Dr. Chuanying Fang is an Associate Professor at the School of Nanfan (Sanya Nanfan Research Institute), Hainan University, with a joint appointment at the National Salt-Alkali Tolerant Rice Technology Innovation Center. His research focuses on crop metabolic adaptation and quality improvement, integrating plant metabolomics, metabolic GWAS, epigenetics, and molecular breeding to dissect stress responses and metabolic regulation in rice and passion fruit. He has published 35+ peer-reviewed papers, including 18 as first and/or corresponding author in journals such as Molecular Plant, Trends in Plant Science, and The Plant Journal, with 3 ESI Highly Cited papers. He serves on the Youth Editorial Boards of iMeta and Plants and as Associate Editor for several international journals.