Colleges & Faculties

I. Personal information

Wenchao Zhao, born in Shouguang, Shandong Province, Ph.D., Professor, Member of the Communist Party of China, Doctoral Supervisor.Outstanding Talent of Organization Department of Beijing Municipal Party Committee.Adjunct Doctoral Supervisor of Hebei Agricultural University and Inner Mongolia Agricultural University.Director of Tomato Branch of Chinese Horticultural Society, Executive Director of Beijing Vegetable Society.

II. Research interests

Stress and regulation of protected vegetables.

III. Research Projects

Presided over more than 10 projects including 2 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2 sub-projects of National Key R&D Program, Beijing Natural Science Foundation, and Joint Funding Project of Beijing Municipal Education Commission and Beijing Natural Science Foundation Committee.

IV. Major Achievements

Published more than 20 SCI papers as first author or corresponding author in well-known international journals such as Advanced Science, New Phytologist, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, The Plant Journal, Plant Physiology.Authorized 6 patents.Editor-in-chief of popular science book Home Horticultural Plant Leisure Soilless Cultivation.Associate editor of Soilless Cultivation (13th Five-Year Plan textbook of Ministry of Agriculture) and Horticulture Experiment Course (14th Five-Year Plan textbook of Ministry of Agriculture).Contributor to Protected Horticulture (13th Five-Year Plan textbook of Ministry of Agriculture).Youth Editorial Board Member of Vegetable Research.Won 1 first prize and 2 third prizes of Beijing Agricultural Popularization Award.

Representative papers

1. Wang, X., Wang, Z., Tang, X., Qin, J., Zhou, X., Gu, L., ... & Zhao, W. (2025). The SlDOF9-SlSWEET17 Module: a Switch for Controlling Sugar Distribution Between Nematode Induced Galls and Roots in Tomato. Advanced Science, 2501771.

2. Sun, L., Zhu, M., Zhou, X., Gu, R., Hou, Y., Li, T., ... & Zhao, W*. (2024). The miR396a–SlGRF8 module regulates sugar accumulation in the roots via SlSTP10 during the interaction between root‐knot nematodes and tomato plants. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 66(12), 2701-2715.

3. Zhao, W., Liang, J., Huang, H., Yang, J., Feng, J., Sun, L., ... & Wang, S. (2023). Tomato defence against Meloidogyne incognita by jasmonic acid‐mediated fine‐tuning of kaempferol homeostasis. New Phytologist, 238(4).

4. Zhao, W., Huang, H., Wang, J., Wang, X., Xu, B., Yao, X., ... & Wang, S. (2023). Jasmonic acid enhances osmotic stress responses by MYC2‐mediated inhibition of protein phosphatase 2C1 and response regulators 26 transcription factor in tomato. The Plant Journal, 113(3), 546-561.

5. Xu, B., Wang, J., Peng, Y., Huang, H., Sun, L., Yang, R., ... & Zhao, W*. (2022) SlMYC2 Mediates Stomatal Movement in Response to Drought Stress by Repressing SlCHS1 Expression. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2604.

6. Huang, H., Zhao, W., Li, C., Qiao, H., Song, S., Yang, R., ... & Wang, S. (2022). SlVQ15 interacts with jasmonate-ZIM domain proteins and SlWRKY31 to regulate defense response in tomato. Plant Physiology.

7. Huang, H., Zhao, W., Qiao, H., Li, C., Sun, L., Yang, R., ... & Wang, S. (2022). SlWRKY45 interacts with jasmonate-ZIM domain proteins to negatively regulate defense against the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita in tomato. Horticulture Research, 9, uhac197.

V. Contact information

Postal address: College of Plant Science and Technology, Beijing University of Agriculture, No. 7, Beinong Road, Huilongguan, Changping, Beijing, 102206

Email: zhaowenchao@bua.edu.cn