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Ye Xia

Associate Professor, Biochemistry of Plant Pathogenesis and Immunity

xia.374@osu.edu

614-292-1789

Office:

477C Kottman Hall, Columbus

Professional Information

Degrees & Credentials:

PhD Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky

MS Plant Pathology, Northeast Agricultural University (NEAU) and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China

BS (Plant Protection), Northeast Agricultural University (NEAU), China

Biography:

View publications under the "Works" tab.

Research Area

As a plant pathologist, my research interests are mainly focused on the biochemical, genetic, and molecular mechanisms as well as application of plant disease resistance and beneficial plant-microbe/microbiome interactions to improve plant health and yield for sustainable agriculture. Two main areas: First, plant surface (cell wall, stomata, and cuticle) mediated plant immunity against diverse pathogens. Second, improvement of plant immunity and yield by beneficial microbes from phytobiome.

Courses Taught

Research Experience and Activities

Current: Associate Professor
Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, USA

Aug 2015 - May 2021
Assistant Professor
Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, USA

June 2010 - July 2015
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Horticulture Department, University of Kentucky (UK), Lexington, USA

Jan. 2005 - May 2010
Graduate Research Assistant
Plant Pathology Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

Sep. 2001– Jul. 2003
Graduate Research Assistant
Chinese State Key Laboratory of Pesticide Chemistry & Application Technique, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, China

Sept. 2000 - July 2001
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Plant Pathology, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin, China

Works

Publications

Publication list (*corresponding author)

