1.Wei Liu；Deputy director of research department 2. 2008.9-2013.6, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ph.D. 3. 2013.7 to date, Institute of Fruit Tree Research, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences 4. Current and previous interests:Molecular Research in Fruit tree 5. Representative Publications 1)Guibing Hu, Junting Feng, Xu Xiang, Jiabao Wang, Jarkko Salojärvi   , Chengming Liu, Zhenxian Wu , Jisen Zhang , Xinming Liang, Zide Jiang, Wei Liu et al.,Two divergent haplotypes from a highly heterozygous lychee genome suggest independent domestication events for early and late-maturing cultivars. Nature Genetics, 2022, 5:73–83; 2)Wei Liu#, Zhidan Xiao#, Chao Fan, Nonghui Jiang, Xiangchun Meng, Xu Xiang*. Cloning and characterization of a flavonol synthase gene from Litchi chinensis and its variation among litchi cultivars with different fruit maturation periods. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018, 9:567; 3)Wei Liu, Maoshan Chen, Lijun Bai, Zhenhua Zhuang, Chao Fan, Nonghui Jiang, Junsheng Zhao, Shuaipeng Ma, Xu Xiang*. Comprehensive transcriptomics and proteomics analyses of pollinated and parthenocarpic litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) fruits during early development. Scientific Reports, 2017, 7: 5401; 4)Wei Liu, Zhidan Xiao, Xiuli Bao, Xiaoyan Yang, Jing Fang, Xu Xiang*. Identifying litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) cultivars and their genetic relationships using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers. PloS One, 2015, 10(8): e0135390