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2008

Zhu JK. 2008. Reconstituting plant miRNA biogenesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105:9851-9852. [pdf]

Kanaoka MM, Pillitteri LJ, Fujii H, Yoshida Y, Bogenschutz NL, Takabayashi J, Zhu JK, Torii KU. 2008. SCREAM/ICE1 and SCREAM2 Specify Three Cell-State Transitional Steps Leading to Arabidopsis Stomatal Differentiation. Plant Cell In press.

Li WX, Oono Y, Zhu J, He XJ, Wu JM, Iida K, Lu XY, Cui X, Jin H, Zhu JK. 2008. The Arabidopsis NFYA5 transcription factor is regulated transcriptionally and posttranscriptionally to promote drought resistance. Plant Cell. [preview]

Du J, Huang YP, Xi J, Cao MJ, Ni WS, Chen X, Zhu JK, Oliver DJ, Xiang CB. 2008. Functional Gene-mining for Salt Tolerance Genes with the Power of Arabidopsis. Plant J. In press

Zhang H, Ohyama K, Boudet J, Chen Z, Yang J, Zhang M, Muranaka T, Maurel C, Zhu JK, Gong Z. 2008. Dolichol biosynthesis and its effects on the unfolded protein response and abiotic stress resistance in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell In press.

Zhou X, Wang G, Sutoh K, Zhu JK, Zhang W. 2008. Identification of cold-inducible miroRNAs in plants by transcriptome analysis. Biochim. Biophys. Acta In press.

Chinnusamy V, Gong Z, Zhu JK. 2008. Nuclear RNA export and its importance in abiotic stress responses of plants. Curr. Top. Microbiol. Immunol. 326:235-255.

Yu H, Chen X, Hong YY, Wang Y, Xu P, Ke SD, Liu HY, Zhu JK, Oliver DJ, Xiang CB. 2008. Activated expression of an Arabidopsis HD-START protein confers drought tolerance with improved root system and reduced stomatal density. Plant Cell 20:1134-1151.

Zhu JK. 2008. Epigenome sequencing comes of age. Cell 133:395-397. [pdf]

Sunkar R, Zhou X, Zhang W, Zhu JK. 2008. Indentification of novel and candidate miRNAs in rice by high throughput sequencing. BMC Plant Biol. 8:25. [pdf]

Subramanian S, Fu Y, Sunkar R, Barbazuk BW, Zhu JK, Yu O. 2008. Novel and nodulation-regulated microRNAs in soybean roots. BMC Genomics. 9:160.

Jin H, Vacic V, Girke T, Lonardi S, Zhu JK. 2008. Small RNAs and the regulation of cis-natural antisense transcripts in Arabidopsis. BMC Mol. Biol. 9:6. [pdf]

Chung JS, Zhu JK, Bressan RA, Hasegawa PM, Shi H. 2008. Reactive oxygen species mediate Na+-induced SOS1 mRNA stability in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 53:554-565.

Zhu J, Jeong JC, Zhu Y, Sokolchik I, Miyazaki S, Zhu JK, Hasegawa PM, Bohnert HJ, Shi H, Yun DJ, Bressan RA. 2008. Involvement of Arabidopsis HOS15 in histone deacetylation and cold tolerance. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 105:4945-4950.

Horan K, Jang C, Bailey-Serres J, Mittler R, Shelton C, Harper JF, Zhu JK, Cushman JJ, Gollery M, Girke T. 2008. Annotating genes of known and unknown function by large-scale co-expression analysis. Plant Physiol. 147:41-57.

Vacic V, Jin H, Zhu JK, Lonardi S. 2008. A probabilistic method for small RNA flowgram matching. Pac. Symp. Biocomput. 75-86.

2007

Sridhar VV, Kapoor A, Zhang K, Zhu J, Zhou T, Hasegawa PM, Bressan RA, Zhu JK. 2007. Control of DNA methylation and heterochromatic silencing by histone H2B deubiquitination. Nature. 447:735-738. [pdf]

Verslues PE, Batelli G, Grillo S, Agius F, Kim YS, Zhu J, Agarwal M, Katiyar-Agarwal S, Zhu JK. 2007. Interaction of SOS2 with nucleoside diphosphate kinase 2 and catalases reveals a point of connection between salt stress and H2O2 signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol. Cell. Biol. 27:7771-7780. [pdf]

Batelli G, Verslues PE, Agius F, Qiu Q, Fujii H, Pan S, Schumaker KS, Grillo S, Zhu JK. 2007. SOS2 promotes salt tolerance in part by interacting with the vaculoar H+-ATPase and upregulating its transport activity. Mol. Cell. Biol. 27:7781-7790. [pdf]

Zhang K, Sridhar VV, Zhu J, Kapoor A, Zhu JK. 2007. Distinctive core histone post-translational modification patterns in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS ONE. 2:e1210. [pdf]

Verslues PE, Zhu JK. 2007. New developments in abscisic acid perception and metabolism. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 10:447-452. [pdf]

