Natural depletion of histone  in sex cells causes DNA demethylation, heterochromatin decondensation and transposon activation
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Natural variation in TBP-ASSOCIATED FACTOR 4b controls meiotic crossover and germline transcription in Arabidopsis
E.J. Lawrence, H. Gao, A.J. Tock, C. Lambing, A.R. Blackwell, X. Feng, I.R. Henderson, Current Biology 29 (2019) 2676–2686.e3.

Sexual-lineage-specific DNA methylation regulates meiosis in Arabidopsis
J. Walker, H. Gao, J. Zhang, B. Aldridge, M. Vickers, J.D. Higgins, X. Feng, Nature Genetics 50 (2017) 130–137.

DNA demethylation is initiated in the central cells of Arabidopsis and rice
K. Park, M.Y. Kim, M. Vickers, J.-S. Park, Y. Hyun, T. Okamoto, D. Zilberman, R.L. Fischer, X. Feng, Y. Choi, S. Scholten, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (2016) 15138–15143.

Arabidopsis male sexual lineage exhibits more robust maintenance of CG methylation than somatic tissues
P.-H. Hsieh, S. He, T. Buttress, H. Gao, M. Couchman, R.L. Fischer, D. Zilberman, X. Feng, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (2016) 15132–15137.

The chromatin remodeler SPLAYED negatively regulates SN-mediated immunity
K.C.M. Johnson, S. Xia, X. Feng, X. Li, Plant and Cell Physiology 56 (2015) 1616–1623.

A conversation across generations: Soma-germ cell crosstalk in plants
X. Feng, D. Zilberman, H. Dickinson, Developmental Cell 24 (2013) 215–225.

Active DNA demethylation in plant companion cells reinforces transposon methylation in gametes
C.A. Ibarra, X. Feng, V.K. Schoft, T.-F. Hsieh, R. Uzawa, J.A. Rodrigues, A. Zemach, N. Chumak, A. Machlicova, T. Nishimura, D. Rojas, R.L. Fischer, H. Tamaru, D. Zilberman, Science 337 (2012) 1360–1364.

Tapetal cell fate, lineage and proliferation in the Arabidopsis anther
X. Feng, H.G. Dickinson, Development 137 (2010) 2409–2416.

Cell–cell interactions during patterning of the <i>Arabidopsis</i> anther
X. Feng, H.G. Dickinson, Biochemical Society Transactions 38 (2010) 571–576.

Packaging the male germline in plants
X. Feng, H.G. Dickinson, Trends in Genetics 23 (2007) 503–510.

A new geranylgeranyl Diphosphate synthase gene from Ginkgo biloba, which intermediates the biosynthesis of the key precursor for ginkgolides
Z. Liao, M. Chen, Y. Gong, L. Guo, Q. Tan, X. Feng, X. Sun, F. Tan, K. Tang, DNA Sequence 15 (2004) 153–158.