Dr. Hongwei Li is an associate professor at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He earned his bachelor's degree and a master's degree from Northwest A&F University in 2000 and 2003, respectively. He then received his PhD from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007. Dr. Hongwei Li was also a visiting scholar at North Dakota State University in the USA from January to March 2013. In 2020, his research was shifted from wheat genetic breeding to the application research of Elytrigia elongata (tall wheatgrass). His major concern is to develop new tall wheatgrass varieties with improved salt and alkali tolerance.