14^th World Bioenergy Congress and Expo

Wenquan Wang is a Senior Scientist of Genomics and Molecular Breeding for tropical crops as cassava, Professor of Biology and Agronomy in Hainan University, Huazhong Agricultural University, Executive Director of Key Laboratory of Tropical Crop Biology and Utilization of Genetic Resources. He is a Coordinator of National Key Basic Research Program (973) “The principal research on genetic improvement in cassava important tropical crop”. He got PhD in nutrition genetics in Chinese Agricultural University in 2000, and once being Senior Research Fellow in BTI, Cornell University during 2009-2010. In his academic career, dedicated to understanding molecular mechanism of carbohydrates accumulation in storage roots, developing new molecular tools to build up a whole genome resolution for elite varieties breeding in cassava and other tropical crops. The achievements include one third prize in National Science and Technology Innovation Award and two prizes of Provincial Scientific and Technology Award, two patents and above 200 publications include of articles published in Nature Comm., NAR, Scientific Reports, etc