Dr. Yuxuan Hou is currently an associate researcher at the China National Rice Research Institute. She received her Bachelor of Agronomy degree from Huazhong Agricultural University in 2002, a Master of Agronomy from Huazhong Agricultural University in 2005, and a Doctor of Science from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008. From 2010 to 2012, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Mississippi State University. In recent years, she has presided over five competitive projects at national and provincial and ministerial levels; published about 16 papers as the first or corresponding author in internationally renowned journals such as "iSceince", "Plant Biotechnology Journal" and "New Phytologist"; applied for and authorized 7 national invention patents; authorized 1 software copyright; and won 1 second prize for scientific and technological progress in Hubei Province. Her main research directions include the occurrence and epidemic patterns of major bacterial diseases of rice, the identification, cloning and mechanistic analysis of rice bacterial blight resistance genes, and the creation of rice bacterial blight resistance germplasm resources.