Publications
Representative Research Articles
10. Zhou, Guilong#; Niu, Ruixia#; Zhu, Sitao#; Wang, Hui; Tang, Zhijuan; Wang, Wanzhen; Xiong, Sirui; Long, Jiawei; Zhou, Yulu; Tong, Yongjia; Yang, Hongchun; Xu, Guoyong*; Immune activation reprograms growth mRNA stability to shape plant growth-defense trade-offs, Cell Host & Microbe, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2026.02.007
9. Hou, Menglu; Zhu, Sitao; Niu, Ruixia; Zhong, Guitao; Wang, Zhao; Luo, Ming; Long, Jiawei; Yang, Ruoying; Tang, Zhijuan; Shi, Shaosong; Xu, Guoyong*; Genetically engineered plant endophytes broaden effector-triggered immunity, Cell Host & Microbe, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2025.09.017
8. Luo, Ming; Zhu, Sitao; Dang, Hua; Wen, Qing; Niu, Ruixia; Long, Jiawei; Wang, Zhao; Tong, Yongjia; Ning, Yuese; Yuan, Meng; Xu, Guoyong*; Genetically-encoded targeted protein degradation technology to remove endogenous condensation-prone proteins and improve crop performance, Nature Communications, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56570-x
7. Tang, Zhijuan#; Shi, Shaosong#; Niu, Ruixia#; Zhou, Yulu; Wang, Zhao; Fu, Rongrong; Mou, Rui; Chen, Suming; Ding, Pingtao; Xu, Guoyong*; Alleviating protein-condensation-associated damage at the endoplasmic reticulum enhances plant disease tolerance, Cell Host & Microbe, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2024.07.013
6. Tian, Jingjing#; Tang, Zhijuan#; Niu, Ruixia#; Zhou, Yulu; Yang, Dan; Chen, Dan; Luo, Ming; Mou, Rui; Yuan, Meng*; Xu, Guoyong*; Engineering disease-resistant plants with alternative translation efficiency by switching uORF types through CRISPR, Science China Life Sciences, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-024-2588-9
5. Zhou, Yulu#; Niu, Ruixia#; Tang, Zhijuan#; Mou, Rui; Wang, Zhao; Zhu, Sitao; Yang, Hongchun; Ding, Pingtao; Xu, Guoyong*; Plant HEM1 specifies a condensation domain to control immune gene translation, Nature Plants, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-023-01355-7
4. Chen, Tianyuan#; Xu, Guoyong#*; Mou, Rui; Greene, George H.; Liu, Lijing; Motley, Jonathan; Dong, Xinnian*; Global translational induction during NLR-mediated immunity in plants is dynamically regulated by CDC123, an ATP-sensitive protein, Cell Host & Microbe, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2023.01.014
3. Xu, Guoyong#; Wang, Shanshan#; Han, Shaojie; Xie, Ke; Wang, Yan; Li, Jinlin; Liu, Yule*; Plant Bax Inhibitor-1 interacts with ATG6 to regulate autophagy and programmed cell death, Autophagy, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1080/15548627.2017.1320633
2. Xu, Guoyong#; Greene, George H.#; Yoo, Heejin#; Liu, Lijing; Marqués, Jorge; Motley, Jonathan; Dong, Xinnian*; Global translational reprogramming is a fundamental layer of immune regulation in plants, Nature, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22371
1. Xu, Guoyong#; Yuan, Meng#; Ai, Chaoren; Liu, Lijing; Zhuang, Edward; Karapetyan, Sargis; Wang, Shiping; Dong, Xinnian*; uORF-mediated translation allows engineered plant disease resistance without fitness cost, Nature, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22372
Representative Review Articles
6. Hou, Menglu; Xu, Guoyong*; Growth-defense trade-off in plants: From hypothesis to principle to paradigm, Cell Host & Microbe, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2025.05.022
5. Tang, Zhijuan*; Shi, Shaosong; Du, Xinyu; Xu, Guoyong*; Plant defense strategies: The dual armor of disease resistance and tolerance, New Plant Protection, 2025, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/npp2.70022
4. Tang, Zhijuan#; Mou, Rui#; Xu, Guoyong*; Defense strategies for plant health: disease resistance and tolerance, Plant Cell, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf186
3. Niu, Ruixia; Luo, Ming; Wen, Qing; Xiong, Yifan; Dang, Hua; Xu, Guoyong*; Targeted protein degradation and protein-condensate degradation for plant science and crop breeding, Molecular Plant, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2025.06.013
2. Mou, Rui#; Niu, Ruixia#; Yang, Ruiying; Xu, Guoyong*; Engineering crop performance with upstream open reading frames, Trends in Plant Science, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2024.10.005 (Note: Review)
1. Yuan, Shu#; Zhou, Guilong#; Xu, Guoyong*; Translation machinery: the basis of translational control. Journal of Genetics and Genomics, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgg.2023.07.009 (Note: Review)