Wenkai Hui is an Associate Professor at the College of Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University. He graduated from Hunan Institute of Science and Technology with a bachelor’s degree in bioengineering in 2011, earned his master’s in genetics from the College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, South China Agricultural University in 2014, and completed his Ph.D. in forest tree genetic breeding from the College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University in 2018. Afterward, he joined Sichuan Agricultural University in 2018. Then, he was a Visiting Scholar at The University of Edinburgh from 2023 to 2024. His main research areas include selection and breeding of good forest tree species; regulation of sex differentiation of male and female flower buds in forest trees.