Hossein Sabouri earned his Ph.D. in Plant Breeding from the Isfahan University of Technology in 2009. He currently works at the Department of Plant Production at Gonbad Kavous University. He does research in Plant Genetics and Breeding. H. Sabouri's primary interest is genetics and breeding of cereal crops which concentrates on improving tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses. He is currently the principal investigator of national projects about rice drought tolerance cultivar production.