2025

Kuan-Jen Lu , Chia-Wei Hsu, Wann-Neng Jane, Mien- Hao Peng, Ya-Wen Chou, Pin- Hsuan Huang,Kuo-Chen Yeh, Shu-Hsing Wu, James C. Liao

Dual-cycle CO2 fixation enhances growth and lipid synthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Science , Vol 389, Issue 6765

2023

Eckardt, N.A., Ainsworth, E.A., Bahuguna, R.N., Broadley, M.R., Busch, W., Carpita, N.C., Castrillo, G., Chory, J., DeHaan, L.R., Duarte, C.M., Henry, A., Jagadish, S.V.K., Langdale, J.A., Leakey, A.D.B., Liao, J.C., Lu, K.J. , McCann, M.C., McKay, J.K., Odeny, D.A., Jorge de Oliveira, E., Platten, J.D., Rabbi, I., Rim, E.Y., Ronald, P.C., Salt, D.E., Shigenaga, A.M., Wang, E., Wolfe, M., and Zhang, X.

Climate change challenges, plant science solutions. Plant Cell , 35, 24-66.

Kuan-Jen Lu , Chiung-Wen Chang, Chun-Hsiung Wang, Frederic Y-H Chen, Irene Y. Huang1, Pin-Hsuan Huang1, Cheng-Han Yang1, Hsiang-Yi Wu1, Wen-Jin Wu, Kai-Cheng Hsu, Meng-Chiao Ho, Ming-Daw Tsai, James C. Liao

An ATP-sensitive phosphoketolase regulates carbon fixation in cyanobacteria. Nature Metabolism

2021

Léo Bürgy, Simona Eicke, Christophe Kopp, Camilla Jenny, Kuan Jen Lu , Stephane Escrig, Anders Meibom, Samuel C Zeeman

Coalescence and directed anisotropic growth of starch granule initials in subdomains of Arabidopsis thaliana chloroplasts. Nature communications , 12, 6944

2018

Kuan-Jen Lu , Camilla Jenny, Barbara Pfister, Simona Eicke, and Samuel C. Zeeman

Distinct Functions of STARCH SYNTHASE 4 Domains in Determining Starch Granule Number and Morphology in Arabidopsis Leaves. Plant Physiology , 176 (1), 566-581

2017

David Seung, Julien Boudet, Jonathan Monroe, Tina B. Schreier, Laure C. David, Melanie Abt, Kuan-Jen Lu , Martina Zanella, and Samuel C. Zeeman

Homologs of PROTEIN TARGETING TO STARCH Control Starch Granule Initia-tion in Arabidopsis Leaves. The Plant Cell , 29, 1657–1677

2016

Barbara Pfister, Antoni Sánchez-Ferrer, Ana Diaz, Kuanjen Lu , Caroline Otto, Mirko Holler, Farooque Razvi Shaik, Florence Meier, Raffaele Mezzenga, and Samuel C. Zeeman

Recreating the Synthesis of Starch Granules in Yeast.. eLife , e15552

David Seung, Kuan-Jen Lu , Michaela Stettler, Sebastian Streb and Samuel C. Zeeman

Degradation of Glucan Primers in the Absence of Starch Synthase 4 Disrupts Starch Granule Initiation in Arabidopsis. Journal of Biochemistry

2015

Kuan-Jen Lu , Sebastian Streb, Florence Meier, Barbara Pfister, and Samuel C. Zee-man

Molecular Genetic Analysis of Glucan Branching Enzymes from Plants and Bacteria in Arabidopsis Reveals Marked Differences in Their Functions and Capacity to Mediate Starch Granule Formation.. Plant Physiology , 169, 1638-1655

2014

Barbara Pfister1, Kuan-Jen Lu 1, Simona Eicke, Regina Feil, John E. Lunn,
Sebastian Streb, and Samuel C. Zeeman

Genetic Evidence That Chain Length and Branch Point Distributions Are Linked Determinants of Starch Granule Formation in Arabidopsis.. Plant Physiology , 165, 1457-1474