Mainly engaged in vegetable genetic breeding and vegetable biotechnology research, the storage-stable transgenic tomato created using antisense gene technology received my country's first agricultural biogenetic safety assessment "commercial production" approval letter in 1997, and in 1999 received the Science and Technology Progress Award from the Ministry of Agriculture second prize.

The new storage-stable first-generation hybrid tomato variety "Huafan No. 1" developed became my country's first approved agricultural genetically modified variety. In 2002, it won the first prize of Hubei Province Science and Technology Progress Award.

He has presided over more than 30 scientific research projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation, the National 863 Program, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the "948".

Achievements have been made in vegetable nutritional quality genomics, molecular biology and gene cloning identification of plant stress, and genome research on solanaceous crops.

Progress has been made in tomato library construction, cloning of specific promoters, and marker gene elimination vector systems, providing material and technical support for vegetable molecular breeding.

It has successively won 4 ministerial and provincial scientific and technological progress awards, 2 authorized invention patents, 5 patent applications, and 3 approved varieties.

He has published more than 80 papers and monographs, including 15 papers included in SCI.

He has published more than 130 papers in domestic and foreign academic journals, including more than 40 SCI papers, published 4 monographs, 1 Ministry of Agriculture appraisal result, 6 approved varieties, and 4 invention patents. He is the main leader in the school's vegetable subject. , has conducted in-depth research on vegetable biotechnology and genetic breeding, and achieved outstanding results. He has created my country's first agricultural genetically modified product approved by the state for commercial production, and is known as "an example of storage-stable breeding of fruits and vegetables in my country."

The key gene (Wo) for the formation of tomato multicellular epidermal trichomes was isolated and identified using map-based cloning method. Wo promotes the expression of cell cycle-related gene-SlCycB2 through protein interaction, thus promoting the transition of cells from G2 phase to M phase.

, ultimately promoting the formation of epidermal hairs.

The discovery of this mechanism is of great value in revealing the diversity of plant cell fate regulation.

At the same time, since homozygosity of the Wo gene will cause the abortion of tomato embryos, the isolation of this gene is also of great significance for revealing the mechanism of tomato embryo development.

The research paper was published in the top international academic magazine "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences". Horticultural experts believe that this is the highest level scientific research work on basic research on horticultural crops in my country so far.

Participating in the International Solanaceae Genome Project - Tomato Genome Sequencing and Tomato Evolutionary Mechanism Research Papers have been submitted to the journal Nature as requested.

He has presided over 50 projects including the National 863 Project, the National 973 Project, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, provincial (ministerial) scientific research projects, and international cooperation projects.