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Prof Shifeng CHENG has a research interest in "how plant acquired new traits along the entire evolutionary innovation journey”. In the past a few of years, his team has been focusing on the origin and diversification of Nitrogen-fixing root nodule symbiosis, plant terrestrialization, and population evolution and domestication history for polyploidy crops. Achievements have been made to unravel the genomic novelties and master regulators that were responsible for pre-adaptation and parallel evolution of plant key traits. These results were published in Science, Cell, Nature Biotechnology, and Plant Cell, etc.. We had a fruitful discussion on the potentail collaborations in wheat root phenotyping-genotyping study.