Prof. Dr. Pingfang Yang received his master's degree from Huazhong Agricultural University in June 2002 and his doctorate from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in June 2005. From July 2005 to November 2005, he was an intern researcher at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From March 2007 to December 2009, he worked at Jianping Hu’s Lab, DOE–Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University. From January 2010 to September 2018, he was a researcher at the Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since October 2018, he has been a professor at the School of Life Sciences, Hubei University. His research interests mainly focus on the molecular mechanism of seed dormancy and germination and the proteomics of plant sexual reproduction.