白明义，2000年山西农业大学本科毕业，2003年沈阳农业大学获硕士学位，2007年中国科学院植物研究所获博士学位，随后到美国Carnegie Institution for Science做博士后研究，2014年5月到山东大学工作。现为山东大学特聘教授，国家杰出青年基金、国家海外高层次青年人才和山东省杰出青年基金获得者。担任山东大学生命科学学院副院长，植物发育与环境适应生物学教育部重点实验室副主任，《New Crops》、《Frontier in Plant Science》和《植物学报》等杂志编委，中国植物学会分子生物学会委员，中国细胞生物学会植物细胞生物学会会委员，山东植物生理与分子生物学常务理事。

以模式植物拟南芥和粮食作物小麦为材料，利用遗传学、生物化学、基因组学、蛋白组学、生物信息学等多学科理论和方法，研究植物氮营养高效的分子机制：1) 激素调控植物氮营养高效的分子机制；2) 激素调控植物碳-氮代谢平衡的分子机制；3) 激素调控小麦氮高效利用的菌根互作机制。近年来先后在Nature Plants, Nature Communications, Plant Cell等杂志发表30余篇高水平研究论文，多篇文章被Nature Plants 和Plant Cell发专文评述，多篇文章被ESI收录为高被引论文。

2022年 1. Honglei Wang, Chao Han, Jia-Gang Wang, Xiaoqian Chu, Wen Shi, Lianmei Yao, Jie Chen , Wei Hao, Zhiping Deng, Min Fan, and Ming-Yi Bai*. (2022). Regulatory functions of cellular energy sensor SnRK1 for nitrate signalling through NLP7 repression. Nature Plants. 8(9):1094-1107. 【Nature Plants专文评述】 2. Chao Han, Wenbo Hua, Jinge Li, Yan Qiao, Lianmei Yao, Wei Hao, Ruizi Li, Min Fan, Geert De Jaeger, Wenqiang Yang and Ming-Yi Bai*. (2022). TOR promotes guard cell starch degradation by regulating the activity of β-AMYLASE1 in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 34(3):1038-1053. 【The Plant Cell专文评述】【F1000推荐】 3. Wen Shi, Lingyan Wang, Lianmei Yao, Wei Hao, Chao Han, Min Fan, Wenfei Wang, and Ming-Yi Bai*. (2022). Spatially patterned hydrogen peroxide orchestrates stomatal development in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications. 13(1):5040. 4. Chao Han, Yan Qiao, Lianmei Yao, Wei Hao, Yue Liu, Wen Shi, Min Fan and Ming-Yi Bai*. (2022). TOR and SnRK1 fine tune SPEECHLESS transcription and protein stability to optimize stomatal development in response to exogenously supplied sugar. New Phytologist. 234(1):107-121. 5. Yanchen Tian, Na Zhao, Minmin Wang, Wenying Zhou, Jieqiong Guo, Chao Han, Chuanen Zhou, Wenfei Wang, Shuang Wu, Wenqiang Tang, Min Fan and Ming-Yi Bai*. (2022). Integrated regulation of periclinal cell division by transcriptional module of BZR1-SHR in Arabidopsis roots. New Phytologist. 233(2):795-808. 6. Mei Wang, Meng Wang, Min Zhao, Mengcheng Wang, Shupeng Liu, Yanchen Tian, Byeongho Moon, Chaochao Liang, Chunlong Li, Weiming Shi, Ming-Yi Bai, Shuwei Liu, Wei Zhang, Inhwan Hwang, and Guangmin Xia. (2022). TaSRO1 plays a dual role in suppressing TaSIP1 to fine tune mitochondrial retrograde signalling and enhance salinity stress tolerance. New Phytologist. 236(2):495-511. 7. Guohua Chai, Guang Qi, Dian Wang, Yamei Zhuang, Hua Xu, Zetao Bai, Ming-Yi Bai, Ruibo Hu, Zeng-Yu Wang, Gongke Zhou and Yingzhen Kong. (2022). The CCCH zinc finger protein C3H15 negatively regulates cell elongation by inhibiting brassinosteroid signaling. Plant Physiology. 189(1):285-300. 8. Meng Li, Pengxue Li, Chunhua Wang, Huimin Xu, Mengxue Wang, Yanli Wang, Xufang Niu, Mengyuan Xu, Hong Wang, Yaxin Qin, Wenqiang Tang, Ming-Yi Bai, Wenfei Wang, and Shuang Wu*. (2022). Brassinosteroid signaling restricts root lignification by antagonizing SHORT-ROOT function in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology. 190(2):1182-1198. 9. Jie Wu, Ying Song, Zi-Sheng Zhang, Jing-Xian Wang, Xuan Zhang, Jian-Ye Zang, Ming-Yi Bai, Lin-Hui Yu, and Cheng-Bin Xiang*. (2022). GAF domain is essential for nitrate-dependent AtNLP7 function. BMC Plant Biology. 22(1):366. 