Education

Ph.D, China Agricultural University, China, 2011

Current position

Associate Professor, Plant Science & Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, China

Publications

1. Liu, C., Li, Z., Xing, J., Yang, J., Wang, Z., Zhang, H., Chen, D., Peng, Y. L. and Chen, X. L. (2018). Global analysis of sumoylation function reveals novel insights into development and appressorium-mediated infection of the rice blast fungus. New Phytol.
2. Wang, Z., Zhang, H., Liu, C. Y., Xing, J. J. and Chen, X. L. (2018). A deubiquitinating enzyme Ubp14 is required for development, stress response, nutrient utilization, and pathogenesis of Magnaporthe oryzae. Front Microbiol.
3. Li, L., Chen, X., Zhang, S., Yang, J., Chen, D., Liu, M., Zhang, H., Zheng, X., Wang, P., Peng, Y. and Zhang, Z. (2017). MoCAP proteins regulated by MoArk1-mediated phosphorylation coordinate endocytosis and actin dynamics to govern development and virulence of Magnaporthe oryzae. PLoS Genet 13(5): e1006814.
4. Chen, X. L., Wang, Z. and Liu, C. (2016). Roles of Peroxisomes in the Rice Blast Fungus. Biomed Res Int 2016: 9343417.
5. Chen, X. L., Shen, M., Yang, J., Xing, Y., Chen, D., Li, Z., Zhao, W. and Zhang, Y. (2017). Peroxisomal fission is induced during appressorium formation and is required for full virulence of the rice blast fungus. Mol Plant Pathol 18(2): 222-237.
6. Chen, X. L., Shi, T., Yang, J., Shi, W., Gao, X., Chen, D., Xu, X., Xu, J. R., Talbot, N. J. and Peng, Y. L. (2014). N-glycosylation of effector proteins by an alpha-1,3-mannosyltransferase is required for the rice blast fungus to evade host innate immunity. Plant Cell 26(3): 1360-1376.
7. Chen, X. L., Yang, J. and Peng, Y. L. (2011). Large-scale insertional mutagenesis in Magnaporthe oryzae by Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation. Methods Mol Biol 722: 213-224.