我国著名蔬菜遗传资源学家、原中国农业科学院蔬菜所副所长、《中国蔬菜》的创始人之一刘红研究员，不幸于2001年2月26日溘然与世长辞，享年75岁。刘红同志长期从事蔬菜遗传资源研究，曾主持过多项国家和部级重点研究课题，撰写过多部重要科技专著和多篇学术论文，在蔬菜分类、 Researcher Liu Hong, one of the famous vegetable genetic resource scientists in China, former deputy director of the Vegetable Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and one of the founders of “Chinese Vegetables”, unfortunately died on February 26, 2001 at the age of 75. Comrade Liu Hong has been engaged in the research of vegetable genetic resources for a long time. He has presided over a number of key research projects at the national and ministerial levels, has written many important scientific and technological monographs and many academic dissertations,