Jianhua Zhang

Evolution of Auxin Response Factors in plants characterized by phylogenomic synteny network analyses

This study characterizes the evolution of Auxin Response Factors (ARFs) in plants using phylogenomic synteny network analyses, revealing their diversification and functional expansion across major plant lineages.

Tissue-specific Hi-C analyses of rice, foxtail millet and maize suggest non-canonical function of plant chromatin domains

The paper analyzes Hi-C data from multiple plant tissues to show tissue-specific chromatin dynamics and their association with gene expression and epigenetic features.

The fruitENCODE project sheds light on the genetic and epigenetic basis of convergent evolution of climacteric fruit ripening

The fruitENCODE project identifies three evolutionary origins of regulatory circuits governing climacteric fruit ripening through comparative genomics and epigenetics.

Alternative splicing and translation play important roles in parallel with transcriptional regulation during rice hypoxic germination

This study identifies alternative splicing and translation initiation as key post-transcriptional mechanisms in rice hypoxic germination, revealing novel pathways and proteins involved in stress response.