Chinnusamy V, Zhu J, Zhu JK. 2007. Cold stress regulation of gene expression in plants. Trends Plant Sci. 12:444-451. [pdf]

Sunkar R, Chinnusamy V, Zhu J, Zhu JK. 2007. Small RNAs as big players in plant abiotic stress responses and nutrient deprivation. Trends Plant Sci. 12:301-309. [pdf]

Sunkar R, Zhu, JK. 2007. Micro RNAs and short-interfering RNAs in plants. J Integr Plant Biol. 49:817-826. [pdf]

Yao Y, Guo G, Ni Z, Sunkar R, Du J, Zhu JK, Sun Q. 2007. Cloning and characterization of microRNAs from wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Genome Biol. 8:R96.

Zhu J, Dong CH, Zhu JK. 2007. Interplay between cold-responsive gene regulation, metabolism and RNA processing during plant cold acclimation. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 10:290-295. [pdf]

Fuglsang AT, Guo Y, Cuin TA, Qiu Q, Song CP, Kristiansen KA, Bych K, Schulz A, Shabala S, Schumaker KS, Palmgren MG, Zhu JK. 2007. Arabidopsis protein kinase PKS5 inhibits the plasma membrane H+-ATPase by preventing interaction with 14-3-3 protein. Plant Cell 19:1617-1634. [pdf]

Sanchez-Barrena MJ, Fujii H, Angulo I, Martinez-Ripoll M, Zhu JK, Albert A. 2007. The structure of the c-terminal domain of the protein kinase AtSOS2 bound to the calcium sensor AtSOS3. Mol Cell. 26:427-435.

Zhu J, Fu X, Koo YD, Zhu JK, Jenney FE Jr, Adams MW, Zhu Y, Shi H, Yun DJ, Hasegawa PM, Bressan RA. 2007. An enhancer mutant of Arabidopsis salt overly sensitive 3 mediates both ion homeostasis and the oxidative stress response. Mol Cell Biol. 27:5214-5224.

Zheng X, Zhu J, Kapoor A, Zhu JK. 2007. Role of Arabidopsis AGO6 in siRNA accumulation, DNA methylation and transcriptional gene silencing. EMBO J. 26:1691-1701. [pdf]

Verslues PE, Kim YS, Zhu JK. 2007. Altered ABA, proline and hydrogen peroxide in an Arabidopsis glutamate:glyoxylate aminotransferase mutant. Plant Mol Biol. 64:205-217. [pdf]

Fujii H, Verslues PE, Zhu JK. 2007. Identification of two protein kinases required for abscisic acid regulation of seed germination, root growth, and gene expression in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 19:485-494. [pdf]

Zhu J, Kapoor A, Sridhar VV, Agius F, Zhu JK. 2007. The DNA glycosylase/lyase ROS1 functions in pruning DNA methylation patterns in Arabidopsis. Curr Biol.17:54-59. [pdf]

Zhu, JK. 2007. Plant salt stress. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester http://www.els.net/ [pdf]

Wang Y, Liu J, Xia R, Wang J, Shen J, Cao R, Hong X, Zhu JK, Gong Z. 2007. The protein kinase TOUSLED is required for maintenance of transcriptional gene silencing in Arabidopsis. EMBO Rep. 8:77-83.

Carpaneto A, Ivashikina N, Levchenko V, Krol E, Jeworutzki E, Zhu JK, Hedrich R. 2007. Cold transiently activates calcium-permeable channels in Arabidopsis mesophyll cells. Plant Physiol. 143:487-494.

Martinez-Atienza J, Jiang X, Garciadeblas B, Mendoza I, Zhu JK, Pardo JM, Quintero FJ. 2007. Conservation of the salt overly sensitive pathway in rice. Plant Physiol. 143:1001-1012.

Chakraborty N, Ohta M, Zhu JK. 2007. Recognition of a PP2C interaction motif in several plant protein kinases. Methods Mol Biol. 365:287-298. [pdf]

2006

Agarwal M, Hao Y, Kapoor A, Dong CH, Fujii H, Zheng X, Zhu JK. 2006. A R2R3 type MYB transcription factor is involved in the cold regulation of CBF genes and in acquired freezing tolerance. J Biol Chem. 281:37636-37645. [pdf]

Dong CH, Hu X, Tang W, Zheng X, Kim YS, Lee BH, Zhu JK. 2006. A putative Arabidopsis nucleoporin, AtNUP160, is critical for RNA export and required for plant tolerance to cold stress. Mol Cell Biol. 26:9533-9543. [pdf]

Katiyar-Agarwal S, Zhu J, Kim K, Agarwal M, Fu X, Huang A, Zhu JK. 2006. The plasma membrane Na+/H+ antiporter SOS1 interacts with RCD1 and functions in oxidative stress tolerance in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103:18816-18821. [pdf]

Mittler R, Kim Y, Song L, Coutu J, Coutu A, Ciftci-Yilmaz S, Lee H, Stevenson B, Zhu JK. 2006. Gain- and loss-of-function mutations in Zat10 enhance the tolerance of plants to abiotic stress. FEBS Lett. 580:6537-6542. [pdf]

Chen Z, Zhang H, Jablonowski D, Zhou X, Ren X, Hong X, Schaffrath R, Zhu JK, Gong Z. 2006. Mutations in ABO1/ELO2, a subunit of holo-elongator, increase abscisic acid sensitivity and drought tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol Cell Biol. 26:6902-6912.

