Polyploidy-promoted phenolic metabolism confers the increased competitive ability of Solidago canadensis.

Yang XiangHong, Cheng JiLiang, Yao BeiBei, Lu Huan, Zhang Yu, Xu JingXuan, Song XiaoLing, Kandhasamy Sowndhararajan, Qiang Sheng, (2021). Oikos 130(6), 1014-1025. Wiley, Copenhagen, Denmark. English language

Polyploidization contributes to evolution of competitive ability: a long term common garden study on the invasive Solidago canadensis in China.

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Transcription-mediated tissue-specific lignification of vascular bundle causes trade-offs between growth and defence capacity during invasion of Solidago canadensis.

Zhang Yu, Xu LingJun, Chen ShiGuo, Qiang Sheng, (2020). Plant Science 301 Elsevier Ireland Ltd, Shannon, Irish Republic. English language

Polyploidy in invasive Solidago canadensis increased plant nitrogen uptake, and abundance and activity of microbes and nematodes in soil.

Wu ShuQi, Cheng JiLiang, Xu XinYu, Zhang Yi, Zhao YeXin, Li HuiXin, Qiang Sheng, (2019). Soil Biology & Biochemistry 138, 107594. Elsevier Ltd, Amsterdam, Netherlands. English language

Feral rice from introgression of weedy rice genes into transgenic herbicide-resistant hybrid-rice progeny.

Zhang JingXu, Kang Ye, Valverde, B. E., Dai WeiMin, Song XiaoLing, Qiang Sheng, (2018). Journal of Experimental Botany 69(16), 3855-3865. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. English language

The first report of leaf blight disease on Microstegium vimineum caused by Bipolaris maydis in China.

Huang, Q., Ding, R. Y., Zhang, Q., Wu, Y., Reardon, R. C., Qiang, S., (2017). Plant Disease 101(9), 1680. American Phytopathological Society (APS Press), St. Paul, USA. English language

The first report of leaf spot disease on Microstegium vimineum caused by Curvularia geniculata in China.

Huang, Q., Zhang, L. G., Wu, Y., Reardon, R. C., Qiang, S., (2017). Plant Disease 101(2), 387. American Phytopathological Society (APS Press), St. Paul, USA. English language

Patterns of genetic diversity reveal multiple introductions and recurrent founder effects during range expansion in invasive populations of Geranium carolinianum (Geraniaceae).

Shirk, R. Y., Hamrick, J. L., Zhang, C., Qiang, S., (2014). Heredity 112(5), 497-507. Nature Publishing Group, London, UK. English language

Classification and characteristics of heat tolerance in Ageratina adenophora populations using fast chlorophyll a fluorescence rise O-J-I-P.

Chen ShiGuo, Yang Juan, Zhang ManSong, Strasser, R. J., Qiang Sheng, (2016). Environmental and Experimental Botany 122, 126-140. Elsevier B. V., Amsterdam, Netherlands. English language

ICE1 demethylation drives the range expansion of a plant invader through cold tolerance divergence.

Xie, H. J., Li, H., Liu, D., Dai, W. M., He, J. Y., Lin, S., Duan, H., Liu, L. L., Chen, S. G., Song, X. L., Valverde, B. E., Qiang, S., (2015). Molecular Ecology 24(4), 835-850. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. English language