Jun Tao was selected as a young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions in Jiangsu Province and a young and middle-aged Leading Talent in Science and Technology in the "333 High-level Talents Training Project" of Jiangsu Province (level 2) and in the "Leading Talents Training Program" of Yangzhou University. He is now the director of the Flower Research Institute of Yangzhou University, the director of the Department of Landscape Architecture, the leader of the doctoral program of ornamental horticulture, and an expert of ornamental flowers in the modern agricultural industrial technology system of Jiangsu Province. He is also the vice president of the Peony Branch of the Chinese Society of Horticulture and executive director of the Molecular Breeding Branch of the Chinese Society of Horticulture. Jun Tao is engaged in flower cultivation physiology and molecular biology research, serving as corresponding author for publications in Environmental Science & Technology, Horticulture Research, Science of the Total Environment, and Postharvest.