Katiyar-Agarwal S, Morgan R, Dahlbeck D, Borsani O, Villegas A Jr, Zhu JK, Staskawicz BJ, Jin H. 2006. A pathogen-inducible endogenous siRNA in plant immunity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103:18002-18007.

Agius F, Kapoor A, Zhu JK. 2006. Role of the Arabidopsis DNA glycosylase/lyase ROS1 in active DNA demethylation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103:11796-11801. [pdf]

Verslues PE, Guo Y, Dong CH, Ma W, Zhu JK. 2006. Mutation of SAD2, an importin beta-domain protein in Arabidopsis, alters abscisic acid sensitivity. Plant J. 47:776-787. [pdf]

Shoji T, Suzuki K, Abe T, Kaneko Y, Shi H, Zhu JK, Rus A, Hasegawa PM, Hashimoto T. 2006. Salt stress affects cortical microtubule organization and helical growth in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Physiol. 47:1158-1168.

Sunkar R, Kapoor A, Zhu JK. 2006. Posttranscriptional induction of two Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase genes in Arabidopsis is mediated by downregulation of miR398 and important for oxidative stress tolerance. Plant Cell. 18:2051-2065. [pdf]

Gollery M, Harper J, Cushman J, Mittler T, Girke T, Zhu JK, Bailey-Serres J, Mittler R. 2006. What makes species unique? The contribution of proteins with obscure features. Genome Biol. 7:R57.

Maggio A, Zhu JK, Hasegawa PM, Bressan RA. 2006. Osmogenetics: Aristotle to Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 18:1542-1557.

Platten JD, Cotsaftis O, Berthomieu P, Bohnert H, Davenport RJ, Fairbairn DJ, Horie T, Leigh RA, Lin HX, Luan S, Maser P, Pantoja O, Rodriguez-Navarro A, Schachtman DP, Schroeder JI, Sentenac H, Uozumi N, Very AA, Zhu JK, Dennis ES, Tester M. 2006. Nomenclature for HKT transporters, key determinants of plant salinity tolerance. Trends Plant Sci. 11:372-374.

Kim Y, Schumaker KS, Zhu JK. 2006.EMS mutagenesis of Arabidopsis. Methods Mol Biol. 323:101-103. [pdf]

Rohila JS, Chen M, Chen S, Chen J, Cerny R, Dardick C, Canlas P, Xu X, Gribskov M, Kanrar S, Zhu JK, Ronald P, Fromm ME. 2006. Protein-protein interactions of tandem affinity purification-tagged protein kinases in rice. Plant J. 46:1-13.

Chinnusamy V, Zhu J, Zhu JK. 2006. Salt stress signaling and mechanisms of plant salt tolerance. Genet Eng (N Y). 27:141-177. [pdf]

Xia R, Wang J, Liu C, Wang Y, Wang Y, Zhai J, Liu J, Hong X, Cao X, Zhu JK, Gong Z. 2006. ROR1/RPA2A, a putative replication protein A2, functions in epigenetic gene silencing and in regulation of meristem development in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 18:85-103.

Lee BH, Kapoor A, Zhu J, Zhu JK. 2006. STABILIZED1, a stress-upregulated nuclear protein, is required for pre-mRNA splicing, mRNA turnover, and stress tolerance in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 18:1736-1749. [pdf]

Dong CH, Agarwal M, Zhang Y, Xie Q, Zhu JK. 2006. The negative regulator of plant cold responses, HOS1, is a RING E3 ligase that mediates the ubiquitination and degradation of ICE1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 103:8281-8286. [pdf]

Chinnusamy V, Zhu J, Zhu JK. 2006. Gene regulation during cold acclimation in plants. Physiol Plant. 126:52-61. [pdf]

Verslues PE, Agarwal M, Katiyar-Agarwal S, Zhu J, Zhu JK. 2006. Methods and concepts in quantifying resistance to drought, salt and freezing, abiotic stresses that affect plant water status. Plant J. 45:523-539. [pdf]

2005

Zhu JK, Bressan RA, Hasegawa PM, Pardo JM, Bohnert HJ. 2005. Salt and crops: salinity tolerance. In Success Stories in Agriculture. Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, Autumn/Winter 2005. [pdf]

Borsani O, Zhu J, Verslues PE, Sunkar R, Zhu JK. 2005. Endogenous siRNAs derived from a pair of natural cis-antisense transcripts regulate salt tolerance in Arabidopsis. Cell. 123:1279-1291. [pdf]

