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Characterization of three flavonol synthases involved in the biosynthesis of 4'-deoxyflavonol in Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi Open

Sanming Zhu, Qiuying Chen, Yu Kong, Lihang Xie, Qing Zhao , et al. · 2025

Integrated metabolomic and transcriptomic analyses of Dendrobium chrysotoxum and D. thyrsiflorum reveal the biosynthetic pathway from gigantol to erianin Open

Lihang Xie, Qiuying Chen, Najing Cheng, Yue Zhang, Yao Ma , et al. · 2024

Erianin is one of the most representative bibenzyls with significant inhibitory activity against a wide range of tumor cells. However, the low erianin level in natural materials has severely inhibited its further development in health care…

Secondary Metabolomic Analysis and In Vitro Bioactivity Evaluation of Stems Provide a Comprehensive Comparison between Dendrobium chrysotoxum and Dendrobium thyrsiflorum Open

Lihang Xie, Jinyong Huang, Ting-jian Xiong, Yao Ma · 2023

The stems of Dendrobium chrysotoxum (DC) are commonly used as health-promoting foods due to their excellent biological activities. However, the stems of D. thyrsiflorum (DT) are often used to meet the scarcity of DC in production because o…

Integrative lipidomics profile uncovers the mechanisms underlying high-level α-linolenic acid accumulation in Paeonia rockii seeds Open

Weizong Yang, Ziwei Xin, Lihang Xie, Yuhui Zhai, Yanlong Zhang , et al. · 2023

Tree peony (Paeonia rockii) is an excellent woody oilseed crop, known for its high α-linolenic acid (ALA, ~45%) content, which is of great value for human health. However, the mechanisms underlying this high-level ALA accumulation in tree …

Tree peony transcription factor PrWRI1 enhances seed oil accumulation Open

Lihang Xie, Jiayuan Hu, Zhenguo Yan, Xinyao Li, Sailong Wei , et al. · 2023

Background WRINKLED1 ( WRI1 ) encodes a transcription factor, belonging to the APETALA2 (AP2) family, and plays a key role in regulating plant oil biosynthesis. As a newly woody oil crop, tree peony ( Paeonia rockii ) was notable for the a…

Research advances of erianin: Source, production, biological activities and pharmacological properties Open

Qinghe Qiao, Yihao Du, Lihang Xie · 2022

Corrigendum: A Tree Peony Trihelix Transcription Factor PrASIL1 Represses Seed Oil Accumulation Open

Weizong Yang, Jiayuan Hu, Jyoti R. Behera, Aruna Kilaru, Yanping Yuan , et al. · 2022

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A Tree Peony Trihelix Transcription Factor PrASIL1 Represses Seed Oil Accumulation Open

Weizong Yang, Jiayuan Hu, Jyoti R. Behera, Aruna Kilaru, Yanping Yuan , et al. · 2021

In many higher plants, seed oil accumulation is governed by complex multilevel regulatory networks including transcriptional regulation, which primarily affects fatty acid biosynthesis. Tree peony ( Paeonia rockii ), a perennial deciduous …

Insights into the Phytochemical Composition and Bioactivities of Seeds from Wild Peony Species Open

Zhenguo Yan, Lihang Xie, Yao Tian, Mengchen Li, Jing Ni , et al. · 2020

Peony is an important medicinal and ornamental plant widely cultivated in the world. Its seeds as a functional food source have attracted much more attention in recent years, and they are rich in monoterpene glycosides and phenolic compoun…

Peer Review #3 of "Virus-induced gene silencing in the perennial woody Paeonia ostii (v0.1)" Open

Lihang Xie, Qingyu Zhang, Daoyang Sun, Weizong Yang, Jiayuan Hu , et al. · 2019

Tree peony is a perennial deciduous shrub with great ornamental and medicinal values.A limitation for its current functional genomic research is the lack of effective molecular genetic tools.Here, the first application of a Tobacco rattle …

Virus-induced gene silencing in the perennial woody Paeonia ostii Open

Lihang Xie, Qingyu Zhang, Daoyang Sun, Weizong Yang, Jiayuan Hu , et al. · 2019

Tree peony is a perennial deciduous shrub with great ornamental and medicinal value. A limitation of its current functional genomic research is the lack of effective molecular genetic tools. Here, the first application of a Tobacco rattle …

Peer Review #2 of "Virus-induced gene silencing in the perennial woody Paeonia ostii (v0.1)" Open

Lihang Xie, Qingyu Zhang, Daoyang Sun, Weizong Yang, Jiayuan Hu , et al. · 2019

Tree peony is a perennial deciduous shrub with great ornamental and medicinal values.A limitation for its current functional genomic research is the lack of effective molecular genetic tools.Here, the first application of a Tobacco rattle …

Comparative Transcriptome Analysis Reveals an Efficient Mechanism for α-Linolenic Acid Synthesis in Tree Peony Seeds Open

Qingyu Zhang, Rui Yu, Daoyang Sun, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Lihang Xie , et al. · 2018

Tree peony (Paeonia section Moutan DC.) species are woody oil crops with high unsaturated fatty acid content, including α-linolenic acid (ALA/18:3; >40% of the total fatty acid). Comparative transcriptome analyses were carried out to uncov…

Fatty Acid and Associated Gene Expression Analyses of Three Tree Peony Species Reveal Key Genes for α-Linolenic Acid Synthesis in Seeds Open

Qingyu Zhang, Rui Yu, Lihang Xie, Md. Mahbubur Rahman, Aruna Kilaru , et al. · 2018

The increasing demand for healthy edible oil has generated the need to identify promising oil crops. Tree peony (Paeonia section Moutan DC.) is a woody oil crop with α-linolenic acid (ALA) contributing for 45% of the total fa…

Pollen Sources Influence the Traits of Seed and Seed Oil in Paeonia ostii ‘Feng Dan’ Open

Lihang Xie, Lixin Niu, Yanlong Zhang, Min Kyung Jin, Duo Ji , et al. · 2017

The effects of different pollen sources on fruit and seed characteristics of Paeonia ostii ‘Feng Dan’ were investigated using analysis of three different pollination treatments and pollen sources from fifteen cultivars in two successive ye…

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