Yupeng Cai received a B.S. degree in plant science and technology from Northwest A&F University, Xi’an, China, in 2013; and an M.S. degree in crop genetics and breeding from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2016. He received a Ph.D. degree in crop genetics and breeding from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2019. He did postdoctoral research at the Peking University-Southern University of Science and Technology Joint Institute of Plant and Food Sciences, Department of Biology, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China, from 2019 to 2021. His research interests include the molecular breeding of soybeans and CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing in soybeans.