Prof. Dr. Juan A. Fernández is a Vegetable Crops Professor at the Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT). Agricultural Engineering from the Technical University of Valencia, he enjoyed 2 PhD grants at the Regional Center for Agricultural Research of the Region of Murcia and a doctorate in Agricultural Engineering in 1995 at the University of Murcia. He has been working on the introduction and development of techniques to produce new horticultural and ornamental species and on the molecular characterization of neglected and underutilised crops.