1. Pan Geng, Su Zhang, Jinyue Liu, Cuihuan Zhao, Jie Wu, Yingping Cao, Chunxiang Fu, Xue Han, Hang He, Qiao Zhao* (2020) MYB20, MYB42, MYB43 and MYB85 Regulate Phenylalanine and Lignin Biosynthesis during Secondary Cell Wall Formation. Plant Physiology. (in press)
https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.19.01070
2. Xiaochen Wang, Jie Wu, Mengling Guan, Cuihuan Zhao, Pan Geng, Qiao Zhao* (2019) Arabidopsis MYB4 plays dual roles in flavonoid biosynthesis. The Plant Journal. (in press)
https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14570
3. Jie Wu and Qiao Zhao* (2019) Sweeten Almonds: A Single Mutation in the bHLH2 Transcription Factor. Trends in Plant Science. 24:976-978 (spotlight).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138519302353?via%3Dihub
4. Xiaofeng Fang, Gaozhan Zhao, Su Zhang, Yaoxi Li, Hanqing Gu, Yan Li, Qiao Zhao and Yijun Qi* (2019) Chloroplast-to-Nucleus Signaling Regulates MicroRNA Biogenesis in Arabidopsis. Developmental Cell. 48:1–12.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S153458071831030X?via%3Dihub
5. Bin Wang and Qiao Zhao* (2018) Membrane-bound metabolons. Nature Plants. 4:245-246 (news and views).
https://xs.scihub.ltd/https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-018-0148-3
6. Juan Du, Yang Zhang* and Qiao Zhao* (2018) New components of the lignin biosynthetic metabolon. Trends in Plant Science. 23:557-559.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138518301146?via%3Dihub
7. Qiao Zhao (2016) Lignification: flexibility, biosynthesis and regulation. Trends in Plant Science. 21:713-721.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138516300085?via%3Dihub
8. Qiao Zhao, Yining Zeng, Yanbin Yin, Yunqiao Pu, Lisa A. Jackso, Shi-You Ding, Arthur J Ragauskas and Richard A. Dixon (2015) Pinoresinol reductase 1 impacts lignin distribution during secondary cell wall biosynthesis in Arabidopsis. Phytochemistry. 112:170-178.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031942214002787?via%3Dihub
9. Qiao Zhao and Richard A. Dixon (2014) Altering the cell wall and its impact on plant disease: from forage tobioenergy. Annual Review of Phytopathology. 52:4.1-4.23.
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-phyto-082712-102237
10. Qiao Zhao, Jin Nakashima, Fang Chen, Yanbin Yin, Chunxiang Fu, Jianfei Yun, Hui Shao, Xiaoqiang Wang, Zeng-Yu Wang and Richard A. Dixon (2013) LACCASE is necessary and non-redundant with PEROXIDASE for lignin polymerization duringvascular development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell. 25(10): 3976-3987.
http://www.plantcell.org/content/25/10/3976.full
11. Qiao Zhao, Yuki Tobamitsu, Rui Zhou, SivakumarPattathil, Yanbin Yin, Lina Gallego-Giraldo, Chunxiang Fu, Lisa A. Jackson, MichaelG. Hahn, Hoon Kim, JohnRalph, Fang Chen, and Richard A. Dixon (2013) Loss of Function of Cinnamyl Alcohol Dehydrogenase 1 Leads to Unconventional Lignin and a Temperature-Sensitive Growth Defect in Medicago truncatula. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 110:13660-13665.
