Dr. Yi Zhou currently works as a Professor and Doctoral and Master's Supervisor at the College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, China. He graduated with a master's degree in plant pathology from Southwest University in 1999, received a doctorate in microbiology from Huazhong Agricultural University in 2005, and completed his postdoctoral studies at Dong-A University in the Republic of Korea in 2007. He is engaged in teaching and research in plant pathology and beneficial microbiology. His main research interests are the interactions between fungi and bacteria in vivo and plant disease biocontrol. He was the first in China to transfer functional bacteria (nitrogen-fixing, Bt) into the corresponding fungi, and through fungal pathways, he achieved nitrogen-fixing, insecticidal, and disease-resistant effects in plants and insects.