Nóra Mendler-Drienyovszki received her Ph.D. (2008) in Plant Breeding and Botany at the University of Debrecen. After that, she joined the Research Institute of Nyíregyháza, Institutes for Agricultural Research and Educational Farm (IAREF), University of Debrecen and is now a Senior Researcher. Her research areas include the breeding of green peas, dry peas, winter peas, winter lentils, buckwheat, and gene banks.
Roberto Mancinelli is an Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural and Forestry Science, University of Tuscia. He graduated from the same university and received his Ph.D. He is also a member of the European Network of Organic Agriculture Teachers and the Italian Society of Agronomy. His interests focus concerns: the analysis of agro-ecosystems through the use of sustainability indicators at different hierarchical levels (field, farm, and landscape); the design and management of organic and conventional farming systems; the study of soil fertility in conventional and alternative management; the agronomic strategies in the weed control environmental friendly; the use of cover crop to improve the sustainability of cropping systems in the Mediterranean environment; the study of greenhouse gas emissions and accumulation of soil C in agro-ecosystems under the conventional and organic farming and cropping systems with alternative farming techniques; effects of alternative agronomic techniques on arsenic uptake in different herbaceous and vegetable crops; the agronomic practices effects on the agriculture GHGs emissions.
Lisa Black obtained her B.Sc. in Applied Biology Agronomy from Liverpool John Moores University and her Ph.D. in Nitrogen Cycling in Forest Ecosystems at the University of Aberdeen. Then, she completed her Post-Doctoral Research Fellow training at the Queen's University. She worked in several research areas, including N cycling in grazed grassland soils, the characterization of mushroom compost, and the evaluation of the development of resistance of cereal pathogens to fungicides. After that, she joined the Agri-food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), AFBI Crossnacreevy, primarily working in agronomy and cereal variety evaluation for NI and the UK, and is now a Senior Principal Scientific Officer.
Mohamed Allam is an Assistant Lecturer at the Assuit University. He received his B.Sc. in Agriculture at Assuit University, his M.Sc. in Plant Breeding at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Zaragoza (IAMZ-CIHEAM) and the University of Lleida (UdL), and his Ph.D. at the Tuscia University. Before his current role, he was a Researcher Assistant at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Biological Mission of Galicia (MBG–CSIC), and Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK).
