Xing-Hai Zhang PhD: University of Calgary, 1996 Assistant Professor Research interests: plant molecular biology and biotechnology Contact information Office: SC 262 Phone: (561) 297-1011 Email: xhzhang@fau.edu

Zhang, X.-H., Takagi, H., and Widholm, J.M. (2004)   Expression of a novel yeast gene that detoxifies the proline analog azetidine-2-carboxylate confers resistance during tobacco seed germination, callus and shoot formation.   Plant Cell Reports, 22: (in press, published online Dec. 2, 2003).

Ibdah, M., Zhang, X.-H., Schmidt, J., and Vogt, T. (2003)   A novel Mg ++ -dependent O - methyltransferase in the phenylpropanoid metabolism of Mesembryanthemum crystallinum .   The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278: 43961-43972.

Zhang, X.-H., Ewy, R.G., Widholm, J.M., and Portis, A.R. Jr. (2002) Complementation of the nuclear antisense rbcS -induced photosynthesis deficiency by introducing an rbcS gene into the tobacco plastid genome.   Plant & Cell Physiology, 43: 1302-1313.

Zhang, X.-H., Brotherton, J.E., Widholm, J.M., and Portis, A.R. Jr. (2001)   Targeting a nuclear anthranilate synthase a -subunit gene (ASA2) to the tobacco plastid genome results in enhanced tryptophan biosynthesis. Return of a gene to its pre-endosymbiotic origin.   Plant Physiology, 127: 131-141.

Zhang, X.-H., Widholm, J.M., and Portis A.R. Jr. (2001)   Photosynthetic properties of two different soybean suspension cultures.   Journal of Plant Physiology, 158: 357-365.

Zhang, X.-H., Portis, A.R. Jr., and Widholm, J.M. (2001)   Plastid transformation of soybean suspension cultures.   Journal of Plant Biotechnology, 3: 39-44.