Stefania Toscano graduated in 2007 in Agricultural Science and Technology at the University of Catania with 110/110 cum laude. In 2012, she obtained the PhD in Productivity of Cultivated Plants (Cycle XXIII) at the University of Catania, Italy. She obtained the Post-doc fellowship for 6 years (2012–2018) within the MIUR project SO.PRO.ME (Sustainable production of potted plants in the Mediterranean environment – PON01_01611) and “Ecophysiology of vegetable and floral plants”. Subsequently, she was awarded several research grants at Di3A (AGR/04).  She was an Assistant Professor for the disciplinary-scientific sector AGR/04 - Horticulture and Floriculture, (RTD-A) (researcher temporary position type A) from 1 January 2022 to 8 January 2023 at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A) of the University of Catania. Since 9 January 2023, she is the Associate professor at the Department of Veterinary Sciences of the University of Messina. Since December 2020, she has been a Topics Board member of the Horticulturae. She is a Guest Editor for the Special Issue in Horticulturae and Agronomy. In July–August (2022), she was a Visiting Researcher at CEBAS-CSIC (Murcia, Spain) collaborating with the research group of Dr Sanchéz-Blanco M.J. She has been a member of the " Italian Society of Horticulture (SOI)" (since 2008) and of the "International Society for Horticultural Science" (since 2019).