Yuxing Xu
Junior Editors, Plant Diversity
The Pennsylvania State University
Area of expertise: Plant genomics, comparative genomics, population genetics, and evolutionary biology
The Pennsylvania State University
Area of expertise: Plant genomics, comparative genomics, population genetics, and evolutionary biology
Title: Postdoc
Email: ypx5196@psu.edu
Web-link of Research Group: https://jesserlasky.github.io/laskylab-web/
Selected publications (no more than 15):
Xu, Y., Zhang, J., Ma, C., Lei, Y., Shen, G., Jin, J., Eaton, D. A. R., Wu, J. * (2022). Comparative genomics of orobanchaceous species with different parasitic lifestyles reveals the origin and stepwise evolution of plant parasitism [J]. Molecular Plant, 10.1016/j.molp.2022.07.007 (IF=24.1)
Sun, G. # Xu, Y. # Liu, H.# Sun, T. Zhang, J. Hettenhausen, C. Shen, G. Qi, J. Qin, Y. Li, J. Wang, L. Chang, W. Guo, Z. Baldwin, I. T. Wu, J.* (2018). Large-scale gene losses underlie the genome evolution of parasitic plant Cuscuta australis [J]. Nature Communications, 9(1): 2683. (IF=15.7)
Chen, X. #, Fang, D. #, Xu, Y. #, Duan, K., Yoshida, S., Yang, S., Sahu, S. K., Fu, H., Guang, X., Liu, M., Wu, C., Liu, Y., Mu, W., Chen, Y., Fan, Y., Wang, F., Peng, S., Shi, D., Wang, Y., Yu, R., Zhang, W., Bai, Y., Liu, Z., Yan, Q., Liu, X., Xu, X., Yang, H., Wu, J., Graham, S. W.*, Liu, H.* (2023) Balanophora genomes display massively convergent evolution with other extreme holoparasites and provide novel insights into parasite-host interactions. Nature Plants, 10.1038/s41477-023-01517-7. (IF=13.6)
Xu, Y. # Lei, Y. # Su, Z. Zhao, M. Zhang, J. Shen, G. Wang, L. Li, J. Qi, J. Wu, J.* (2021). A chromosome-scale Gastrodia elata genome and large-scale comparative genomic analysis indicate convergent evolution by gene loss in mycoheterotrophic and parasitic plants [J]. Plant Journal, 10.1111/tpj.15528 (IF= 5.7)
Sun, L. # Xu, Y. # Bai, S. Bai, X. Zhu, H. Dong, H. Wang, W. Zhu, X. Hao, F. Song, C. P. * (2019). Transcriptome-wide analysis of pseudouridylation of mRNA and non-coding RNAs in Arabidopsis [J]. Journal of Experimental Botany, (IF=5.7)
Li, X. # Xu, Y. # Li, Y. Zhang, R. Hu, T. Su, P. Zhou, M. Tang, T. Zeng, Y. Yang, Y.* Gao, W.* (2019). Rapid Discovery and Functional Characterization of Diterpene Synthases from Basidiomycete Fungi by Genome Mining [J]. Fungal Genetics and Biology. (IF= 2.3)
Lei, Y. # Xu, Y. # Hettenhausen, C. Lu, C. Shen, G. Zhang, C. Li, J. Song, J. Lin, H. Wu, J.* (2018). Comparative analysis of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) leaf transcriptomes reveals genotype-specific salt tolerance mechanisms [J]. BMC Plant Biology, 18(1): 35. (IF=4.8)
Sun, T. # Xu, Y. # Zhang, D. Zhuang, H. Wu, J. Sun, G.* (2016). An acyltransferase gene that putatively functions in anthocyanin modification was horizontally transferred from Fabaceae into the genus Cuscuta [J]. Plant Diversity, 38(3): 149-155. (IF=6.3)