Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTeBA), Salento University, Lecce, Italy;Prof. Dr. Luigi De Bellis is a full professor of plant physiology at the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy. He obtained his Ph.D. in Horticulture from the University of Pisa in 1987. His research interests include agricultural physiology/genetic characterisation of cereals/olive trees, plant-pathogen interactions, and the nutraceutical characteristics of secondary metabolites found in plants. From 2012 to 2020, he was the director of his university department, and from 2017 to 2020, he served on the board of the CMCC (Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change in Lecce, Italy). He was the project or team leader for numerous international and national research projects. He is also a reviewer for several journals and the Editor in Chief of Horticulturae.

Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Alimentari e Agro-ambientali (DiSAAA-a) University of Pisa, Italy;Prof. Alberto Pardossi received a PhD in Horticulture at the University of Pisa (1989), where I was a research assistant from 1988 to 1998, when he moved to the role of Associate Professor of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops at the University of Milan. In 2001, Prof. A. Pardossi returned to the University of Pisa, where he has held the position of Full Professor since 2012 and served as the Director of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment from 2016 to 2020. His main research interests regard greenhouse horticulture, hydroponic technology, irrigation management, and plant nutrition. Prof. A. Pardossi was project or team leader in several international or national research projects, and a reviewer of many international journals. He is currently Section Editor in Chief of Horticulturae.

National Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation and Utilization of Horticultural Crops, Hubei;Hongshan Laboratory, College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China;Professor Yuyang Zhang got his bachelor (2001) and PhD degree (2006) under the tuition of Prof. Zhibiao Ye in Huazhong Agricultural University. He has been visiting scientist in Wageningen University and Israel Agricultural Research Organization. Professor Yuyang Zhang together with his colleagues has been using the genetic approaches to dissect the genetic basis of agronomically important traits in tomato, and use genes to develop markers for molecular breeding of tomato. He is the investigator of several projects from National Science Foundation of China, and National Key R & D Program etc, and is the chief scientist of Wuhan Vegetable Biological Breeding Project. His work has been published in Plant Cell, PLoS Genetics, and Nature Genetics etc. and authorized more than 20 patents. He severed as Secretary General of Tomato Branch, and Associate Secretary General of Molecular Breeding Branch of Chinese Horticultural Society, Associate Editor in Chief of Horticultural Plant Journal, Horticulturae. He was awarded the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress.