Tengxiang Lian holds a Ph.D. from the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Crop Science and Technology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University. From 2021 to 2022, Tengxiang Lian was a Visiting Scholar at ETH Zurich. Tengxiang Lian’s main research areas include Molecular ecology of croplands, crop-soil-microbial interactions, microbial mechanisms underlying soybean tolerance to acid aluminum, and rhizobium-rhizosphere microbial interaction mechanisms.