Prof. Dr. Shiwei Song

Shiwei Song is a Professor at the College of Horticulture, South China Agricultural University, and Chair of the Department of Facility Agricultural Science and Engineering. He also serves as a member of the Facility Horticulture Engineering Committee of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering. He completed his Bachelor’s at Shandong Agricultural University, Master’s at South China Agricultural University, and Ph.D. at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in 2001, 2004, and 2008, respectively. Following this, he was appointed as a Lecturer at South China Agricultural University in 2008. He was also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Florida from 2016 to 2017. His main research areas include (1) vegetable physiology and molecular biology, focusing on the study of vegetable nitrogen nutrient uptake and regulation and the formation mechanism of flowering Chinese cabbage product organ; (2) facility horticulture physiology and ecology, focusing on the study of light (LED) and nutritional regulation of vegetable development and quality, as well as seedling physiology; (3) technology research on vegetable cultivation, facility horticulture, and plant factories.