Kwon-Kyoo Kang is a Professor of the Department of Horticultural Life Science, College of Agriculture, Life Sciences, Hankyong National University. He obtained a B.S. and an M.S. from the Department of Agronomy, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea, in 1986 and 1990, respectively. In 1994, he received his Ph.D. from the Department of Agronomy, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. His research interests focus on marker-assisted breeding (MAS), genetic research by CRISPR-Cas9, functional genomics, GWAS, biotic and abiotic tolerance, transcriptomics, functional analysis of genes, plant biotechnology, and molecular breeding in rice and tomato plants.