Graduate student
University of Florida
GAINESVILLE, Florida
Jingwei Fu is from Fujian, China. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Environmental Science from Southwest University and Nanjing University respectively. He worked on phytoremediation for heavy-metals-contaminated soils. Because of his investigations on the interaction between plant and soils, he became interested in plant science and horticulture. He got enrolled in the Horticultural Sciences graduate program at the University of Florida in 2018 to pursue a PhD under the direction of Dr. Saba. He is interested in a career in plant breeding and biotechnology. Carotenoid accumulation in pepper fruit will be his thesis project.