Publications

Ongoing

  1. Shunjin Zhu, Linna Zheng, Sheng Liang, Yang Xiao, Jinfang Zhao, Xianke Yang, Xiaoxia Ling, Kehui Cui, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2026. Paddy-upland rotation increases annual productivity and reduces global warming potential: A meta-analysis with maize-rice field experimental validation. Under review.
  2. Yinghao Zhao, Yueying Wang, Xiaoxia Ling, Xianke Yang, Hongshun Xiang, Zhenmei Wang, Nanyan Deng, Jianguo Man, Fei Wang, Kehui Cui, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2026. Upper-leaf photosynthesis does not capture whole-plant carbon gain during nitrogen recovery in rice. In revision.

2026

  1. Weila Cheng, Xianke Yang, Xiaoxia Ling, Fei Wang, Jianguo Man, Zhenmei Wang, Kehui Cui, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2026. Nitrogen supply and neighbour identity shape responses to belowground interactions in a cultivated rice genotype and its wild relative. Annals of Botany PDF
  2. Weila Cheng, Ningyu Liu, Hongshun Xiang, Xianke Yang, Xiaoxia Ling, and Dongliang Xiong. 2026. Photosynthesis phenotyping: Where are we and how should we move forward? Plant Ecophysiology 2(1):4. PDF
  3. Qila Sha, Xiaoxia Ling, Xianke Yang, Kehui Cui, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2026. Method-dependent variation in stomatal trait estimation and its functional implications in Oryza species. Physiologia Plantarum 178:e71153. PDF
  4. Qiaoyun Zhang, Sheng Liang, Xianke Yang, Xiaoxia Ling, Liang Fang, and Dongliang Xiong. 2026. Integrating curve-shape traits to assess photosynthetic thermal responses in rice. Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science 212:e70174. PDF
  5. Ya Zhang, Xianke Yang, Xiaoxia Ling, Kehui Cui, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2026. Leaf width expansion and biomass allocation, rather than photosynthetic rate, drive early vigor in newly developed rice lines. Journal of Experimental Botany 77(12):3793–3805. PDF
  6. Dongliang Xiong, Yang Xiao, Jing Zhao, Gen Li, and Jianliang Huang. 2026. Toward ratoon biology of whole-plant regeneration across seasons. Crop and Environment 5(2):100119. PDF
  7. Junzhou Liu, Tingting Du, Xianke Yang, Jinfang Zhao, Sheng Liang, Zhuo Chen, Hui Zhang, Yang Xiao, and Dongliang Xiong. 2026. A trade-off between leaf water retention capacity and rehydration capacity among plant species. New Phytologist 249(4):1727–1738. PDF

2025

  1. Junzhou Liu, Jinfang Zhao, Xiaoxia Ling, and Dongliang Xiong. 2025. 13C labeling to determine intra-leaf photosynthetic heterogeneity dynamics during drought and rewatering. Journal of Experimental Botany 76(16):4640–4653. PDF
  2. Yadi Fan, Zhuo Chen, Xianke Yang, Kehui Cui, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, Xiaoxia Ling, and Dongliang Xiong. 2025. The race to flourish: Evaluating natural variation of early growth rates in rice. Food and Energy Security 14(5):e70133. PDF
  3. Natthamon Chandarak, Xiaoxiao Wang, Shuyuan Liu, and Dongliang Xiong. 2025. Does leaf rolling serve as a phenotype index for drought tolerance in grasses? A review. Plant Ecophysiology 1(2):3. PDF

2024

  1. Junzhou Liu, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2024. Rewatering after drought: unraveling the drought thresholds and function recovery-limiting factors in maize leaves. Plant, Cell & Environment 47(12):5457–5469. PDF
  2. Dongliang Xiong. 2024. Perspectives of improving rice photosynthesis for higher grain yield. Crop and Environment 3:123–137. PDF
  3. Tingting Du, Xiaoxia Ling, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2024. Photosynthesis of rice leaves with a parallel venation is highly tolerant to vein severing. Physiologia Plantarum 176(2):e14241. PDF
  4. Junzhou Liu, Uri Hochberg, Risheng Ding, Dongliang Xiong, Zhanwu Dai, Qing Zhao, Jinliang Chen, Shasha Ji, and Shaozhong Kang. 2024. Elevated CO2 concentration increases maize growth under water deficit or soil salinity but with a higher risk of hydraulic failure. Journal of Experimental Botany 75(1):422–437.

