Jingjing Jiang1, Xin Chai1, Nikolay Manavski1, Rosalind Williams-Carrier, Baoye He, Andreas Brachmann, Daili Ji, Min Ouyang, Yini Liu, Alice Barkan, J？rg Meurer, Lixin Zhang and Wei Chi*. An RNA-chaperone-like protein plays critical roles in chloroplast mRNA stability and translation in Arabidopsis and maize. The Plant Cell, 2019, 31: 1308-1327. 

Alexey Shapiguzov, Xin Chai, Geoffrey Fucile, Paolo Longoni, Lixin Zhang, and Jean-David Rochaix*. Activation of the Stt7/STN7 Kinase through Dynamic Interactions with the Cytochrome b6f Complex. Plant Physiology, 2016, 171: 82-92. 

Meijuan Zou, Ying Mu, Xin Chai; Min Ouyang, Longjiang Yu, Lixin Zhang, J？rg Meurerc, Wei Chi. 2020. The Critical Function of the Plastid rRNA Methyltransferase, CMAL, in Ribosome Biogenesis and Plant Development. Nucleic Acids Research, 2020, 10.1093/nar/gkaa129. 

Peiqiang Feng, Hailong Guo, Wei Chi, Xin Chai, Xuwu Sun, Xiumei Xu, Jinfang Ma, Jean-David Rochaix, Dario Leister, Haiyang Wang, Congming Lu, and Lixin Zhang. Chloroplast retrograde signal regulates flowering. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016,113: 10708-10713. 

Wei Chi, Jing Li, Baoye He, Xin Chai, Xiumei Xu, Xuwu Sun, Jingjing Jiang, Peiqiang Feng, Jianru Zuo, Rongcheng Lin, Jean David Rochaix, Lixin Zhang*. DEG9, a serine protease, modulates cytokinin and light signaling by regulating the level of ARABIDOPSIS RESPONSE REGULATOR 4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016, 113: E3568-76.