Prof. Mingjie Chen is a third-class researcher at the Institute of Edible Fungi, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China. He is engaged in research on the resistance mechanism of edible fungi, genetic evaluation of major edible fungi germplasm resources, etc. He also carries out technical research on protoplasmic sports breeding, hybrid breeding, molecular marker-assisted breeding technology and construction of an effective transformation system for edible fungi. He was awarded the second prize for technical invention in Shanghai and the third prize for scientific and technological progress in Shanghai and has participated in the completion of the scientific research results of 16 national, ministerial and municipal scientific and technological progress awards. The low-temperature mutagenic strain VH3 of Straw Mushroom selected and bred under his auspices has passed the Shanghai Municipal Variety Validation, and he has been authorized 23 patents. He has published more than 200 papers in domestic and international academic journals.