2023

  1. Xiaoxiao Wang, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2023. Leaf rolling precedes stomatal closure in rice (Oryza sativa) under drought conditions. Journal of Experimental Botany 74(21):6650–6661. PDF
  2. Xing Yu, Guodong Yang, Zuolin Zhang, Yuan Guo, Chang Zheng, Le Xu, Shen Yuan, Dongliang Xiong, and Shaobing Peng. 2023. Cutting height of main crop has profound effects on cadmium but not arsenic concentration of ratoon crop in rice. Field Crops Research 302:109085.
  3. Wei Xue, Dan‐dan Liu, Tiina Tosens, Dongliang Xiong, Marc Carriquí, You‐cai Xiong, and Jonghan Ko. 2023. Cell wall thickness has phylogenetically consistent effects on the photosynthetic nitrogen-use efficiency of terrestrial plants. Plant, Cell & Environment 46(8):2323–2336.
  4. Dongliang Xiong. 2023. Leaf anatomy does not explain the large variability of mesophyll conductance across C3 crop species. The Plant Journal 113(5):1035–1048. PDF
  5. Xiaoxia Ling, Nanyan Deng, Dongliang Xiong, Shen Yuan, Shaobing Peng, Tao Li, and Jianliang Huang. 2023. Effect of variation in the observations on the prediction uncertainty in crop model simulation: Use ORYZA (v3) as a case study. Ecological Modelling 476:110233.
  6. Christopher D Muir, Miquel Angel Conesa, Jeroni Galmes, Varsha S Pathare, Patricia Rivera, Rosana Lopez Rodriguez, Teresa Terrazas, and Dongliang Xiong. 2023. How important are functional and developmental constraints on phenotypic evolution? An empirical test with the stomatal anatomy of flowering plants. The American Naturalist 201(6):794–812.

2022

  1. Dongliang Xiong and Jaume Flexas. 2022. Safety-efficiency tradeoffs? Correlations of photosynthesis, leaf hydraulics, and dehydration tolerance across species. Oecologia 200:51–64. PDF
  2. Dongliang Xiong, Jaume Flexas, Jianliang Huang, Kehui Cui, Fei Wang, Meng Lin, and Cyril Douthe. 2022. Why high yield QTLs did not succeed in preventing yield stagnation in rice? Crop and Environment 1(2):103–107. PDF
  3. Xiaoxiao Wang, Jinfang Zhao, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2022. Evaporative flux method of leaf hydraulic conductance estimation: Sources of uncertainty and reporting format recommendation. Plant Methods 18:63. PDF
  4. Jaume Flexas#, Yali Zhang#, Javier Gulías#, Dongliang Xiong#, Marc Carriquí, Tingting Du, Zhangying Lei, Haitao Du, Haofeng Meng, Xiang Dao, and Wenbin Xu. 2022. Leaf physiological traits of plants from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and other arid sites in China: identifying susceptible species and well-adapted extremophiles. Journal of Plant Physiology 272:153689.
  5. Shaobing Peng, Dongliang Xiong, and Liangzhi You. 2022. Inauguration of a new journal with focus on sustainable intensification of crop production: Crop and Environment. Crop and Environment 1(1):1.
  6. Zhuang Xiong, Dongliang Xiong, Detian Cai, Wei Wang, Kehui Cui, Shaobing Peng, and Jianliang Huang. 2022. Effect of stomatal morphology on leaf photosynthetic induction under fluctuating light across diploid and tetraploid rice. Environmental and Experimental Botany 194:104757.
  7. Zhuang Xiong, Zhigang Dun, Yucheng Wang, Desheng Yang, Dongliang Xiong, Kehui Cui, Shaobing Peng, and Jianliang Huang. 2022. Effect of stomatal morphology on leaf photosynthetic induction under fluctuating light in rice. Frontiers in Plant Science 12:754790.

2021

  1. Lin Chen#, Wanzhen Luo#, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2021. Leaf photosynthetic plasticity does not predict biomass responses to growth irradiance in rice. Physiologia Plantarum 173(4):2155–2165. PDF
  2. Xianhong Huang, Zhixin Wang, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2021. Mesophyll conductance variability of rice aquaporin knockout lines at different growth stages and growing environments. The Plant Journal 107(5):1503–1512. PDF
  3. Dongliang Xiong and Jaume Flexas. 2021. Leaf anatomical characteristics are less important than leaf chemical properties in determining photosynthesis responses to top-dress N. Journal of Experimental Botany 72(15):5709–5720. PDF
  4. Jaume Flexas, María J Clemente-Moreno, Josefina Bota, Tim J Brodribb, Jorge Gago, Yusuke Mizokami, Miquel Nadal, Alicia V Perera-Castro, Margalida Roig-Oliver, Daisuke Sugiura, Dongliang Xiong, and Marc Carriquí. 2021. Cell wall thickness and composition are involved in photosynthetic limitation. Journal of Experimental Botany 72(11):3971–3986. PDF