Fujii H, Chiou TJ, Lin SI, Aung K, Zhu JK. 2005. A miRNA involved in phosphate-starvation response in Arabidopsis. Curr Biol. 15:2038-2043. [pdf]

Kapoor A, Agarwal M, Andreucci A, Zheng X, Gong Z, Hasegawa PM, Bressan RA, Zhu JK. 2005. Mutations in a conserved replication protein suppress transcriptional gene silencing in a DNA-methylation-independent manner in Arabidopsis. Curr Biol. 15:1912-1918. [pdf]

Lee BH, Henderson DA, Zhu JK. 2005. The Arabidopsis cold-responsive transcriptome and its regulation by ICE1. Plant Cell. 17:3155-3175. [pdf]

Kapoor A, Agius F, Zhu JK. 2005. Preventing transcriptional gene silencing by active DNA demethylation. FEBS Lett. 579:5889-5898. [pdf]

Sunkar R, Girke T, Zhu JK. 2005. Identification and characterization of endogenous small interfering RNAs from rice. Nucleic Acids Res. 33:4443-4454. [pdf]

Katiyar-Agarwal S, Verslues P, Zhu JK. 2005. Plant nutrition for food security, human health and environmental protection. In: Mechanisms of salt tolerance in plants. Eds. C.J. Li et. al. pp. 44-45. [pdf]

Zhu J, Verslues PE, Zheng X, Lee BH, Zhan X, Manabe Y, Sokolchik I, Zhu Y, Dong CH, Zhu JK, Hasegawa PM, Bressan RA. 2005. HOS10 encodes an R2R3-type MYB transcription factor essential for cold acclimation in plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 102:9966-9971.

Chen Z, Hong X, Zhang H, Wang Y, Li X, Zhu JK, Gong Z. 2005. Disruption of the cellulose synthase gene, AtCesA8/IRX1, enhances drought and osmotic stress tolerance in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 43:273-283.

Song CP, Agarwal M, Ohta M, Guo Y, Halfter U, Wang P, Zhu JK. 2005. Role of an Arabidopsis AP2/EREBP-type transcriptional repressor in abscisic acid and drought stress responses. Plant Cell. 17:2384-2396. [pdf]

Verslues PE, Zhu JK. 2005. Before and beyond ABA: upstream sensing and internal signals that determine ABA accumulation and response under abiotic stress. Biochem Soc Trans. 33:375-379.[pdf]

Sunkar R, Girke T, Jain PK, Zhu JK. 2005. Cloning and characterization of microRNAs from rice. Plant Cell. 17:1397-1411. [pdf]

Gong Z, Dong CH, Lee H, Zhu J, Xiong L, Gong D, Stevenson B, Zhu JK. 2005. A DEAD box RNA helicase is essential for mRNA export and important for development and stress responses in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 17:256-267. [pdf]

Chinnusamy V, Jagendorf A, Zhu JK 2005. Understanding and improving salt tolerance in plants. Crop Sci. 45: 437-448 [pdf]

Sanchez-Barrena MJ, Martinez-Ripoll M, Zhu JK, Albert A. 2005. The structure of the Arabidopsis thaliana SOS3: molecular mechanism of sensing calcium for salt stress response. J Mol Biol. 345:1253-1264.

Shi H, Bressan RA, Hasegawa PM, Zhu JK. 2005. Sodium. In: Plant Nutritional Genomics. Eds. Martin Broadley and Phillip White. Blackwell Publishing.

Chinnusamy V, Xiong L, Zhu JK. 2005. Use of genetic engineering and molecular biology approaches for crop improvement for stress environments. In: Abotic Stresses: Plant Resistance Through Breeding and Molecular Approaches. eds. M Ashraf and PJC Harris. Haworth Press, Binghamton, NY. pp. 47-107.

2004

Xiong L, Lee H, Huang R, Zhu JK. 2004. A single amino acid substitution in the Arabidopsis FIERY1/HOS2 protein confers cold signaling specificity and lithium tolerance. Plant J. 40:536-545. [pdf]

Ma XL, Zhang Q, Shi HZ, Zhu JK, Zhao YX, Ma CL, Zhang H. 2004. Molecular Cloning and Different Expression of a Vaculor Na+/H+ Antiporter Gene in Suaeda salsa Under Salt Stress. Biologia Plantarum. 48:219-225.

Sunkar R, Zhu JK. 2004. Novel and stress-regulated microRNAs and other small RNAs from Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 2004 16:2001-2019. [pdf]

Song CP, Guo Y, Qiu Q, Lambert G, Galbraith DW, Jagendorf A, Zhu JK. 2004. A probable Na+(K+)/H+ exchanger on the chloroplast envelope functions in pH homeostasis and chloroplast development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 101:10211-10216. [pdf]

Rus A, Lee BH, Munoz-Mayor A, Sharkhuu A, Miura K, Zhu JK, Bressan RA, Hasegawa PM. 2004. AtHKT1 facilitates Na+ homeostasis and K+ nutrition in planta. Plant Physiol. 136:2500-2511.

