Stefania Nin is a researcher at the Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Pescia (PT), Italy. She graduated in Agricultural Science at the University of Florence and obtained her PhD in “Improvement of productivity of horticultural and ornamental species” in 1994. Since then she has worked at the Department of Agri-Food Production and Environmental Science of the University of Florence on different National and International research projects dealing with the genetic improvement of medicinal plants and fruit tree species. Her research areas include nursery and propagation, biotechnologies and in vitro culture, breeding, germplasm characterization, and conservation techniques. Currently, she is involved in research activities focussing on the reuse of waste as alternative substrates, abiotic stresses during plant transport, and the early detection of fungal pathogens by real-time quantitative PCR. She is a member of the Editorial Board for the journal Advances in Horticultural Science (Florence University Press), of the International Journal of Vegetable Science, published by Taylor & Francis Online. She is also a member of the MDPI Editorial Board as a Topic Editor of Sustainability and a member of the Italian Society for Horticultural Science (SOI).