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										Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
 E-mail: lixs@ms.xjb.ac.cn
 http://egi.cas.cn/sourcedb/zw/zjrc/201801/t20180119_4936537.html
 Area of expertise: abiotic stress, desiccation tolerance, drought stress, cold stress, molecular breeding, cotton, moss, desert plant
   
 Selected Publications:
 Li, X.S., Bai, W.W., Yang, Q.L., Yin, B.F., Zhang, Z.L., Zhao, B.C., Kuang, T.Y., Zhang, Y.M., and Zhang, D.Y. (2024). The extremotolerant desert moss Syntrichia caninervis is a promising pioneer plant for colonizing extraterrestrial environments. Innovation (Camb). 5: 100657. Jin, X., Li, X.S., Silva, J.T., and Liu, X.C. (2024). Functions and mechanisms of non-histone protein acetylation in plants. J. Integr. Plant Biol. 8: 13756. Li, X.S., Yang, R.R., Liang, Y.Q., Gao, B., Li, S.M., Bai, W.W., Oliver, M. J., and Zhang, D.Y. (2023). The ScAPD1-like gene from the desert moss Syntrichia caninervis enhances resistance to Verticillium dahliae via phenylpropanoid gene regulation. Plant J. 113: 75–91. Gao, B., Li, X.S., Liang, Y.Q., Chen, M.X., Liu, H.L., Liu, Y.G., Wang, J.C., Zhang, J.H., Zhang, Y.M., Oliver, M. J., and Zhang, D.Y. (2024). Drying without dying: A genome database for desiccation-tolerant plants and evolution of desiccation tolerance. Plant Physiol. 194: 2249–2262. Salih, H., Bai, W.W., Liang, Y.Q., Yang, R.R., Zhao, M.Q., Muhammd, S. M., Zhang, D.Y., and Li, X.S. (2024). ROS scavenging enzyme-encoding genes play important roles in the desert moss Syntrichia caninervis response to extreme cold and desiccation stresses. Int. J. Biol. Macromol. 254: 127778. Silva, A. T., Gao, B., Fisher, K. M., Mishler, B. D., Ekwealor, J. T. B., Stark, L. R., Li, X.S., Zhang, D.Y., Bowker, M. A., Brinda, J. C., Coe, K. K., and Oliver, M. J. (2021). To dry perchance to live: Insights from the genome of the desiccation-tolerant biocrust moss Syntrichia caninervis. Plant J. 105: 1339–1356. Gao, B., Chen, M.X., Li, X.S., Liang, Y.Q., Zhang, D.Y., Andrew J. Wood, Oliver, M. J., and Zhang, J.H. (2020). Ancestral gene duplications in mosses characterized by integrated phylogenomic analyses. J Syst. Evol. 60: 144-159. Yang, Q.L., Yang, R.R., Gao, B., Liang, Y.Q., Liu, X.J., Li, X.S., and Zhang, D.Y. (2023). Metabolomic Analysis of the desert moss Syntrichia caninervis provides insights into plant dehydration and rehydration response. Plant Cell Physiol. 64: 1419–1432. 
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