Prof. Dr. Hayriye Yıldız Dasgan was born in 1968 in Erzurum/Turkey. She is a professor of Vegetable Sciences at the Horticultural Department of the Agricultural Faculty at the University of Cukurova, Adana, Turkey. She is an expert in vegetable crops growing in soil or soil-less areas, plant nutrition and abiotic stress physiology (drought, salinity and suboptimal temperatures). She has been active in teaching greenhouse and open-field vegetable productions, plant nutrition and abiotic stress tolerance in vegetable crops. Her research project dealing with the drought and salinity resistance of local tomato, melon, bean and okra germplasms was supported by UNDP. Her ongoing project is related to increasing the nutritional contents of tomato (phenolics, flavonoids, vitamins, lycopene, vitamin C, potassium, calcium, etc.) through genotype drought tolerance support. She is a member of the Turkish Society of Horticultural Sciences, International Society of Horticultural Sciences (ISHS) Board and EUCARPIA. She has work experience and knowledge in the following fields: 1. Vegetable production in open fields and greenhouses; 2. The soil and soil-less culture of vegetables in greenhouses or open areas; 3. The physiology of abiotic stress tolerance (drought, salinity, suboptimal temperatures, high and low temperatures) in vegetables; 4. Plant nutrition in vegetables; 5. Organic vegetable production.