Zhu H, Li G, Ding L, Berg H, Cui X, Assmann S, Xia Y (2009) Arabidopsis Extra Large G Protein 2 (XLG2) interacts with the Gb subunit of heterotrimeric G protein and functions in disease resistance. Molecular Plant. In press.

Ge X, Xia Y (2008) The role of AtNUDT7, a Nudix hydrolase, in the plant defense response. Plant Signaling&Behavior 3:119-120.

Ge X, Li G, Wang S, Zhu H, Zhu T, Wang X, Xia Y (2007) AtNUDT7, a negative regulator of basal immunity in Arabidopsis, modulates two distinct defense response pathways and is involved in maintaining redox homeostasis. Plant Physiol, 145:204-215.

Yandeau-Nelson M, Xia Y, Li J, Neuffer M, Schnable P (2006) Unequal Sister Chromatid and Homolog Recombination at a Tandem Duplication of the a1 Locus in Maize. Genetics, 173:2211-2226. 

Ge X, Dietrich C, Matsuno M, Li G, Berg H, Xia Y (2005) An Arabidopsis aspartic protease functions as an anti-cell death component in reproduction and embryogenesis. EMBO Reports, 6:282-288.

Xia Y*, Suzuki H, Borevitz J, Blount J, Guo Z, Dixon R, and Lamb C (2004) An extracellular aspartic protease in Arabidopsis functions in disease resistance signaling. EMBO J, 23:980-988. *Corresponding author.

Xia Y (2004) Proteases in pathogenesis and plant defense.  Cellular Microbiology, 6:906-913. Invited review.

Xia Y (2004) Peptides as signals. In: Andrew Fleming (ed.), Intercellular Communication in Plants, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, pp27-48.  Invited chapter.

Suzuki H, Xia Y, Cameron R, Shadle G, Blount J, Lamb C, and Dixon RA (2004) Signals for local and systemic responses of plants to pathogen attack. J Exp Bot, 55:169-179.

Xia Y, J Borevitz , J Blount, R Dixon, C Lamb. (2002) Biopanning by activation tagging. Recent Advances in Phytochemistry, 36:111-123.

Borevitz* J, Xia* Y, Blount J, Dixon R, C Lamb. (2000) Activation tagging identifies a conserved MYB regulator of phenylpropanoid biosynthesis. Plant Cell 12, 2383-2394.  *Co-first authors.

Weigel D, Blazquez M, Borevitz J, Christensen S, Fankhauser C, Ferrandiz C, Kardailsky I, Neff M, Nguyen J, Sato S, Xia Y, Dixon R,  Harrison M, Lamb C, Yanofsky M, and J Chory. (2000) Activation tagging in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol 122,1003-1013.

Delledonne* M, Y Xia*, R Dixon and C Lamb (1998) Nitric oxide functions as a signal in plant disease resistance. Nature, 394:585-588.  *Co-first authors.

Xia Y, BJ Nikolau, and PS Schnable (1997) Developmental and hormonal regulation of the Arabidopsis CER2 gene which codes for a nuclear localized protein required for the normal accumulation of cuticular waxes. Plant Physiol 115:925-937.

Xu X, C Dietrich, M Delledonne, Y Xia, DS Robertson, BJ Nikolau, PS Schnable (1997) Sequence analysis of the cloned glossy8 gene of Zea mays L. suggests that it may code for a b-keto acyl reductase required for the biosynthesis of cuticular waxes. Plant Physiol, 115:501-510.

Hansen JD, J Pyee, Y Xia, T-J Wen, DS Robertson, PE Kolattukudy, BJ Nikolau, PS Schnable (1997) The glossy1 locus of Zea mays L. and an epidermis-specific cDNA from Kleinia odora define a novel class of plant receptor-like proteins required for the normal accumulation of cuticular waxes. Plant Physiol, 113:1091-1100.

Xia Y, BJ Nikolau, PS Schnable (1996) Cloning and characterization of CER2, an Arabidopsis gene that affects cuticular wax accumulation. Plant Cell, 8:1291-1304.

Civardi L, Y Xia, K Edwards, PS Schnable, BJ Nikolau (1994) The relationship between the genetic and physical distances of the cloned a1-sh2 interval of the Zea mays L. genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 91:8268-8272.