**About the Special Issue Editors**

**Eleonora Cominelli** has been a researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) since 2011. Her past research activity has been mainly focused on the functional characterization of transcription factors involved in the regulation of flavonoid biosynthesis and water stress response in plant model species and crops. Her present research activity is mainly focused on seed nutritional quality through the study of low phytic acid (lpa) mutants and genes involved in phytic acid synthesis and transport.

**Francesca Sparvoli** is a senior scientist at the Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), where she has worked since 2000. Her main interests concern the genetic improvement of legume and cereal seeds for nutritional quality traits, with a particular focus on seed biofortification, through the development of low phytic acid (lpa) mutants, and on the exploitation of seed storage protein variants in common beans for the production of novel foods.

**Roberto Pilu** is an associate professor in Plant Genetics and Breeding at the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences—Production, Landscape, Agroenergy (Di.S.A.A.), of the University of Milan (Italy). After a degree in Biology and a MSc in Applied Genetics at the University of Milan, he completed his PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Pavia. For more than 25 years, he has been working on topics related to plant genetics and breeding, particularly in maize. In recent years, he has been collaborating with different private companies and developing countries, with the aim to study and improve the genetic materials for special traits. He teaches Essentials of Genetics and Plant Breeding, for different degree courses at the University of Milan.
