Bulent Uzun works as a Full Professor in the Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture of the Akdeniz University in Antalya, Turkey. He received his Ph.D. degree in Molecular Plant Breeding in 2002 with a thesis on molecular marker development for the unique closed capsule mutant trait in sesame, during which he conducted substantial research at NIAB, Cambridge, UK. Prof. Uzun has a well record of refereed publications in international journals, mainly dealing with oil, protein and energy crops. There are ongoing molecular breeding programs on the crops of sesame, soybean, groundnut, sweet sorghum and purple maize. He also published five chapters in international scientific books and developed many high yielding sesame, groundnut and sweet sorghum lines and released several cultivars in sesame and sweet sorghum. Non-gmo herbicide resistant soybean and sweet-purple maize inbred lines have recently been developed and integrating them into commercial cultivars are currently underway. His research focuses on mainly oilseed and energy crops breeding, with emphasis in developing methods for seed quality, better nutritional and energy value, herbicide and disease resistance adapted to plant breeding.