Prof. Dr. Naitong Yu serves as the Principal Investigator of the Tropical Plant Virus Resources and Utilization Research Group, and Deputy Director of the Microbiology Center at the Institute of Tropical Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences. He possesses extensive expertise in the diagnosis and detection of viral pathogens in plants, virus-host interactions, antiviral molecular breeding, and antiviral vaccine development. Prof. Yu is a Young Editorial Board Member for the journals “New Plant Protection” and “Guangdong Agricultural Science (In Chinese)”, and he is also a member of the American Phytopathological Society (APS), the China Society of Plant Protection (CSPP), and a permanent member of the Chinese Society of Agri-Biotechnology (SCAB). He has led over ten national and provincial research projects and participated in four major national initiatives. Prof. Yu has authored or co-authored more than 100 academic papers, including 51 papers as the first or corresponding author, published four books, and holds 14 Chinese invention patents, one Dutch invention patent, and two Australian patents. He was awarded a third prize in the Hainan Science and Technology Progress Award.