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 刘明春，教授，博士生导师，国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目A类（原国家自然科学基金杰出青年基金）获得者，教育部重大人才计划青年项目入选者，四川省学术和技术带头人。以番茄/猕猴桃等果蔬为研究材料，主要从事植物激素信号转导、果实品质形成及维持的分子机制等基础理论研究，同时致力于绿色贮运保鲜技术的研发。研究成果以通讯联系人在PNAS、Developmental Cell、Science Advances、Nature Communications、Plant Cell、Molecular Plant等重要学术期刊发表。主持国家自然科学基金项目、国家重点研发计划子课题、四川省杰出青年科技人才等项目，荣获重庆市自然科学一等奖和四川省科技进步二等奖。

代表性论文：

1. Xiaoqing He, Yi Wu, Peng Shu, Yanpeng Yin, Heng Deng, Shiyu Ying, Mengbo Wu, Panpan Zhao, Tengbo Huang, Julien Pirrello, Yang Zhang, Don Grierson, Yiguo Hong, Mondher Bouzayen, Mingchun Liu*. SlPLT6 controls ripening initiation and quality traits by modulation of histone acetylation and methylation in tomato,Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,2025, 122(24): e2503732122.

2. Feng Bai, Mengbo Wu, Wei Huang, Weijie Xu, Yikui Wang, Yang Zhang, Zhenhui Zhong, Yiguo Hong, Julien Pirrello, Mondher Bouzayen, Mingchun Liu*. Removal of toxic steroidal glycoalkaloids and bitterness in tomato is controlled by a complex epigenetic and genetic network,Science Advances,2025Feb 19;11(8): eads9601.

3. Yangang Pei#, Xiaoqing He#, Qihan Xue#, Heng Deng, Weijie Xu, Chengpeng Yang, Mengbo Wu, Weihao Wang, Ronggao Gong, Mondher Bouzayen, Yiguo Hong, Mingchun Liu*. Bifunctional transcription factor SlDEAR1 controls chlorophyll bioproduction by contrastingly regulating its biosynthesis and degradation genes in tomato fruit,The Plant Cell,2025, 37(7): koaf167.

4. Yangang Pei, Qihan Xue, Peng Shu, Weijie Xu, Xiaofei Du, Mengbo Wu, Kaidong Liu, Julien Pirrello, Mondher Bouzayen, Yiguo Hong,Mingchun Liu*. Bi-functional transcription factors SlERF.H5 and H7 activate cell wall and repress.Developmental Cell, 2024, 10.1016/j.devcel.2024.03.006.

5. Feng Bai, Peng Shu, Heng Deng, Yi Wu, Yao Chen, Mengbo Wu, Tao Ma, Yang Zhang, Julien Pirrello, Zhengguo Li, Yiguo Hong, Mondher Bouzayen*,Mingchun Liu*. A distal enhancer guides the negative selection of toxic glycoalkaloids during tomato domestication.Nature Communications, 2024,15, 2894. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47292-7.

6. Heng Deng #, Yao Chen #, Ziyu Liu, Zhaoqiao Liu, Peng Shu, Ruochen Wang, Yanwei Hao, Dan Su, Julien Pirrello, Yongsheng Liu, Zhengguo Li, Don Grierson, James J Giovannoni, Mondher Bouzayen,Mingchun Liu*. SlERF.F12 modulates the transition to ripening in tomato fruit by recruiting the co-repressor Topless and histone deacetylases to repress key ripening genes,The Plant Cell,2022,34(4): 1250–1272.

7. Heng Deng#, Yangang Pei#, Xin Xu#, Xiaofei Du#, Qihan Xue#, Zhuo Gao, Peng Shu, Yi Wu, Zhaoqiao Liu, Yongfei Jian, Mengbo Wu, Yikui Wang, Zhengguo Li, Julien Pirrello, Mondher Bouzayen, Wei Deng, Yiguo Hong,Mingchun Liu*. Ethylene-MPK8-ERF.C1-PR module confers resistance against Botrytis cinerea in tomato fruit without compromising ripening.New Phytologist, 2024,242 (2): 592-609.

