Prof. Xuemei Ren is currently an associate professor and master's supervisor at the College of Life Sciences, Shanxi Agricultural University. Prof. Ren is a member of the Houji Laboratory (Cereal Crop Breeding) team at Shanxi Agricultural University. Currently, Prof. Ren's research interests lie in the exploration and functional analysis of genes related to foxtail millet development. Prof. Ren's educational background includes a Ph.D. in crop genetics and breeding from Huazhong Agricultural University, where her research focused on cloning and functional analysis of genes related to maize kernel development. Her notable academic achievements include the cloning and characterization of the maize grain development genes Emp11 and ZmSMK3. As the first author and co-first author, her research findings were published in the Journal of Experimental Botany and G3 (Bethesda) respectively.