Professor LixinZhang
Institute of Botany
Chinese Academy of Sciences
B.Sc., Sichuan Univ.; Ph.D., Lanzhou Univ.
Professor
Photosynthesis Research Center
Institute of Botany

Tel: 010-62836256      Fax：010-82599384

Email：zhanglixin@ibcas.ac.cn

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Chloroplast development/chloroplast gene expression
Synthesis, assembly and degradation of photosynthetic protein complexes
Photosynthetic assimilate partition

Recent Publications
1. Cai W, Ji DL, Peng LW, Guo JK, Ma JF, Zou MJ, Lu CM, Zhang, LX* (2009). LPA66 is required for edition psbF chloroplast in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 150: 1260-1271.
2. Chi W, Ma JF, Zhang DY, Gun JK, Chen F, Lu CM, Zhang LX*. The PPR Protein DG1 is involved in the regulation of early chloroplast development and chloroplast gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 2008, 147: 573-584.
3. Ma, J.F., Peng, L.W., Guo, J.K., Lu, Q.T., Lu, C.M., and Zhang, L.X*. (2007) LPA2 Is Required for Efficient Assembly of Photosystem II in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell.19: 1980–1993.
4. Sun, X.W., Peng, L.W., Guo, J.K., Chi, W., Ma, J.F., Lu, C.M., and Zhang, L.X*. (2007) Formation of DEG5 and DEG8 complexes and their involvement in the degradation of photodamaged photosystem II reaction center D1 protein in Arabidopsis thaliana Plant Cell.19: 1347–1361.
5. Peng, L.W., Ma, J.F., Chi, W., Guo, J.K., Zhu, S.Y., Lu, Q.T., Lu, C.M. and Zhang, L.X*. (2006) Low PSII Accumulation1 is involved in efficient assembly of photosystem II in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell.18: 955-969.
6. Chen, H., Zhang, D.Y., Guo, J.K., Wu, H., Jin, M.F., Lu, Q.T., Lu, C.M. and Zhang, L.X*. (2006) A Psb27 homologue in Arabidopsis thaliana is required for efficient repair of photodamaged photosystem II. Plant Mol. Biol. 61: 567-575.
7. Guo, J.K., Zhang, Z.Z., Bi, Y.R., Yang, W., Xu, Y.N. and Zhang, L.X*. (2005) Decreased stability of photosystem I in dgd1 mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana. FEBS Lett. 579: 3619-3624