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Overview

Jixian Zhai is affiliated with Southern University of Science and Technology in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research primarily focuses on Plant Science and Molecular Biology, with additional work related to Biomedical Engineering, Cancer Research, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The main research topics covered by Zhai include:

  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Zhai has published papers in several notable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Plants
  • The Plant Cell
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Several recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of their research:

  • Plant 22-nt siRNAs mediate translational repression and stress adaptation, 2020, Nature
  • A Comprehensive Online Database for Exploring ~20,000 Public Arabidopsis RNA-Seq Libraries, 2020, Molecular Plant
  • Post-transcriptional splicing of nascent RNA contributes to widespread intron retention in plants, 2020, Nature Plants
  • Plant Public RNA-seq Database: a comprehensive online database for expression analysis of ~45,000 plant public RNA-Seq libraries, 2022, Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • Integrated single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics captures transitional states in soybean nodule maturation, 2023, Nature Plants

Collaborations have been a significant part of Zhai's research, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Yanping Long
  • Jinbu Jia
  • Hong Zhang
  • Yiming Yu
  • Bo Liu

Best Publications

  • Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

    John P. Vogel;David F. Garvin;Todd C. Mockler;Jeremy Schmutz

  • The Medicago genome provides insight into the evolution of rhizobial symbioses

    Nevin D Young;Frédéric Debellé;Frédéric Debellé;Giles E D Oldroyd;Rene Geurts

  • MicroRNAs as master regulators of the plant NB-LRR defense gene family via the production of phased, trans-acting siRNAs

    Jixian Zhai;Dong-Hoon Jeong;Emanuele De Paoli;Sunhee Park

  • Widespread long-range cis-regulatory elements in the maize genome.

    William A. Ricci;Zefu Lu;Lexiang Ji;Alexandre P. Marand

  • Massive Analysis of Rice Small RNAs: Mechanistic Implications of Regulated MicroRNAs and Variants for Differential Target RNA Cleavage

    Dong-Hoon Jeong;Sunhee Park;Jixian Zhai;Sai Guna Ranjan Gurazada

  • Genome-wide Hi-C Analyses in Wild-Type and Mutants Reveal High-Resolution Chromatin Interactions in Arabidopsis

    Suhua Feng;Shawn J. Cokus;Veit Schubert;Jixian Zhai

  • Roles of DCL4 and DCL3b in rice phased small RNA biogenesis

    Xianwei Song;Pingchuan Li;Pingchuan Li;Pingchuan Li;Jixian Zhai;Jixian Zhai;Jixian Zhai;Ming Zhou

  • miRNAs trigger widespread epigenetically activated siRNAs from transposons in Arabidopsis

    Kate M. Creasey;Jixian Zhai;Filipe Borges;Frederic Van Ex

  • Spatiotemporally dynamic, cell-type–dependent premeiotic and meiotic phasiRNAs in maize anthers

    Jixian Zhai;Han Zhang;Siwaret Arikit;Kun Huang

  • A One Precursor One siRNA Model for Pol IV-Dependent siRNA Biogenesis.

    Jixian Zhai;Sylvain Bischof;Haifeng Wang;Suhua Feng

  • A Phytophthora Effector Suppresses Trans-Kingdom RNAi to Promote Disease Susceptibility

    Yingnan Hou;Yi Zhai;Li Feng;Hana Z. Karimi

  • Dicer-like 3 produces transposable element-associated 24-nt siRNAs that control agricultural traits in rice

    Liya Wei;Lianfeng Gu;Xianwei Song;Xiekui Cui

  • The Arabidopsis Nucleotidyl Transferase HESO1 Uridylates Unmethylated Small RNAs to Trigger Their Degradation

    Yuanyuan Zhao;Yu Yu;Yu Yu;Jixian Zhai;Vanitharani Ramachandran

  • SDG714, a Histone H3K9 Methyltransferase, Is Involved in Tos17 DNA Methylation and Transposition in Rice

    Yong Ding;Xia Wang;Lei Su;JiXian Zhai

  • Short-Read Sequencing Technologies for Transcriptional Analyses

    Stacey A. Simon;Jixian Zhai;Raja Sekhar Nandety;Kevin P. McCormick

  • Plant 22-nt siRNAs mediate translational repression and stress adaptation.

    Huihui Wu;Huihui Wu;Bosheng Li;Hiro-oki Iwakawa;Hiro-oki Iwakawa;Yajie Pan;Yajie Pan

  • Roles of small RNAs in soybean defense against Phytophthora sojae infection

    James Wong;Lei Gao;Yang Yang;Jixian Zhai

  • CG gene body DNA methylation changes and evolution of duplicated genes in cassava

    Haifeng Wang;Haifeng Wang;Getu Beyene;Jixian Zhai;Suhua Feng

  • An Atlas of Soybean Small RNAs Identifies Phased siRNAs from Hundreds of Coding Genes

    Siwaret Arikit;Rui Xia;Atul Kakrana;Kun Huang

  • Small RNA-Directed Epigenetic Natural Variation in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Jixian Zhai;Jun Liu;Bin Liu;Pingchuan Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Blake C. Meyers
Blake C. Meyers University of California, Davis
Xuemei Chen
Xuemei Chen University of California, Riverside
Steven E. Jacobsen
Steven E. Jacobsen University of California, Los Angeles
Xiaofeng Cao
Xiaofeng Cao Chinese Academy of Sciences
Pamela J. Green
Pamela J. Green University of Delaware
Suhua Feng
Suhua Feng University of California, Los Angeles
Virginia Walbot
Virginia Walbot Stanford University
James C. Carrington
James C. Carrington Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Robert J. Schmitz
Robert J. Schmitz University of Georgia
Gary Stacey
Gary Stacey University of Missouri

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