PUBLICATIONS
Nath S, VanSlambrouck JT, Yao JW, Gullapalli A, Razi F, Lu Y (2024). DNA barcoding of terrestrial invasive plant species in Southwest Michigan. Plant Direct. 8: e615.
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Gao H, McCormick A, Roston RL, Lu Y (2023) Editorial: Structure and Function of Chloroplasts, Volume III. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14: 1145680.
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Anderson SA, Satyanarayan MB, Wessendorf RL, Lu Y, Fernandez DE (2021) A homolog of Guided Entry of Tail-anchored proteins3 functions in membrane-specific protein targeting in chloroplasts of Arabidopsis. Plant Cell. 33: 2812-2833.
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Li T, Yang H, Lu Y, Dong Q, Liu G, Chen F, Zhou Y (2021) Comparative transcriptome analysis of differentially expressed genes related to the physiological changes of yellow-green leaf mutant of maize. PeerJ. 9: e10567
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Satyanarayan MB, Zhao J, Zhang J, Yu F, Lu Y (2021) Functional relationships of three NFU proteins in the biogenesis of chloroplastic iron-sulfur clusters. Plant Direct. 5: e00303.
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Lu Y, Liu L-N, Roston RL, Soll J, Gao H (2020) Editorial: Structure and Function of Chloroplasts - Volume II. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11:620152.
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Searing AM, Satyanarayan MB, O′Donnell JP, Lu Y (2020) Two organelle RNA recognition motif proteins affect distinct sets of RNA editing sites in the Arabidopsis thaliana plastid. Plant Direct. 4: e00213.
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Wessendorf RL, Lu Y (2020) Photosynthetic characterization of transgenic Synechocystis expressing a plant thiol/disulfide-modulating protein. Plant Signaling and Behavior. 15:1709708.
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Wessendorf RL, Lu Y (2019) Introducing an Arabidopsis thaliana thylakoid thiol/disulfide-modulating protein into Synechocystis increases the efficiency of PSII photochemistry. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10:1284.
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Liu J, Lu Y, Hua W, Last RL (2019) A new light on Photosystem II maintenance in oxygenic photosynthesis. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10:975.
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Lu Y, Yao J (2018) Chloroplasts at the crossroad of photosynthesis, pathogen infection and plant defense. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 19:3900.
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Lu Y (2018) Assembly and transfer of iron–sulfur clusters in the plastid. Frontiers in Plant Science. 9:336.
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Lu Y (2018) RNA editing of plastid-encoded genes. Photosynthetica. 56: 48-61.
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Hackett JB, Lu Y (2017) Whole-transcriptome RNA-seq, gene set enrichment pathway analysis, and exon coverage analysis of two plastid RNA editing mutants. Plant Signaling and Behavior. 12:e1312242.
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Hackett JB, Shi X, Kobylarz AT, Lucas MK, Wessendorf RL, Hines KM, Bentolila S, Hanson MR, Lu Y (2017) An Organelle RNA Recognition Motif protein is required for photosystem II subunit psbF transcript editing. Plant Physiology. 173: 2278-2293.
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Nath K, O'Donnell JP, Lu Y (2017) Chloroplastic iron-sulfur scaffold protein NFU3 is essential to overall plant fitness. Plant Signaling and Behavior. 12: e1282023.
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Nath K, O'Donnell JP, Lu Y (2017) Chlorophyll fluorescence for high-throughput screening of plants during abiotic stress, aging, and genetic perturbation. In Photosynthesis: Structures, Mechanisms, and Applications, HJM Hou, MM Najafpour, GF Moore, and SI Allakhverdiev, eds. (Cham: Springer International Publishing), pp. 261-273.
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Nath K, Wessendorf RL, Lu Y (2016) A nitrogen-fixing subunit essential for accumulating 4Fe-4S-containing Photosystem I core proteins. Plant Physiology. 172: 2459-2470.
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Lu Y (2016) Identification and roles of Photosystem II assembly, stability, and repair factors in Arabidopsis. Frontiers in Plant Science. 7:168.
