Yu Jingquan. [Photo/zgyww.cn]

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) published the lists of their latest academician additions on Nov 18.

Yu Jingquan, an agricultural scientist born and raised in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, was elected a CAE academician.

Born in 1963, Yu received a bachelor's degree in horticulture at Zhejiang University in 1983 and a doctorate degree in bioresource chemistry at Tottori University in Japan in 1994. Yu is currently a professor at the College of Agriculture & Biotechnology at Zhejiang University. He has also been director of the Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plants Growth, Development and Quality Improvement, which is affiliated to the Ministry of Agriculture, since 2003.

Yu's research interests include: the formation law of continuous cropping obstacles and its prevention and control technology; the photoprotective mechanism and photosynthesis regulation of vegetable crops; the role of plant ROS signaling in stress resistance and its molecular mechanism; as well as the degradation pathways and regulation mechanisms of pesticide residues in vegetables.

Yu is a winner of both the National Natural Science Award, as well as the Science and Technology Advancement Award. He has also been a Cheung Kong Scholar since 2007.