• Zavaliev R*. & Dong X*. (2024). NPR1, a key immune regulator for plant survival under biotic and abiotic stresses. Molecular Cell 84, 131-141 (*corresponding author). 

• Powers J., Zhang X., Reyes A.V., Zavaliev R., Ochakovski R., Xu S.L. and Dong X. (2024). Next-generation mapping of the salicylic acid signaling hub and transcriptional cascade. Molecular Plant 17 (10), 1558-1572. 

• Zhou P., Zavaliev R., Xiang Y., and Dong X. (2023). Seeing is believing: Understanding functions of NPR1 and its paralogs in plant immunity through cellular and structural analyses. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 73, 102352. 

• Kumar S.*, Zavaliev R.*, Wu Q.*, Zhou Y., Cheng J., Dillard L., Powers J., Withers J., Zhao J., Guan Z., Borgnia M., Bartesaghi A., Dong X. and Zhou P. (2022). Structural basis of NPR1 in activating plant immunity. Nature 605, 561–566. (*equal contribution).

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1.  Guo B., Duan S., Liu F. and Fu Z.Q. (October, 2022). A vigilant gliding bird protects plants. Trends in Biochemical Sciences 47, 819-821.

2.  Keeley J. (May 11, 2022) Structure of “gliding bird” plant defense protein could lead to better crops. Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

3.  Myers J. (September 12, 2022) New research may enhance disease resistance in plants. The Advanced Photon Source - a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility.

4.  Claver H. (May 23, 2022) Breakthrough in research on defense protein against plant diseases. Future Farming.

• Zavaliev R., Mohan R., Chen T. and Dong X. (2020). Formation of NPR1 condensates promotes cell survival during plant immune response. Cell 182 (5): 1093-1108.

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Mittag T. and Strader L.C. (September 3, 2020). I will survive: how NPR1  condensation promotes plant cell survival. Cell 182, 1072-1074.

• Gu Y., Zavaliev R. and Dong X. (2017). Membrane trafficking in plant Immunity. Molecular Plant 10, 1026-1034.

• Zavaliev R.*, Dong X. and Epel B.L. (2016). Glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) modification serves as a primary plasmodesmal sorting signal. Plant Physiology 172, 1061-1073. (*corresponding author).

• Saleh A., Withers J., Mohan R., Marques J., Gu Y., Yan S., Zavaliev R., Nomoto M., Tada Y. and Dong X. (2015). Posttranslational modifications of the master transcriptional regulator NPR1 enable dynamic but tight control of plant immune responses. Cell Host & Microbe 18, 168-182.

• Zavaliev R. and Epel B.L. (2015). Imaging callose at plasmodesmata using aniline blue: quantitative confocal microscopy. In “Plasmodesmata – methods and protocols” (M. Heinlein, ed.). Methods in Molecular Biology 1217, 105-119.

• Zavaliev R., Levy A., Gera A. and Epel B.L. (2013). Subcellular dynamics and role of Arabidopsis β-1,3-glucanases in cell-to-cell movement of tobamoviruses. Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions 26, 1016-1030.

• Zavaliev R., Ueki S., Epel B.L. and Citovsky V. (2011). Biology of callose (β-1,3-glucan) turnover at plasmodesmata. Protoplasma 248, 117-130.

• Zavaliev R., Sagi G., Gera A. and Epel B.L. (2010). The constitutive expression of Arabidopsis plasmodesmal-associated class 1 reversibly glycosylated polypeptide impairs plant development and virus spread. Journal of Experimental Botany 61, 131-142.