Prof. Shucai Wang is a leader of the Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics & Crop Gene Editing, School of Life Sciences, Linyi University, China. He graduated with a B.S. in Agronomy in 1991, an M.S. in Plant Physiology in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2002 from Nanjing Agricultural University. From 2002 to 2005, he received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Missouri-Columbia. From 2005 to 2008, he received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of British Columbia. From 2009 to 2011, he worked as a Research Associate at the University of British Columbia. From 2011-2019, he worked as a Professor at the Northeast Normal University. Current research interests in his laboratory focus on the regulation of plant responses to environmental stresses and the regulation of secondary metabolism, especially anthocyanin biosynthesis, in the model plant Arabidopsis and crop plants such as soybean, tobacco, and tomato, but with a specific focus on sweet potato and the intention to breed it into a better functional food.