Xu Li

Metabolic source isotopic pair labeling and genome-wide association are complementary tools for the identification of metabolite-gene associations in plants

PLANT CELL, 33(3), 492–510.

An Efficient Stevia rebaudiana Transformation System and In vitro Enzyme Assays Reveal Novel Insights into UGT76G1 Function

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 10(1).

An importin-beta-like protein mediates lignin-modification-induced dwarfism in Arabidopsis

PLANT JOURNAL, Vol. 2.

Overcoming cellulose recalcitrance in woody biomass for the lignin-first biorefinery

Biotechnology for Biofuels, 12(1).

Comprehensive transcriptome analyses correlated with untargeted metabolome reveal differentially expressed pathways in response to cell wall alterations

Plant Molecular Biology, 96(4-5), 509–529.

Discovering variation of secondary metabolite diversity and its relationship with disease resistance in Cornus florida L.

Ecology and Evolution, 8(11), 5619–5636.

Exploiting natural variation for accelerating discoveries in plant specialized metabolism

Phytochemistry Reviews, 17(1), 17–36.

A A gene encoding maize caffeoyl-CoA O-methyltransferase confers quantitative resistance to multiple pathogens

Nature Genetics, 49(9), 1364-.

Identification of a residue responsible for UPD-sugar donor selectivity of a dihydroxybenzoic acid glycosyltransferase from arabidopsis natural accessions

Plant Journal, 89(2), 195–203.

In situ enhancement of surfactin biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis using novel artificial inducible promoters

Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 114(4), 832–842.

Thiazolopyridines Improve Adipocyte Function by Inhibiting 11 Beta-HSD1 Oxoreductase Activity

Journal of Chemistry, 2017, 1–10.

Impacts on sirtuin function and bioavailability of the dietary bioactive compound dihydrocoumarin

PLoS One, 11(2).

Black currant anthocyanins attenuate weight gain and improve glucose metabolism in diet-induced obese mice with intact, but not disrupted, gut microbiome

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 63(27), 6172–6180.

Discovery of a novel amino acid racemase through exploration of natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(37), 11726–11731.

Maize Homologs of HCT, a Key Enzyme in Lignin Biosynthesis, Bind the NLR Rp1 Proteins to Modulate the Defense Response

Plant Physiology, 169.

Chemically induced conditional rescue of the reduced epidermal Fluorescence8 mutant of Arabidopsis reveals rapid restoration of growth and selective turnover of secondary metabolite pools

Plant Physiology, 164(2), 584–595.

Exploiting Natural Variation of Secondary Metabolism Identifies a Gene Controlling the Glycosylation Diversity of Dihydroxybenzoic Acids in Arabidopsis thaliana

Genetics, 198(3), 1267–1276.

Constitutive expression of the Corngrass1 microRNA in poplar affects plant architecture and stem lignin content and composition

Biomass and Bioenergy, 54, 312–321.

Forward Genetics by Genome Sequencing Reveals That Rapid Cyanide Release Deters Insect Herbivory of Sorghum bicolor

Genetics, 195(2), 309–318.

crw1 - A novel maize mutant highly susceptible to foliar damage by the Western corn rootworm beetle

PLoS One, 8(8).

Convergent Evolution of Syringyl Lignin Biosynthesis via Distinct Pathways in the Lycophyte Selaginella and Flowering Plants

The Plant Cell, 22(4), 1033–1045.

Lignin monomer composition affects Arabidopsis cell-wall degradability after liquid hot water pretreatment

Biotechnology for Biofuels, 3(1), 27.

Reverse-Genetic Analysis of the Two Biotin-Containing Subunit Genes of the Heteromeric Acetyl-Coenzyme A Carboxylase in Arabidopsis Indicates a Unidirectional Functional Redundancy

Plant Physiology, 155(1), 293–314.

The ARABIDOPSIS Accession Pna-10 Is a Naturally Occurring sng1 Deletion Mutant

Molecular Plant, 3(1), 91–100.

The Growth Reduction Associated with Repressed Lignin Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana Is Independent of Flavonoids

The Plant Cell, 22(5), 1620–1632.

Understanding Lignification: Challenges Beyond Monolignol Biosynthesis

Plant Physiology, 154(2), 449–452.

Emerging strategies of lignin engineering and degradation for cellulosic biofuel production

Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 19(2), 166–172.

Improvement of biomass through lignin modification

The Plant Journal, 54(4), 569–581.

Independent origins of syringyl lignin in vascular plants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(22), 7887–7892.