Dr. Zhaohui Chu is a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University. He completed his PhD studies in major of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Huazhong Agricultural University in 2006, and has been awarded National Natural Science Award (second level, R02, 2013) and National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation (2009) of China. Then he worked as Postdoc at The Sainsbury Laboratory (2006-2008) and Taishan Scholar Professor at Shandong Agricultural University (2008-2021). He recently led a group working on varies of plant-microbe interactions between rice/maize/potato and Xanthomonas, Rhizoctonia/AMF/Oomycetes, induced resistance (IDR) by copper ion. He has published over 100 papers, and serves as Editors for various journals. His interests including plant disease resistance, plant immunity, plant-pathogen interactions and cross-talk with abiotic stresses and plant development.