主持：

国家自然科学基金青年基金1项

兰州大学“中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金”3项

细胞活动与逆境适应教育部重点实验室专项基金1项

参与：

国家自然科学基金面上项目3项

承担本科生《遗传学》和《遗传学实验》教学，并于2014年参与编写《遗传学实验教程》（兰州大学出版社），2018年第二版修订已出版。

指导研究生5名，其中2名博士生在读，3名硕士生已毕业。

(1)第三届生命科学学院青年教师讲课比赛 三等奖 2014年

(2)第一届生命科学学院暨口腔医学学院联合青年教师讲课比赛 三等奖 2016年

(1)Zhang, P., Qian, D., Luo, C., Niu, Y., Li, T., Li, C., Xiang, Y., Wang, X., Niu, Y.* (2021) Arabidopsis ADF5 acts as a downstream target gene of CBFs in response to low-temperature stress. Front. Cell Dev.Biol. 9: 635533.

(2)Zhou, Y.¹, Yang, Y.¹ and Niu, Y.¹, Fan, T., Qian, D., Luo, C.,Shi, Y., Li, S., An, L., Xiang, Y.* (2020) The Tip-Localized phosphatidylserine established by Arabidopsis ALA3 is crucial for Rab GTPase-Mediated vesicle trafficking and pollen tube growth. Plant Cell 32(10): 3170-3187

(3)Qian, D., Zhang, Z., He, J., Zhang, P., Ou, X., Li, T., Niu, L., Nan, Q., Niu, Y., He, W., An, L., Jiang, K., Xiang, Y.* (2019) Arabidopsis ADF5 promotes stomatal closure by regulating actin cytoskeleton remodeling in response to ABA and drought stress. J. Exp. Bot. 70(2): 435-446.

(4)Niu, Y.¹* and Xiang, Y.* (2018). An overview of biomembrane functions in plant responses to high-temperature stress. Front. Plant Sci. 9:915. （入选2020年“高被引论文”）

(5)Niu, Y.¹*, Qian, D., Liu, B., Ma, J., Wan, D., Wang, X., He, W., Xiang, Y.* (2017). ALA6, a P₄-type ATPase, is involved in heat stress responses in Arabidopsis thaliana. Front. Plant Sci. 8:1732.

(6)Nan, Q.¹, Qian, D.¹, Niu, Y., He, Y., Tong, S., Niu, Z., Ma, J., Yang, Y., An, L., Wan, D.*, Xiang, Y.* (2017). Plant Actin-depolymerizing factors possess opposing biochemical properties arising from key amino acid changes throughout evolution. Plant Cell 29:395-408. (Highlighted paper by Science Editor in “In Brief” ).

(7)Zhu, J.¹, Nan, Q.¹, Qin, T.¹, Qian, D., Mao, T., Yuan, S., Wu, X., Niu, Y., Bai, Q., An, L., Xiang, Y.* (2017). Higher-ordered actin structures remodeled by Arabidopsis ACTIN-DEPOLYMERIZING FACTOR5 are important for pollen germination and pollen tube growth. Mol. Plant 10:1065-1081.

(8)Niu, Y.¹, Wang, Y., Li, P., Zhang, F., Liu, H.* and Zheng, G.* (2013). Drought stress induces oxidative stress and antioxidant defense system in ascorbate-deficient vtc1 mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana. Acta Physiol. Plant 35: 1189-1200.

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