Konstantin V. Krutovsky received his B.Sc. in Genetics from Samara State University, Samara, Russia, in 1978, his M.Sc. in Genetics from Novosibirsk State University in 1979, and his Ph.D. in Population Genetics from the Laboratory of Population Genetics, N. I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, in 1984. He is now a Professor at the Department of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Büsgen-Institute, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, and an Adjunct Professor at Texas A&M University. His research interests include Evolutionary, population, conservation and ecological genetics, Environmental stress and adaptive genes, Comparative and population genomics, Complete pine genome sequencing, Genome, QTL, comparative, candidate gene, and association mapping, Genome breeding, Plant molecular systematics and phylogeny, Introgressive hybridization, gene flow and mating system, Molecular genetic marker development.