Professor Dr Edgardo Giordani is a Professor at the School of Agriculture at the University of Florence (Italy). He graduated in Agricultural Science at the University of Florence and obtained his PhD in the “Improvement of productivity of horticultural and ornamental species” in 1994. Since then, he has worked at the Department of Agri-Food Production and Environmental Science at the University of Florence on different national and international research projects dealing with plant genetic resources and the breeding of temperate fruit tree species. His research areas include germplasm management and characterization, biotechnologies and in vitro culture, and the nutritional and nutraceutical aspects of berries and tropical tree species. Currently, he is involved in research activities on the reuse of wastewater and innovative plant-growing substrates in agriculture. He is an Associate Editor of Advances in Horticultural Science (AHS) and the Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development (JAEID) and is a member of the Italian Society for Horticultural Science (SOI) and the International Society of Horticultural Science (ISHS).