Prof. Dr. Jiguang Huang earned, from the South China
Agricultural University, an MSc in Agricultural Insects and Pest Control (2001)
and a PhD in Pesticides (2008). He went to the University of California, Davis
for visiting scholar research from January 2014 to January 2015. He is now the
director of the Tea Saponin Biopesticide Research Laboratory of South China
Agricultural University and a science and technology extension expert at South
China Agricultural University. In addition, he is also a member of the expert
pool of Shenzhen National High-tech Industry Innovation Center and an expert of
the think tank of Shaoguan Science and Technology Association of Guangdong
Province. He has won the second prize of the Guangdong Provincial Science and
Technology Natural Science Award, the second prize of the National Science and
Technology Progress Award nominated by the Ministry of Education, etc. He
lectures on “Pesticide Science”, “Chemical Protection of Plants”, “Pesticide
Management and Marketing”, and many other graduate and undergraduate courses.
His research interests include natural source pesticides, pesticide toxicology,
and pest management. He has accumulated rich experience in the fields of
scientific use of pesticides and comprehensive pest prevention and control.
Prof. Dr. Lijuan Zhou earned, from the South China
Agricultural University, an MSc in Agricultural Insects and Pest Control (2001)
and a PhD in Pesticides (2004). As a visiting scholar funded by the China
Scholarship Council, she went to the University of California, Berkeley,
majoring in molecular biology, and engaged in research on the molecular
mechanism of exogenous compounds inhibiting plant root growth from May 2013 to
May 2014. She is now a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Green Pesticides, South China Agricultural University. She has chaired or participated in many
national, provincial, ministerial, and municipal-level projects, such as the
National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Guangdong Provincial
Natural Science Foundation. She teaches courses such as “Chemical Protection of Plants”, “Botanical Pesticides” and “Weed Identification and Management”,
etc. She is currently mainly engaged in research on natural source pesticides
(new herbicide research and development), pesticide molecular toxicology, pest
control and integrated management, pesticide residues, and resistance to weeds
and pests.
