1. Hui Ren, Kyle Shankle, ..... Imtiyaz Khanday, Synergistic induction of fertilization-independent embryogenesis in rice egg cells by paternal-genome-expressed transcription factors.(2024) Nature Plants 1-8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01848-z 
2. Imtiyaz Khanday*, Christian Santos-Medellín and Venkatesan Sundaresan (2023) Somatic embryo initiation by rice BABY BOOM1 involves activation of zygote-expressed auxin biosynthesis genes. New Phytologist 238:673–687. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18774 
   *Lead and corresponding author
3. Bushra Rasool, Baby Summuna, …… Imtiyaz Khanday, Upendra Kumar, Parvaze Ahmad Sofi, Mohd Anwar Khan, Mohd Ashraf Bhat, Fehim Jeelani Wani, Mahendar Thudi, and Reyazul Rouf Mir (2023) Delineating Marker-trait Associations for Fusarium Wilt in Chickpea using Axiom® Cicer SNP Array. Phytopathology  ahead-of-print doi: https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-05-22-0164-FI
4. Aurore Vernet, Donaldo Meynard, ….. Imtiyaz Khanday*, Raphael Mercier, Venkatesan Sundaresan and Emmanuel Guiderdoni (2022) High-frequency synthetic apomixis in hybrid rice. Nature Communications 13:7963. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-35679-3 *Co-corresponding author
5. Reagan C. Reed, Kent J. Bradford and Imtiyaz Khanday* (2022) Seed germination and vigor: ensuring crop sustainability in a changing climate. Heredity https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-022-00497-2 *Corresponding author
6. Imtiyaz Khanday and Venkatesan Sundaresan (2021) Plant zygote development: recent insights and applications to clonal seeds. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 59: 101993 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2020.101993
7. Imtiyaz Khanday, Debra Skinner, Bing Yang, Raphael Mercier and Venkatesan Sundaresan (2019) A male-expressed rice embryogenic trigger redirected for asexual propagation through seeds. Nature 565:91–95 doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0785-8 
8. Sarah N. Anderson, Cameron S. Johnson*, Joshua Chesnut*, Daniel S. Jones*, Imtiyaz Khanday*, Margaret Woodhouse, Chenxin Li, Liza J. Conrad, Scott D. Russell, Venkatesan Sundaresan (2017) The Zygotic Transition Is Initiated in Unicellular Plant Zygotes with Asymmetric Activation of Parental Genomes. Developmental Cell 43:349–358, DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2017.10.005. (*Co-second author)
9. Imtiyaz Khanday, Sanjukta Das, Grace L. Chongloi, Manju Bansal, Ueli Grossniklaus and Usha Vijayraghavan (2016) Genome-wide targets regulated by OsMADS1 transcription factor reveals its DNA recognition properties. Plant Physiology 172: 372-388, http:/​/​dx.​doi.​org/​10.​1104/​pp.​16.​00789.
10. Liza J. Conrad, Imtiyaz Khanday, Cameron Johnson, Emmanuel Guiderdoni, Gynheung An, Usha Vijayraghavan and Venkatesan Sundaresan (2014)    The polycomb group gene EMF2B is essential for maintenance of floral meristem determinacy in rice. The Plant Journal 80: 883–894, doi: 10.1111/tpj.12688
11. Imtiyaz Khanday, Shri Ram Yadav and Usha Vijayraghavan (2013) Rice LHS1/OsMADS1 Controls Floret Meristem Specification by Coordinated Regulation of Transcription Factors and Hormone Signaling Pathways. Plant Physiology 161:1970-1983, doi/10.1104/pp.112.212423
12. Shri Ram Yadav, Imtiyaz Khanday, Bharat Bhusan Majhi, Karuppannan Veluthambi and Usha Vijayraghavan (2011) Auxin-Responsive OsMGH3, a Common Downstream Target of OsMADS1 and OsMADS6, Controls Rice Floret Fertility.  Plant Cell Physiol. 52(12): 2123-2135, doi:10.1093/pcp/pcr142