2021年 10. Xiaoqian Chu#, Jia-Gang Wang#, Mingzhe Li, Shujuan Zhang, Yangyang Gao, Min Fan, Chao Han, Fengning Xiang, Genying Li, Yong Wang, Xiang Yu, Chenbing Xiang, and Ming-Yi Bai*. (2021) HBI transcription factor-mediated ROS homeostasis regulates nitrate signal transduction. The Plant Cell. 33(9): 3004-3021.【F1000推荐】 11. Na Zhao, Min Zhao, Yanchen Tian, Yichuan Wang, Chao Han, Min Fan, Hongwei Guo and Ming-Yi Bai* (2021). Interaction between BZR1 and EIN3 mediates signalling crosstalk between brassinosteroids and ethylene. New Phytologist. 232(6):2308-2323. 12. Xiaoqian Chu, Mingzhe Li, Shujuan Zhang, Min Fan, Chao Han, Fengning Xiang, Genying Li, Yong Wang, Cheng-bin Xiang, Jia-Gang Wang* and Ming-Yi Bai*. (2021). HBI1-TCP20 interaction positively regulates the CEPs-mediated systemic nitrate acquisition. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 63(5): 902-912. 13. Yiming Kong, Zhe Meng, Hongfeng Wang, Yan Wang, Yuxue Zhang, Limei Hong, Rui Liu, Min Wang, Jing Zhang, Lu Han, Ming-Yi Bai, Xiaolin Yu, Fanjiang Kong, Kirankumar S Mysore, Jiangqi Wen, Peiyong Xin, Jinfang Chu and Chuanen Zhou. (2021). Brassinosteroid homeostasis is critical for the functionality of the Medicago truncatula pulvinus. Plant Physiology. 185(4):1745-1763. 14. Guang Qi, Huan Chen, Dian Wang, Hongyuan Zheng, Xianfeng Tang, Zhengzheng Guo, Jiayu Cheng, Jian Chen, Yiping Wang, Ming-Yi Bai, Fengquan Liu, Daowen Wang and Zheng Qing Fu. (2021). The BZR1-EDS1 module regulates plant growth-defense coordination. Molecular Plant. 4(12):2072-2087. 15. Lingyan Wang, Ping Yu, Jinyang Lyu, Yanfei Hu, Chao Han, Ming-Yi Bai and Min Fan*. (2021). BZR1 Physically Interacts with SPL9 to Regulate the Vegetative Phase Change and Cell Elongation in Arabidopsis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(19):10415 2020年 16. Jin-Ge Li, Min Fan, Wenbo Hua, Yanchen Tian, Lian-Ge Chen, Yu Sun, Ming-Yi Bai*. (2020) Brassinosteroid and hydrogen peroxide interdependently induce stomatal opening by promoting guard cell starch degradation. The Plant Cell. 32: 984-999. 【The Plant Cell专文评述】 17. Chao Han, Yue Liu, Wen Shi, Yan Qiao, Lingyan Wang, Yanchen Tian, Min Fan, Zhiping Deng, On Sun Lau, Geert De Jaeger and Ming-Yi Bai*. (2020) KIN10 promotes stomatal development through stabilization of the SPEECHLESS transcription factor. Nature Communications, 11:4214 18. Lingyan Wang, Yanchen Tian, Wen Shi, Ping Yu, Yanfei Hu, Jinyang Lv, Chunxiang Fu, Min Fan* and Ming-Yi Bai*. (2020) The miR396-GRFs module mediates the prevention of photo-oxidative damage by brassinosteroids during seedling de-etiolation in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 32: 2525-2542. 19. Ke Liao, Yu-Jun Peng, Li-Bing Yuan, Yang-Shuo Dai, Qin-Fang Chen, Lu-Jun Yu, Ming-Yi Bai, Wen-Qing Zhang, Li-Juan Xie, Shi Xiao*. (2020) Brassinosteroids antagonize jasmonates-activated plant defense responses through BRI1-EMS-SUPPRESSOR1. Plant Physiology, 182:1066-1082. 20. QiQi Zhang, JiaGang Wang, LingYan Wang, JunFang Wang, Qun Wang, Ping Yu, Ming-Yi Bai and Min Fan*. (2020) Gibberellin repression of axillary bud formation in Arabidopsis by modulation of DELLA-SPL9 complex activity. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 62:421-432. 21. Minmin Wang, Yanchen Tian, Chao Han, Chuanen Zhou, Ming-Yi Bai and Min Fan*. (2020). Phospho-mutant activity assays provide evidence for the negative regulation of transcriptional regulator PRE1 by phosphorylation. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21: 9183