主要从事作物功能基因组与分子育种工作，主持和参与国家自然科学基金面上项目、973计划、转基因生物新品种培育重大专项、北京市自然科学基金等课题研究。在The Plant Cell、Nature Communications、Plant Physiology、Molecular Plant、Journal of Experimental Botany等国际学术期刊发表SCI论文19篇，其中第一作者或通讯作者论文6篇，获得5项国家发明专利。

主要论著

1.Xue S, Zou J, Liu Y, Wang M, Zhang C, Le J* (2019) Involvement of BIG5 and BIG3 in BRI1 trafficking reveals diverse functions of BIG-subfamily ARF-GEFs in plant growth and gravitropism. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 20: 23392.Xu Y#, Zou J#,*, Zheng H, Xu M, Zong X*, Wang L* (2019) RNA-Seq transcriptome analysis of rice primary roots reveals the role of flavonoids in regulating the rice primary root growth. Genes (Basel) 10: 2133.Qu X, Yan M, Zou J, Jiang M, Yang K, Le J* (2018) A2-type cyclin is required for the asymmetric entry division in rice stomatal development. Journal of Experimental Botany 69: 3587-35994.Xing L, Zhu M, Zhang M, Li W, Jiang H, Zou J, Wang L*, Xu M* (2017) High-throughput sequencing of small RNA transcriptomes in maize kernel identifies miRNAs involved in embryo and endosperm development. Genes (Basel) 8: 3855.Zou JJ#, Zheng ZY#, Xue S, Li HH, Wang YR, Le J* (2016) The role of Arabidopsis Actin-Related Protein 3 in amyloplast sedimentation and polar auxin transport in root gravitropism. Journal of Experimental Botany 67: 5325-5337.6.Zou JJ#, Li XD#, Ratnasekera D#, Wang C#, Liu WX, Song LF, Zhang WZ, Wu WH* (2015) Arabidopsis CALCIUM-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE8 and CATALASE3 function in abscisic acid-mediated signaling and H2O2 homeostasis in stomatal guard cells under drought stress. Plant Cell 27: 1445-1460.7.Wang HZ, Yang KZ, Zou JJ, Zhu LL, Xie ZD, Morita MT, Tasaka M, Friml J, Grotewold E, Beeckman T, Vanneste S, Sack F, Le J (2015) Transcriptional regulation of PIN genes by FOUR LIPS and MYB88 during Arabidopsis root gravitropism. Nature Communications 6: 8822.8.Zheng Z#, Zou J#, Li H, Xue S, Wang Y*, Le J* (2015) Microrheological insights into the dynamics of amyloplasts in root gravity-sensing cells. Molecular Plant 8: 660-663.