（1）水稻叶片衰老与细胞程序性死亡的分子机制 （2）水稻叶绿体发育和逆行信号调控的研究。

主要承担本科课程“细胞生物学”“细胞生物学实验”“植物学实验”以及研究生课程 “现代分子细胞生物学方法” 的综合实验授课

1. 国家自然科学青年基金，31701862, 马铃薯致病疫霉RXLR效应蛋白SFI5在抑制番茄MTI早期反应中分子机制的研究, 2018/01-2020/12, 25万元，已结题，主持

2. 福建省自然科学基金面上项目, 2018J01694, 马铃薯疫霉菌中一个潜在的钙调蛋白结合效应子毒性机理的研究, 2018/04-2021/04, 8万元，已结题，主持

3. 福建农林大学杰青项目，WHIRLY蛋白家族在水稻叶片衰老和细胞死亡过程中功能及分子机制的研究，XJQ201717，2017-2020，30万，主持

4. 国家自然科学基金面上项目，3227150337, OsEULs-OsS40-14-OsWRKY46a模块调控水稻叶片衰老的分子机制研究, 2023/01 - 2026/12, 54万元，在研，主持

5. 福建省自然科学基金, 面上项目, 2021J01094, 水稻中一个潜在的凝集素结合转录因子调控叶片衰老的机制研究, 2021-11 至 2025-11, 7万元, 在研, 主持

Habiba; Jiaxuan Xu; Ahmed G. Gad; Yuling Luo; Chunlan Fan; Junaite Bin Gias Uddin; Noor u l Ain; Chengxin Huang; Yu Zhang; Ying Miao; Xiangzi Zheng ; Five OsS40 family members are identif ied as senescence related genes in rice by reverse genetics approach, Frontiers in Plant Science, 12 （2021）

Xiangzi Zheng^#, Muhammad Jehanzeb^#, Habiba^#, Yuanyuan Zhang, Li Li, Ying Miao^*, Characterization of S40-like proteins and their roles in response to environmental cues and leaf senescence in rice. BMC Plant Biol, 19(1): 174 (2019).

Xiangzi Zheng^＃, Nadine Wagener^＃, Hazel McLellan, Petra C Boevink, Chenlei Hua, Paul R.J. Birch, Frédéric Brunner, Phytophthora infestans RXLR effector SFI5 requires association with calmodulin for PTI/MTI suppressing activity.
 New Phytologist 219, 1433-1446  (2018)


Xiangzi Zheng^＃, Hazel McLellan^＃, Malou Fraiture, Xiaoyu Liu, Petra Boevink, Eleanor M Gilroy, Ying Chen, Kabindra Kandel, Guido Sessa, Paul R.J.Birch,  Frédéric Brunner.Functionally Redundant RXLR Effectors from Phytophthora infestans Act at Different Steps to Suppress Early flg22-Triggered Immunity. Plos Pathogens, 10(4): e1004057 (2014). 

Muhammad Jehanzeb, Xiangzi Zheng and Ying Miao. The Role of the S40 Gene Family in Leaf Senescence. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 18(10), 2152; doi:10.3390/ijms18102152 (2017)

Malou Fraiture, Xiangzi Zheng, Frédéric Brunner. An Arabidopsis and Tomato Mesophyll Protoplast System for Fast Identification of Early MAMP-Triggered Immunity-Suppressing Effectors. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 1127:213-230 (2014)

Jie Zhou, Xiang-zi Zheng, Lan Lan, Chen-zeng Lin, Yu-bing Wu, Xiong-jie Lin, Daniel Ebbole, Guo-dong Lu, Zong-hua Wang. Biochemical and molecular characterization of a putative endoglucanase in Magnaporthe grisea. Curr Genet., 53(4): 217-224 (2008)

Jie Zhou, Cheng-zeng Lin, Xiang-zi Zheng, Xiong-jie Lin, Wei-jian Sang, Shi-hua Wang, Zong-hua Wang, Daniel Ebbole, Guo-dong Lu. Functional analysis of an alpha-1,2-mannosidase from Magnaporthe oryzae. Curr Genet., 55(4):485-96(2009)