Piao Yang, Ling Lu, Abraham Condrich, Gavin A. Muni, Sean Scranton, Shixiang Xu, Ye Xia, Shuai Huang (2025). Innovative Approaches for Engineering the Seed Microbiome to Enhance Crop Performance. SEEDS. 4(2), 24; https://doi.org/10.3390/seeds4020024
Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Atiq1*, Nasir Ahmed Rajput, Muhammad Sagheer, *Ye Xia (2025). Computational and experimental approaches to explore defense related enzymes conferring resistance in Fusarium infected chilli plants by regulating plant metabolism through nutritional products. Plos One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0309738.
Yang Piao, Pu Yuan, Wenshan Liu, Zhenzhen Zhao, Matthew C. Bernier, Chunquan Zhang, Ashna Adhikari, Stephen Obol Opiyo, Lijing Zhao, Fredrekis Banks, and *Ye Xia (2024). Plant Growth Promotion and Plant Disease Suppression Induced by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens Strain GD4a. Plants 13, no. 5: 672. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13050672.
Yuan, Pu, Muhammad Usman, Wenshan Liu, Ashna Adhikari, Chunquan Zhang, Victor Njiti, and Ye Xia*. Advancements in Plant Gene Editing Technology: From Construct Design to Enhanced Transformation Efficiency. Biotechnology Journal 19, no. 12 (2024): e202400457. https://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/biot.202400457.
Kaili Zhong, Jiang Yaoyao, Hu Haichao, Yuan Bowen, Wu Mila, Tu Aizhu, Xu Gecheng, Cai Linna, Liu Tingting, Gao Shiqi, Li Linzhi, Liao Qiansheng, Guo Lidan, Ye Xia, Peng Liu, Ye Cheng, Lin Lin, Chuanxi Zhang, Jianping Chen, and Jian Yang (2024). Tasrt2 Recognizes a Viral Protein to Activate Host Immunity by Increasing Histone Acetylation. Science Bulletin 69, no. 20: 3206-11.
Piao Yang, Liu Wenshan, Yuan Pu, Zhenzhen Zhao, Chunquan Zhang, Stephen Obol Opiyo, Ashna Adhikari, Lijing Zhao, Garrett Harsh, and *Ye Xia (2023). Plant Growth Promotion and Stress Tolerance Enhancement through Inoculation with Bacillus proteolyticus OSUB18. Biology. 12, no. 12: 1495. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology12121495
Piao Yang, Z Zhao, A Virag, T Becker, L Zhao, W Liu, *Ye Xia (2023). Botrytis cinerea in vivo Inoculation Assays for Early-, Middle- and Late-stage Strawberries. Bio Protocol.13(20):e4859. doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.4859. PMID: 37900101; PMCID: PMC10603257.
Lijing Zhao, Piao Yang, Zhenzhen Zhao, and *Ye Xia (2023). First report of Cephaliophora tropica causing leaf spot on tomato (Solanum lycopersicum cv. Picus) in U.S.A. Crop Protection. 172, 106324.
Piao Yang, Zhenzhen Zhao, Jiangbo Fan, Yinping Liang, Matthew C. Bernier, Yu Gao, Lijing Zhao, Stephen Opiyo, and *Ye Xia (2023). Bacillus proteolyticus OSUB18 Triggers Induced Systemic Resistance Against Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens in Arabidopsis. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14, 1078100. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1078100.
Hui Zhang, Ye Xia, Jin-Long Cui, Xin Ji, Shuang-Man Miao, Gang Zhang, and Yi-Min Li (2023). The composition characteristics of endophytic communities and their relationship with metabolites profile in Ephedra sinica under wild and cultivated conditions. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30, 42:95648-95659.
Piao Yang, Lijing Zhao, Yu Gary Gao, and *Ye Xia (2023). Detection, Diagnosis, and Preventive Management of the Bacterial Plant Pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. Plants 12, no. 9: 1765. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants1209176
Lijing Zhao, Piao Yang, Wenhui Li, Zhenzhen Zhao, *Ye Xia (2023). First Report of Trichoderma crassum Causing Leaf Spot on Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum cv. M82) in Ohio. Plant Disease. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-05-22-1093-PDN.
Piao Yang, N Bokros, S Debolt, Z Zhao, *Ye Xia (2022). Genome Sequence Source of Bacillus Amyloliquefaciens Strain GD4a, a Bacterial Endophyte Associated with Switchgrass Plants. Phytobiomes Journal. PBIOMES-09-21-0054-A.
Zhenzhen Zhao, Jiangbo Fan, Yu G. Gao, Zonghua Wang, Piao Yang, Yinping Liang, Stephen Opiyo, and *Ye Xia (2022). Arabidopsis Plasma Membrane ATPase AHA5 is Negatively Involved in PAMP Triggered Immunity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. DOI: 10.3390/ijms23073857
Ji X, Ye Xia, Zhang H, Cui J-L (2022). The microscopic mechanism between endophytic fungi and host plants: From recognition to building stable mutually beneficial relationships. Microbiological Research. 261, 127056.
Zhenzhen Zhao, Jiangbo Fan, Piao Yang, Zonghua Wang, Stephen Obol Opiyo, David Mackey, *Ye Xia (2022). Involvement of Arabidopsis Acyl Carrier Protein 1 in PAMP-triggered immunity. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (Editor’s Pick). DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-02-22-0049-R
