Katherine is a Professor in the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP), in the Biology Department at the University of York. She obtained a BSc degree in Microbiology from the University of Bristol and DPhil in Plant Science from the University of Oxford. Katherine’s lab focuses on plant disease resistance and integrating genomics, transcriptomics and network analysis to understand how plant defence responses are regulated.

   Zhongzhi Gong, Professor at the College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University; Academic Vice President of Hebei University. He graduated from the Department of Biology, Shandong Normal University in 1987 and entered the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences to pursue a master's degree. He graduated and remained at the institute for work in 1990. In 1998, he obtained a Ph.D. in Pharmacy from Chiba University, Japan. Subsequently, he conducted research on the molecular biology of plant stress resistance and gene silencing at Purdue University and the University of Arizona in the United States. He returned to China in 2002 and was hired as a professor at China Agricultural University. Currently, he serves as the co-editor-in-chief of JIPB and has served as an editorial board member of Plant Physiology, Plant Cell & Physiology, Physiologia Plantarum, Science China Life Sciences, etc. His main research focuses on the molecular mechanism of plant drought resistance and gene expression regulation, as well as the applied research of plant stress improvement. He has published more than 100 papers in Cell, PNAS, Plant Cell, Plant Physiol, JIPB, Nat Commun, etc. He has been a "Highly Cited Researcher" by Clarivate Analytics for four consecutive years from 2020 to 2023, with an H-index of 60.

    Ykä received his MSc (1990) and PhD (1995) from the University of Helsinki. Following his PhD work on floral development in gerbera and a post-doc investigating root development in Arabidopsis at the Benfey lab, New York University, he returned to Helsinki (1998) to launch his own research group focused on vascular development and wood formation. His group has been pioneering the understanding ofgene regulatory networks underlying phloem morphogenesis in Arabidopsis. He has been also focusing on understanding and engineering cambial development in tree species. Recently, he has started to pursue the genetic basis of sink tissue formation with a possible reference to engineering and breeding such tissues in plants.

    Jonathan obtained a DPhil at the University of Oxford through research on the regulation of malate decarboxylation in CAM plants, and continued work on the molecular basis of drought tolerance in resurrection plants under a Royal Society Research Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. Following a move to Trends in Plant Science with Elsevier, he then spent time as Managing Editor at New Phytologist and Commissioning Editor at Journal of Experimental Botany. At Wiley Jonathan has managed an evolving portfolio of life science titles with particular focus in plant and environmental sciences, including Plant, Cell & Environment, Physiologia Plantarum and Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews.

    Shuangxia Jin is a full professor of the National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU), Wuhan, China. He received his Ph.D. in 2006 from HZAU. His current research involves Insects (whitefly/aphid/Lygus) and cotton host molecular interaction; genome editing (CRISPR/Cas 9, Cpf1, and Base-editing). Dr. Jin has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers in top journals such asAdvanced Science, Nature Communications, Trends in Plant Sci, New Phytologist, Plant Biotechnology Journal. He serves as the Associate Editor of Plant Biotechnology Journal since 2019 and Editor of Plant Biotechnology Journal social media- PBJ WeChat account in China. He was selected as the co-chair of the International Cotton Genome Initiative (ICGI) in 2017.

    Lei earned her Ph.D. in Plant Biology from Pennsylvania State University in the USA, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She holds dual bachelor's degrees in Biological Sciences and Economics from Peking University in China. Before joining Wiley, Lei served as a Senior Editor at Nature Plants, primarily based in New York.

    With over fifteen years of experience in scientific research and academic publishing, she has authored more than 60 research articles, reviews, and commentaries in various international journals, including Nature Plants, New Phytologist, PNAS, Current Opinion in Plant Biology, Plant Cell, Molecular Plant, The Arabidopsis Book, Plant Physiology, Advanced Biology, and Modern Agriculture etc.

    Lei currently oversees the strategic positioning, team development, content curation, and sustainability of several life science journals at Wiley, such as the Advanced journals in Life and Health Sciences (e.g. Advanced Science, Advanced Biology), Global Change Biology, GCB-bioenergy, Cell Proliferation, Land Degradation and Development, Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science, Grass and Forage Science, iMeta, iMetaOmics, mLife, Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Animal Research and One Health, New Plant Protection, Modern Agriculture etc.

    Fangfang Li, Executive Editor-in-Chief of New Plant Protection. Her research focuses on the mechanism of host-virus interactions. She is particularly interested in revealing the novel virulence strategies employed by viruses, and uncovering the underlying host defense lines covered by the viral counter-defenses. Her team has made breakthrough progress in discovering additional virulence proteins encoded by diverse viruses, and in identifying several novel RNA-targeted antiviral routes.

    Jinxing is a professor and director of the Institute of Tree Development & Genome Editing at Beijing Forestry University. He obtained his PhD from the Department of Biology at Peking University in 1992, after his ad hoc study from 1986 to 1988 at the Australian National University. From 1992 to 2013, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow, and became a PI/director of department at Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, including several periods of collaborative studies in Max-Planck Institute at Koeln, University of Antwerpen, University of Cambridge, and University of Bonn. From 2014 to 2021, he worked as the dean of College of Biological Sciences, Beijing Forestry University and President of Beijing Botanical Society. He has published extensively in plant science, with particular research interests in cell biology and tree physiology.

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