2015-2017

Qi Li#, Jiechen Wang#, Jianwei Ye#, Xixi Zheng, Xiaoli Xiang, Changsheng Li, Miaomiao Fu, Qiong Wang, Zhiyong Zhang and Yongrui Wu. (2017). The maize imprinted gene Floury3 encodes a PLATZ protein required for tRNA and 5S rRNA transcription through interaction with RNA polymerase III. Plant Cell 10.1105/tpc.17.00576.

Changsheng Li, Yongcai Huang, Yongrui Wu and Wenqin Wang* (2017). The Genetic Architecture of Amylose Biosynthesis in Maize Kernel. Plant Biotechnology Journal, doi: 10.1111/pbi.12821.

Yongrui Wu and Joachim Messing (2017), ‘Understanding and improving protein traits in maize’, in Watson, D. (ed.), Achieving sustainable cultivation of maize Vol 1: From improved varieties to local applications, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK (ISBN: 978 1 78676 008 1).

Jun Yang, Chen Ji and Yongrui Wu (2016). Divergent transactivation of maize storage protein zein genes by transcription factors opaque2 and OHPs. Genetics, 116.192385.

Zhiyong Zhang, Xixi Zheng, Jun Yang, Joachim Messing* and Yongrui Wu* (2016). Maize endosperm-specific transcription factors O2 and PBF network the regulation of protein and starch synthesis. PNAS, 113(39):10842-7.

Hongjun Liu#, Junpeng Shi#, Chuanlong Sun, Hao Gong, Xingming Fan, Fazhan Qiu, Xuehui Huang, Qi Feng, Xixi Zheng, Ningning Yuan, Changsheng Li, Zhiyong Zhang, Yiting Deng, Jiechen Wang, Guangtang Pan, Bin Han, Jinsheng Lai, Yongrui Wu (2016). Gene duplication confers enhanced expression of 27-kDa γ-zein for endosperm modification in Quality Protein Maize. PNAS, 113(18):4964-9.

Zhiyong Zhang#, Jun Yang# and Yongrui Wu (2015). Transcriptional Regulation of Zein Gene Expression in Maize through the Additive and Synergistic Action of opaque2, Prolamine-Box Binding Factor, and O2 Heterodimerizing Proteins. Plant Cell, 27: 1162–1172.