It is our great pleasure to invite you to attend the 2nd Molecular Plant International Symposium: From Genes to Networks, which will be held on August 11-14, 2016 in Beijing, China. Molecular Plant (MP), jointly published with Cell Press, is an international journal publishing novel and exciting findings with high significance in plant sciences. Research in plant sciences is rapidly evolving. This symposium, co-organized by Molecular Plant together with the Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology (IPPE), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Chinese Society of Plant Biology (CSPB), Shanghai Information Center for Life Sciences and Tsinghua University aims to provide an international platform for promoting scientific exchanges among the global plant science community. We hope you will join us at this premier event to enjoy the outstanding scientific talks by leading scientists, to share and learn the cutting-edge discoveries in plant sciences, to exchange new ideas for future research and industrialization, to foster collegial interactions and collaborations, and to explore the local attractions in Beijing, the capital city of China.