Junhua Peng is currently the R&D director of crop breeding at Spring Valley Agriscience Co., Ltd. He received his BS in agronomy and MS in crop genetics and breeding from Sichuan Agricultural University, China, and his Ph.D. in plant molecular genetics/genomics from the University of Haifa, Israel. His skills and expertise include plant genetics, molecular genetics, plant breeding, crop domestication and evolution, germplasm enhancement, plant biotechnology, etc. He has over 30 years of work experience in the genetics and breeding of rice, wheat, maize, vegetables, and bioenergy crops. He used to be an assistant professor at Colorado State University and a professor and principal scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He successively held positions of R&D director for China vegetables at Monsanto, director for rice breeding at China National Seeds, and director for rice germplasm innovation and application at Huazhi Biotech. Now, at Spring Valley Agriscience Co., Ltd., he mainly works on wheat breeding, especially the development of new types of hybrid wheat cultivars via CASP (chromosome-assisted seed production) and speed breeding approaches. He is a member of the Crop Science Society of China, Genetics Society of China, Crop Science Society of America, American Society of Genetics, and American Association for the Advancement of Science.