Between November 12 and 15, 2023, a few days before the China Kick-off meeting, Rodney Thompson from University of Almeria (UAL, ES) and Wim Voogt from Wageningen University & Research (WUR, NL) provided guidance during their visit to the experiments conducted at the Chinese Agricultural University (CAU) in Beijing, the Hebei Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences in Shijiazhuang (HAAFS), and the Shouguang Vegetable Group (SVG) in Shouguang.