Yangyong Zhang received a bachelor’s degree from Jiangxi Agricultural University in 1999 and a master’s degree from Huazhong Agricultural University in 2002. He has been working at the Vegetable and Flower Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences since 2002 and received a doctorate from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 2011. In 2009, he conducted cooperative research at the USDA Vegetable Laboratory as a visiting scholar. In 2017, he was selected as a scientific research talent at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Yangyong Zhang is currently the deputy director of the Cruciferae Department and a researcher at the institute. Since he started working, he has been engaged in the research of cabbage breeding technology and variety selection, with the research focus on the cytoplasmic diversification of dominant male sterility in cabbage, the molecular identification of male sterility types in cabbage, the localization of important agronomic traits, and the cloning of leaf color-related genes.