Publications

C. A. Hollender, A. Geretz, J.P. Slovin., Z. Liu (2011) Flower and early fruit development in diploid strawberry, Fragaria vesca. Planta (Dec 24 Epub).

Sijacic, P., Wang, W., and Liu, Z. (2011). Recessive antimorphic alleles overcome functionally redundant loci to reveal TSO1 function in Arabidopsis flowers and meristems. PLoS Genetics Nov; 7(11):e1002352.
http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002352

Grigorova, B, Mara, C., Hollender, C., Sijacic, P., X. Chen, and Liu, Z. (2011). LEUNIG and SEUSS regulate miR172 in Arabidopsis Flowers. Development  Jun;138(12):2451-6.

Bui, M., Lim, N., Sijacic, P. and Liu, Z. (2011). LEUNIG-HOMOLOG and LEUNIG promote seed mucilage extrusion in Arabidopsis. JIPB 2011 Mar 1. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-7909.2011.01036.x. [Epub ahead of print]

Courtney Hollender and Zhongchi Liu (2010) Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation (BiFC) Assay for Protein-Protein Interaction in Onion Cells Using the Helios Gene Gun. J. Vis. Exp. 2010 Jun 12;(40)

Paja Sijacjc and Z. Liu (2010) Novel insights from live imaging in shoot meristem development. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 52 (4) 393-9.

Chloe Mara, Boyana Grigorova, and Zhongchi Liu (2010) Floral-dip transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana to examine pTSO2:: b-glucuronidase reporter expression. J Vis Exp. 2010 Jun 11;(40).

Z. Liu and C. Mara (2010) Regulation of floral homeotic genes. Invited review for a special issue on flower development. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, Feb;21(1):80-86.

Minh Bui and Zhongchi Liu. (2009) Simple Allele-discriminating PCR For Cost-effective and Rapid Genotyping and Mapping. Plant Methods 5:1.

Jayashree Sitaraman*, Minh Bui*, and Zhongchi Liu. (2008) LEUNIG_HOMOLOG and LEUNIG are partially redundant during Arabidopsis embryo and floral development. Plant Physiology 147(2):672-681 (pdf). *: equal contribution.

Courtney Hollender and Zhongchi Liu (2008). Histone Deacetylase Genes in Arabidopsis Development. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 50(7):875-85.

Z. Liu and V. Karmarkar. (2008) Gro-Tup1 family co-repressors in plant development. Trends in Plant Science 13(3):137-144 (pdf).

Zongreng Liu and Zhongchi Liu. (2008) Precise and efficient ablation of male and female organs in engineering plant sterility for complete containment of transgene flow. Plant Cell Reports 27(5):855-863 (pdf).

Vaniyambadi .V. Sridhar, Anandkumar Surendrarao, and Z. Liu (2006). APETALA1 and SEPALLATA3 interact with SEUSS to mediate transcription repression during flower development. Development 133, 3159-3166 (pdf).

R. Franks, Z. Liu and R. Fischer. (2006) Petal polarity and shape regulation in Arabidopsis requires SEUSS and LEUNIG. Planta 224(4):801-11(pdf)

C. Wang and Z. Liu (2006). Arabidopsis Ribonucleotide Reductase are Critical for Cell Cycle Progression, DNA Damage Repair, and Plant Development. Plant Cell 18:350-365. (pdf)

Z. Liu (2005) Regulatory Mechanisms for Floral Organ Identity Specification in Higher Plants. In Gene Expression and Regulation, a Current Scientific Frontiers Book (Ed. J. Ma). Higher Education Press, Beijing and Blackwell Publishing.

Sridhar, V.V., Surendrarao, A., Gonzalez, D., Conlan, R.S., and Liu, Z. (2004) Transcriptional repression of target genes by LEUNIG and SEUSS, two interacting regulatory proteins for Arabidopsis flower development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 101: 11494-11499. (pdf)

Bao, X., Franks, R.G., Levin, J.Z., and Liu, Z. (2004) Repression of AGAMOUS by BELLRINGR, in Floral and Inflorescence Meristems. Plant Cell 16: 1478-14. (pdf)

Franks, R. Wang, C., Levin, J. Z., and Liu, Z. (2002) SEUSS, a member of a novel family of plant regulatory proteins, represses floral homeotic gene expression with LEUNIG. Development 129: 253-263. (pdf) (with Cover)

Franks, R.G. and Liu, Z. 2001) Floral homeotic gene regulation. Horticultural Reviews vol. 27: 41-77.

Song, J., Leung, T., Ehler, L. K., Wang, C., Liu, Z. (2000) Regulation of meristem organization and cell division by TSO1, an Arabidopsis gene with cysteine-rich repeats. Development 127:2207-2217. (pdf)

Liu, Z., Franks, R.G. and Klink, V. P. (2000) Regulation of marginal tissue formation by LEUNIG and AINTEGUMENTA. Plant Cell 12: 1893-1902. (pdf) (with Cover)

Conner, J. and Liu Z. (2000) LEUNIG, a putative transcriptional co-repressor that regulates AGAMOUS expression during flower development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 97: 12902-12907. (pdf)

Scovel, G., Altshuler, T., Liu, Z., and Vainstein, A. (2000) The EVERGREEN gene is essential for flower initiation in carnation. J. of Heredity 91: 487-491.

Liu, Z., Running, M. R., and Meyerowitz, E. M. (1997) TSO1 function in cell division during Arabidopsis flower development. Development 124: 665-672. (pdf)

Liu, Z., and Meyerowitz, E. M. (1995) LEUNIG regulates AGAMOUS expression in Arabidopsis flowers. Development 121: 975-991.