主编《现代分子生物学》,出版发行超过30万册,已成为我国高等学校生物学专业本科生分子生物学主要教材。由于在乙烯信号通路上下游长期而系统性的研究,世界植物科学著名的综述期刊“当代植物学观点”邀请他撰写论文,阐述他们对棉纤维这个特殊细胞的认知。该研究于2011年获国家自然科学二等奖。已发表经同行评审的科研论文98篇,其中被SCI收录85篇(通讯作者或第一作者的SCI论文66篇),包括3篇植物科学国际最前沿刊物“植物细胞”,1篇美国科学院院报,1篇“分子与细胞蛋白质组学”,2篇“当代植物学观点”应邀综述论文,总影响因子超过300,篇均影响因子相当于世界植物科学排名10%的刊物。 主要文献 Gong W, Sun YP, Ma LG, Pan Y, Du YL, Wang DH, Yang JY, Hu LD, Liu XF, Dong CX, Ma L, Chen YH, Yang XY, Gao Y, Zhu DM, Tan XL, Mu JY, Zhang DB, Liu YL, Dinesh-Kumar SP, LI Y, Wang XP, Gu HY, Qu LJ, Bai SN, Lu YT, Li JY, Zhao JD, Zuo JR, Huang H, Deng XW, and Zhu YX (2004) Genome-wide ORFeome cloning and analysis of Arabidopsis transcription factor Plant P 135:773- Cai H, Tian X, Zhuang YH and Zhu YX (2004) Combined DNA vaccines formulated in DDA enhance protective immunity against DNA and Cell B 23: 450- Feng JX, Ji SJ and Zhu YX (2004) Analysis of five differentially expressed gene families in fast elongating cotton Acta Biochimica et Biophysica S 36: 51- Li J, Wang DY, Li Q, Xu YJ, Cui KM and Zhu YX (2004) PPF1 inhibits programmed cell death in apical meristems of both G2 pea and transgenic Arabidopsis plants possibly by delaying cytosolic Ca2+ Cell C 35: 71- Ji SJ, Lu YC, Feng JX, Wei G, Li J, Shi YH, Fu Q, Liu D, Luo JC and Zhu YX (2003) Isolation and Analyses of Genes Preferentially Expressed During Early Cotton Fiber Development by Subtractive PCR and cDNA A Nucleic Acids R 31: 2534- Wang DY, Xu YJ, Li Q, Hao XM, Su YH, Sun FZ, Zhu YX (2003) Transgenic expression of a putative calcium transporter affects the time of Arabidopsis The Plant Journal,33: 285- Ji SJ, Lu YC, Li J, Wei G, Liang XJ, Zhu YX (2002) A b-tubulin-like cDNA expressed specically in elongating cotton fibers induces longitudinal growth of fission Biochemical and Biophysical Research C 296: 1245- Zhu YX, James M Tepperman, Crag Fairchild and Peter H Quail (2000) Phytochrome B binds with greater apparent affinity than phychrome A to the basic helix-loop-helix factor PIF 3 in a reaction requiring the PAS domin of PIF P N A S USA 97: