Prof. Chao Sun is an Associate Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Aridland Crop Science, College of Agronomy, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China. She graduated from the School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University in 2010, where obtained her Ph.D. in 2017. She served as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Dundee/James Hutton Institute, UK. Her research directions are crop genetics and breeding, agronomy, and seed industry.