2020

  1. Dongliang Xiong and Jaume Flexas. 2020. From one-side to two-sides: the effects of stomatal distribution on photosynthesis. New Phytologist 228(6):1754–1766. PDF
  2. Tingting Du, Ping Meng, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2020. Fast photosynthesis measurements for phenotyping photosynthetic capacity of rice. Plant Methods 16:6. PDF
  3. Dongliang Xiong# and Miquel Nadal#. 2020. Linking water relations and hydraulics with photosynthesis. The Plant Journal 101(4):800–815. PDF

2018

  1. Dongliang Xiong and Jaume Flexas. 2018. Leaf economics spectrum in rice: Leaf anatomical, biochemical and physiological trait trade-offs. Journal of Experimental Botany 69(22):5599–5609. PDF
  2. Xiaoxiao Wang#, Tingting Du#, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2018. Leaf hydraulic vulnerability triggers the decline in stomatal and mesophyll conductance during drought in rice (Oryza sativa). Journal of Experimental Botany 69(16):4033–4045. PDF

    Commented by Flexas, Carriquí & Nadal. Gas exchange and hydraulics during drought in crops: who drives whom? Journal of Experimental Botany 69(16):3791–3795.

  3. Xiaoxiao Wang, Wencheng Wang, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Dongliang Xiong. 2018. Diffusional conductance to CO2 is the key limitation to photosynthesis in salt-stressed leaves of rice (Oryza sativa). Physiologia Plantarum 163:45–58. PDF
  4. Dongliang Xiong, Cyril Douthe, and Jaume Flexas. 2018. Differential coordination of stomatal conductance, mesophyll conductance and leaf hydraulic conductance in response to changing light across species. Plant, Cell & Environment 41:436–450. PDF

2017

  1. Dongliang Xiong, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Yong Li. 2017. A few enlarged chloroplasts are less efficient in photosynthesis than a large population of small chloroplasts in Arabidopsis thaliana. Scientific Reports 7:5782. PDF
  2. Dongliang Xiong, Xiaoxia Ling, Jianliang Huang, and Shaobing Peng. 2017. Meta-analysis and dose-response analysis of high-temperature effects on rice yield and quality. Environmental and Experimental Botany 141:1–9. PDF
  3. Dongliang Xiong, Jaume Flexas, Tingting Yu, Shaobing Peng, and Jianliang Huang. 2017. Leaf anatomy mediates coordination of leaf hydraulic conductance and mesophyll conductance to CO2 in Oryza. New Phytologist 213:572–583. PDF

2016

  1. Dongliang Xiong, Dan Wang, Xi Liu, Jianliang Huang, Shaobing Peng, and Yong Li. 2016. Leaf density explains variation in leaf mass per area in rice across cultivars and nitrogen treatments. Annals of Botany 117:963–971. PDF

2015

  1. Dongliang Xiong, Xi Liu, Limin Liu, Cyril Douthe, Yong Li, Shaobing Peng, and Jianliang Huang. 2015. Rapid responses of mesophyll conductance to changes of CO2 concentration, temperature and irradiance are affected by N supplements in rice. Plant, Cell & Environment 38(12):2541–2550. PDF
  2. Dongliang Xiong#, Jia Chen#, Tingting Yu#, Wanlin Gao, Xiaoxia Ling, Yong Li, Shaobing Peng, and Jianliang Huang. 2015. SPAD-based leaf nitrogen estimation is impacted by environmental factors and crop leaf characteristics. Scientific Reports 5:13389. PDF
  3. Dongliang Xiong, Tingting Yu, Xi Liu, Yong Li, Shaobing Peng, and Jianliang Huang. 2015. Heterogeneity of photosynthesis within leaves is associated with alteration of leaf structural features and leaf N content per leaf area in rice. Functional Plant Biology 42:687–696. PDF
  4. Dongliang Xiong, Tingting Yu, Tong Zhang, Yong Li, Shaobing Peng, and Jianliang Huang. 2015. Leaf hydraulic conductance is coordinated with leaf morpho-anatomical traits and nitrogen status in the genus Oryza. Journal of Experimental Botany 66:741–748. PDF
  5. Dongliang Xiong, Tingting Yu, Xiaoxia Ling, Shah Fahad, Shaobing Peng, Yong Li, and Jianliang Huang. 2015. Sufficient leaf transpiration and nonstructural carbohydrates are beneficial for high-temperature tolerance in three rice (Oryza sativa) cultivars and two nitrogen treatments. Functional Plant Biology 42:347–356. PDF

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