Biography
Fanjiang Kong is a Distinguished Professor at the School of Life Sciences, Guangzhou University. He received his Ph.D. in Agriculture from Hokkaido University, Japan, in 2006. Prior to his current position, he served as a Principal Investigator at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Professor Kong is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and has been selected for the CAS “Hundred Talents Program.” His research focuses on soybean molecular genetics and molecular design breeding. He has successfully cloned key genes controlling soybean adaptation and yield, elucidating the molecular mechanisms of photoperiod sensitivity and flowering time control. Notably, his team decoded the molecular mechanism of rin1, a pivotal gene driving the green revolution in high-density soybean cultivation.
With over 150 publications in prestigious journals such as Nature Genetics, Nature Plants, Nature Communications, Developmental Cell, and PNAS, his work has been recognized with the First Prize for Natural Science by the Ministry of Education. He currently serves on the editorial boards of several international journals, including Plant Physiology, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, Molecular Breeding and Journal of Integrative Agriculture.
