Dr. Alireza Rahemi is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Virginia State University, USA. He has done extensive research and continues to work on horticulltural plants, agronomic crops, and food science. He is interested on plant breeding and using wild relatives of subtropical and temperate fruits and nut trees. He has worked for ten years as a horticulture specialist at the Ministry of Agriculture in Iran. He received his PhD in Horticulture and conducted part of his research at University of Florida, USA. His PhD research was focused on wild almond species, including genetic diversity using new emerging molecular techniques. He has also conducted research on the wild grape species of southern Ontario and their utilization as rootstock during his Postdoctoral research at the University of Guelph, Canada.