Zhen Huang is a professor at the College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University. He completed his Ph.D. studies at the Huazhong Agricultural University in 2008 and then joined Northwest A&F University as an associate professor. From 2013 to 2015, he served as a visiting fellow at AAFC in Canada. His research field focuses on the utilization of rapeseed heterosis and research on the tolerance of rapeseed (clubroot, salt tolerance).