1.     Zhi-Ling Yang, Hussam Hassan Nour-Eldin, Sabine Haenniger, Michael Reichelt, Christoph Crocoll, Fabian Seitz, Heiko Vogel, Franziska Beran (2021) Sugar transporters enable a leaf beetle to accumulate plant defense compounds. Nature Communications. 12: 2658.

2.     Zhi-Ling Yang, Grit Kunert, Theresa Sporer, Johannes Koernig, Franziska Beran (2020) Glucosinolate abundance and composition in Brassicaceae influence sequestration in a specialist flea beetle. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 46:186-197.

3.     Zhi-Ling Yang, Hai-Jing Liu, Xiao-Ru Wang, Qing-Yin Zeng (2013) Molecular evolution and expression divergence of the Populus polygalacturonase supergene family shed light on the evolution of increasingly complex organs in plants. New Phytologist. 197: 1353-1365.

4.     Ting Lan^#, Zhi-Ling Yang^#, Xue Yang, Yan-Jing Liu, Xiao-Ru Wang, Qing-Yin Zeng (2009) Extensive functional diversification of the Populus glutathione S-transferase supergene family. Plant Cell. 21: 3749-3766. (^#共同第一作者）

5.     Yuan-Jie Zhang, Wei Wang, Hai-Ling Yang, Yue Li, Xiang-Yang Kang, Xiao-Ru Wang, Zhi-Ling Yang^* (2015) Molecular properties and functional divergence of the dehydroascorbate reductase gene family in lower and higher plants. PLoS One. 10:e0145038. (^*通讯作者)

6.     Jingyuan Chen, Chhana Ullah, Michael Reichelt, Franziska Beran, Zhi-Ling Yang, Jonathan Gershenzon, Almuth Hammerbacher, Daniel G Vassao (2020) The phytopathogenic fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum detoxifies plant glucosinolate hydrolysis products via an isothiocyanate hydrolase. Nature Communications. 11:3090.

7.   Hai-Jing Liu, Xin Wang, Zhi-Ling Yang, Lin-Ling Ren, Ting-Ting Qian (2020) Identification and biochemical characterization of the glutathione reductase family from Populus trichocarpa. Plant Science. 294:110459.

8.    Nanxia Fu, Zhi-Ling Yang, Yannick Pauchet, Christian Paetz, Wolfgang Brandt, Wilhelm Boland, Antje Burse (2019) A cytochrome P450 from the mustard leaf beetles hydroxylates geraniol, a key step in iridoid biosynthesis. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 113:103212.

9.    Seung-Joon Ahn, Franziska Betzin, Matilda W Gikonyo, Zhi-Ling Yang, Tobias G Koellner, Franziska Beran (2019) Identification and evolution of glucosinolate sulfatases in a specialist flea beetle. Scientific Reports. 9:15725.

10.   Xue-Min Han, Zhi-Ling Yang, Yan-Jing Liu, Hai-Ling Yang, Qing-Yin Zeng (2018) Genome-wide profiling of expression and biochemical functions of the Medicago glutathione S-transferase gene family. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 126:126-133.

11.   Xue-Min Han, Qi Yang, Yan-Jing Liu, Zhi-Ling Yang, Xiao-Ru Wang, Qing-Yin Zeng, Hai-Ling Yang (2018) Evolution and function of the Populus SABATH family reveal that a single amino acid change results in a substrate switch. Plant Cell and Physiology. 59:392-403.

12.   Hai-Jing Liu, Zhen-Xin Tang, Xue-Min Han, Zhi-Ling Yang, Fu-Min Zhang, Hai-Ling Yang, Yan-Jing Liu, Qing-Yin Zeng (2015) Divergence in enzymatic activities in the soybean GST supergene family provides new insight into the evolutionary dynamics of whole-genome duplicates. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32:2844-2859.

13.   Hai-Ling Yang, Ying-Ru Zhao, Cai-Ling Wang, Zhi-Ling Yang, Qing-Yin Zeng, Hai Lu (2009) Molecular characterization of a dehydroascorbate reductase from Pinus bungeana. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 51:993-1001.