Qiancheng

Qiancheng Mao is a PhD candidate in vegetable science at the Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen. His research concerns the genetic basis of pharmacologically active principles in cucurbits, focusing on the natural variation and regulation of trigonelline in wax gourd (Benincasa hispida), using metabolomics, genome-wide association mapping and transgenic validation.