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authors of 8 book chapters. He also serves as member of editorial boards of many journals including Turkish journal of agricultural and forestry.



Ephrem Habyarimana is Chief Scientist and Research Scientist at CREA Research Center for Cereal and Industrial Crops, in Italy, European Union. He has documented skills and expertise in agricultural genetics, genomics, plant biochemistry, agronomy; with more than 25 years of research works in plant breeding with particular interest on cereals. He applies genomic prediction and selection, genome-wide association studies and marker-assisted selection models to expedite and enhance plant breeding. He develop and implements big data-driven modeling in support for crop monitoring, early within-season yields prediction and disease detection using satellite constellations, remote and proximal sensors, and artificial intelligence. In 2019, his genomic modelling analytics and machine learning technologies were classified, respectively, as promising Deep Tech by the European Commission's Innovation Radar, and as one of the best technical advances in the field of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence by the European Data Science Awards 2019. His academic titles include but are not limited to Engineer in Agronomy, MSc in Crop Science, MSc in Biotechnology Studies, Master of Advanced Studies in Plant Biology, PhD Agricultural Genetics, and several other specialized studies. He trained in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, and Latin America; he is fluent in more than five languages.

Gyuhwa Chung is a Distinguished Research Emeritus Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Republic of Korea. He has documented skills and expertise in plant genetics, agricultural biotechnology, genomics, and agronomy with more than 30 years of work on related aspects in different plant species. He specialize in identification of genes and alleles associated with secondary metabolites i.e. isoflavones and soysaponins in different plant species, genetic diversity assessment of different plant species using DNA-molecular markers, risk assessment of transgenic crops, and characterization of cereal as well as legume crop plants. He has established international collaboration with research groups working on genetics and molecular control of floral organs in cereals and retrotransposon based taxonomic relationship evaluation of emmer. In addition to his work on cereals, he is a renowned in-situ (and ex-situ) germplasm conservationist and holds largest wild soybean collection in the word known as "Chung's Wild Legume Germplasm Collection". He has authored hundreds of research articles, book chapters and abstracts. He is a holder of several patents and has an extensive array of citations and reads /downloads to his papers. He has coordinated as a PI in over many scientific research and technology projects and has established worldwide collaborations. His interests in environmental protection are extended to risk assessment of genetically modified crop plants in relation to biodiversity, ecosystem and human health, and development of biosensors for onsite GMO detection.