Recent Selected Publications
Fu-Qiao Xua, Wei-Min Ma and Zhu XG (2011) Introducing pyruvate oxidase into the chloroplast of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii increases oxygen consumption and promotes hydrogen production. International Journal of Hydrogen Research (Accepted)
Jie Wang, Yu Wang, Zhuo Wang, Lei Liu and Zhu XG (2011) Synchronization of cytoplasmic and transferred mitochondrial ribosomal protein gene expression in land plants is linked to telo-box motif enrichment. BMC Evolutionary Biology (Accepted)
Vivek Thakur, Samart Wanchana, Mercedes Xu, Richard Bruskiewich, William Paul Quick, Axel Mosig, and Zhu XG (2011) Characterization of parameters in plant microRNA prediction. BMC Genomics
Tholen D and Zhu XG (2011) The mechanistic basis of internal conductance – A theoretical analysis using a 3D reaction diffusion model of mesophyll cell photosynthesis Plant Physiology (In press).
Tholen D, Wang Y, and Zhu XG (2011) A theoretical analysis of single-cell C4 photosynthesis: biochemistry, diffusion and anatomy. Journal of Experimental Botany (Submitted, Invited).
Hong-Bo Lei, Xin Wang, Ruiqi Wang, Xin-Guang Zhu, Luonan Chen, Ji-Feng Zhang (2010) A parameter condition for ruling out multiple equilibria of the photosynthetic carbon metabolism. Asia Journal of Control.
Ort DR, Zhu X-G, Melis A (2010) Optimizing antenna size to maximize photosynthetic efficiency. Plant Physiology (In press)
Brutnell TB, Wang L, Swartwood K, Goldschmidt A, Jackson D, Zhu XG, Kellogg E, Van Eck J. Setaria viridis: a model for C4 photosyntheis (2010).Plant Cell 22:2537-44
Zhu XG, Shan LL, Y Wang, WP Quick (2010) C4 Rice -- an arena for systems biology research. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology.52:762-70
Liu Q, Yang Y, Zhang ZL, Li YX, Zhu XG (2010) Identifying cooperative transcription factors by combining ChIP-chip data and knockout data. Cell Research (In press)
Zhu X-G, Zhang G, Tholen D, Wang Y, Xin C, Song Q. The Next Generation Models for Crops and Agro-Ecosystems (2010). Science China (In press, invited perspective paper)
Parry MAJ, Reynolds M, Salvucci ME, Raines C, Andralojc PJ, Zhu XG, Price D, Furbank R（2010）Wheat yield consortia: Strategies to increase photosynthesis Journal of Experimental Botany.10.1093/jxb/erq304
Zhu X-G (2010). Higher energy conversion efficiency through systems-level modeling of photosynthesis. Journal of Biotechnology 149：201-209
Zhu X-G, Long SP, Ort DR (2010). Improving photosynthetic efficiency for greater yield. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 61:235-261 .
Miguez FE, Zhu X-G, Humphries, S, Bollero G, Long SP (2009). Parameterization and validation of WIMOVAC for photosynthesis and biomass modeling in Miscanthus giganteus . Global Change Biology – Biofuels 1: 282-296.
Wang Z, Zhu X-G, Li YY, Chang X, Chen YZ, Li YX, Liu L (2009). Though with constraints imposed by endosymbiosis, preferential attachment is still a plausible mechanism responsible for evolution of chloroplast metabolic network. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22: 71-79
Chen CP, Zhu X-G, Long SP (2008). The effect of leaf-level spatial variability in photosynthetic capacity on biochemical parameter estimates using the Farquhar et al. (1980) model: a theoretical approach. Plant Physiology 148:1139-1147.
Zhu X-G, Long SP, Ort DR (2008) What is the maximum efficiency with which photosynthesis can convert solar energy into biomass? Current Opinion in Biotechnology 19: 153-9 (PDF).
Zhu X-G, de Sturler E, Alba R (2008). A simple model of the Calvin cycle has only one physiologically feasible steady state under the same external condition. Nonlinear Analysis 4 (PDF).
Chen C-C, Zhu X-G and Zhong S (2008) Selection of thermodynamic models for combinatorial control of multiple transcription factors in early differentiation of embryonic stem cells. BMC Genomics (Technical report).
Wang SW and Zhu X-G (2008) Coupling cyberinfrastructure and GIS to empower ecological and environmental research. Bioscience 58: 6-7 (PDF).
Zhu X-G , de Sturler E, Long SP (2007) Optimizing the distribution of resources between enzymes of carbon metabolism can dramatically increase photosynthetic rate: a numerical simulation using an evolutionary algorithm. Plant Physiology. Plant Physiology 145: 513-526 (PDF).
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