Dr. Xiangyang Hu named Co-Editor-in-Chief of Phyton: International Journal of Experimental Botany.

30 Sep 2019

Tech Science Press, the publisher of scientific journals, is happy to announce the appointment of Dr. Xiangyang Hu to the position of Co-Editor-in-Chief of Phyton: International Journal of Experimental Botany. Dr. Hu joins Dr. Carlos Alberto Busso in this capacity and will assume his new duties immediately.

Dr. Hu is a Professor of plant physiology and biochemistry at the Department of Life Sciences, Shanghai University, in China. His research has focused on plant reaction to abiotic stress, specifically the impact on molecular mechanisms, germination, and flowering time at the epigenetic level. Recognized as an “outstanding talent” by the Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dr. Hu was the Principal Investigator at the Kunming Institute of Botany from 2009 until 2015. His long-term goal is to identify which genes and mechanisms can lead to the development of sustainable agriculture and ecology.

Dr. Hu received his Bachelor of Science degree at Anhui University in 1997 and his Ph.D. at the Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology in 2003. He conducted his postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, the University of California, Riverside, and the John Innes Centre in the United Kingdom.

Tech Science Press is excited to welcome Dr. Hu at a time when ecological sustainability is a dominant theme in the global conversation. We look forward to Dr. Hu’s intellectual and editorial leadership, and we invite our readers to do the same. Inquiries concerning or directed to Dr. Hu and/or Phyton should be addressed to phyton@techscience.com.