Dr. Tao received his Ph.D. from Sichuan Agricultural University and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He currently serves as a specially appointed researcher at Chengdu University. His research focuses on plant functional genomics and transcriptional regulation, with particular interests in plant growth and development, sex differentiation, abiotic stress responses, and secondary metabolism. His work primarily uses Herpetospermum pedunculosum, Fritillaria species, and duckweeds as research systems to identify key regulatory genes and elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying plant development, environmental adaptation, and specialized metabolism.