li#, Xiaofeng Cao*, and Yijun Qi*. MicroRNAs and their regulatory roles in plant--environment interactions. Annu Rev Plant Biol. 70:489 (2019).
43 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 Physiol. 177(1):381 (2018).
44 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. Mol Plant. 11(4):607 (2018). (Cover story)
45 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. Plant Cell. 30(1):167 (2018).
46 Xian Deng, Qi Qiu, Kaixuan He, and Xiaofeng Cao*. The seekers: how epigenetic modifying enzymes find their hidden genomic targets in Arabidopsis. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 45:75 (2018)
47 Cheng-Guo Duan*, Jian-Kang Zhu*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Retrospective and perspective of plant epigenetics in China. J Genet Genomics. 45(11):621 (2018).
48 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. Nat Plant. 3:16203 (2017).
49 Xiangjin Wei#, Xianwei Song#, Liya Wei#, Shaoqing Tang, Jing Sun, Peisong Hu*, and Xiaofeng Cao*. An epiallele of rice AK1 affects photosynthetic capacity. J Integr Plant Biol. 59 (3):158 (2017).
50 Xianwei Song and Xiaofeng Cao*. Context and complexity: Analyzing methylation in trinucleotide sequences. Trends Plant Sci. 22(5):351 (2017).
51 Xianwei Song and Xiaofeng Cao*. Transposon-mediated epigenetic regulation contributes to phenotypic diversity and environmental adaptation in rice. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 36:111 (2017).
52 Xian Deng and Xiaofeng Cao*. Roles of pre-mRNA splicing and polyadenylation in plant development. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 35:45 (2017).
53 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. Nat Genet. 48(6):694 (2016).
54 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 U S A. 113(19):5447 (2016).
55 Xian Deng, Xianwei Song, Liya Wei, Chunyan Liu, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Epigenetic regulation and the epigenomic landscape in rice. Nat Sci Rev. 3(3):309 (2016).
56 Liya Wei and Xiaofeng Cao*. The effect of transposable elements on phenotypic variation: insights from plants to humans. Sci China Life Sci. 59(1): 24 (2016).
57 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 Res. 25(7):864 (2015).
58 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 Discov. 1:15003 (2015).
59 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 U S A. 111(10):3877 (2014).
60 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 U S A. 111(45):16190 (2014).
61 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. Nat Commun. 5:4884 (2014).
62 Xiekui Cui and Xiaofeng Cao*. Epigenetic regulation and functional exaptation of transposable elements in higher plants. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 21:83 (2014)
63 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 U S A. 110(5):1953 (2013).
64 Lulu Wang, Xianwei Song, Liangfeng Gu, Xin Li, Shouyun Cao, Chengcai Chu, Xia Cui, Xuemei Chen, and
Xiaofeng Cao*.
NOT2 proteins promote polymerase II-dependent transcription and interact with multiple miRNA biogenesis factors in
Arabidopsis.
Plant Cell. 25(2):715 (2013).
65 Lifang Niu#, Falong Lu#, Taolan Zhao#, Chunyan Liu, and Xiaofeng Cao*. The enzymatic activity of Arabidopsis protein arginine methyltransferase 10 is essential for flowering time regulation. Protein & Cell. 3(6):450 (2012). (Cover story)
66 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. Plant J. 71(3):378 (2012b).
67 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. Plant J. 69(3):462 (2012a).
68 Ayaz Ahmad and Xiaofeng Cao*. Plant PRMTs broaden the scope of arginine methylation. J Genet Genomics. 39(5):195 (2012).
69 Falong Lu#, Xia Cui#, Shuaibin Zhang, Thomas Jenuwein, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Arabidopsis REF6 is a histone H3 lysine 27 demethylase. Nat Genet. 43(7):715 (2011).
70 Ayaz Ahmad#, Yuzhu Dong#, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Characterization of the PRMT gene family in rice reveals conservation of arginine methylation. PLoS One. 6(8): e22664 (2011).
71 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 Arabidopsis homolog of PRMT5 is essential for proper pre-mRNA splicing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 107(44):19114 (2010).
72 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 Arabidopsis genome. EMBO J. 29(20):3496 (2010).
73 Falong Lu#, Xia Cui#, Shuaibin Zhang, Chunyan Liu, and Xiaofeng Cao*. JMJ14 is an H3K4 demethylase and regulates flowering time in Arabidopsis. Cell Res. 20(3):387 (2010).
74 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). Front Biol. 5(1):67 (2010).
75 Chunyan Liu, Falong Lu, Xia Cui, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Histone methylation in higher plants. Annu Rev Plant Biol. 6:395 (2010).
76 Ayaz Ahmad, Yong Zhang, and
Xiaofeng Cao*
. Decoding the epigenetic language of plant development.
Mol Plant. 3(4):719 (2010).
77 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 Physiol. 148(1):490 (2008).
78 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. J Integr Plant Biol. 50(7):886 (2008).
79 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 Genet. 4(4):e1000056 (2008).
80 Lifang Niu#, Falong Lu#, Yanxi Pei, Chunyan Liu, and Xiaofeng Cao*. Regulation of flowering time by a protein arginine methyltransferase, AtPRMT10. EMBO Rep. 8(12):1190 (2007).
81 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. Plant Cell. 19(9):2705 (2007).
82 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. Biochem J. 408(1):113 (2007).
83 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 Physiol. 144(4):1913 (2007).
84 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 Physiol. 143(4):1660 (2007).
85 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. Plant Cell. 19(1):9 (2007).
86 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 Physiol. 139(1):296 (2005).
87 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. Curr Biol. 13(24):2212 (2003).
88 Xiaofeng Cao and Steven E. Jacobsen*. Role of the Arabidopsis DRM methyltransferases in de novo DNA methylation and gene silencing. Curr Biol. 12(13):1138 (2002a).
89 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 U S A. 99:16491 (2002b).
90 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 (2001).
91 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 U S A. 97(9):4979 (2000).
92 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. Plant Cell. 12(4):493 (2000).
93 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 (1999).
94 Xiaofeng Cao, Zhibin Lu, Yuxian Zhu, Naisui Pan, and Zhangliang Chen. Cloning and sequencing of a tomato cDNA of ethylene-forming enzyme. Chin Sci Bull. 39(5):430 (1994).
95 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. Chin Sci Bull. 39(4):332 (1994).
96 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. (2): 233 (2023).
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