Genhua Niu is a professor in Urban Horticulture at Texas A&M AgriLife Research at Dallas, Texas A&M University. Her specialty is in stress physiology and crop production under controlled environments, including greenhouses and indoor farms. She earned a PhD (1997) in horticulture from Chiba University and MS (1987) and BS (1984) in Agricultural Engineering from Zhejiang University. Prior to joining Texas A&M University in 2004, she was a visiting scientist at USDA-ARS and post-doctoral research associate at Michigan State University. She has published 156 peer-reviewed journal papers and 25 book chapters. She is the editor and author of the books “Plant Factory - Indoor Vertical Farming for Efficient Quality Food Production” (1st & 2nd edition) and “Plant Factory – Basics, Applications, and Advances”.