Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology
Tsinghua University
Beijing 100084, China
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E-mail: liu-d@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
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Area of expertise: Molecular mechanism for the developmental regulation of plant transposable; plant genetic engineering; signaling pathway of plant response to stress conditions
Co-editor until: Dec. 31, 2010

• Liu D (2009) Design of gene constructs for transgenic maize. In: Transgenic Maize (Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 256) Humana Press, pp3-30.
• Yuan H, Liu D (2008) Signaling components invovled in plant responses to phosphate starvation. J. Integr. Plant Biol. 50, 849-859.
• Liu D, Burton S, Glancy T, Li ZS, Hampton R, Meade T, Merlo DJ (2003) Insect resistance conferred by 283-kDa Photorhabdus luminescens protein TcdA in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nat. Biotechnol. 21, 1222-1228.
• Liu D, Wang R, Galli M, Crawford NM (2001)Somatic and germinal excision activities of the Arabidopsis transposon Tag1 are controlled by distinct regulatory sequences within Tag1. Plant Cell 13, 1851-1863.
• Liu D, Galli M, Crawford N (2001) Engineering variegated floral patterns in tobacco plants using the Arabidopsis transposable element Tag1. Plant Cell Physiol. 42, 419-423.
• Liu D, Mack A, Wang R, Galli M, Belk J, Ketpura NI, Crawford NM (2001) Functional dissection of the cis-acting sequences of the Arabidopsis transposable element Tag1 reveals dissimilar subterminal sequence and minimal spacing requirements for transposition. Genetics 157, 817-830.
• Liu D, Zhang S, Fauqet C, Crawford N (1999) The Arabidopsis transposon Tag1 is active in rice, undergoing germinal transposition and restricted, late somatic excision. Mol. Gen. Genet. 262, 413-420.
• Liu D, Crawford NM (1998) Characterization of the putative transposase mRNA of Tag1, which is ubiquitously expressed in Arabidopsis and can be induced by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation with dTag1 DNA. Genetics 149, 693-701.
• Liu D, Crawford NM (1998) Characterization of the germinal and somatic activity of the Arabidopsis transposable element Tag1. Genetics 148, 445-456.
• Frank MJ, Liu D, Tsay YF, Ustach C, Crawford NM (1997) Tag1 is an autonomous transposable element that shows somatic excision in both Arabidopsis and tobacco. Plant Cell 9, 1745-1756.