https://www.pnas.org/content/110/33/13660
12. Qiao Zhao* and Richard A. Dixon (2011) (*corresponding author) Transcriptional network for lignin biosynthesis: more complex than we thought? Trends in Plant Science. 16:227-233.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136013851000258X?via%3Dihub
13. Qiao Zhao and Iris Meier (2011) Identification and characterization of the Arabidopsis FG-repeat nucleoporin Nup62. Plant Signaling & Behavior. 6:330-334.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/psb.6.3.13402
14. Huanzhong Wang, Qiao Zhao, Fang Chen, Mingyi Wang and Richard A. Dixon (2011) NAC domain function and transcriptional control of a secondary cell wall master switch. Plant Journal. 68:1104-1114.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04764.x
15. Thushani Rodrigo-Peiris, Xianfeng Xu, Qiao Zhao, Horng-Jing Wang, and Iris Meier (2011) RanGAP is required for post-meiotic mitosis in female gametophyte development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Experimental Botany. 62:2705-2714.
https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/62/8/2705/475540
16. Qiao Zhao, Huanzhong Wang, Yanbin Yin,Ying Xu, Fang Chen and Richard A. Dixon (2010) Syringyl-Lignin Biosynthesis is directly regulated by A Secondary Wall Master Transcription Factor NST1. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 107:14496-14501.
https://www.pnas.org/content/107/32/14496
17. Qiao Zhao, Lina Gallego-Giraldo, Huanzhong Wang, Yining Zeng, Shi-You Ding, Fang Chen and Richard A. Dixon (2010) An NAC transcription factor orchestrates multiple features of cell wall development in Medicago truncatula. Plant Journal. 63:100-114.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04223.x
18. Marina Naoumkina, Qiao Zhao, Lina Gallego-Giralda, Xinbin Dai, Patrick Zhao, Richard Dixon (2010) Genome-wide analysis of phenylpropanoid defense pathways. Molecular Plant Pathology. 11:829-846.
https://bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1364-3703.2010.00648.x
19. Iris Meier, Xiao Zhou, Jelena Brkljacic, Annkatrin Rose, Qiao Zhao, Xianfeng Xu (2010) Targeting proteins to the plant nuclear envelope. Biochemical Society Transactions. 38:733-740.
https://doi.org/10.1042/BST0380733
20. Jelena Brkljacic, Qiao Zhao* and Iris Meier (2009) (*co-firstauthor) WPP-domain proteins mimic the activity of the HSC70-1 chaperone in preventing mis-targeting of RanGAP1-anchoring protein WIT1. Plant Physiology. 151:142-154.
http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/151/1/142.full
21. Qiao Zhao*, Jelena Brkljacic and Iris Meier (2008) (*co-first author) Two distinct, interacting classes of nuclear envelope-associated proteins are required for the tissue-specific nuclear-envelope targeting of Arabidopsis RanGAP. Plant Cell. 20:1639-1651.
http://www.plantcell.org/content/20/6/1639.full
22. Xianfeng Xu, Qiao Zhao, Thushani Rodrigo-Peiris, Jelena Brkljacic, Chao Sylvia He, Sabine Müller and Iris Meier (2008) RanGAP is a continuous marker of the Arabidopsis cell division plane. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 105:18637-18642.
https://www.pnas.org/content/105/47/18637
23. Iris Meier, Xianfeng Xu, Jelena Brkljacic, Qiao Zhao, and H-J Wang (2008) Going Green: Plants’ Alternative Way to Position the Ran Gradient. Journal of Microscopy. 231:225-233.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2818.2008.02038.x
24. Xianfeng Xu, Annkatrin Rose, Sivaramakrishanan Muthuswamy, Sun Yong Jeong, Sowmya Venkatakrishanan, Qiao Zhao and Iris Meier (2007) NUCLEAR PORE ANCHOR, the Arabidopsis homolog of Tpr/Mlp1/Mlp2/Megator, is involved in mRNA export and SUMO homeostasis and affects diverse aspects of plant development. Plant Cell. 19:1537-1548.
http://www.plantcell.org/content/19/5/1537.full
25. Qiao Zhao*, Sara Leung, Anita H. Corbett, and Iris Meier (2006) (*co-first author) Identification and characterization of the Arabidopsis orthologs of Nuclear Transport Factor 2, the nuclear import factor of Ran. Plant Physiology. 140:869-878.
http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/140/3/869.full