Prof. Dr. Lijuan Zhou earned, from the South China Agricultural University, an MSc in Agricultural Insects and Pest Control (2001) and a PhD in Pesticides (2004). As a visiting scholar funded by the China Scholarship Council, she went to the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in molecular biology, and engaged in research on the molecular mechanism of exogenous compounds inhibiting plant root growth from May 2013 to May 2014. She is now a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Green Pesticides, South China Agricultural University. She has chaired or participated in many national, provincial, ministerial, and municipal-level projects, such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation. She teaches courses such as “Chemical Protection of Plants”, “Botanical Pesticides” and “Weed Identification and Management”, etc. She is currently mainly engaged in research on natural source pesticides (new herbicide research and development), pesticide molecular toxicology, pest control and integrated management, pesticide residues, and resistance to weeds and pests.