Yanyou Wu is a Professor of Plant Physiology and Ecology at the State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He received a BS degree (1986) in Biology from Department of Biology, Anhui Normal University, China; a master’s degree (1989) in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry from Department of Agronomy, Guizhou University, China; and a doctorate (1994) in Botany from the Department of Biology, Sichuan University, China.
In Dr. Wu’s early years, he mainly devoted himself to explain the fertility of some intergeneric hybrids with " cell fusion - chromosome set segregation" and the extended genetic laws. In recent 20 years, his scholarly activities have been switched to the areas of the adaptive mechanism of karst-adaptable plants, the technology and principle of selection on karst-adaptable plants, the determining the biological and environmental information, the application and determinationof electrophysiological information in plants, and biogeochemical action of carbonic anhydrase. He published 13 monographs and more than 200 papers in journals. In addition, he held 63 invention patents of the People's Republic of China. His scholarly contributions appeared in Photosynthesis Research, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Transactions of the ASABE, Chinese Science Bulletin, Biological Trace Element Research, Scientia Horticulturae, Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture, Energy Conversion and Management, Photosynthetica, Acta Physiologiae Plantarum and Physiologiae Plantarum, among others.
Sen Rao received a BS degree in Forestry from Department of Forestry, Guizhou University, China and a doctorate supervised by Professor Yanyou Wu in Environmental Science from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Dr. Rao’s scholarly activities have been found in the areas of biogeochemical process of inorganic carbon in soil-plant-atmosphere, plant carbon allocation and photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination. His scholarly contributions appeared in Photosynthesis Research, Physiologia Plantarum and Energies, among others.