2024 Zhuang Y.R., Liu T., Lin Q., Bai Y., Ma M.Y., Wang M.X., Liu Q.Y., Egan S., Wang G.G. Transcriptome analysis reveals the rapid defense responses in a disease-resistant brown seaweed against a bacterial pathogen. Aquaculture, 590: 741024.

2024 Zhuang Y.R., Saha, M., Bai, Y., Egan S., Han Y.X., Qiu Q.Y., Chen D.F., Wang G.G. Microbial communities associated with the mature sporophytes and sporelings of the commercially cultivated seaweed Saccharina japonica in Southern China. Journal of Applied Phycology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-024-03314-x.

2023 Ma M., Zhuang Y., Chang L., Xiao L., Lin Q., Qiu Q., Chen D., Egan S., Wang G. Naturally occurring beneficial bacteria Vibrio alginolyticus X-2 protects seaweed from bleaching disease. mBio, 14(4): e0006523, doi: 10.1128/mbio.00065-23.

2023 Yang Q., Zhuang Y., Saha M., Qiu Q., Chen D., Chang L., Xiao L., Wang G. An opportunistic pathogenic Pseudomon as isolated from healthy brown alga Saccharina japonica. Aquaculture, 563: doi: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2022.738975.

2023 Chen Y., Zhang X., Ma M., Zhuang Y., Chang L., Xiao L., Wang G. Extracellular compounds from pathogenic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas piscicida X-8 cause bleaching disease, triggering active defense responses in commercially farmed Saccharina japonica. Biology, 12(1)47: doi: 10.3390/biology12010047.

2022 Zhang X., Chen Y., Saha M., Zhuang Y., Chang L., Xiao L., Wang G. Pseudoalteromonas piscicida  X-8 causes bleaching disease in farmed Saccharina japonica. Aquaculture, 546: doi: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2021.737354.

2022 Ling F., Egan S., Zhuang Y., Chang L., Xiao L., Yang Q., Wang G. Epimicrobiome shifts with bleaching disease progression in the brown seaweed Saccharina japonica. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9: doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.865224.

2021 Ahmad R., Chen Y., Zhuang Y., Qiu Q., Chen D., Saha M., Wu H., Wang . Isolation and identification of a pathogenic bacterium, Exiguobacterium oxidotolerans XP‑2, from the abnormal diseased mature sporophytes of a commercially cultivated brown seaweed Saccharina japonica. Journal of Applied Phycology, 33(5): 3239-3249.

2021 Han Q., Zhang X., Chang L., Xiao L., Ahmad R., Saha M., Wu H., Wang G. Dynamic shift of the epibacterial communities on commercially cultivated Saccharina japonica from mature sporophytes to sporelings and juvenile sporophytes. Journal of Applied Phycology, 33(2): 1171-1179.

2020 Zhang R., Chang L., Xiao L., Zhang X., Han Q., Li N., Egan S., Wang G. Diversity of the epiphytic bacterial communities associated with commercially cultivated healthy and diseased Saccharina japonica during the harvest season. Journal of Applied Phycology,  32(3): 2071-2080.

2019 Wang G., Chang L., Zhang R., Wang S., Wei X., Rickert E., Krost P., Xiao L., Weinberger F. Can targeted defense elicitation improve seaweed aquaculture? Journal of Applied Phycology, 10.1007/s10811-018-1709-6.