ShuangMan Miao, Ye Xia, Jinlong Cui, JunHong Wang, MengLiang Wang. Correlation analysis between differential metabolites and bacterial endophytes of Ephedra sinica in different years (2021). Industrial Crops & Products. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2021.114250
Zhenzhen Zhao, Norbert Bokros, Seth DeBolt, Piao Yang, and *Ye Xia (2021). Genome Sequence Resource of Bacillus sp. RRD69, a Beneficial Bacterial Endophyte Isolated from Switchgrass Plants. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 34, no. 11 1320-1323. DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-08-20-0222-A
Kang Qiao, Qingchun Liu, Ye Xia, Shouan Zhang (2021). Evaluation of a small molecule compound N-acetylcysteine for management of bacterial spot of tomato caused by copper-resistant Xanthomonas perforans. Plant Disease. 105 (1): 108-13.
Kemper K.J., Ye Xia, Lakritz J., and Rattan Lal (2021). Health of soil,plants,animals and people. In Rattan Lal (Ed) “The Soil-Human Health Nexus”,CRC Press,Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton Fl :13-45 (ISBN:978-0-367-42214-1).
Zhenzhen Zhao, Xianpeng Yang, Shiyou Lü, Jiangbo Fan, Stephen Opiyo, Piao Yang, Jack Mangold, J., David Mackey, *Ye Xia (2020). Deciphering the Novel Role of AtMIN7 in Cuticle Formation and Defense against the Bacterial Pathogen Infection. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21, 5547.
Lili Tang, Ye Xia, Chao Fan, Jinming Kou, Fengzhi Wu, Wenhui Li, Kai Pan (2020). Wheat straw-induced resistance to Fusarium wilt is associated with microbial network changes in watermelon rhizosphere soil. Scientific Reports.10:12736.
Qin Peng, Zhiwen Wang, Pengfei Liu, Yinping Liang, Zhenzhen Zhao, Wenhui Li, * Xili Liu and *Ye Xia (2020). Oxathiapiprolin, a novel chemical inducer activates the plant disease resistance. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(4), 1223; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21041223.
Kang Qiao, Qingchun Liu,Yi Huang, Ye Xia, Shouan Zhang (2020). Management of bacterial spot of tomato caused by copper-resistant Xanthomonas perforans using a small molecule compound carvacrol. Crop Protection 132: 105114.
Amna A, Ye Xia, Muhammad Asad, Farooq Muhammad Tariq Javed, Muhammad Aqeel Kamran, Tehmeena Mukhtar, Javed Ali, Tauseef Tabassum, Shafiq ur Rehman, Muhammad Farooq Hussain Munis, Tariq Sultan, Hassan Javed Chaudhary (2020). Multi-stress tolerant PGPR Bacillus xiamenensis PM14 activating sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) red rot disease resistance. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2020.04.016
Jiangbo Fan, *Ye Xia, *Guoliang Wang (2019). An improved heteroduplex analysis for rapid genotyping of SNPs and single base pair indels. BioTechniques: doi.org/10.2144/btn-2019-0012.
Amna, Ud Din B, Sarfraz S, Ye Xia, Kamran MA, Javed MT, et al (2019). Mechanistic elucidation of germination potential and growth of wheat inoculated with exopolysaccharide and ACC- deaminase producing Bacillus strains under induced salinity stress. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 183:109466.
Sahib MR, Piao Yang, Norbert Bokros, Nicole Shapiro, Tanja Woyke, Nikos C. Kyrpides, *Ye Xia, *Seth DeBolt (2019). Improved Draft Genome Sequence of Microbacterium sp. Strain LKL04, a Bacterial Endophyte Associated with Switchgrass Plants. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 8 (45) e00927-19; DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00927-19
*Ye Xia, Seth DeBolt, Qin Ma, Adam McDermaid, Cankun Wang, Nicole Shapiro, Tanja Woyke, Nikos C. Kyrpides (2019). Improved Draft Genome Sequence of Bacillus sp. YF23 with plant growth promoting activity. Microbiology Resource Announcements. DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00099-19.
Yinping Liang, Ye Xia, Xiaoli Chang, Guoshu Gong, Jizhi Yang, Yuting Hu, Madison Cahill, Liya Luo, Tao Li, Lu He, Min Zhang (2019). Comparative Proteomic Analysis of Wheat Carrying Pm40 Response to Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici Using Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21;20(4). pii: E933. doi: 10.3390/ijms20040933.
*Ye Xia, Seth DeBolt, Qin Ma, Adam McDermaid, Cankun Wang, Nicole Shapiro, Tanja Woyke, Nikos C. Kyrpides (2019). Improved Draft Genome Sequence of Pseudomonas poae strain A2-S9 with plant growth promoting activity. Microbiology Resource Announcements. DOI: 10.1128/MRA.00275-19.
Chunxia Liu, Xuepeng Fu, Xingang Zhou, Shouwei Liu, Ye Xia, Naihui Li, Xiaoxiao Zhang, Fengzhi Wu (2019). Treatment with Wheat Root Exudates and Soil Microorganisms from Wheat/Watermelon Companion Cropping Can Induce Watermelon Disease Resistance against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum. Plant Disease. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-08-18-1387-RE.
*Ye Xia, Sahib MR, Amna A, Opiyo SO, Zhao Z, Gao YG (2019). Culturable endophytic fungal communities associated with plants in organic and conventional farming systems and their effects on plant growth. Scientific Reports 9:1669.
