Nectar and Nectaries

16. Liao, I.T.*, Gong, Y.*, Kramer, E.M. and Nikolov, L.A., 2025. The developmental basis of floral nectary diversity and evolution. New Phytologist. Review article.

15. RanOmics Group, Becker, A., Bachelier, J.B., Carrive, L., Conde e Silva, N., Damerval, C., Del Rio, C., Deveaux, Y., Di Stilio, V.S., Gong, Y. and Jabbour, F., 2024. A cornucopia of diversity—Ranunculales as a model lineage. Journal of experimental botany, 75(7), pp.1800-1822. Review article.

14. Gong, Y.^, Cheung, L.^, and Kramer, E.M., 2023. Decoding the black essence of Melianthus nectar. New Phytologist, 239(5). Commentary.

Stomata

13. Fung, H.F., Amador, G.O., Dale, R., Gong, Y., Vollbrecht, M., Erberich, J.M., Mair, A. and Bergmann, D.C., 2025. Multi-scale dynamics influence the division potential of stomatal lineage ground cells in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications, 16(1), p.2612.

12. Gong, Y.*, Dale, R.*, Fung, H.F.*, Amador, G.O.*, Smit, M.E. and Bergmann, D.C., 2023. A cell size threshold triggers commitment to stomatal fate in Arabidopsis. Science Advances, 9(38), p.eadf3497.

11. Muroyama, A., Gong, Y., Hartman, K.S. and Bergmann, D.C., 2023. Cortical polarity ensures its own asymmetric inheritance in the stomatal lineage to pattern the leaf surface. Science, 381(6653), pp.54-59.

10. Nir, I., Amador, G., Gong, Y., Smoot, N.K., Cai, L., Shohat, H. and Bergmann, D.C., 2022. Evolution of polarity protein BASL and the capacity for stomatal lineage asymmetric divisions. Current Biology, 32(2), pp.329-337.

9. Gong, Y., Alassimone, J., Muroyama, A., Amador, G., Varnau, R., Liu, A. and Bergmann, D.C., 2021. The Arabidopsis stomatal polarity protein BASL mediates distinct processes before and after cell division to coordinate cell size and fate asymmetries. Development, 148(18), p.dev199919.

8. Lopez-Anido, C.B., Vatén, A., Smoot, N.K., Sharma, N., Guo, V., Gong, Y., Gil, M.X.A., Weimer, A.K. and Bergmann, D.C., 2021. Single-cell resolution of lineage trajectories in the Arabidopsis stomatal lineage and developing leaf. Developmental cell, 56(7), pp.1043-1055.

7. Gong, Y., Varnau, R., Wallner, E.S., Acharya, R., Bergmann, D.C. and Cheung, L.S., 2021. Quantitative and dynamic cell polarity tracking in plant cells. New Phytologist, 230(2), pp.867-877.

6. Gong, Y., Alassimone, J., Varnau, R., Sharma, N., Cheung, L.S. and Bergmann, D.C., 2021. Tuning self-renewal in the Arabidopsis stomatal lineage by hormone and nutrient regulation of asymmetric cell division. Elife, 10, p.e63335.

5. Muroyama, A., Gong, Y. and Bergmann, D.C., 2020. Opposing, polarity-driven nuclear migrations underpin asymmetric divisions to pattern Arabidopsis stomata. Current Biology, 30(22), pp.4467-4475.

Other ventures

4. Chaudhri, V.K., Gong, Y., Heller, C. and Yamada, S., 2020. Explicating the Logic of Biology to Support Critical Thinking. In Frontiers and Advances in Positive Learning in the Age of InformaTiOn (PLATO) (pp. 127-134). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

3. Brumos, J., Zhao, C., Gong, Y., Soriano, D., Patel, A.P., Perez-Amador, M.A., Stepanova, A.N. and Alonso, J.M., 2020. An improved recombineering toolset for plants. The Plant Cell, 32(1), pp.100-122.

2. Feng, Y., Xu, P., Li, B., Li, P., Wen, X., An, F., Gong, Y., Xin, Y., Zhu, Z., Wang, Y. and Guo, H., 2017. Ethylene promotes root hair growth through coordinated EIN3/EIL1 and RHD6/RSL1 activity in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(52), pp.13834-13839.

1. Chen, S., Zhang, H., Shi, H., Ji, W., Feng, J., Gong, Y., Yang, Z. and Ouyang, Q., 2012. Automated design of genetic toggle switches with predetermined bistability. ACS synthetic Biology, 1(7), pp.284-290.