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Jixian Zhai

Researcher at Southern University of Science and Technology

Publications -  98
Citations -  9236

Jixian Zhai is an academic researcher from Southern University of Science and Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: RNA & Gene. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 81 publications receiving 7591 citations. Previous affiliations of Jixian Zhai include Chinese Academy of Sciences & University of California, Los Angeles.

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Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

John P. Vogel, +136 more
- 11 Feb 2010 - 
TL;DR: The high-quality genome sequence will help Brachypodium reach its potential as an important model system for developing new energy and food crops and establishes a template for analysis of the large genomes of economically important pooid grasses such as wheat.
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The Medicago genome provides insight into the evolution of rhizobial symbioses

Nevin D. Young, +138 more
- 22 Dec 2011 - 
TL;DR: The draft sequence of the M. truncatula genome sequence is described, a close relative of alfalfa (Medicago sativa), a widely cultivated crop with limited genomics tools and complex autotetraploid genetics, which provides significant opportunities to expand al falfa’s genomic toolbox.
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MicroRNAs as master regulators of the plant NB-LRR defense gene family via the production of phased, trans-acting siRNAs

TL;DR: The data reveal complex tasiRNA-based regulation of NB-LRRs that potentially evolved to facilitate symbiotic interactions and demonstrate miRNAs as master regulators of a large gene family via the targeting of highly conserved, protein-coding motifs, a new paradigm for miRNA function.
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Massive Analysis of Rice Small RNAs: Mechanistic Implications of Regulated MicroRNAs and Variants for Differential Target RNA Cleavage

TL;DR: This massive analysis of rice small RNAs evaluated annotated microRNAs (miRNAs) and identified new miRNA family members with distinct sequences and organ-preferential expression that provide new insight about how an agriculturally important rice phenotype could be regulated in the panicle.
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miRNAs trigger widespread epigenetically activated siRNAs from transposons in Arabidopsis

TL;DR: It is shown that easiRNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana resemble secondary siRNAs, in that thousands of transposon transcripts are specifically targeted by more than 50 miRNAs for cleavage and processing by RDR6.