Professor Su-May Yu Su-May is an Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica in Taipei. Over the course of her career she has developed resources for rice transformation and functional genomics research that have been utilized across the world. She is an elected member of The Academy for the Developing World, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Corresponding Member of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB).

Dr Shuen-Fang Lo Shuen-Fang is an Assistant Professor at the International Doctoral Program in Agriculture, National Chung Hsing University. She has worked on Rice functional Genomics research for more than ten years. Her research interests focus on regulation of GA and ABA signaling, abiotic stress tolerance, and grain yield in rice. With Su-May she runs field experiments with rice lines that have been generated in the project.