Xiomin Lu received his PhD in crop genetics and breeding from the China Agricultural University in 2010, He worked as an research assistant at the Institute of Food Crops, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (2010-2015). He was promoted to associate researcher at the Food Crops Research Institute of Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 2015. He is mainly engaged in the breeding of new varieties of maize and the cloning of important agronomic traits: maize; breeding; drought-tolerant.