Carmit Ziv, Zhenzhen Zhao, Yu Gary Gao, and *Ye Xia (2018). The multifunctional roles of plant cuticle during plant-pathogen interactions. Invited review. Frontiers in Plant-Microbe Interaction. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01088
*Ye Xia, Amna Amna, Stephen Opiyo (2018). The culturable endophytic fungal communities of switchgrass grown on a coal-mining site and their effects on plant growth. PLOS ONE 13(6): e0198994.
Jiangbo Fan, Pengfei Bai, Tyesee Ning,…Ye Xia, Libo Shan, Guoliang Wang (2018).The monocot-specific receptor-like kinase SDS2 controls cell death and immunity in rice. Cell Host & Microbes, 23, 498-510.e495.
Ye Xia, Seth DeBolt, Jamin Dreyer, Delia Scott, Mark A.Williams (2015). Characterization of culturable bacterial endophytes and their capacity to promote plant growth from plants grown using organic or conventional practices. Frontiers in Plant- Microbe Interaction, 6:1-10.
Qingming Gao, Keshun Yu, Ye Xia, Caixia Wang, Duroy Navarre, Aardra Kachroo, Pradeep Kachroo (2014). Mono- and di-galactosyldiacyglycerol lipids function non- redundantly to regulate systemic acquired resistance in plants. Cell Report, 9, 1-11.
Ye Xia, Carloalberto Petti, Mark William, Seth Debolt (2014). Experimental approaches to study the plant cell walls during plant-microbe interaction. Frontiers in Plant- Microbe Interaction, 5:540. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00540.
Ye Xia, Lei Lei, Chad Brabham, Jozsef Stork, James Strickland, Adam Ladak, Ying Gu, Ian Wallace, Seth DeBolt (2014). Acetobixan, an inhibitor of cellulose synthesis identified by microbial bioprospecting. PLOS ONE. 9(4): e95245.
Ye Xia, Eliana Greissworth, Curtis Mucci, Mark Williams, Seth DeBolt (2013). Characterization of culturable bacterial endophytes of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) and their capacity to effect plant growth. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, 5(6): 674- 682. doi: 10.1111/j.1757-1707.2012.0120 (Cover feature).
Ye Xia, Keshun Yu, Ella Wilson, Duroy Navarre, Pradeep Kachroo, Aardra Kachroo (2012). Acyl CoA binding proteins are required for cuticle formation and plant responses to microbes. Frontiers in Plant Physiology, 3 (article 224:1-18). doi: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00224.
#Bidisha Chanda, #Ye Xia, Mihir Kumar Mandal, Keshun Yu, Kentaro Sekine,Qingming Gao, Devarshi Selote,Yanling Hu, Arnold Stromberg, DuRoy Navarre, Aardra Kachroo, Pradeep Kachroo (2011).Glycerol-3-phosphate is a critical mobile inducer of systemic immunity in plants. Nature Genetics, 43: 421-427 (#Co-first author, Highlighted by Faculty 1000 Biology).
Mihir Mandal, Bidisha Chanda, Ye Xia, Keshun Yu, Kentaro Sekine, Qingming Gao, Devarshi Selote, Aardra Kachroo, Pradeep Kachroo. Glycerol-3-phosphate and systemic immunity (2011). Plant Signaling& Behavior, 6(11): 1871-1874.
Ye Xia, Keshun Yu, DuRoy Navarre, Aardra Kachroo, Pradeep Kachroo (2010). The glabra1 mutation affects cuticle formation and plant response to microbes. Plant Physiology (With the editor highlight in the same issue), 154: 833-846.
Ye Xia, Qingming Gao, Keshun Yu, Ludmila Lapchyk, DuRoy Navarre, David Hildebrand, Aardra Kachroo, Pradeep Kachroo (2009). An intact cuticle in distal tissues is essential for the induction of systemic acquired resistance in plants. Cell Host & Microbe, 5(2):151-65.
Srivathsa Venugopal, Rae Dong Jeong, Mihir Mandal, Shifeng Zhu, Ye Xia, Arnold Stromberg, DuRoy Navarre, Aardra Kachroo, Pradeep Kachroo (2009). ENHANCED DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY 1 and salicylic acid act redundantly to regulate resistance gene-mediated signaling. PLoS Genetics, 5(7):e1000545.
Ye Xia, Yilin Zhou, Xiayu Duan, Xuemin Liu (2005). Monitoring of Blumeria graminis f.sp. tritici isolates to triadimefon in 2002 and establishment of pathogen base-line sensitivity to kresoxim-methyl. ACTA Phytopathologica Sinica, S1: 74-78.
Ye Xia, Yil in Zhou, Xiayu Duan, Xuemin Liu (2004). The base-line sensitivity of Blumeria graminis f.sp tritici to SYP-Z071 and the relationship of its cross-resistance to Triadimefon and SYP-Z071. ACTA Phytopathologica Sinica, 4: 382-384.
Ye Xia, Yilin Zhou, Xiayu Duan, Xuemin Liu (2002). Monitoring of resistance of Blumeria graminis f.sp tritici isolates to triadimefon in 2001. Chemical Control of Plant Disease in China. Chinese Agricultural Scientech Press 3: 225-229. (This paper won the second prize awarded by the Chinese Society of Plant Pathology in The Third Conference of Chemical Control of Plant Diseases in China in 2002).
Ye Xia, Xuemin Liu and Huangui Jin (2002). Quantitative bioassay of metalaxy, thiram and their combination for control of the Phytophthora capsici. Pesticide Science and Administration, 23: 26-28.

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