Prof. Dr. Yuxiang Cheng currently works as a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, China. He obtained a Bachelor's and a Master's degree of Arts in Tea Science from Anhui Agricultural University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Landscape Plants and Ornamental Horticulture from Northeast Forestry University. He also completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology at the Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main research areas and contents are: 1. Key traits of forest trees—the molecular basis of wood development. 2. Functional genomics of lignocellulose biomass synthesis and regulation in poplar and other trees.