1.通过质谱对禾谷镰刀菌的分泌蛋白组进行了研究，发现了多个能够引起植物细胞死亡的分泌性蛋白，其中发现五个枯草杆菌蛋白酶（Subtilisin-like family proteases, FgSLPs）作为毒素蛋白能够引物植物非特异性细胞死亡，是禾谷镰刀菌致病关键蛋白。

2.通过研究小麦与禾谷镰刀菌互作，发现了多个禾谷镰刀菌致病性效应子蛋白及其小麦中的靶蛋白，揭示了禾谷镰刀菌致病性效应子蛋白介导的新型致病机制。

3.通过 CRISPR/Cas9 基因编辑技术修复Tamyb10-B1a基因的移码突变，使Tamyb10-B1基因恢复功能，提高了小麦穗发芽抗性。

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6. Yarong Lin#, Yiwang Zhu#, Yuchao Cui#, Hongge Qian#, Qiaoling Yuan#, Rui Chen, Yan Lin, Jianmin Chen, Xishi Zhou, Chuanlin Shi, Huiying He, Taijiao Hu, Chenbo Gu, Xiaoman Yu, Xiying Zhu, Yuexing Wang, Qian Qian, Cui-Jun Zhang*, Feng Wang*, and Lianguang Shang* (2023). Identification of natural allelic variation in TTL1 controlling thermotolerance and grain size by a rice super pan‐genome. J Integr Plant Biol., 65: 2541–2551.

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10. Cui-Jun Zhang#, Xiao-Mei Hou#, Lian-Mei Tan, Chang-Rong Shao, Huan-Wei Huang, Yong-Qiang Li, Lin Li, Tao Cai, She Chen, Xin-Jian He* (2016). The Arabidopsis acetylated histone-binding protein BRAT1 forms a complex with BRP1 and prevents transcriptional silencing. Nature Communications, 7, 11715.

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12. Cui-Jun Zhang, Yong-Qiang Ning, Su-Wei Zhang, Qing Chen, Chang-Rong Shao, Yan-Wu Guo, Jin-Xing Zhou, Lin Li, She Chen, Xin-Jian He* (2012). IDN2 and its paralogs form a complex required for RNA-directed DNA methylation. PLoS Genetics, 8, e1002693.

13. Jun Liu#, Ge Bai#, Cuijun Zhang#, Wei Chen, Jinxing Zhou, Suwei Zhang, Qing Chen, Xin Deng, Xin-Jian He*, Jian-Kang Zhu (2011). An atypical component of RNA-directed DNA methylation machinery has both DNA methylation-dependent and-independent roles in locus-specific transcriptional gene silencing. Cell Research, 21, 1691-1700.

14. Cuijun Zhang, and Yi Guo* (2012). OsTRXh1 regulates the redox state of the apoplast and influences stress responses in rice. Plant Signal Behav., 7, 441-443.

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