Prof. Ling Yu Lin is a professor, doctoral and master’s supervisor at the College of Horticulture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University. She also serves as the sixth director of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Biotechnology, the director of the Plant Tissue Culture Virus-Free and Rapid Propagation Technology Branch of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Biotechnology, and the director of the Fujian Horticultural Society. Her research focuses on horticultural plant genetic resources and biological breeding. She has published over 50 papers in SCI-indexed journals, including Plant Physiology, The Plant Journal, GigaScience, Tree Physiology, and Horticultural Plant Journal. She has won the first prize twice, the second prize once and the third prize once each for outstanding academic papers in natural sciences of Fujian Province. She serves on the guest editorial board for special issues of Plants—Basel and the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. She serves as a reviewer for internationally renowned journals, including the Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, The Plant Journal, Industrial Crops & Products, BMC Plant Biology, Frontiers in Plant Science, Chinese Journal of Agricultural Sciences, and Acta Horticulturae Sinica.