Prof. Dr. Huawu Jiang holds a bachelor’s degree in plant physiology (September 1983–June 1987) from the Department of Biology, Lanzhou University, a master’s degree in biology (September 1992–June 1995) from Beijing Normal University, and a doctorate (September 1999–July 2002) and postdoctoral fellowship (September 2002–October 2004) from the School of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University. He has a position as a researcher and has been working at the South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Science since November 2004. His research areas are plant physiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology. He was the person in charge of the National Natural Science Foundation project, the deputy project leader of the “863” project, and the special project leader of the important direction of the knowledge innovation project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has won the third prize of the Hubei Science and Technology Progress Award (Natural Science) (2006, ranked 5/5) and the first prize of the Zhejiang Science and Technology Progress Award (Natural Science) (2005, ranked 4/7).
Prof. Dr. Guojiang Wu has a position as a professor and has been working at the South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Science since 2004. He was an assistant and teacher at the BaYi College of Agriculture, Xinjiang (1984–2004), a visiting professor at the School of Agriculture, Meiji University (1988–1990), and a fellowship at the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo (1997–2004). His research interests mainly include energy plant exploitation, leguminous symbiotic nitrogen fixation, and Rice genomic research. He has participated in many scientific research projects, such as the Key Innovation Programs of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China (863 Program), the NSFC-Guangdong Joint Fund of Natural Sciences, and the work of special scientific and technological base of Ministry of Science and Technology. He won the prize of “Outstanding Teachers of Education Base” in Guangzhou in 2008.
Prof. Dr. Yaping Chen holds a bachelor’s degree from Hunan Agricultural University, a doctorate from Nanjing Agricultural University, and a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Life Sciences of Sun Yat-sen University. She is an associate researcher and is currently working at the South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She is the head of the research direction on the interaction between resource plants and microorganisms. Her research area is the study and application of the mechanism of plant-microorganism interaction under stress conditions. She has presided over the National Foundation Project (General), the National Foundation Project (Youth Fund), the National Postdoctoral Foundation Project, the Academy of Sciences Project, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Knowledge Innovation Project, the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation (General), and the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation (Doctoral Start-up Project). As a key project leader, she has participated in projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology (sub-projects of national key R&D), projects deployed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (key projects of foreign cooperation of the International Cooperation Bureau), Guangzhou Science and Technology Plan Projects, and Guangdong Science and Technology Plan Projects. As a sub-project leader, she has participated in projects deployed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (important direction projects of the Knowledge Innovation Project).
