研究方向：重要藥用植物的組織和細胞培養，藥用成分的生物轉化。
藥用成分生物合成途徑關鍵酶基因的克隆和基因工程。
藥用成分作用的分子機理。
學歷：博士
【主講課程】：
主講碩士、本科生課程情況：天然藥物化學【主要論著】：
近五年代表作；1. Aixia Cheng, Guangmin Xia, Somatic hybridization between common wheat and Italian ryegrass. Plant Science 2004, 166(5): 1219-1226. (IF:1.389)
2. Aixia Cheng, Guangmin Xia, Daying Zhi, Huimin Chen, Intermediate fertile Triticum aestivum + Agropyron elongatum somatic hybrids are generated by low doses of UV irradiation. Cell Research (2004) 14(1): 86-91. (IF:1.936)
3. Cheng Ai-Xia, Xia Guang-Min, Chen Hui-Min, DNA transfer from wild millet to common wheat by asymmetric somatic hybridization. Acta Bot Sin （2004）46 (9):1114-1121. (IF: 0.413)
4. Aixia Cheng, Haifeng Cui, Guangmin Xia, Construction of a primary RH panel of Italian ryegrass genome via UV induced protoplast fusion. Plant biology (in press) (IF: 1.582)
5. Cheng Ai-Xia, Lou Yong-Gen, Mao Ying-Bo, Wang Ling-Jian, Chen Xiao-Ya Plant Terpenoids: Biosynthesis And Ecological Function. Journal of Integrated Plant Biology (in press) (IF: 0.413)
6. Ai-Xia Cheng, Cai-Yu Xiang, Chang-Qing Yang, Wen-Li Hu, Ling-Jian Wang, Yong-Gen Lou and Xiao-Ya Chen The Rice (E)-β-Caryophyllene Synthase (OsTPS3) Accounts for the Major Inducible Volatile Sesquiterpenes. Plant Physiology (in submission) (IF: 6.02)
7. Cuiling Li, Guangmin Xia, Fengning Xiang, Chuanen Zhou, Aixia Cheng Regeneration of asymmetric somatic hybrid plants from the fusion of two types of wheat with Russian wildrye. Plant Cell Reports 2004, 23 (7): 461-467. (IF:1.457)
