Shengming Liu is a professor and a tutor for postgraduate students of Henan University of Science and Technology. They graduated from Nanjing Agricultural University with a Doctor of Science degree in 2011. Their main research field is the resistance mechanism of plant pathogens to fungicides. Their study was sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province, and the Scientific and Technological Innovative Talents of the Henan Higher School and Zhongyuan Talent Program.