Zhu J, Shi H, Lee BH, Damsz B, Cheng S, Stirm V, Zhu JK, Hasegawa PM, Bressan RA. 2004. An Arabidopsis homeodomain transcription factor gene, HOS9, mediates cold tolerance through a CBF-independent pathway. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 101:9873-9878.

Zhang JZ, Creelman RA, Zhu JK.2004. From laboratory to field. Using information from Arabidopsis to engineer salt, cold, and drought tolerance in crops. Plant Physiol. 135:615-621. [pdf]

Inan G, Zhang Q, Li P, Wang Z, Cao Z, Zhang H, Zhang C, Quist TM, Goodwin SM, Zhu J, Shi H, Damsz B, Charbaji T, Gong Q, Ma S, Fredricksen M, Galbraith DW, Jenks MA, Rhodes D, Hasegawa PM, Bohnert HJ, Joly RJ, Bressan RA, Zhu JK. 2004. Salt cress. A halophyte and cryophyte Arabidopsis relative model system and its applicability to molecular genetic analyses of growth and development of extremophiles. Plant Physiol. 135:1718-1737. [pdf]

Sanchez-Barrena MJ, Martinez-Ripoll M, Zhu JK, Albert A. 2004. SOS3 (salt overly sensitive 3) from Arabidopsis thaliana: expression, purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 60:1272-1274.

Taji T, Seki M, Satou M, Sakurai T, Kobayashi M, Ishiyama K, Narusaka Y, Narusaka M, Zhu JK, Shinozaki K. 2004. Comparative genomics in salt tolerance between Arabidopsis and Arabidopsis-related halophyte salt cress using Arabidopsis microarray. Plant Physiol. 135:1697-1709.

Wang ZL, Li PH, Fredricksen M, Gong ZZ, Kim CS, Zhang C, Bohnert HJ, Zhu JK, Bressan RA, Hasegawa PM, Zhao YX, Zhang, H. 2004. Expressed sequence tags from Thellungiella halophila, a new model to study plant salt-tolerance. Plant Sci. 166:609-616.

Guo Y, Qiu QS, Quintero FJ, Pardo JM, Ohta M, Zhang C, Schumaker KS, Zhu JK. 2004. Transgenic evaluation of activated mutant alleles of SOS2 reveals a critical requirement for its kinase activity and C-terminal regulatory domain for salt tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell. 16:435-449. [pdf]

Chinnusamy V, Schumaker K, Zhu JK. 2004. Molecular genetic perspectives on cross-talk and specificity in abiotic stress signalling in plants. J Exp Bot. 55:225-236. [pdf]

Cheng NH, Pittman JK, Zhu JK, Hirschi KD. 2004. The protein kinase SOS2 activates the Arabidopsis H(+)/Ca(2+) antiporter CAX1 to integrate calcium transport and salt tolerance. J Biol Chem. 279:2922-2926.

Gong D, Guo Y, Schumaker KS, Zhu JK. 2004. The SOS3 family of calcium sensors and SOS2 family of protein kinases in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 134:919-926. [pdf]

Qiu QS, Guo Y, Quintero FJ, Pardo JM, Schumaker KS, Zhu JK. 2004. Regulation of vacuolar Na+/H+ exchange in Arabidopsis thaliana by the salt-overly-sensitive (SOS) pathway. J Biol Chem. 279:207-215. [pdf]

2003

Xiong L, Zhu JK. 2003. Regulation of abscisic acid biosynthesis. Plant Physiol. 133:29-36. [pdf]

Ohta M, Guo Y, Halfter U, Zhu JK. 2003. A novel domain in the protein kinase SOS2 mediates interaction with the protein phosphatase 2C ABI2. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 100:11771-11776. [pdf]

Chinnusamy V, Zhu JK. 2003. Plant Salt Tolerance. Top Curr Genetics. 4:241-270. [pdf]

Zhu JK. 2003. Regulation of ion homeostasis under salt stress. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 6:441-445. [pdf]

Chinnusamy V, Ohta M, Kanrar S, Lee BH, Hong X, Agarwal M, Zhu JK. 2003. ICE1: a regulator of cold-induced transcriptome and freezing tolerance in Arabidopsis. Genes Dev. 17:1043-1054. [pdf]

Shi H, Wu SJ, Zhu JK. 2003. Overexpression of a plasma membrane Na+/H+ antiporter improves salt tolerance in Arabidopsis. Nature Biotech. 21:81-85. [pdf]

Shi H, Kim Y, Guo Y, Stevenson B, Zhu JK. 2003. The Arabidopsis SOS5 locus encodes a putative cell surface adhesion protein and is required for normal cell expansion. Plant Cell. 15:19-32. [pdf]

Qiu QS, Barkla BJ, Vera-Estrella R, Zhu JK, Schumaker KS. 2003. Na+/H+ exchange activity in the plasma membrane of Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 132:1041-1052.

