夏晓剑，浙江大学农业与生物技术学院教授，博士生导师。长期从事蔬菜生长发育与品质调控研究，主要研究方向为蔬菜株型与逆境抗性的调控及分子机制，并取得了系列科研成果。先后主持3项国家自然科学基金项目，重点研发项目子课题、863课题子任务、973项目子课题各1项以及中国博士后基金等。以第一或通讯作者在PNAS、New Phytol、Plant Physiol等期刊发表SCI论文近30篇，申请发明专利9项，获得授权专利5项。作为主要完成人之一获得 “教育部科学技术进步一等奖”。担任Plants-Basel期刊客座编辑以及New Phytol、J Exp Bot、Environ Exp Bot等期刊评审专家，国家自然科学基金通讯评审专家等。

代表作：

1.Xia XJ; Dong H; Yin YL; Song XW; Gu XH; Sang KQ; Zhou J; Shi K; Zhou YH; Foyer CH; Yu JQ; Brassinosteroid signaling integrates multiple pathways to release apical dominance in tomato, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021, 118(11): e2004384118.

2.Hou JY; Sun Q; Li JJ; Ahammed GJ; Yu JQ; Fang H; Xia XJ*; Glutaredoxin S25 and its interacting TGACG motif-binding factor TGA2 mediate brassinosteroid-induced chlorothalonil metabolism in tomato plants, Environmental Pollution, 2019, 255(2): 113256.

3.Xia XJ; Fang PP; Guo X; Qian XJ; Zhou J; Shi K; Zhou YH; Yu JQ; Brassinosteroid-mediated apoplastic H2O2-glutaredoxin 12/14 cascade regulates antioxidant capacity in response to chilling in tomato, Plant Cell and Environment, 2018, 41(5): 1052-1064.

4.Yin YL; Qin KZ; Song XW; Zhang QH; Zhou YH; Xia XJ*; Yu JQ; BZR1 transcription factor regulates heat stress tolerance through FERONIA receptor-like kinase-mediated reactive oxygen species signaling in tomato, Plant and Cell Physiology, 2018, 59(11): 2239-2254.

5.Ahammed GJ; He BB; Qian XJ; Zhou YH; Shi K; Zhou J; Yu JQ; Xia XJ*; 24-Epibrassinolide alleviates organic pollutants-retarded root elongation by promoting redox homeostasis and secondary metabolism in Cucumis sativus L, Environmental Pollution, 2017, 229: 922-931.