**About the Editor**

## **Alessandro Vitale**

Alessandro Vitale is Associate Professor in Plant Pathology at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment of the University of Catania. He received his PhD in Plant Health Technologies and Protection in 2004 at the University of Catania, where he worked on fungal diseases of ornamental crops and the occurrence of fungicide resistance within Calonectria populations. His research is focused on fungal diseases of vegetables, ornamental, fruit, and tropical crops. He is actually working on the diagnosis and characterization, epidemiology, fungicide resistance, and, above all, environmentally friendly and sustainable management of airborne and soilborne plant diseases.