Veronese P, Narasimhan ML, Stevenson RA, Zhu JK, Weller SC, Subbarao KV, Bressan RA. 2003. Identification of a locus controlling Verticillium disease symptom response in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 35:574-587.

Hrabak EM, Chan CW, Gribskov M, Harper JF, Choi JH, Halford N, Kudla J, Luan S, Nimmo HG, Sussman MR, Thomas M, Walker-Simmons K, Zhu JK, Harmon AC. 2003. The Arabidopsis CDPK-SnRK superfamily of protein kinases. Plant Physiol. 132:666-680.

2002

Lee H, Jagendorf A, Zhu JK. 2002. Plant cold acclimation and the regulation of cold responsive gene expression. In: Biochemical & Molecular Responses of Plants to the Environment. AJ Wood eds. Research Signpost, India.

Gong Z, Morales-Ruiz T, Ariza RR, Roldan-Arjona T, David L, Zhu JK. 2002. ROS1, a repressor of transcriptional gene silencing in Arabidopsis, encodes a DNA glycosylase/lyase. Cell. 111:803-814. [pdf]

Gong D, Guo Y, Jagendorf AT, Zhu JK. 2002. Biochemical characterization of the Arabidopsis protein kinase SOS2 that functions in salt tolerance. Plant Physiol. 130:256-264. [pdf]

Zhu JK. 2002. Salt and drought stress signal transduction in plants. Annu Rev Plant Biol. 53:247-273. [pdf]

Gong D, Zhang C, Chen X, Gong Z, Zhu JK. 2002. Constitutive activation and transgenic evaluation of the function of an arabidopsis PKS protein kinase. J Biol Chem. 277:42088-42096. [pdf]

Zhu J, Gong Z, Zhang C, Song CP, Damsz B, Inan G, Koiwa H, Zhu JK, Hasegawa PM, Bressan RA. 2002. OSM1/SYP61: a syntaxin protein in Arabidopsis controls abscisic acid-mediated and non-abscisic acid-mediated responses to abiotic stress. Plant Cell. 14:3009-3028.

Viswanathan C, Zhu JK. 2002. Molecular genetic analysis of cold-regulated gene transcription. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 357:877-886. [pdf]

Gong Z, Lee H, Xiong L, Jagendorf A, Stevenson B, Zhu JK. 2002. RNA helicase-like protein as an early regulator of transcription factors for plant chilling and freezing tolerance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 99:11507-11512. [pdf]

Guo Y, Xiong L, Song CP, Gong D, Halfter U, Zhu JK. 2002. A calcium sensor and its interacting protein kinase are global regulators of abscisic acid signaling in Arabidopsis. Dev Cell. 3:233-244. [pdf]

Xiong L, Lee H, Ishitani M, Tanaka Y, Stevenson B, Koiwa H, Bressan RA, Hasegawa PM, Zhu JK. 2002. Repression of stress-responsive genes by FIERY2, a novel transcriptional regulator in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 99:10899-10904. [pdf]

Koiwa H, Barb AW, Xiong L, Li F, McCully MG, Lee BH, Sokolchik I, Zhu J, Gong Z, Reddy M, Sharkhuu A, Manabe Y, Yokoi S, Zhu JK, Bressan RA, Hasegawa PM. 2002. C-terminal domain phosphatase-like family members (AtCPLs) differentially regulate Arabidopsis thaliana abiotic stress signaling, growth, and development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 99:10893-10898.

Gong D, Gong Z, Guo Y, Chen X, Zhu JK. 2002. Biochemical and functional characterization of PKS11, a novel Arabidopsis protein kinase. J Biol Chem. 277:28340-28350. [pdf]

Chinnusamy V, Stevenson B, Lee BH, Zhu JK. 2002. Screening for gene regulation mutants by bioluminescence imaging. Sci STKE. 2002:PL10. [pdf]

Quintero FJ, Ohta M, Shi H, Zhu JK, Pardo JM. 2002. Reconstitution in yeast of the Arabidopsis SOS signaling pathway for Na+ homeostasis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 99:9061-9066.

