Dr. Xiaonan Li is an associate professor at the College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, China. In 2005, she graduated from Nanjing Agricultural University with a bachelor’s degree in horticulture. In 2008, she received a master’s degree from the Institute of Vegetables and Flowers of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. In February 2012, she received a Ph.D. in horticulture from Chungnam National University in South Korea. From March 2012 to September 2015, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences of Chungnam National University in South Korea. In October 2015, she joined Shenyang Agricultural University. She won 1 second prize in the Liaoning Province Science and Technology Progress Award and 1 first prize in the Shenyang Rural Science and Technology Promotion Award. Her main research directions are gene localization and the functional analysis of nutritional quality-related traits of Brassica cabbage crops in the Cruciferae family, as well as molecular mechanism research on seed dormancy.