Yin Min Htwe, Ph.D., is a researcher in molecular biotechnology, plant developmental biology and bioinformatics, focusing on tropical palm crops such as coconut, oil palm and areca palm. She received her BS in Biotechnology, MS in Bioinformatics and Ph.D. in Molecular Biotechnology from universities in Myanmar. Between 2011 and 2017, she worked in the Biotechnology Research Department, Myanmar Ministry of Science and Technology, before joining the Coconut Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences via the Talented Young Scientist Program. She later undertook postdoctoral research in Hainan Province and at the Yazhouwan Seed Laboratory. Her work combines molecular breeding, tissue culture, transcriptomics, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, and bioinformatics to study palm development and somatic embryogenesis. She has co-authored 14 SCI papers, with first-author articles in Plant Cell Reports and Frontiers in Plant Science, plus collaborative publications in Industrial Crops and Products and BMC Plant Biology. Her honours include an award from the Talented Young Scientist Program and designation as a Category E talent of Sanya Yazhouwan Science and Technology City. She currently leads a regional project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2024–2027) and is affiliated with Wengwengweng (Hainan) Technology Co., Ltd.