Qiu QS, Guo Y, Dietrich MA, Schumaker KS, Zhu JK. 2002. Regulation of SOS1, a plasma membrane Na+/H+ exchanger in Arabidopsis thaliana, by SOS2 and SOS3. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 99:8436-8441. [pdf]

Guo Y, Xiong L, Ishitani M, Zhu JK. 2002. An Arabidopsis mutation in translation elongation factor 2 causes superinduction of CBF/DREB1 transcription factor genes but blocks the induction of their downstream targets under low temperatures. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 99:7786-7791. [pdf]

Lee H, Guo Y, Ohta M, Xiong L, Stevenson B, Zhu JK. 2002. LOS2, a genetic locus required for cold-responsive gene transcription encodes a bi-functional enolase. EMBO J. 21:2692-2702. [pdf]

Lee BH, Kim YS, Zhu JK. 2002. Molecular genetics of plant response to low temperatures. In: Plant cold hardiness: gene regulation and genetic engineering. PH Li and ET Palva eds. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Shi H, Zhu JK. 2002. SOS4, a pyridoxal kinase gene, is required for root hair development in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 129:585-593. [pdf]

Shi H, Quintero FJ, Pardo JM, Zhu JK. 2002. The putative plasma membrane Na(+)/H(+) antiporter SOS1 controls long-distance Na(+) transport in plants. Plant Cell. 14:465-477. [pdf]

Shi H, Xiong L, Stevenson B, Lu T, Zhu JK. 2002. The Arabidopsis salt overly sensitive 4 mutants uncover a critical role for vitamin B6 in plant salt tolerance. Plant Cell. 14:575-588. [pdf]

Qiu QS, Guo Y, Dietrich MA, Schumaker KS, Zhu JK. 2002. Regulation of SOS1, a plasma membrane Na+/H+ exchanger in Arabidopsis thaliana, by SOS2 and SOS3. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 99:8436-8441. [pdf]

Xiong L, Lee H, Ishitani M, Zhu JK. 2002. Regulation of osmotic stress-responsive gene expression by the LOS6/ABA1 locus in Arabidopsis. J Biol Chem. 277:8588-8596. [pdf]

Shi H, Zhu JK. 2002. Regulation of expression of the vacuolar Na+/H+ antiporter gene AtNHX1 by salt stress and abscisic acid. Plant Mol Biol. 50:543-550. [pdf]

Gong D, Gong Z, Guo Y, Zhu JK. 2002. Expression, activation, and biochemical properties of a novel Arabidopsis protein kinase. Plant Physiol. 129:225-234. [pdf]

Xiong L, Schumaker KS, Zhu JK. 2002. Cell signaling during cold, drought, and salt stress. Plant Cell. 14:S165-S183. [pdf]

Lee BH, Lee H, Xiong L, Zhu JK. 2002. A mitochondrial complex I defect impairs cold-regulated nuclear gene expression. Plant Cell. 14:1235-1251. [pdf]

Xiong L, Zhu JK. 2002. Salt tolerance. In: The Arabidopsis Book. EM Meyerowitz and CR Somerville eds. American Society of Plant Biologists. doi/10.1199/tab.0048. http://www.aspb.org/publications/arabidopsis/. [pdf]

Xiong L, Zhu JK. 2002. Molecular and genetic aspects of plant responses to osmotic stress. Plant Cell Environ. 25:131-139. [pdf]

Lee BH., Stevenson B, Zhu JK. 2002. High-throughput screening of Arabidopsis mutants with deregulated stress-responsive luciferase gene expression using a CCD camera. In: Luminescence biotechnology: Instruments and Applications. K. VanDyke, C. VanDyke and K. Woodfork eds. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press LLC. pp 557-564. [pdf]

2001

Lee H, Xiong L, Gong Z, Ishitani M, Stevenson B, Zhu JK. 2001. The Arabidopsis HOS1 gene negatively regulates cold signal transduction and encodes a RING finger protein that displays cold-regulated nucleo--cytoplasmic partitioning. Genes Dev. 15:912-924. [pdf]

Xiong L, Gong Z, Rock CD, Subramanian S, Guo Y, Xu W, Galbraith D, Zhu JK. 2001. Modulation of abscisic acid signal transduction and biosynthesis by an Sm-like protein in Arabidopsis. Dev Cell. 1:771-781. [pdf]

Xiong L, Lee BH, Ishitani M, Lee H, Zhang C, Zhu JK. 2001. FIERY1 encoding an inositol polyphosphate 1-phosphatase is a negative regulator of abscisic acid and stress signaling in Arabidopsis. Genes Dev. 15:1971-1984. [pdf]

Xiong L, Ishitani M, Lee H, Zhu JK. 2001. The Arabidopsis LOS5/ABA3 locus encodes a molybdenum cofactor sulfurase and modulates cold stress- and osmotic stress-responsive gene expression. Plant Cell. 13:2063-2083. [pdf]

Guo Y, Halfter U, Ishitani M, Zhu JK. 2001. Molecular characterization of functional domains in the protein kinase SOS2 that is required for plant salt tolerance. Plant Cell. 13:1383-1400. [pdf]

Zhu JK. 2001. Plant salt tolerance. Trends Plant Sci. 6:66-71. [pdf]

Rus A, Yokoi S, Sharkhuu A, Reddy M, Lee BH, Matsumoto TK, Koiwa H, Zhu JK, Bressan RA, Hasegawa PM. 2001. AtHKT1 is a salt tolerance determinant that controls Na(+) entry into plant roots. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 98:14150-14155.

