**Physiological and Molecular Characterization of Crop Resistance to Abiotic Stresses**

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**Monica Boscaiu Ana Fita**

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*Editors* Monica Boscaiu Universitat Polit`ecnica de Val`encia Spain

Ana Fita Universitat Polit`ecnica de Valencia ` Spain

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### **About the Editors**

**Monica Boscaiu** is a Professor of Botany at the Department of Agroforest Ecosystems at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. She graduated from the Faculty of Biology at the University Babes-Bolyai in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and obtained her Ph.D. degree in Botany at the University of Vienna, Austria. Since 1996, she lived in Spain, where she was first employed at the Botanical Garden. In 2002, she joined the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), where she teaches different subjects related to botany and plant ecology. In 2019, she obtained a Full Professor position at the Agronomic School of the same university. She is the leader of the Phytochemical Resources group at the Mediterranean Agroforestry Institute (UPV). In the last 20 years, she published over 120 scientific articles related to the responses of wild plants and crops to abiotic stress factors and supervised numerous graduate and master's theses, as well as several Spanish and international Ph.D. students.

**Ana Fita** was born in 1979 in Valencia (Spain), where she graduated with a degree in Agriculture Engineering before obtaining her Ph.D. in Plant Breeding at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. At present, she is an Associate Professor at the same university. For 15 years, she has been teaching a wide variety of courses related to genetics, plant breeding, and plant genetic resources, such as 'Genetics and Plant Breeding', 'Plant Genetic Resources', 'In Vitro Culture and Plant Transformation', and 'Plant Variety Laws and Commercial Production of Plant Material', for graduate and master's students at UPV. She has supervised several graduate and master's theses and has participated in seminars in several European Universities. In addition, Ana Fita leads the Root Breeding group at the Institute for the Preservation and Improvement of Valencian Agrodiversity, COMAV, at UPV. Her research includes breeding vegetables for improved root systems and improving our understanding of root architecture and its relationship with resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. At the moment, she is studying the genotype/soil/root interaction in different vegetables and the effects of abiotic stress on fruit quality. She has received awards from the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) and the Valencian Government (Excellence Teaching Award at University Level 2010).
