**About the Special Issue Editor**

**Richard R.-C. Wang** (Ph.D.) obtained his B.S. degree from the National Taiwan University in 1967, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick) in 1971 and 1974, respectively. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Kansas State University, cytopathologist at DeKalb Hybrid Wheat, Inc. (Wichita, KS, USA), Research Scientist at the International Plant Research Institute (San Carlos, CA, USA), before being a Research Geneticist for the USDA, Agricultural Research Services, in the Forage and Range Research Laboratory, Logan, Utah, USA. He has engaged in agricultural research over the past 47 years, authored or co-authored 150 refereed journal papers, 5 book chapters, and edited 1 symposium proceedings and 2 journal Special Issues. He is internationally recognized for his research on gene transfer from alien species into wheat, wide hybridization, genome analysis, and molecular markers in perennial Triticeae. His laboratory has hosted many visiting scientists from China, Russia, Azerbaijan, and Korea. He has been given honorary professorships at Northwest A&F University (1993) and China Agricultural University (1995). He was presented an Outstanding Alumnus Award (Fenton Graduate Alumni Award in Plant Biology) from Rutgers University (2003), a Fellow in the American Society of Agronomy (ASA, 2003), and Crop Science Society of America (CSSA, 2005). Dr. Wang is serving on the /International Journal of Molecular Sciences/ editorial board and has been a Guest Editor of two Special Issues on genes responding to biotic and abiotic stresses in plants.
