Dr. Xiping Yang is an Associate Professor and Head at the College of Agriculture, Guangxi University. He received his PhD from the Department of Agronomy, University of Florida, and was a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Florida. His research mainly focuses on sugarcane germplasm innovation and molecular breeding, and research includes the development of sugarcane molecular markers (SSR and SNP chips), the discovery of key genes controlling important agronomic traits in sugarcane through population genomics, QTL positioning, whole-genome association analysis, and functional verification.