1. Mao-Sheng Chen#, Longjian Niu#, Mei-Li Zhao, Chuanjia Xu, Bang-Zhen Pan, Qian-Tang Fu, Yan-Bin Tao, Hui-Ying He, Chunhui Hou* and Zeng-Fu Xu*, De novo genome assembly and Hi-C analysis reveal an association between chromatin architecture alterations and sex differentiation in the woody plant Jatropha curcas, GigaScience, 2020, 9:1-12.
2. Chuan-Jia Xu#, Mei-Li Zhao#, Mao-Sheng Chen* and Zeng-Fu Xu*, Silencing of the ortholog of DEFECTIVE IN ANTHER DEHISCENCE 1 in the woody perennial Jatropha curcas alters flower and fruit development, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020, 21:8923.
3. Mei?Li Zhao, Mao?Sheng Chen*, Jun Ni, Chuan?Jia Xu, Qing Yang, Zeng?Fu Xu*, Comparative transcriptome analysis of gynoecious and monoecious inflorescences reveals regulators involved in male flower development in the woody perennial plant Jatropha curcas, Plant Reproduction, 2020, 33(3), 191-204.
4. Chaoqiong Li, Xiaoli Li, Hongzhan Liu, Xueqin Wang, Weifeng Li, Mao-Sheng Chen* and Long-Jian Niu*, Chromatin architectures are associated with response to dark treatment in the oil crop sesamum indicum, based on a high-quality genome assembly, Plant Cell Physiology, 2020, 61(5): 978–987. \
5. Mao-Sheng Chen, Mei-Li Zhao, Gui-Juan Wang, Hui-Ying He, Xue Bai, Bang-Zhen Pan, Qian-Tang Fu, Yan-Bin Tao, Ming-Yong Tang, Jorge Martínez-Herrera and Zeng-Fu Xu*, Transcriptome analysis of two inflorescence branching mutants reveals cytokinin is an important regulator in controlling inflorescence architecture in the woody plant Jatropha curcas, BMC Plant Biology, 2019, 19:468.
6. Mei-Li Zhao, Jun Ni, Mao-Sheng Chen* and Zeng-Fu Xu*, Ectopic expression of Jatropha curcas TREHALOSE-6-PHOSPHATE PHOSPHATASE J causes late-flowering and heterostylous phenotypes in Arabidopsis but not in Jatropha, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2019, 20(9):2165. (IF= 4.106).
7. Xiao-Di Hu, Bang-Zhen Pan, Qiantang Fu, Mao-Sheng Chen* and Zeng-Fu Xu*, The complete chloroplast genome sequence of the biofuel plant Sacha Inchi, Plukenetia volubilis, Mitochondrial DNA Part B, 2018, 3(1):328-329. (IF= 0.488).
8. Mao-Sheng Chen, Bang-Zhen Pan, Qiantang Fu, Yan-Bin Tao, Jorge Martínez-Herrera, Longjian Niu, Jun Ni, Yuling Dong, Mei-Li Zhao and Zeng-Fu Xu*, Comparative transcriptome analysis between gynoecious and monoecious plants identifies regulatory networks controlling sex determination in Jatropha curcas, Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017, 7:1953.