**About the Editors**

### **Yuxian Zhu**

Yuxian Zhu is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of Developing Countries, and a professor and doctoral supervisor at Wuhan University/Peking University. He is the Dean of the Institute for Advanced Study at Wuhan University, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Society of Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology, and Executive Deputy Editor-in-Chief of "Science China·Life Sciences." Zhu has published more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific research papers, of which more than 120 have been included in SCI. He is the author of the national common textbooks "Modern Molecular Biology" and "Experimental Technology of Molecular Biology," has presided over several major national scientific research projects, and has made outstanding contributions to the molecular mechanism of cotton fiber elongation and cotton genomics research. He won the second National Natural Science Award in 2011, the He Liang He Li Science and Technology Progress Award in 2012, and the second prize of the first National Teaching Materials Construction Award in 2021.

#### **Shaoqing Li**

Shaoqing Li is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Wuhan University and a Member of the Chinese Genetics Society and the Chinese Society of Plant Physiology. He is the director of the Key Laboratory of Indica Hybrid Vigor Research and Utilization of the Ministry of Agriculture. He has published over 90 SCI papers in internationally renowned journals, such as Nature Plants, Plant Cell, and New Phytologist, and he won the Hubei Province Science and Technology Progress Special Award and the Hubei Province Science and Technology Progress First Prize. The award, Hubei Province Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, and other awards and honorary titles authorized seven national invention patents. He presided over projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation, the National Transgenic Project, the National 973, the National 863, and the Hubei Provincial Natural Fund key projects.

#### **Guangcun He**

Guangcun He is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Wuhan University. He has been engaged in research on rice genetics and brown planthopper resistance for a long time and has discovered and located multiple brown planthopper resistance genes from rice seed resources, cloned the first gene worldwide, deeply revealed the molecular mechanism of rice resistance to brown planthopper, and cultivated multiple resistance genes. Brown planthopper-resistant germplasm, genes, and technologies are widely used across the country, promoting the breeding and promotion of brown planthopper-resistant varieties. He has published more than 90 SCI papers in international academic journals, such as Nat Genet, PNAS, Mol Plant, and Plant Cell, and has obtained 15 authorized national invention patents and five international patents. He won the first prize in the Hubei Province Natural Science Award, the first prize in the Hubei Province Technology Invention Award, the special prize in the Dabeinong Science and Technology Award, and the second National Technology Invention Award prize.
