1. Xianhai Zhao, Yunjun Zhao, Mingyue Gou, Chang-Jun Liu. (2023) Tissue-preferential recruitment of electron transfer chains for cytochrome P450-catalyzed phenolic biosynthesis. Science Advances, 9, eade4389 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ade4389

2. Yunjun Zhao, Chang Liu, Chien-Yuan Lin, Quanzi Li. (2023) Editorial: Rising stars in plant metabolism and chemodiversity 2022 - phenylpropanoid metabolism and regulation. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1159100

3. Yunjun Zhao, Xiaohong Yu, Pui-Ying Lam, Kewei Zhang, Yuki Tobimatsu, and Chang-Jun Liu. (2021) Monolignol acyltransferase for lignin p-hydroxybenzoylation in Populus. Nature Plants 7:1288-1300, DOI: 10.1038/s41477-021-00975-1

4. Yunjun Zhao, Xiao-Hong Yu, Chang-Jun Liu.(2021) The Inducible Accumulation of Cell Wall-Bound p-Hydroxybenzoates Is Involved in the Regulation of Gravitropic Response of Poplar, Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.755576

5. Bin Wang, Xianhai Zhao, Yunjun Zhao, John Shanklin, Qiao Zhao and Chang-Jun Liu (2021). Arabidopsis SnRK1 negatively regulates phenylpropanoid metabolism via Kelch domain-containing F-box proteins. New Phytologist 229(6):3345-3359 DOI: 10.1111/nph.17121

6. Mingyue Gou*, Xiaoman Yang*, Yunjun Zhao*, Xiuzhi Ran, Yanzhai Song, and Chang-Jun Liu. (2019) Cytochrome b5 is an obligate electron shuttle protein for syringyl lignin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 31(6): 1344-1366 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.18.0077 ( *Co-first author)

7. Chang-Jun Liu, Yunjun Zhao and Kewei Zhang. (2019) Cytokinin transporters: Multisite players in cytokinin homeostasis and signal distribution. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10:693. Doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.00693

8. Jingnu Xia, Yunjun Zhao, Payne Burks, Markus Pauly, and Patrick Brown. (2018) A sorghum NAC gene is associated with variation in biomass properties and yield potential. Plant Direct, 2(7). DOI: 10.1002/pld3.70

9. Mandy Hsia, Ronan O’Malley, Amy Cartwright, Rita Nieu, Sean Gordon, Sandra Kelly, Tina Williams, Delilah F. Wood, Yunjun Zhao, Jennifer Bragg, Mark Jordan, Markus Pauly, Joseph Ecker, Yong Gu, John P. Vogel. (2017) Sequencing and functional validation of the JGI Brachypodium distachyon T-DNA Resource. Plant Journal 91(3):361-370.

10. Yunjun Zhao, Peng Xu, Jiayan Sun, Rui Zhang, and Laigeng Li. (2014) Intron-mediated alternative splicing of WOOD-ASSOCIATED NAC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR1B regulates cell wall thickening during fiber development in Populus species. Plant Physiology 164(2):765-76

11. Yi Wang, Roger Thilmony, Yunjun Zhao, Guoping Chen, and Yong Qiang Gu. (2014) AIM: a comprehensive Arabidopsis interactome module database and related interologs in plants. Database. DOI: 10.1093/database/bau117

12. Yunjun Zhao, Qian Zhang, Luxia Yuan, Rui Zhang, and Laigeng Li. (2013) N-glycosylation and dimerization regulate the PtrMAN6 enzyme activity that may modulate generation of oligosaccharide signals. Plant Signaling & Behavior 8:e26956

13. Yunjun Zhao, Dongliang Song, Jiayan Sun, and Laigeng Li. (2013) Populus endo-beta-mannanase PtrMAN6 plays a role in coordinating cell wall remodeling with suppression of secondary wall thickening through generation of oligosaccharide signals. Plant Journal 74(3):473-485. [F1000 recommended]