Publications of YJ Zhang

Qin, K. Z., Liu, F., Zhang, C. B., Deng, R., Fernie, A. R. & Zhang, Y. J. Systems and synthetic biology for plant natural product pathway elucidation. Cell Reports Methods 44, (2025).

Nejamkin, A., Oneto, C. D., Zhang, Y. J., Luquet, M., Galatro, A., Del Castello, F., Massa, G. A., Feingold, S., Fernie, A. R., Lamattina, L., Correa-Aragunde, N. & Foresi, N. Metabolic Profiling Reveals Increased Nitrogen Remobilization in Potato Plants that Express a Cyanobacterial NO/NO3-Producing Enzyme. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation (2025). doi:10.1007/s00344-025-11740-5

Wu, S., Zhang, Y. J., Luzarowska, U., Yang, L., Salem, M. A., Thirumalaikumar , V. P., Sade, N., Galperin, V. E., Fernie, A. R., Sampathkumar, A., Bershtein, S., Fusari, C. M. & Brotman, Y. The homeostasis of β-alanine is key for Arabidopsis reproductive growth and development. The Plant Journal 122, (2025).

Decros, G., Zhang, Y. J. & Fernie, A. R. Mitochondrial support of high rates of photosynthesis. Plant Communications 6, (2025).

Dorrell, R. G., Zhang, Y. J., Liang, Y., Gueguen, N., Nonoyama, T., Croteau, D., Penot, M., Adiba, S., Bailleul, B., Gros, V., Karlusich, P., José, J., Zweig, N., Fernie, A. R., Jouhet, J., Maréchal, E. & Bowler, C. Complementary environmental analysis and functional characterization of lower glycolysis-gluconeogenesis in the diatom plastid. The Plant Cell 36, 3584–3610 (2024).

Qiu, H., Zhang, X., Zhang, Y. J., Jiang, X., Ren, Y., Gao, D., Zhu, X., Usadel, B., Fernie, A. R. & Wen, W. Depicting the genetic and metabolic panorama of chemical diversity in the tea plant. Plant Biotechnology Journal 22, 1001–1016 (2024).

Liu, F., Fernie, A. R. & Zhang, Y. J. Plant gene co-expression defines the biosynthetic pathway of neuroactive alkaloids. Molecular Plant 17, 372–374 (2024).

Bao, Y.-J., Chen, J.-X., Zhang, Y. J., Fernie, A. R., Zhang, J., Huang, B.-X., Zhu, F.-Y. & Cao, F.-L. Emerging role of jasmonic acid in woody plant development. Advanced Agrochem 3, 26–38 (2024).

Timm, S., Klaas, N., Niemann, J., Jahnke, K., Alseekh, S., Zhang, Y. J., Souza, P. V. L., Hou, L.-Y., Cosse, M., Selinski, J., Geigenberger, P., Daloso, D. M., Fernie, A. R. & Hagemann, M. Thioredoxins o1 and h2 jointly adjust mitochondrial dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase-dependent pathways towards changing environments. Plant, Cell and Environment 47, 2542–2560 (2024).

Zhang, Y. J., Wiese, L., Fang, H., Alseekh, S., de Souza, L. P., Scossa, F., Molloy, J., Christmann, M. & Fernie, A. R. Synthetic biology identifies the minimal gene set required for Paclitaxel biosynthesis in a plant chassis. Molecular Plant 16, 1951–1961 (2023).

Giese, J., Eirich, J., Walther, D., Zhang, Y. J., Lassowskat, I., Fernie, A. R., Elsässer, M., Maurino, V. G., Schwarzländer, M. & Finkemeier, I. The interplay of post-translational protein modifications in Arabidopsis leaves during photosynthesis induction. The Plant Journal 116, 1172–1193 (2023).

Su, C., Kokosza, A., Xie, X., Pěnčík, A., Zhang, Y. J., Raumonen, P., Shi, X., Muranen, S., Topcu, M. K., Immanen, J., Hagqvist, R., Safronov, O., Alonso-Serra, J., Eswaran, G., Venegas, M. P., Ljung, K., Ward, S., Mähönen, A. P., Himanen, K., Salojärvi, J., Fernie, A. R., Novák, O., Leyser, O., Pałubicki, W., Helariutta, Y. & Nieminen, K. Tree architecture: A strigolactone-deficient mutant reveals a connection between branching order and auxin gradient along the tree stem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120, (2023).

Zhang, Y. J., Martinez-Jaime, S., Bulut, M., Graf, A. & Fernie, A. R. The conditional mitochondrial protein complexome in Arabidopsis thaliana root and shoot. Plant Communications 4, (2023).

Fernie, A. R. & Zhang, Y. J. Observations and implication of thermal tolerance in the Arabidopsis proteome. Cell Systems 14, 819–821 (2023).

Shan, N., Zhang, Y. J., Guo, Y., Zhang, W., Nie, J., Fernie, A. R. & Sui, X. Cucumber malate decarboxylase, CsNADP-ME2, functions in the balance of carbon and amino acid metabolism in fruit. Horticulture Research 10, (2023).

Siqueira, J. A., Zhang, Y. J., Nunes-Nesi, A., Fernie, A. R. & Araújo, W. L. Beyond photorespiration: the significance of glycine and serine in leaf metabolism. Trends in Plant Science 28, 1092–1094 (2023).

Wan, H., Zhang, Y. J., Wu, L., Zhou, G., Pan, L., Fernie, A. R. & Ruan, Y.-L. Evolution of cytosolic and organellar invertases empowered the colonization and thriving of land plants. Plant Physiology 193, 1227–1243 (2023).

Zhang, Y. J. & Fernie, A. R. Leveraging glycoside-targeted metabolomics to gain insight into biological function. Trends in Plant Science 28, 737–739 (2023).

Jia, Z.-C., Das, D., Zhang, Y. J., Fernie, A. R., Liu, Y.-G., Chen, M. & Zhang, J. Plant serine/arginine-rich proteins: versatile players in RNA processing. Planta 257, (2023).

Zhang, Y. J., Chen, M., Liu, T., Qin, K. & Fernie, A. R. Investigating the dynamics of protein-protein interactions in plants. The Plant Journal 114, 965–983 (2023).