Qibin Ma is a Professor at the South China Agricultural University. He earned his Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences/Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008 and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Arkansas from 2012 to 2013. He was awarded the First Prize of the 2014 and 2023 Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award, the First Prize of the 2012 Guangdong Provincial Agricultural Science and Technology Promotion Award. His main research areas include Soybean Bio-Breeding; Molecular Mechanisms of Soybean Responses to Acidic Aluminum and Low Phosphorus Stress.