Yang, X.B. 2006. Framework Development in Plant Disease Risk Assessment and its Application. European Journal of Plant Pathology 115: 25-34

Del Ponte, E.M., Godoy, C.V., Li, X., and Yang, X.B. 2006. Predicting severity of Asian soybean rust epidemics with empirical rainfall models. Phytopathology 96:797-803

Pivonia, S. and Yang, X.B. 2006. Relating epidemic progress from a general disease model to seasonal appearance time of rusts in the United States: Implications for soybean rust. Phytopathology, 96:400–407

Pan, Z., Yang, X.B., Pivonia S. Xue, L., Pasken, R., and Roads, J. 2006. Long-term prediction of soyeban rust entry into the continental United States. Plant Disease 90:840-846.

Kim, K.S., Wang, T.C., and Yang, X.B. 2005. Simulation of apparent infection rate to present severity of soybean rust using fuzzy logic system. Phytopathology 95: 1122–1131.

Pivonia S. and Yang, X.B. 2005. Assessment of epidemic potential of soybean rust in the United States. Plant Disease 89: 678-682.

Navi, S.S., Bandyopadhyay, R. Reddy, R.K., Thakur, R.P. and Yang, X.B. 2005. Effect of wetness duration and grain development stages on sorghum grain mold infection. Plant Dis. 89:872-878 DOI: 10.1094/PD-89-0872.

Wegulo, S.N., Yang, X.B., Martinson, C.A. and Murphy, P.A. 2005. Effects of wounding and inoculation with Sclerotinia sclerotiorum on isoflavone concentrations in soybean. Can. J. Plant Sci. 85: 749-760.

Yang, X.B. and Navi, S.S. 2005. First report of charcoal rot (Macrophomina phaseolina) epidemics in soybean (Glycine max) in Iowa. Plant Dis. 89:526.