2025

Davila Brisa, and Baoye He*. Extracellular vesicle-mediated RNA warfare: A cross-kingdom battleground. Current opinion in plant biology, 86: 102741 (2025)

2024

Xin Chai, Xiushun Wang, Liwei Rong, Manfei Luo, Li Yuan, Qiuxin Li, Baoye He, Jingjing Jiang, Daili Ji, Min Ouyang, Qingtao Lu, Lixin Zhang, Jean-David Rochaix, Wei Chi *. The translocon protein FtsHi1 is an ATP-dependent DNA/RNA helicase that prevents R-loop accumulation in chloroplasts. The New Phytologist, 241: 2209-2226 (2024).

Shumei Wang, Baoye He, Huaitong Wu, Qiang Cai, Obed Ramírez-Sánchez, Cei Abreu-Goodger, Paul R.J. Birch, and Hailing Jin *.Plant mRNAs move into a fungal pathogen via extracellular vesicles to reduce infection. Cell Host & Microbe,  32, 93-105.e106 (2024). 

2023

Baoye He, Huan Wang, Guosheng Liu, Angela Chen, Alejandra Calvo, Qiang Cai & Hailing Jin*. Fungal small RNAs ride in extracellular vesicles to enter plant cells through clathrin-mediated endocytosis. Nature Communications, 14, 4383 (2023).

Qiang Cai, Lida Halilovic, Ting Shi, Angela Chen, Baoye He, Huaitong Wu, Hailing Jin*.Extracellular vesicles: cross-organismal RNA trafficking in plants, microbes, and mammalian cells. Extracell Vesicles Circ Nucl Acids. 4(2), 262-82 (2023). 

Baoye He, Qiang Cai, Arne Weiberg, Wei Li, An-Po Cheng, Shouqiang Ouyang, Katherine Borkovich, Jason Stajich, Cei Abreu-Goodger, Hailing Jin*. Botrytis cinerea small RNAs are associated with tomato AGO1 and silence tomato defense-related target genes supporting cross-kingdom RNAi. bioRxiv, 2022.12.30.522274 (2023)

2022

Angela Chen, Baoye He, Hailing Jin*. Isolation of Extracellular Vesicles from Arabidopsis. Current Protocols, 2(1), e352 (2022).

2021

Baoye He#, Qiang Cai#, Lulu Qiao, Chien-Yu Huang, Shumei Wang, Weili Miao, Tommy Ha, Yinsheng Wang, Hailing Jin*. RNA-binding proteins contribute to small RNA loading in plant extracellular vesicles. Nature Plants, 7(3), 342–352 (2021). 

Qiang Cai, Baoye He, Shumei Wang, Stephen Fletcher, Dongdong Niu, Neena Mitter, Paul RJ Birch, Hailing Jin*.Message in a Bubble: Shuttling Small RNAs and Proteins Between Cells and Interacting Organisms Using Extracellular Vesicles. Annual review of plant biology, 72, 497–524 (2021).

Baoye He, Rachael Hamby, Hailing Jin*. Plant Extracellular Vesicles: Trojan Horses of Cross-Kingdom Warfare. FASEBBioAdvances, 3(9), 657 (2021). 

2019

Qiang Cai, Baoye He, Arne Weiberg, Amy H Buck, Hailing Jin*. Small RNAs and extracellular vesicles: New mechanisms of cross-species communication and innovative tools for disease control. PLoS pathogens, 15(12), e1008090 (2019).

Qiang Cai, Baoye He, Hailing Jin*. A safe ride in extracellular vesicles - small RNA trafficking between plant hosts and pathogens. Current opinion in plant biology, 52, 140–148 (2019).

Jingjing Jiang, Xin Chai, Nikolay Manavski, Rosalind Williams-Carrier, Baoye He, Andreas Brachmann, Daili Ji, Min Ouyang, Yini Liu, Alice Barkan, Jörg Meurer, Lixin Zhang, Wei Chi*. An RNA Chaperone-Like Protein Plays Critical Roles in Chloroplast mRNA Stability and Translation in Arabidopsis and Maize. The Plant cell, 31(6), 1308–1327 (2019).

2018

Qiang Cai, Baoye He, Karl-Heinz Kogel, Hailing Jin*. Cross-kingdom RNA trafficking and environmental RNAi-nature's blueprint for modern crop protection strategies. Current opinion in microbiology, 46, 58–64 (2018).

Qiang Cai, Lulu Qiao, Ming Wang, Baoye He, Feng-Mao Lin, Jared Palmquist, Sienna-Da Huang, Hailing Jin*. Plants send small RNAs in extracellular vesicles to fungal pathogen to silence virulence gene. Science, 360(6393), 1126–1129 (2018). 

2017

Lei Dai, Xiaoling Song, Baoye He, Bernal E Valverde, Sheng Qiang*. Enhanced photosynthesis endows seedling growth vigour contributing to the competitive dominance of weedy rice over cultivated rice. Pest management science, 73(7), 1410–1420 (2017).

Ying Mu, Meijuan Zou, Xuwu Sun, Baoye He, Xiumei Xu, Yini Liu, Lixin Zhang, Wei Chi*. BASIC PENTACYSTEINE Proteins Repress ABSCISIC ACID INSENSITIVE4 Expression via Direct Recruitment of the Polycomb-Repressive Complex 2 in Arabidopsis Root Development. Plant & cell physiology, 58(3), 607–621 (2017).

2016

Wei Chi, Jing Li, Baoye He, Xin Chai, Xiumei Xu, Xuwu Sun, Jingjing Jiang, Peiqiang Feng, Jianru Zuo, Rongcheng Lin, Jean-David Rochaix, Lixin Zhang*. DEG9, a serine protease, modulates cytokinin and light signaling by regulating the level of ARABIDOPSIS RESPONSE REGULATOR 4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113(25), E3568–E3576 (2016).

2015

Baoye He, Ying Mu, Wei Chi*. Effects of inefficient transcription termination of rbcL on the expression of accD in plastids of Arabidopsis thaliana. Photosynthesis research, 126(2-3), 323–330 (2015).

Wei Chi, Baoye He, Juan Mao, Jingjing Jiang, Lixin Zhang*. Plastid sigma factors: Their individual functions and regulation in transcription. Biochimica et biophysica acta, 1847(9), 770–778 (2015).

Juan Mao, Wei Chi, Min Ouyang, Baoye He, Fan Chen, Lixin Zhang*. PAB is an assembly chaperone that functions downstream of chaperonin 60 in the assembly of chloroplast ATP synthase coupling factor 1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(13), 4152–4157 (2015).

2014

Wei Chi#, Baoye He#, Nikolay Manavski, Juan Mao, Daili Ji, Congming Lu, Jean David Rochaix, Jörg Meurer, Lixin Zhang*. RHON1 mediates a Rho-like activity for transcription termination in plastids of Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant cell, 26(12), 4918–4932 (2014). 

2012

Jianwei Xiao, Jing Li, Min Ouyang, Tao Yun, Baoye He, Daili Ji, Jinfang Ma, Wei Chi, Congming Lu, Lixin Zhang*. DAC is involved in the accumulation of the cytochrome b6/f complex in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology, 160(4), 1911–1922 (2012).

Wei Chi, Baoye He, Juan Mao, Qiannan Li, Jinfang Ma, Daili Ji, Meijuan Zou, Lixin Zhang*. The function of RH22, a DEAD RNA helicase, in the biogenesis of the 50S ribosomal subunits of Arabidopsis chloroplasts. Plant Physiology, 158(2), 693–707 (2012)