8. Xiaoqing He#, Kaidong Liu#, Yi Wu, Weijie Xu, Ruochen Wang, Julien Pirrello, Mondher Bouzayen, Mengbo Wu,Mingchun Liu*. A transcriptional cascade mediated by two APETALA2 family members orchestrates carotenoid biosynthesis in tomato.Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2024,https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13650.

9. Mengbo Wu, Kaidong Liu, Honghai Li, Ying Li, Yunqi Zhu, Dan Su, Yaoxin Zhang, Heng Deng, Yikui Wang,Mingchun Liu*. Gibberellins involved in fruit ripening and softening by mediating multiple hormonal signals in tomato.Horticulture Research, 2024,11(2), uhad275.

10. Peng Shu#, Zixin Zhang#, Yi Wu, Yuan Chen, Kunyan Li, Heng Deng, Jing Zhang, Xin Zhang, Jiayu Wang, Zhibin Liu, Yue Xie, Kui Du, Mingzhang Li, Mondher Bouzayen, Yiguo Hong, Yang Zhang*,Mingchun Liu*. A comprehensive metabolic map reveals major quality regulations in red-flesh kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis).New Phytologist, 2023, 238(5): 2064-2079.

11. Ruochen Wang, Kaidong Liu, Bei Tang, Dan Su, Xiaoqing He, Heng Deng, Mengbo Wu, Mondher Bouzayen, Don Grierson,Mingchun Liu*. The MADS-box protein SlTAGL1 regulates a ripening-associated SlDQD/SDH2 involved in flavonoid biosynthesis and resistance against Botrytis cinerea in post-harvest tomato fruit.Plant Journal, 2023,115(6): 1746-1757.

12. Yangang Pei#, Qihan Xue#, Zehong Zhang, Peng Shu, Heng Deng, Mondher Bouzayen, Yiguo Hong,Mingchun Liu*, β-1,3-GLUCANASE10 regulates tomato development and disease resistance by modulating callose deposition,Plant Physiology, 2023,192(4): 2785-2803.

13. Dan Su#, Kaidong Liu#, Zhuoshu Yu, Ying Li, Yaoxin Zhang, Yunqi Zhu, Yi Wu, Hongyu He, Xiaodan Zeng, Honglin Chen, Don Grierson, Heng Deng*,Mingchun Liu*, Genome-wide characterization of the tomato GASA family identifies SlGASA1 as a repressor of fruit ripening,Horticulture Research, 2023, 10(1), uhac222.

14. Wang Ruochen#, Shu Peng#, Zhang Chi#, Zhang Junlin, Chen Ya, Zhang Yaoxin, Du Kui, Xie Yue, Li MingZhang, Ma Tao, Zhang Yang, Li Zhengguo, Grierson Donald, Pirrello Julien, Chen Kunsong, Bouzayen Mondher, Zhang Bo*,Liu Mingchun*. Integrative analyses of metabolome and genome-wide transcriptome reveal the regulatory network governing flavor formation in kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis).New Phytologist,2022, 233: 373–389.

15. Yan Li#, Yang Chen#, Lu Zhou#, Shengjie You#, Heng Deng, Ya Chen, Saleh Alseekh, Yong Yuan, Rao Fu, Zixin Zhang, Dan Su, Alisdair R. Fernie, Mondher Bouzayen, Tao Ma,Mingchun Liu*& Yang Zhang*. MicroTom Metabolic Network: Rewiring Tomato Metabolic Regulatory Network throughout the Growth Cycle,Molecular Plant, 2020, 1203-1218.

16. Liang Qi#, Deng Heng#, Li Yuxiang, Liu Ziyu, Shu Peng, Fu Rao, Zhang Yaoxin, Pirrello Julien, Zhang Yang, Grierson Don, Bouzayen Mondher, Liu Yongsheng*,Liu Mingchun*. Like Heterochromatin Protein 1b represses fruit ripening via regulating the H3K27me3 levels in ripening-related genes in tomato,New Phytologist,2020, 227(2): 485-497.