Prof. Liezhao Liu is a lecturer at the Southwest University, School of Agriculture and Biotechnology. He has worked at the university since 2004. He studied for his PhD degree at the Southwest Agricultural University, majoring in genetic breeding, from 2000 to 2003. In 2006, he studied at the Northeastern University of Wales (UK). From 2008 to 2011, he attended Giessen University (Germany) for a postdoctoral fellowship. He has led and participated in many scientific research projects, such as the localization of cellulose components in the grains and stems of Brassica napus, the construction of a testing network in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the transcription factor BnaA9.NF-YA7 in Brassica napus research on drought tolerance function and molecular mechanism. His research direction is research on the utilization of lignin metabolism-related genes in rapeseed, functional analysis of stress biology-related genes in rapeseed and mapping and functional analysis of agronomic trait genes in rapeseed.