Xue Feng, born in 1991 in Sichuan, China, Associate professor, master supervisor. She got her Ph.D. degree in Zhejiang University and is currently working in Qingdao Agricultural University. She was mainly engaged in the physiological and molecular mechanism research related to abiotic stress in maize. She has published 15 SCI papers in international high-level journals such as Plant Biotechnology Journal and Journal of Experimental Botany.