研究領域
（1）植物適應青藏高原極端環境的分子生理機制及其適應性進化；
（2）外來入侵植物對本土植物脅迫的分子生理機制；
（3）植物對非生物脅迫回響的信號過程；
（4）切花衰老的分子生理機制；
（5）植物的脂信號和脂類組學。
獲獎情況
（1）2003 美國Kansas State University，生物化學系，Graduate Student Research in Biochemistry Award，In recognition of outstanding research accompLIshment.
（2）2004 美國Kansas State University，Alvin and RosaLee Sarachek Predoctoral Honors Fellowship in Molecular Biology，honorableMention.
（3）2003 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plant Fatty Acids and Glycerolipids Symposium, Fallen Leaf Lake, California June 4-8, 2003，會議優秀論文獎，論文題目“Different roles of phoshpolipase D? and ? in freezing responses in Arabidopsis thaliana.”
論文發表
（1）Li W, Li M, Zhang W, Welti R, and Wang X (2004) The plasma membrane-bound phospholipase D? enhances freezing tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature Biotech, 22:427-433.
（2）Li W, Li M, Welti R, and Wang X (In press), Profiling membrane lipid changes in Arabidopsis during freezing injury and post freezing recovery to dissect metabolic and signaling functions of lipid changes and phospholipase Ds.
（3）Wang X, Li W, Li M., and Welti R (2006) Profiling lipid changes in plant response to low temperatures. Physiol. Plant. 26:90-96.
（4）Welti R, Li W, Li M, Sang Y, Biesiada H, Zhou H, Rajashekar CB, Williams TD, Wang X (2002) Profiling membrane lipids in plant stress responses: role of phospholipase D? in freezing-induced lipid changes in Arabidopsis. J Biol Chem, 277:31994-32002.
（5）Sang Y, Zheng S, Li W, Huang B, Wang X (2001) Regulation of plant water loss by manipulating the expression of phospholipase D?. Plant J, 28: 135-144.
主要項目
(1) 2005年中科院“百人計畫”入選。
(2) 主持國家“973”重大項目子課題1項；
(3) 主持國家科技基礎條件平台工作項目子課題2項；
(4) 教育部留學回國人員科研啟動費。
美國植物學學會
《雲南植物研究》副主編
