Tingyu Duan is a Professor at the College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University. He received his Master’s degree at Gansu Agricultural University in 2002 and completed his PhD studies at Lanzhou University in 2010. He has 58 publications with 480 citations and an h-index of 16 (Scopus, 6 December 2023). His research interests include forage crop pathology, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and disease control.