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Biosciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Phone: (865)-241-6895
Fax: (865) 576-9939
E-mail: yangx@ornl.gov
Xiaohan Yang
Staff Scientist
- Ph.D., Floriculture & Ornamental Horticulture/Plant Molecular Biology/Plant Breeding. Cornell University, 2003
- M.S., Ornamental Botany, Huazhong Agricultural University, China, 1989
- B.S., Forest Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, China, 1986
Research Interests:
- Application of evolutionary genomics to bioenergy and ecological research
- Genomics of CAM (Crassulacean Acid Metabolism) plants
- Discovery of small signaling proteins
- Genome/transcriptome sequencing using new sequencing technology
- Genetic improvement in water use efficiency and drought tolerance in bioenergy crops
- Reducing recalcitrance of biomass for biofuel production
Recent Publications:
- Yang X, Tschaplinski TJ, Hurst GB, Jawdy S, Abraham PE, Lankford PK, Adams RM, Shah MB, Hettich RL, Lindquist E, Kalluri UC, Gunter LE, Pennacchio C, Tuskan GA. 2011. Discovery and annotation of small proteins using genomics, proteomics, and computational approaches. Genome Research 21(4): 634–641.
- Yang X, Ye C-Y, Bisaria A, Tuskan GA, Kalluri UC. 2011. Identification of candidate genes in Populus cell wall biosynthesis using text-mining, co-expression network and comparative genomics. Plant Science 181: 675– 687.
- Yang X, Ye C-Y, Cheng Z-M, Tschaplinski TJ, Wullschleger SD, Yin W, Xia X, Tuskan GA. 2011. Genomic aspects of research involving polyploid plants. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 104: 387–397.
- Ye C-Y, Li T, Tuskan GA, Tschaplinski TJ, Yang X. 2011. Comparative analysis of GT14/GT14-like gene family in Arabidopsis, Oryza, Populus, Sorghum and Vitis. Plant Science 181: 688– 695.
- Weston DJ, Karve AA, Gunter LE, Jawdy SS, Yang X, Allen SM, Wullschleger SD. 2011. Comparative physiology and transcriptional networks underlying the heat shock response in Populus trichocarpa, Arabidopsis thaliana and Glycine max. Plant Cell Environ 34(9): 1488–1506.
- Cai B, Yang X, Tuskan GA, Cheng ZM. 2011. MicroSyn: a user friendly tool for detection of microsynteny in a gene family. BMC Bioinformatics 12: 79.
- Guo J, Yang X, Weston DJ, Chen JG. 2011. Abscisic Acid receptors: past, present and future. J Integr Plant Biol 53(6): 469–479.
- Guo J, Jin Z, Yang X, Li JF, Chen JG. 2011. Eukaryotic initiation factor 6, an evolutionarily conserved regulator of ribosome biogenesis and protein translation. Plant Signal Behav 6(5): 766–771.
- Yang X, Li T, Weston D, Karve A, Labbe JL, Gunter LE, Sukumar P, Borland A, Chen J-G, Wullschleger SD, Tschaplinski TJ, Tuskan GA. 2011. Innovative biological solutions to challenges in sustainable biofuels production. In Biofuel Production-Recent Developments and Prospects, (ed. MADS Bernardes), pp. 375–414. Intech, Rijeka. (Open access: http://www.intechopen.com/books/show/title/biofuel-production-recent-developments-and-prospects).
- DiFazio SP, Yang X, Tuskan GA. 2011. The Populus Genome Sequence. In Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Poplar, (ed. CP Joshi, SP DiFazio, C Kole). Science Publishers, Enfield, New Hampshire.
- Tyler L, Bragg JN, Wu J, Yang X, Tuskan GA, Vogel JP. 2010. Annotation and comparative analysis of the glycoside hydrolase genes in Brachypodium distachyon. BMC Genomics 11: 600.