Clark TJ, Lu Y (2015) Analysis of loss-of-function mutants in aspartate kinase and homoserine dehydrogenase genes points to complexity in the regulation of aspartate-derived amino acid contents. Plant Physiology, 168:1512-1526.
Nath, K, Lu Y (2015) A paradigm of reactive oxygen species and programmed cell death in plants. Journal of Cell Science and Therapy. 6: 202.
Vieler A, Wu G, Tsai C-H, Bullard B, Cornish AJ, Harvey C, Reca I-B, Thornburg C, Achawanantakun R, Buehl C, Campbell MS, Cavalier D, Childs KL, Clark TJ, Deshpande R, Erickson E, Ferguson AA, Handee W, Kong Q, Li X, Liu B, Lundback S, Peng C, Roston R, Sanjaya, Simpson J, TerBush A, Warakanont J, Zäuner S, Farre E, Hegg EJ, Jiang N, Kuo M-H, Lu Y, Niyogi KK, Ohlrogge J, Osteryoung KW, Shachar-Hill Y, Sears BB, Shiu S-H, Sun Y, Hideki Takahashi H, Yandell M, Benning C. (2012) Genome, functional gene annotation, and nuclear transformation of the heterokont oleaginous alga Nannochloropsis oceanica CCMP1779. PLoS Genetics, 8:e1003064.
Lu Y (2011) The occurrence of a thylakoid-localized small zinc finger protein in land plants. Plant Signaling and Behavior. 6:1881-1885.
Lu Y, Savage LJ, Last RL (2011) Chloroplast phenomics: systematic phenotypic screening of chloroplast protein mutants in Arabidopsis. In Chloroplast Research in Arabidopsis (Methods in Molecular Biology). Jarvis RP, eds. Iotowa, NJ: Humana Press. 775, Part 2:161-185.
Lu Y, Hall DA, Last RL (2011) A small zinc finger thylakoid protein plays a role in maintenance of photosystem II in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell. 23:1861-1875.
Lu Y, Savage LJ, Larson MD, Wilkerson CG, Last RL (2011) Chloroplast 2010: A database for large-scale phenotypic screening of Arabidopsis mutants. Plant Physiology. 155:1589-1600.
Ajjawi I, Lu Y, Savage LJ, Bell SM, Last RL (2010) Large scale reverse genetics in Arabidopsis: Case studies from the Chloroplast 2010 Project. Plant Physiology. 152:529-540.
Lu Y, Last RL (2008) Web-based Arabidopsis functional and structural genomics resources. The Arabidopsis Book. 6:e0118
Lu Y, Savage LJ, Ajjawi I, Imre KM, Yoder DW, Benning C, DellaPenna D, Ohlrogge JB, Osteryoung KW, Weber AP, Wilkerson CG, Last RL (2008) New connections across pathways and cellular processes: industrialized mutant screening reveals novel associations between diverse phenotypes in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology. 146:1482-1500.
Lu Y, Steichen JM, Yao J, Sharkey TD (2006) The role of cytosolic a-glucan phosphorylase in maltose metabolism and the comparison of amylomaltose in Arabidopsis and E. coli. Plant Physiology. 142: 878-889.
Lu Y, Steichen JM, Weise SE, Sharkey TD (2006) Cellular and organ level localization of maltose in maltose-excess Arabidopsis mutants. Planta. 224: 935-943.
Lu Y, Sharkey TD (2006) The importance of maltose in transitory starch breakdown. Plant Cell & Environment. 29: 353-366.
Lu Y, Gehan JP, Sharkey TD (2005) Daylength and circadian effects on starch degradation and maltose metabolism. Plant Physiology. 138: 2280-2291.
Lu Y, Sharkey TD (2004) The role of amylomaltase in maltose metabolism in the cytosol of photosynthetic cells. Planta. 218: 466-473.
Sharkey TD, Laporte M, Lu Y, Weise SE, Weber APM (2004) Engineering plants for elevated CO2: A relationship between starch degradation and sugar sensing. Plant Biology. 6: 280-288.