Dr. Rong Liu is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China. She graduated from Henan University with a Bachelor of Science in 2009 and earned a PhD in Botany from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2016. Her research focuses on the innovation in edible bean germplasm resources. She serves as a reviewer for BMC Genomics, The Crop Journal, Gene, and other domestic and foreign journals.