Prof. Peng Wu is an Associate Professor and Master’s supervisor at the College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture of Yangzhou University. He received his Ph.D. in vegetable science from Nanjing Agricultural University in 2018. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Vegetable and Flower Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences from 2020 to 2023. His research interests mainly include genomics and the adaptive evolution of aquatic vegetables, gene function, and trait gene mining in aquatic vegetables, as well as research on secondary metabolites of aquatic vegetables.