Yong-Gu Cho is a professor in the Department of Crop Science at Chungbuk National University in South Korea. He works on functional genomics based on ‘gain-of-function’ and ‘loss-of-function’ with FOX-hunting system, ZFN & TALEN, antisense, and RNAi in rice, and functional analysis of genes related to starch biosynthesis and development of high quality rice varieties.