BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Provide the following information for the key personnel. DO NOT EXCEED TWO PAGES. NAME POSITION TITLE DeYu Xie Assistant Professor INSTITUTION Department of Plant Biology; North Carolina State University EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and includeINSTITUTION postdoctoral training.) AND LOCATION DEGREE YEAR(s) FIELD OF STUDY (if applicable) Hunan Normal University, China BS 1988 Biology Beijing Normal University, China MS 1993 Cytogenetics Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of PhD 1997 Plant Physiology and Molecular Sciences biology A. Positions and Honors. List in chronological order previous positions, concluding with your present position. List any honors. Include present membership on any Federal Government public advisory committee. Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Biology, N.C. State University (August 2005-now) Postdoctoral fellow, Plant Biology Division, The Samuel Noble Foundation, Oklahoma (2001-1005) Postdoctoral fellow, Institute of Molecular Agrobiology, National University of Singapore (1997-2001) B. List the 10 most relevant peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order). Do not exceed 5 and do not include publications submitted or in preparation. If you feel you must include more than 5 publications, include a link to a list of your publications. 1. Lili Zhou, Hai-Nian Zeng, MingZhu Shi and De-Yu Xie (Correspondent author) Development of tobacco tissue culture expressing Arabidopsis PAP1/MYB75 gene and characterization of anthocyanin biosynthesis. Planta 229: 37-51. 2. Stepanova AN, Robertson-Hoyt J, Yun J, Benavente LM, Xie D-Y, Doležal K, Schlereth A, Jürgens G, and Alonso JM. 2008 "TAA1-mediated auxin biosynthesis is essential for hormone crosstalk and plant development. Cell 133, 177-191 3. De-Yu Xie, Shashi Sharma, Elane Wright, Zeng-Yu Wang and Richard Dixon 2006 Metabolic engineering of proanthocyanidins through co-expression of anthocyanidin reductase and the PAP1 MYB transcription factor. Plant J. 45, 895-907. 4. De-Yu Xie and Richard A. Dixon, 2005 Proanthocyanidin biosynthesis-Still more questions than answers (Review). Phytochemistry, 66. , 2127-2144 5. De-Yu Xie, Lisa A. Jackson, John D. Cooper, Daneel Ferreira and Nancy L. Paiva 2004 Molecular and Biochemical Analysis of Two cDNA Clones Encoding Dihyroflavonol-4-reductase from Medicago truncatula. Plant Physiology, 134, 979-994. 6. De-Yu Xie, Shashi B. Sharma, Nancy L. Paiva, Daneel Ferreira and Richard A. Dixon 2003 Role of Anthocyanidin Reductase, Encoded by BANYULS in plant flavonoid biosynthesis. Science, 299, 396-399. 7. Deyu Xie and Yan Hong 2002 Agrobacterium-Mediated Genetic Transformation of Acacia mangium Plant Cell Reports, 20, 917-922. 8. Deyu Xie and Yan Hong 2001 In vitro regeneration of Acacia mangium via organogenesis. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture, 66, 167-173. 9. Deyu Xie and Yan Hong 2001 Regeneration of Acacia mangium through somatic embryogenesis. Plant Cell Reports, 20, 34-40. 10. Deyu Xie, Lianhui Wang, Hechun Ye and Guofeng Li 2000 Isolation and production of artemisinin and stigmasterol in hairy root cultures of Artemisia annua. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture, 63, 161-166. 11. Deyu Xie, Zhuorong Zou, Hechun Ye, Guofeng Li and Zhongchen Guo 2001 Selection of hairy root clones of Artemisia annua L. for Artemisinin production. The Israel Journal of Plant Sciences, 49, 129-134.