Professor Yiji XIA
| Address | T1014, Department of Biology, HKBU |  |
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| Phone | (852) 3411 7052 | ||||
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| yxia@hkbu.edu.hk | |||||
| Web | http://biol.hkbu.edu.hk/ ?page_id=826 |
Education
| 1997 | Ph.D. | Iowa State University, USA | |
| 1986 | M.Sc. | Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China |
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| 1982 | B.Sc. | Zhejiang Agricultural University at Ningbo, China |
Position
- Professor, Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
Research Interests
- Redox sensing and signaling in stress responses
- Plant-pathogen interactions
- Functional genomics and proteomics
- Flower development
Representative Publications in past 10 years (*corresponding author)
- Liu P, Zhang H*, Wang H, *XIA Y (2013) Identification of redox-sensitive cysteines in the Arabidopsis proteome using OxiTRAQ, a quantitative redox proteomics method. Proteomics, DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201300307.
- Wang H, Lu Y, Jiang T, Berg H, Li C, *Xia Y (2013) The Arabidopsis U-box/ARM repeat E3 ligase AtPUB4 influences growth and degeneration of tapetal cells and its mutation leads to conditional male sterility. Plant Journal, 74:511-523.
- Wang H, Lu Y, Liu P, Wen W, Zhang J, Ge X, *Xia Y (2013) The ammonium/nitrate ratio is an input signal in the temperature-modulated, SNC1-mediated and EDS1- dependent autoimmunity of nudt6-2 nudt7. Plant Journal. 73:262-275.
- Wang H, Wang S, Lu Y, Ge X, Alverez S, Hicks L and *Xia Y (2012) Proteomic Analysis of Early-Responsive Redox-Sensitive Proteins in Arabidopsis. Journal of Proteome Research 11: 412-424.
- Lu Y, Li C, Wang H, Chen H, Berg H and *Xia Y (2011) AtPPR2, an Arabidopsis pentatricopeptide repeat protein, binds to plastid 23S rRNA and plays an important role in the first mitotic division during gametogenesis and in cell proliferation during embryogenesis. Plant Journal 67: 13-25.
- Xie YD, Li W, Guo D, Dong J, Zhang J, Fu Y, Ren D, Peng M and *Xia Y. (2010) The Arabidopsis gene SIGMA FACTOR-BINDING PROTEIN 1 plays a role in the salicylate- and jasmonate-mediated defence responses. Plant, Cell and Environment. 33: 828-839.
- Zhu H, Li G, Ding L, Berg H, Cui X, Assmann S and *Xia Y. (2009) Arabidopsis Extra Large G Protein 2 (XLG2) interacts with the Gb subunit of heterotrimeric G protein and functions in disease resistance. Molecular Plant 2: 513-525.
- Ge X, Li G, Wang S, Zhu H, Zhu T, Wang X and *Xia Y. (2007) AtNUDT7, a negative regulator of basal immunity in Arabidopsis, modulates two distinct defense response pathways and is involved in maintaining redox homeostasis. Plant Physiology 145: 204-215.
- Ge X, Dietrich C, Matsuno M, Li G, Berg H and *Xia Y. (2005) An Arabidopsis aspartic protease functions as an anti-cell death component in reproduction and embryogenesis. EMBO Reports 6: 282-288.
- *Xia Y, Suzuki H, Borevitz J, Blount J, Guo Z, Dixon R and Lamb C. (2004) An extracellular aspartic protease in Arabidopsis functions in disease resistance signaling. EMBO Journal 23: 980-988.
Research Grants as PC/PI
- 2014-2021, Research Grants Council (RGC) Areas of Excellence Scheme (AoE) Grant “Center for organelle biogenesis and function”, HK$47,250,000 (as a co-PI);
- 2014-2016, RGC GRF Grant “Extra Large G Protein 2 (XLG2) in Plant Immunity: What Is Its Molecular Mode of Action?”, HK$1,039,239;
- 2013-2015, RGC GRF Grant “Defining the Role of Two Nudix proteins in the defense response in Arabidopsis”, HK$1,830,800;
- 2012-2014, RGC GRF Grant “Defining the mechanism that regulates male gametogenesis and floral meristem determinacy by an E3 ubiquitin ligase in Arabidopsis”, HK$1,092,500;
- 2011-2014, RGC CRF Grant “Identification of redox-sensitive proteins and characterization of their functions in regulating the oxidative stress response in Arabidopsis”, HK$5,000,000