Hua Cheng is an Associate Professor at the School of Modern Industry for Selenium Science and Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, China. He received his B.Sc. in Biotechnology (2004) and M.Sc. in Crop Genetics and Breeding (2009) from Yangtze University and his Ph.D. in Silviculture (2012) from Nanjing Forestry University. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Wuhan University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA). In 2019–2020, he was an Associate Professor at the College of Biology and Agricultural Resources, Huanggang Normal University. He is mainly engaged in identifying economic forestry germplasm resources, genetic improvement, and the molecular mechanism of germplasm differences, and he has also accumulated rich experience in the study of the secondary metabolite regulation mechanism of medicinal plants.