Professor of Department of Plant Protection, South China Agricultural University and Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Microbial Signals and Disease Control. Education and Experiences: PhD, 2000, South China Agricultural University, P.R.China; Visiting researcher, 2007, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University. More than 100 papers appeared in scientific journals at home and abroad, such as Plant Biotechnology Journal, Frontiers in Microbiology, Scientific Reports, Viruses, Phytopathology, and Plant Disease. Research Interests: My research group is involved in studies of several aspects of rice viruses, including new virus identification, rice–virus–insect interaction, rice viral disease epidemiology, and control strategy.