1.  Yu J; Wang X; Yuan Q; Shi J; Cai J; Li ZC*, Ma H* (2023) Elucidating the impact of in vitro cultivation onNicotiana tabacummetabolism through combined in silico modeling and multiomics analysis.Frontiers in plant science14:1281348. (*：通讯作者)

2.  Zhu X, Liu X, Liu T, Wang Y, Ahmed N, Li ZC*, Jiang HF* (2021) Synthetic biology of plant natural products: From pathway elucidation to engineered biosynthesis in plant cells. Plant Communications 2, 100229.

3.  Li ZC, Bock R (2019) Rapid functional activation of a horizontally transferred eukaryotic gene in a bacterial genome in the absence of selection. Nucleic Acids Research (IF: 11.561) doi: 10.1093/nar/gkz370.

4.  Li ZC, Bock R (2018) Replication of bacterial plasmids in the nucleus of the red alga Porphyridium purpureum. Nature Communications (IF: 12.353) 9, 3451.

5.  Li ZC, He CY. (2015) Physalis floridana Cell Number Regulator1 encodes a cell membrane-anchored modulator of cell cycle and negatively controls fruit size. Journal of Experimental Botany (IF: 5.354) 66, 257–270.

6.  Zhang JS#, Li ZC#, Zhao J, Zhang SH, Quan H, Zhao M, He CY (2014) Deciphering the Physalis floridana Double-Layered-Lantern1 mutant provides insights into functional divergence of theGLOBOSAduplicates within the Solanaceae. Plant Physiology (IF: 5.949) 164, 748–764. (#：共同一作)

7.  Wang L, He LL, Li J, Zhao J, Li ZC, He CY (2014) Regulatory change at Physalis Organ Size 1 locus correlates to natural variation in tomatillo reproductive organ size. Nature Communications 5, 4271.

8.  Wang L, Li ZC, He CY (2012) Transcriptome-wide mining of the differently expressed transcripts for natural variation of floral organ size in Physalis philadelphica. Journal of Experimental Botany 63, 6457–6465.