Pasquale De Vita is a researcher at the Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops (CREA-CI) of the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Italy. He holds a Doctorate degree and his main areas of study include durum wheat breeding and genetics, marker-assisted selection (MAS), genetic resources, collection, evaluation, and maintenance of germplasm, sustainable farming and organic plant breeding, biofortification, and gluten-free cereal products.