**About the Editors**

### **Lord Abbey**

Dr. Lord Abbey holds a BSc (Ghana), MSc (UK), and PhD (UK) in Horticulture and Crop Science, with a research focus on sustainable horticultural production systems for human health and well-being. Dr. Abbey has won various scholarships and awards, and is currently an Associate Professor (Amenity Horticulture) at Dalhousie University Faculty of Agriculture, where he teaches and supervises undergraduate and graduate students. He has received several industry, federal, and provincial government grants for his research work on clean technology and climate-smart agriculture. He has published over 96 research papers and book chapters (2023). He has worked extensively on soil nutrient management approaches for various horticultural crops and the development of biostimulants/biofertilizer derived from plant biomass and marine waste.

### **Josephine Ampofo**

Dr. Josephine Ampofo has a background in Food Science and Technology. Her research focus is on non-thermal bioprocesses intended for the sustainable production of novel consumer-centric functional foods and ingredients. Dr. Josephine Ampofo completed her BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences and MSc in Food Science and Technology at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, after which she pursued her PhD in Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry at McGill University, Canada. She is currently a Research Associate at McGill University, Department of Bioresource Engineering, where she performs research, writes grants, and mentors students. Her current research activities include the study of less harsh physical bioprocesses for the extraction and recovery of novel compounds from underutilized food crops as bio-functional food ingredients.

### **Mason MacDonald**

Dr. Mason MacDonald is an Assistant Professor in Plant Ecophysiology at the Department of Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences within the Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie University. Mason holds an MSc in Agriculture and a PhD in Plant Biology, both with an emphasis on environmental stress. As such, Mason heads a research lab on Environmental Stress and Plant Ecophysiological Response (ESPER). His research highlights include mapping out the physiological pathways of needle abscission in balsam fir, the development of integrated controlled environments to increase postharvest shelf-life, and the co-invention of foliar sprays to delay abscission. Mason's current work is focusing on the development of new seed preconditioning technologies and enhancement via nano-delivery mechanisms.
