**About the Editors**

**Nunzia Scotti** is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Biosciences and BioResources, National Research Council of Italy. She graduated in Biological Sciences and completed her PhD in Molecular Systematics at the University of Naples Federico II. She has been visiting scientist at the CNRS Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Strasbourg, France and at the Max Plant Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany. Dr. Scotti has published in several peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and conference papers. Her research interests are mainly focused on biology and biotechnology of cytoplasmic organelles, mostly related to the analysis of the organelle genome variability, to the production of recombinant proteins and to study fundamental biological aspects of plant organelles.

**Rachele Tamburino** is a Researcher at the Institute of Biosciences and BioResources, National Research Council of Italy. She graduated in Food and Industrial Biotechnology and received her PhD from Universita della Campania "L. Vanvitelli". Her research deals with biochemistry and ` molecular biology applied to cytoplasmic organelles to investigate fundamental biological aspects of chloroplasts and mitochondria. She has published in several international peer-reviewed journals and conference papers.
