Prof. Rong Zhou is an associate professor and master's supervisor at the College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University. She studied at the College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, from 2007 to 2011 and obtained a bachelor's degree. From 2011 to 2015, she completed a master's and doctoral program at the College of Horticulture and was jointly trained at Aarhus University in Denmark. She is mainly engaged in the study of plant abiotic stress physiology and molecular mechanisms, focusing on the analysis of tomato stress tolerance mechanisms, and exploring adversity response strategies by combining stress memory, exogenous hormone regulation, and other means.