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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, 2025 Feb 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.