Prof. Ni Hong is a full professor of Huazhong Agricultural University, China. She is the manager of fruit tree pathology group. She once worked on Prof. Martelli’s lab from 1996-1997 in Italian Mediterranean fruit tree virus and viroid Research Center. Her current research involves in molecular interaction between plant and virus, including citrus, kiwifruit and pear mainly focusing on the pathogenicity and functional genome editing with help of CRISPR/Cas technology. She has published more than 50 peer reviewed papers in top journals such as Nat Commun、ISME J、Persoonia、Plant Biotechnology J、Mol Plant Pathol、Hort Res, Mol Plant Pahtol, Cells, Plant Dis. etc.