Our team of Plant Reproductive Development and Soybean Germplasm Innovation supported by South China Agricultural University and Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture is led by Professor Wang Yingxiang, a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China. The team brings together a group of outstanding young scientists who have sophisticated scientific trainings from top domestic and international universities and institutions in the field of plant reproduction and development. To explore the frontier of fundamental science and meet the demands of national and local development, the team uses multiple research systems including Arabidopsis, soybean, etc, fully integrates molecular genetics, cell biology, biochemistry, structural biology, and multi-omics to focus on fundamental cutting-edge scientific questions in the field of developmental biology, such as transition from vegetative to reproductive, germ cell fate determination, meiosis, and embryogenesis etc. The team is aimed to solve the “bottleneck” that restrict the high yield and quality soybean production by extreme temperatures and developmental periods in tropical and subtropical regions, and then create widely adaptable local varieties that can be grown year-round through molecular breeding, thereby alleviating the supply and demand contradictions of soybean in China. Currently, our team has six professors (one recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China and two of the Pearl River Young Talent plan), two associate professors, two young research scholars, two research assistant, and more than 60 others including postdocs, doctoral and master's students.