1    湖北省重点研发计划（国际合作领域），高产抗旱适宜机械化芝麻品种选育及示范，2020BHB028，2020-2022，主持

2    湖北省地方标准制订项目，芝麻机械化播种和收获技术规程，T-Z-01-2020041，2020-2022，主持     

3    农业部中央级公益性科研院所基本科研业务费专项，芝麻逆境应答基因网络构建及抗旱基因挖掘，1610172018007，2018-2020，主持

4    国家自然科学基金青年基金，水稻OsSRO1c基因在干旱胁迫诱导的叶片衰老中的功能研究，31500223，2016-2018，主持

以第一作者或通讯作者（含共同）发表论文22篇，其中SCI论文18篇，累计影响因子超过75，单篇最高影响因子9.8。

代表性论文：

1. Dossa K*, Zhou R,Li D, Liu A, Qin L, Mmadi MA, Su R, Zhang Y, Wang J, Yuan G, Zhang X*, You J*.A novel motif in the 5'-UTR of an orphan gene 'Big Root Biomass' modulates rootbiomass in sesame. Plant Biotechnol J, 2021, 19:1065-1079. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pbi.13531

2. Wang L†, DossaK†, You J†, Zhang Y, Li D, Zhou R, Yu J, Wei X, Zhu X, Jiang S, Gao Y, Mmadi MA, Zhang X*. High-resolution temporal transcriptome sequencing unravels ERF and WRKY as the master players in the regulatory networks underlying sesameresponses to waterlogging and recovery. Genomics, 2021, 113: 276-290. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ygeno.2020.11.022

3. You J, Zhang Y, Liu A, Li D, Wang X, Dossa K, Zhou R, Yu J, Zhang Y, Wang L, Zhang X*. Transcriptomic andmetabolomic profiling of drought-tolerant and susceptible sesame genotypes inresponse to drought stress. BMC Plant Biol, 2019, 19: 267. https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12870-019-1880-1

4. Zhang Y, Wei M,Liu A, Zhou R, Li D, Dossa K, Wang L, Zhang Y, Gong H, Zhang X*, You J*.Comparative proteomic analysis of two sesame genotypes with contrastingsalinity tolerance in response to salt stress. J Proteomics, 2019, 201: 73-83. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jprot.2019.04.017

5. Dossa K†, You J†, Wang L†, Zhang Y, Li D, Zhou R, Yu J, Wei X, Zhu X, Jiang S, Gao Y,Mmadi MA, Zhang X. Transcriptomic profiling of sesame during waterlogging andrecovery. Sci Data, 2019, 6: 204. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0226-z