Dr. Jichen Xu graduated from Shandong Normal University in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science degree, and received a Doctor of Science degree from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993. He has been to the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, Purdue University in the United States, and Rutgers University in the United States for postdoctoral and senior visiting scholar research. He has successively worked at Qufu Normal University, the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing Forestry University. He has presided over the National 863, 973, National Genetically Modified Plant Research and Industrial Development Project, National Natural Science Foundation and other projects. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses such as “Genetics”, “Genomics”, and “Plant Tissue Culture”. He serves as a director of the Grassland Biotechnology Professional Committee of the Chinese Grassland Society, a review expert for the National Natural Science Foundation and the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing, Shandong, Hebei, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other provinces and cities, an editorial board member of “Forestry Science”, and a member of the editorial board of “PlosOne” and “Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture”, “Journal of Integrative Plant Biology” and other journal reviewers.