Petr Smýkal (Professor) received his Ph.D. in plant physiology and molecular biology at Charles University, Prague, CZ, in 1999. After 5 years of postdoctoral stays at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and Albrecht Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany, he did research at Agritec Plant Research Ltd., Sumperk, CZ, for 10 years, working with plant genetic resources, characterizing and utilizing the genetic diversity of pea and flax germplasms. Since 2011, he has been located at the Department of Botany, Palacky University in Olomouc, CZ. He is interested in the study of legume seed dormancy (physical type of dormancy) and pod dehiscence, two key domestication traits, using a combination of anatomical, genetic, transcriptomics, and analytical chemistry tools. Seed dormancy is also studied as an adaptive trait in the context of ecological genomics combining next-generation sequencing, seed testing, and geoinformatics using wild pea and Medicago truncatula models. Other favorites are Crop Wild Relatives, particularly legumes. Knowledge of Pisum, Cicer, and Lens genus diversity is applied to broaden the respective crop genetic diversity.