Dr. Hao Ai is an assistant at the Anhui University of Science and Technology, College of Agriculture. He received a Master's degree, majoring in the utilization of agricultural resources from 2014 to 2016, and a PhD, majoring in agricultural resources and the environment from 2016 to 2020, at Nanjing Agricultural University. The research projects he has led and participated in include the Jiangsu Province Graduate Research and Practice Innovation Program, the functional study of the OsLPR5 gene affecting root development in response to phosphorus deficiency stress in rice, and cloning and functional verification of important trait genes. His research direction and field are crop genetics and genomics.