2000年以来曾先后主持承担国家级863、973科研项目4项，省、部级科研项目4项。

代表性科研论文：
1.Yu T, Li YS, Chen XF, Hu J, Chang X, Zhu YG. Transgenic tobacco plants overexpressing cotton glutathione S-transferase (GST) show enhanced resistance to methyl viologen. J. Plant Physiol, 2003, 160: 1305-1311

2.Xuefeng Chen, Jianhua Xiong, Tao Yu, Xiang Li, Shaoqing Li, Yang Hua, Yangsheng Li, Yingguo Zhu. Molecular cloning and characterization of rice sedoheptulose-1,7-bisphosphatase gene that is regulated by environmental stresses. J. Plant Biochemistry & Biotechnology,13:93-99.

3.Xuefeng Chen, Tao Yu, Jianhua Xiong, Yiping Zhang, Yang Hua, Yangsheng Li, Yingguo Zhu. Molecular cloning and expression analysis of rice phosphoribulokinase gene that is regulated by environmental stresses. Molecular Biology Reports,2004,31(4)：249-255

4.Yangsheng Li, Shaoqing Li, Ping Yi, Xuequn Liu, Li Wang and Yingguo Zhu. Researches on the Honglian indica gametophytic CMS and its application in rice(Oryza sativa L.). In : Yuan Longping, Peng Jiming eds. Hybrid Rice and World Food Security. Beijing:China Science and Technology Press, 2005,114-125

5.Shaoqing Li, Guohua Yang, Shaobo Li, , Yangsheng Li, Zuyu Chen, Yingguo Zhu. Distribution of fertility-restorer genes for Wild-abortive and Honglian CMS lines of rice in the AA genome species of Genus Oryza. Annals of Botany,2005,96:461-466

6.Qiusheng Zhang, Jingjing Zhang, Daichang Yang, Yangsheng Li, Shaoqing Li and Yingguo Zhu. Characterisation and immunolocalisation of a pollen-specific calmodulin-binding protein from rice. Functional Plant Biology, 2006, 33, 555–562

7.Yang, G., Xing, Y., Li, S., Ding, J., Yue, B., Deng, K., Li, Y. and Zhu, Y. Molecular dissection of developmental behavior of tiller number and plant height and their relationship in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Hereditas, 2006,143: 236-245.

8.Bin-Ying Fu · Jian-Hua Xiong · Ling-Hua Zhu ?Xiu-Qin Zhao · Hua-Xue Xu · Yong-Ming Gao ? Yang-Sheng Li · Jian-Long Xu · Zhi-Kang Li. Identification of functional candidate genes for drought tolerance in rice. Mol Genet Genomics. 2007, 278(6):599-609.

9.Hui Li ,Jing Yang, Yayu Wang, Zhijun Chen, Sansi Tu, Lingling Feng,Yingguo Zhu, Yangsheng Li. Expression of a novel OSPGYRP (rice proline-, glycineand tyrosine-rich protein) gene, which is involved in vesicle trafficking, enhanced cold tolerance in E. coli. Biotechnol Lett., 2009,31:905-910