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• Wei Luo, Yunyuan Xu, Jie Cao, Xiaoyu Guo, Jingdan Han, Yuanyuan Zhang, Yuda Niu, Meiling Zhang, Yi Wang, Guohua Liang, Qian Qian, Song Ge and Kang Chong*. COLD6-OSM1 module senses chilling for cold tolerance via2',3'-cAMP signaling in rice. Molecular Cell. 2024, 84, 1-5.

• Shengtao Luo, Shuangshuang Zheng, Zhitao Li, Jie Cao, Bo Wang, Yunyuan Xu and Kang Chong*. Monosaccharide transporter OsMST6 is activated by transcription factor OsERF120 to enhance chilling tolerance in rice seedlings. Journal of Experimental Botany. 2024, 75(13):4038–4051.

• Dongfeng Liu, Shengtao Luo, Zhitao Li, Guohua Liang, Yalong Guo, Yunyuan Xu and Kang Chong*. COG3 confers the chilling tolerance to mediate OsFtsH2-D1 module in rice. New Phytologist. 2024, 241(5):2143-2157.

• Changxuan Xia, Guohua Liang, Kang Chong* and Yunyuan Xu*. The COG1-OsSERL2 complex senses cold to trigger signaling network for chilling tolerance in japonica rice. Nature Communications. 2023, 14(1):3104-3117.

• Jinglei Feng, Zhitao Li, Wei Luo, Guohua Liang, Yunyuan Xu and Kang Chong*. COG2 negatively regulates chilling tolerance through cell wall components altered in rice. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 2023, 136(1):19-29.

• Zhitao Li, Bo Wang, Wei Luo,Yunyuan Xu,Jinjuan Wang,Zhihui Xue,Yuda Niu, Zhukuan Cheng, Song Ge,Wei Zhang,Jingyu Zhang, Qizhai Li and Kang Chong*. Natural variation of codon repeats in COLD11endows rice with chilling resilience. Science Advances. 2023, 9(1): eabq5506.

• Xiaoyu Guo*, Dajian Zhang*, Zhongliang Wang, Shujuan Xu, Oliver Batistič, Leonie Steinhorst, Hao Li, Yuxiang Weng, Dongtao Ren, Jörg Kudla, Yunyuan Xu and Kang Chong*. Cold-induced calreticulin OsCRT3 conformational changes promote OsCIPK7 binding and temperature sensing in rice. The EMBO Journal. 2023, 42(1):e110518.

• Jun Xiao*, Bao Liu, Yingyin Yao, Zifeng Guo, Haiyan Jia, Lingrang Kong, Aimin Zhang, Wujun Ma, Zhongfu Ni, Shengbao Xu, Fei Lu, Yuannian Jiao, Wuyun Yang, Xuelei Lin, Silong Sun, Zefu Lu, Lifeng Gao, Guangyao Zhao, Shuanghe Cao, Qian Chen, Kunpu Zhang, Mengcheng Wang, Meng Wang, Zhaorong Hu, Weilong Guo, Guoqiang Li, Xin Ma, Junming Li, Fangpu Han, Xiangdong Fu, Zhengqiang Ma, Daowen Wang*, Xueyong Zhang*, Hongqing Ling*, Guangmin Xia*, Yiping Tong*, Zhiyong Liu*, Zhonghu He*, Jizeng Jia* and Kang Chong*. Wheat genomic study for genetic improvement of traits in China. Science China Life Sciences. 2022, 65(9):1718–1775.

• Wei Luo, Qing Huan, Yunyuan Xu, Wenfeng Qian, Kang Chong* and Jingyu Zhang*. Integrated global analysis reveals a vitamin E-vitamin K1 sub-network, downstream of COLD1, underlying rice chilling tolerance divergence. Cell Reports. 2021, 36(3):58-76.

• Wensi Yang, Kun Wu, Bo Wang, Huanhuan Liu, Siyi Guo, Xiaoyu Guo, Wei Luo, Shengyuan Sun, Yidan Ouyang, Xiangdong Fu, Kang Chong, Qifa Zhang* and Yunyuan Xu*. The RING E3 ligase CLG1 targets GS3 for degradation via the endosome pathway to determine grain size in rice. Molecular Plant. 2021, 14(10):1699-1713.

• Zhitao Li, Bo Wang, Zeyong Zhang, Wei Luo, Yongyan Tang, Yuda Niu, Kang Chong and Yunyuan Xu*. OsGRF6 interacts with SLR1 to regulate OsGA2ox1 expression for coordinating chilling tolerance and growth in rice. Journal of Plant Physiology. 2021, 260:153406.

• Shujuan Xu, Qi Dong, Min Deng, Dexing Lin, Jun Xiao, Peilei Cheng, Lijing Xing,Yuda Niu, Caixia Gao, Wenhao Zhang, Yunyuan Xu and Kang Chong*. A vernalization-induced long non-coding RNA VAS together with transcription factor TaRF2b activates TaVRN1 for flowering in hexaploid wheat. Molecular Plant. 2021, 14(9):1525-1538.

• Changxuan Xia, Yanshan Gong, Kang Chong, Yunyuan Xu*. Phosphatase OsPP2C27 directly dephosphorylates OsMAPK3 and OsbHLH002 to negatively regulate cold tolerance in rice. Plant Cell and Environment. 2021, 44(2):491-505.

• Qiang Ge, Yongyan Tang, Wei Luo, Jingyu Zhang, Kang Chong,Yunyuan Xu*. A cyclophilin OsCYP20–2 interacts withOsSYF2 to regulate grain length by pre-mRNAsplicing. Rice. 2020, 13(1):64-74.

• Yongyan Tang, Chunchun Gao, Ying Gao, Ying Yang, Boyang Shi, Jiali Yu, Cong Lyu, Baofa Sun, Hailin Wang, Yunyuan Xu, Yungui Yang*, Kang Chong*. OsNSUN2-mediated 5-methylcytidine mRNA modification enhances rice adaptation to high-temperature. Developmental Cell. 2020, 53(3):272-286.

• Jingyu Zhang*, Xinmin Li*, Hongxuan Lin, Kang Chong*. Crop improvement through temperature resilience. Annual Review of Plant Biology. 2019, 70:753-780.

• Qiang Ge*, Yuanyuan Zhang*, Yunyuan Xu, Mingyi Bai, Wei Luo, Bo Wang, Yuda Niu, Yuan Zhao, Shanshan Li, Yuxiang Weng, Zhiyong Wang, Qian Qian, Kang Chong*. Cyclophilin OsCYP20-2 with a novel variant integrates defense and cell elongation for chilling response in rice. New Phytologist. 2020, 225:2453–2467.

• Dajian Zhang, Xiaoyu Guo, Yunyuan Xu, Hao Li, Liang Ma, Xuefeng Yao, Yuxiang Weng, Yan Guo, Chunming Liu, Kang Chong*. OsCIPK7 point‐mutation leads to conformation and kinase‐activity change for sensing cold response. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 2019, 61(12):1194-1200.

• Shujuan Xu, Jun Xiao, Fang Yin, Xiaoyu Guo, Lijing Xing, Yunyuan Xu, Kang Chong*. The protein modifications of O-GlcNAcylation and phosphorylation mediate vernalization response for flowering in winter wheat. Plant Physiology. 2019, 180(3):1436-1449.