Prof. Ying Zhang is the director of the Fruit Germplasm Improvement Research Center, the leader of the grape and breeding innovation team, and a visiting scholar at the University of Verona, Italy. In 2009, he graduated from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences with a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology. After graduation, he joined the Fruit Germplasm Improvement Research Center of the Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and has worked there ever since. He is mainly engaged in grape genome assembly, precise resource identification, gene mining for important agronomic traits, and grape molecular breeding technology research. He has established a grape-distant hybridization population and created a batch of excellent germplasm resources. He has completed the sequencing and assembly of the grape white rot genome and obtained the effector protein of the pathogen for the first time. The grape seedless SSR markers he excavated have an accuracy rate of 94% in natural populations. He has made breakthrough research progress in grape resistance genetic breeding, grape genome, GWAS, etc., and has a certain influence in the industry.