The Agrobiotechnology talk series is organized by Centre of Soybean Research, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology to promote agrobiotechnology and enhance understanding of the potential applications of agricultural products.

The first series speaker was Dr Joanna Chen, the former Group Chief R&D and Quality Officer of Vitasoy International Holdings Limited. She introduced how crops are turned into flavourful meals, flavouring components and tasty/aromatic processed foods and drinks full of pleasing flavour surprises. A total of 94 participants including international scholars, researchers, agricultural industry as well as the general public from worldwide joined the talk (84 via zoom).