Prof. Dechun Wang is Associate Professor, Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences. Since 2007 his research has focused on genetic mapping of QTL conferring resistance to soybean aphid, while mold and other traits, soybeam molecular genetics and the molecular genetics and techniques of plant breeding. The shanghai Commission of Sciences and Technology awarded him for the introduction of Japanese peach cultivar Okayamawase, and for the “Investigation and proposal for shanghai fruit production for the year 2000?. He also received a Fellowship from the State Educational Commission of China as a Visiting Scholar to the University of California before receiving his Graduate Fellowship to Michigan State.