Wenying ZhangProfessor Wenying Zhang earned his MSc from Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, and PhD from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. He has served the Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China, as a Full Professor of Crop Science, and also worked as thevice dean of School of Agriculture, Director of Research Center of Crop Stress Resistance Technologies, Yangtze University. He was a visiting scientist of the Institute of Crop Genetics and Breeding of University of Kiel, Germany. He has more than 20 years' experience of teaching, research, and administration.

Dr. Zhang's research focuses on the genomic function analysis and abiotic stresses such as waterlogging, drought, salt in crops. He has hosted dozens of research projects sponsored by various funding institutions, including National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key R&D Program of China.

He has published over 60 research papers, review articles in international peer reviewed journals. Dr Zhang received more than twenty Achievement Prizes from the provincial government and/or Yangtze University of China, for excellent teaching, research. Dr Zhang acts as the editorial board member of journal of Plant Growth and Regulation. Read More Read Less