Dr. Kunxi Zhang is an associate professor and master’s supervisor at the College of Horticulture, Henan Agricultural University, and a distinguished Young Talent at the university. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the College of Horticulture at Henan Agricultural University, a master’s degree from the College of Horticulture at Northwest A&F University, a doctorate degree, and was a postdoctoral fellow from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. His research focuses on the mechanisms of apple plant architecture regulation, the development and application of apple genetic transformation and gene editing, and the discovery and application of apple stress-resistance genes. He has published five papers in journals such as the Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, Plant Science, and Journal of Integrative Agriculture. He has presided over three provincial and university-level projects. He is mainly responsible for teaching undergraduate courses such as “Fruit Tree Cultivation”, “Protected Fruit Tree Cultivation”, and “Foreign Language for Horticulture”.