GAO Lizhi, Professor of Botany and Deputy Director to Germplasm Bank of Wild Species in Southwest China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (KIB/CAS). Major research interests are evolutionary & comparative functional genomics, molecular evolution, and population genetics, molecular ecology and conservation biology, ranging from genome evolution to the origins and artificial selection of domestic plants. E-mail: Lgao@mail.kib.ac.cn