Bressan RA, Zhang C, Zhang H, Hasegawa PM, Bohnert HJ, Zhu JK. 2001. Learning from the Arabidopsis experience. The next gene search paradigm. Plant Physiol. 127:1354-1360. [pdf]

Bohnert HJ, Ayoubi P, Borchert C, Bressan RA, Burnap RL, Cushman JC, Cushman MA, Deyholos M, Fischer R, Galbraith DW, Hasegawa PM, Jenks M, Kawasaki S, Koiwa H, Kore-eda S, Lee BH, Michalowski CB, Misawa E, Nomura M, Ozturk N, Postier B, Prade R, Song CP, Tanaka Y, Wang H, Zhu JK. 2001. A genomics approach towards salt stress tolerance. Plant Physiol. & Biochem. 39:295-311.

Zhu JK. 2001. Cell signaling under salt, water and cold stresses. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 4:401-406. [pdf]

Xiong L, Zhu JK. 2001. Abiotic stress signal transduction in plants: Molecular and genetic perspectives. Physiol Plant. 112:152-166. [pdf]

Song CP, Zhu JK. 2001. Molecular genetic approaches to understanding and improving salinity, drought and cold stress tolerance in crop plants. In: Promoting global innovation of agricultural science & technology and sustainable agriculture development. Proceedings of the International conference on agricultural science and technology. November 7-9, 2001.

Xiong L, Zhu, JK. 2001. Salt stress signal transduction in plants. In: Plant Signal Transduction. D. Scheel and C. Wasternack eds. Oxford University Press. pp 168-197.

2000

Shi H, Ishitani M, Kim C, Zhu JK. 2000. The Arabidopsis thaliana salt tolerance gene SOS1 encodes a putative Na+/H+ antiporter. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 97:6896-6901. [pdf]

Ishitani M, Liu J, Halfter U, Kim CS, Shi W, Zhu JK. 2000. SOS3 function in plant salt tolerance requires N-myristoylation and calcium binding. Plant Cell. 12:1667-1678. [pdf]

Zhu JK. 2000. Genetic analysis of plant salt tolerance using Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 124:941-948. [pdf]

Halfter U, Ishitani M, Zhu JK. 2000. The Arabidopsis SOS2 protein kinase physically interacts with and is activated by the calcium-binding protein SOS3. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 97:3735-3740. [pdf]

Liu J, Ishitani M, Halfter U, Kim CS, Zhu JK. 2000, The Arabidopsis thaliana SOS2 gene encodes a protein kinase that is required for salt tolerance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 97:3730-3734. [pdf]

Hasegawa PM, Bressan RA, Zhu JK, Bohnert HJ. 2000. Plant cellular and molecular responses to high salinity. Annu Rev Plant Physiol Plant Mol Biol. 51:463-499.

Zhu JK. 2000. Genetic engineering of drought tolerance in plants. Sci. SCOPE. (http://scope.educ.washington.edu/gmfood/commentary/).

Xiong L, Liu J, Zhu, JK. 2000. Positional cloning of a salt tolerance locus. In Plant Tolerance to Abiotic Stresses in Agriculture: Role of Genetic Engineering. J.H. Cherry, R.D. Locy, and A. Rychter (eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Germany.

1999

Xiong L, Ishitani M, Lee H, Zhu JK. 1999. HOS5-a negative regulator of osmotic stress-induced gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. 19:569-578. [pdf]

Xiong L, Ishitani M, Zhu JK. 1999. Interaction of osmotic stress, temperature, and abscisic acid in the regulation of gene expression in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 119:205-212. [pdf]

Lee H, Xiong L, Ishitani M, Stevenson B, Zhu JK. 1999. Cold-regulated gene expression and freezing tolerance in an Arabidopsis thaliana mutant. Plant J. 17:301-308. [pdf]

Xiong L, David L, Stevenson B, Zhu, JK. 1999. Luminescence imaging in the isolation of plant signal transduction mutants. Plant Mol. Biol. Reporter 17:159-170. [pdf]

Zhu JK. 1999. Understanding and improving plant salt tolerance. AgBiotechNet Vol. 1 March, ABN011.

Zhu JK. 1999. Plant salt tolerance. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Macmillan Reference Ltd., London.

1998

Stevenson B, Ishitani M, Zhu JK. 1998. cDNA cloning and expression of PAM1, a putative plant adhesion molecule. Plant Physiol. 117:1526 (PGR98-145). [link]

Liu J, Zhu JK. 1998. A calcium sensor homolog required for plant salt tolerance. Science. 280:1943-1945. [pdf]

Ishitani M, Xiong L, Lee H, Stevenson B, Zhu JK. 1998. HOS1, a genetic locus involved in cold-responsive gene expression in arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 10:1151-1161. [pdf]

Zhu JK, Liu J, Xiong L. 1998. Genetic analysis of salt tolerance in arabidopsis. Evidence for a critical role of potassium nutrition. Plant Cell. 10:1181-1191. [pdf]