Publications

Yiling Fang, Yu Tang, Peiqiao Xie, Kendall Hsieh, Heejae Nam, Min Jia, Andres V. Reyes, Yuchen Liu, Shouling Xu, Xiaosa Xu, Yangnan Gu. (2025). Nucleoporin PNET1 coordinates mitotic nuclear pore complex dynamics for rapid cell division. Nature Plants. Feb;11(2):295-308

Jonathan Cahn, Michael Regulski, Jason Lynn, Evan Ernst, Cristiane de Santis Alves, Srividya Ramakrishnan, Kapeel Chougule, Sharon Wei, Zhenyuan Lu, Xiaosa Xu, Jorg Drenkow, Melissa Kramer, Arun Seetharam, Matthew B Hufford, William Richard McCombie, Doreen Ware, David Jackson, Michael C Schatz, Thomas R Gingeras, Robert A Martienssen. (2024). MaizeCODE reveals bi-directionally expressed enhancers that harbor molecular signatures of maize domestication. Nature Communications. December. 15:10854 

Xiaosa Xu, Michael Passalacqua, Brian Rice, Edgar Demesa-Arevalo, Mikiko Kojima, Yumiko Takebayashi, Benjamin Harris, Hitoshi Sakakibara, Andrea Gallavotti, Jesse Gillis, David Jackson. (2024). Large-scale single-cell profiling of stem cells uncovers redundant regulators of shoot development and yield trait variation. bioRxiv.

Bruno Guillotin, Ramin Rahni, Michael Passalacqua, Mohammed Ateequr Mohammed, Xiaosa Xu, Sunil Kenchanmane Raju, Carlos Ortiz Ramírez, David Jackson, Simon C. Groen, Jesse Gillis, Kenneth D. Birnbaum. (2023). A pan-grass transcriptome reveals patterns of cellular divergence in crops. Nature. 10:1-7.  

Xiaosa Xu and David Jackson. (2022). Single-cell analysis opens a goldmine for plant functional studies. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 79: 102858.

Kitagawa, Munenori, Xiaosa Xu, and David Jackson. (2022). Trafficking and localization of KNOTTED1 related mRNAs in shoot meristems. Communicative & Integrative Biology. 15(1): 158-163.

Carlos Ortiz-Ramírez, Bruno Guillotin†, Xiaosa Xu†, Ramin Rahni†, Sanqiang Zhang, Poliana Coqueiro Dias Araujo, Edgar Demesa-Arevalo, Zhe Yan, Laura Lee, Joyce Van Eck, Thomas R. Gingeras, David Jackson, Kimberly L. Gallagher, and Kenneth D. Birnbaum. (2021). Ground tissue circuitry regulates organ complexity in maize and Setaria. Science. 374(6572):1247–1252. (†These authors contributed equally).

Xiaosa Xu, Megan Crow, Brian R. Rice, Forrest Li, Benjamin Harris, Lei Liu, Edgar Demesa-Arevalo, Zefu Lu, Liya Wang, Nathan Fox, Xiaofei Wang, Jorg Drenknow, Anding Luo, Si Nian Char, Bing Yang, Anne W.  Sylvester, Thomas R. Gingeras, Robert J. Schmitz, Doreen Ware, Alexander E. Lipka, Jesse Gillis, David Jackson. (2021). Single-cell RNA sequencing of developing maize ears facilitates functional analysis and trait candidate gene discovery. Developmental Cell. 56(4):557-568.

Edgar Demesa-Arevalo, María Jazmín Abraham-Juárez, Xiaosa Xu, Madelaine Bartlett, David Jackson. (2021). Maize RAMOSA3 accumulates in nuclear condensates enriched in RNA POLYMERASE II isoforms during the establishment of axillary meristem determinacy. bioRxiv.

Liya Wang, Zhenyuan Lu, Melissa delaBastide, Peter Van Buren, Xiaofei Wang, Cornel Ghiban, Michael Regulski, Jorg Drenkow, Xiaosa Xu, Carlos Ortiz-Ramirez, Cristina F. Marco, Sara Goodwin, Alexander Dobin, Kenneth D. Birnbaum, David Jackson, Robert A. Martienssen, William R. McCombie, David A. Micklos, Michael C. Schatz, Doreen H. Ware, Thomas R. Gingeras. (2020). Management, Analyses, and Distribution of the MaizeCODE Data on the Cloud. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11:289.

Praveen Kumar Kathare†, Xiaosa Xu†, Andrew Nguyen, Enamul Huq. (2020). A COP1-PIF-HEC regulatory module fine-tunes photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal. 104(1):113-23. (†These authors contributed equally). 

Hannes Claeys, Son Lang Vi, Xiaosa Xu, Namiko Satoh-Nagasawa, Andrea L. Eveland, Alexander Goldshmidt, Regina Feil, Grace A. Beggs, Hajime Sakai, Richard G. Brennan, John E. Lunn, David Jackson. (2019). Control of meristem determinacy by trehalose 6-phosphate phosphatases is uncoupled from enzymatic activity. Nature Plants. 5(4):352-357.

Vinh Ngoc Pham, Xiaosa Xu, Enamul Huq. (2018). Molecular bases for the constitutive photomorphogenic phenotypes in Arabidopsis. Development. 145(23):dev169870.

Carlos Ortiz-Ramírez, Edgar Demesa Arevalo, Xiaosa Xu, David Jackson, Kenneth Birnbaum. (2018). An Efficient Cell Sorting Protocol for Maize Protoplasts. Current protocols in plant biology. 3(3):e20072.

Xiaosa Xu, Praveen Kumar Kathare, Vinh Ngoc Pham, Qingyun Bu, Andrew Nguyen, Enamul Huq. (2017). Reciprocal proteasome-mediated degradation of PIFs and HFR1 underlying photomorphogenic development in Arabidopsis. Development. 144(10):1831-1840.

Xiaosa Xu, Inyup Paik, Ling Zhu, Enamul Huq. (2015). Illuminating progress in phytochrome-mediated light signaling pathways. Trends in Plant Science. 20(10): 641-650.

Ling Zhu, Qingyun Bu, Xiaosa Xu, Inyup Paik, Xi Huang, Ute Hoecker, Xing Wang Deng, Enamul Huq. (2015). CUL4 forms an E3 ligase with COP1 and SPA to promote light-induced degradation of PIF1. Nature Communications. 6:7245.

Xiaosa Xu, Inyup Paik, Ling Zhu, Qingyun Bu, Xi Huang, Xing Wang Deng, Enamul Huq. (2014). PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR1 enhances the E3 ligase activity of CONSTITUTIVE PHOTOMORPHENIC1 to synergistically repress photomorphogenesis in the dark. The Plant Cell. 26:1992-2006.

Xiaosa Xu, Xi Liu, Zhigang Zhao, Yujun Zhou, Shengyang Wu, Rong Zhou, Junjie Zhang, Ling Jiang, Jianmin Wan. (2011). Construction of genetic linkage map based on a RIL population derived from the hybrid rice Peiai64S/93-11 and detection of QTL for 1000-grain weight. Journal of Nanjing Agricultural University. 34(1): 8-13.