1.  DeLi Lin, HongYan Yao, LiHua Jia, JinFang Tan, ZhiHong Xu, WenMing Zheng*, HongWei Xue*. Phospholipase D-derived phosphatidic acid promotes root hair development under phosphorus deficiency by suppressing vacuolar degradation of PIN2. New Phytologist, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16330.

2.    BaoJun Yang, Jos R Wendrich, Bert De Rybel*, Dolf Weijers*, HongWei Xue*. Rice microtubule-associated protein IQ67-DOMAIN14 regulates rice grain shape by modulating microtubule cytoskeleton dynamics. Plant Biotechnology J, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.13279.

3.    Ying Zhang, Yan Xiong, Renyi Liu, HongWei Xue*, Zhenbiao Yang*. The Rho-family GTPase OsRac1 controls rice grain size and yield by regulating cell division. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1902321116.

4.    ShiRong Zhou, HongWei Xue*. The rice PLATZ protein SHORT GRAIN6 determines grain size by regulating spikelet hull cell division. J Integrative Plant Biology, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.12851.