Prof. Jian Jiao is the deputy director of the Department of Pomology, a university-appointed professor, and a master’s supervisor at the College of Horticulture, Henan Agricultural University. He was selected for Henan Agricultural University’s “Top Talent Program”. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Shandong Agricultural University, a master’s degree from the Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and a doctorate from Northwest A&F University. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Modern Agriculture, Peking University, and a senior visiting scholar at the Royal Institute of Plant and Food, New Zealand. His research focuses on fruit tree viral diseases, field pathogen diagnosis and rapid detection, and fruit tree gene editing and genetic transformation systems. He has published more than ten papers as the first author or corresponding author in journals such as Plant Biotechnology Journal, Journal of Hazardous Materials, and LWT-food Science and Technology. He currently teaches courses such as “Fruit Tree Cultivation” and “Wine Appreciation”.