Professor Zinta Gaile, Dr. agr., works at the Institute of Soil and Plant Sciences, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies (formerly the Latvia University of Agriculture), Jelgava, Latvia. She obtained her doctorate at the same university. She has worked as a principal researcher in several projects studying the crop yield formation and agro-technology of cereals, oil-seed rape, potato and legumes. She has 67 quotable scientific publications and over 200 other publications, and she has supervised five completed doctoral theses.