Temperate Horticulture for Sustainable Development and Environment

Larissa I. Weisfeld, PhD, is a senior researcher at the Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. She is the author of about 300 publications in scientific journals as well as several patents and conference proceedings and the co-author of publications on three new cultivars of winter wheat, which are included in the State Register of the Russian Federation. She is a member of the Vavilov Society of Genetics and Breeders. Her main field of interest concerns basic problems of chemical mutagenesis, mutational selection, and the mechanisms of action of para-aminobensoic acid. She has worked as a scientific editor at the publishing house Nauka (science) (Moscow) and an editor of the journals Genetics and Ontogenesis. She has co-edited several books, including Ecological Consequences of Increasing Crop Productivity: Plant Breeding and Biotic Diversity; Biological Systems, Biodiversity, and Stability of Plant Communities; Temperate Crop Science and Breeding: Ecological and Genetic Study; Heavy Metals and Other Pollutants in the Environment: Biological Aspects; and Chemistry and Technology of Plant Substances: Chemical and Biochemical Aspects. Anatoly Iv. Opalko, PhD in Agriculture, is Leading Researcher of the Genetics, Plant Breeding and Reproductive Biology Division at the National Dendrological Park Sofiyivka of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is also Professor of the Genetics, Plant Breeding and Biotechnology Chair in Uman National University of Horticulture and Head of the Cherkassy Regional Branch of the Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders of Ukraine. He is a prolific author, researcher, and lecturer. He has received several awards for his work, including the badge of honor, Excellence in Agricultural Education, and the badge of honor of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for professional achievement. He has also received the Nikolai Cholodny Prize in Botany and Plant Physiology. He is member of many professional organizations and is on the editorial boards of the Ukrainian Biological and Agricultural Science Journals. He is the author and co-editor of the books Ecological Consequences of Increasing Crop Productivity: Plant Breeding and Biotic Diversity; Biological Systems, Biodiversity, and Stability of Plant Communities; and Temperate Crop Science and Breeding. Sarra A. Bekuzarova, DSc in Agriculture, is a Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Plant Breeding and Feed Crops of Long-term Seed Grower of Fodder Crops in North Caucasus Institute of Mountain and Foothill Agriculture of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia. She is also a Professor at the Gorsky State University of Agriculture, Vladikavkaz, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia, as well as Professor at L. N. Kosta Khetagurov North Ossetia State University, Vladikavkaz, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia. Dr. Bekuzarova has been named a Deserved Inventor of Russia and has been awarded the Medal of Popova. She is a prolific author, researcher, and lecturer. She is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and a member of the International Academy of Authors of the Scientific Discoveries and Inventions, the International Academy of Sciences of Ecology; Safety of Man and Nature; the All Russian Academy of Nontraditional and Rare Plants; and the International Academy of Agrarian Education. Dr. Bekuzarova is also a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals. She is the author and a coeditor of several books, including Ecological Consequences of Increasing Crop Productivity: Plant Breading and Biotic Diversity; Biological Systems, Biodiversity and Stability of Plant Communities; Temperate Crop Science and Breeding: Ecological and Genetic Studies; and Heavy Metals and Other Pollutants in the Environment; Biological Aspects.