Youxiong Que is a Professor in the College of Agriculture at the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU). His research interests are in the fields of crop genetics and biotechnology especially sugarcane biotechnology, including but not limited to the following three aspects. Firstly, molecular interaction between crop and pathogen. Secondly, gene mining and function identification. Thirdly, molecular breeding. He has conducted several projects supported by National Key R&D Program of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 948 Program of Ministry of Agriculture, Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education, Fujian Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars and so on. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed papers in New Phytologist, Industrial Crops and Products, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, BMC Genomics, Environmental and Experimental Botany, Frontiers in Plant Science, Plant Disease, Plant Cell Reports, Euphytica, Scientific Reports and International Journal of Molecular Sciences and so on, among which more than 80 were indexed by Science Citation Index. He also serves as the editorial member for BMC Plant Biology, Frontiers in Plant Science, Current Proteomics, Journal of Integrated OMICS, Acta Agronomica Sinica, Subtropical Agriculture Research, Sugarcane and Canesugar.