Jen-Tsung Chen is a professor of cell biology at the National University of Kaohsiung in Taiwan. He also teaches genomics, proteomics, plant physiology, and plant biotechnology. Dr. Chen’s research interests include bioactive compounds, chromatography techniques, plant molecular biology, plant biotechnology, bioinformatics, and systems pharmacology. He is an active editor of academic books and journals to advance the exploration of multidisciplinary knowledge involving plant physiology, plant biotechnology, nanotechnology, ethnopharmacology, and systems biology. He serves as an editorial board member in reputed journals, including Plant Methods, GM Crops & Food, Plant Nano Biology, Biomolecules, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and a guest editor in Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Journal of Fungi, and Current Pharmaceutical Design. Dr. Chen published books in collaboration with Springer Nature, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, and In-TechOpen and he is handling book projects for some more international publishers on diverse topics such as drug discovery, herbal medicine, medicinal biotechnology, nanotechnology, bioengineering, plant functional genomics, plant speed breeding, and CRISPR-based plant genome editing.

• 1. Technological development and prospects of crop speed breedingMarcelo Picanço de Farias, Charles Hobi Zimmer, João Kafer, Mayla Daiane Correa Molinari, Fabricio Barbosa Monteiro Arraes, Renata Fuganti-Pagliarini, Isabela Yamauchi Torres, Samantha Vieira Abbad, Liliane Mertz-Henning, Alexandre Nepomuceno, Hugo Molinari2. Speed breeding in the era of high throughput OMICS: recent developments and future outlookFurqan Tayyab, Momna Mehmood, Aqsa Parvaiz, Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammad Sarwar Khan, Faiz Ahmad Joyia3. Accelerate Crop Breeding Utilizing Modern Genomics and Phenomics ToolsAmooru Harika, Sivapragasam Ezhumalai, Biswabiplab Singh, Elangovan Allimuthu, Sukumar Taria, Dhandapani Raju, Sudhir Kumar, Mahesh Kumar, Madhurima Das and Viswanathan Chinnusamy4. Implementation of Novel Genomic and Biotechnological Interventions for Accelerated Breeding of CropsMuhammad Ramzan Khan, Nazia Rehman, Safeena Inam, Muhammad Kashif Naeem, Amna Muhammad, Muhammad Uzair, Aamir Riaz, Obaid Ur Rehman, Fara Muqaddas, Maryam Murtaza, Bilal Saleem, Muhammad Aqeel, Muhammad Zahid5. Recent Advances in Plant Phenomics and Speed Breeding for Climate-smart AgricultureRubab Zahra Naqvi, Muhammad Farooq, Rida Zahid, Ifrah Imran, Muhammad Arslan Mahmood, Muhammad Jawad Akbar Awan, Shahid Mansoor, Imran Amin, Muhammad Asif6. Genome editing technologies for accelerating crop improvement: An updated overviewAnil Namdev Kale, Raj Kumar, Rushikesh Sanjay Mane, Sagar Krushnaji Rangari, Praful Mukund Damdar, Zeba Quaiyum, Karma L. Bhutia, Akbar Hossain7. The CRISPR/Cas system for plant speed breeding: Advances and prospectsMuhammad Jawad Akbar Awan, Muhammad Ismail Buzdar, Asma Zia, Aiman Raza, Rubab Zahra Naqvi, Imran Amin, and Shahid Mansoor8. Genomic Selection Tools for Plant Speed BreedingSumi Sarkar, Marium Khatun, F. M. Era, A. K. M. Aminul Islam9. Network of low-cost RGB-Depth cameras and mini-computers for high-throughput monitoring of plant stress responseCORDIER Mathis, RASTI Pejman, TORRES Cindy, ROUSSEAU David10. Speed Breeding and High-Throughout Phenotypic Platforms to Accelerate Improvements in Cereal CropsIndra Rautela, Sonika Kalia1, Megha Katoch, Shanvi Nautiyal, Natasha Charaya, Monika Kalia, Himanshu Sharma, Vinay Sharma11. Proteomics: Aims at Stress Mitigation in Soybean under Abiotic StressFarhat Yasmeen, Rizwana Parveen, and Setsuko Komatsu12. Genome editing systems for speed breeding of tomato (Solanum lycopersicon L.)Madhusmita Barik, Jatindra Nath Mohanty, Animesh Pattnaik, Rukmini Mishra, Raj Kumar Joshi13. Speed germplasm generation and precision-designed breeding in tomato based on the CRISPR/Cas9 systemJiao Wang, Shuting Ding, Kai Shi14. Speed breeding in fruit trees: Current achievements and future perspectivesVadim Lebedev15. Molecular, morpho-functional and agronomic phenotyping tools for grapevine selection and breedingJ. Miguel Costa, Luísa Carvalho, Rui Figueira, Hiroyuki Shimono, J.Marques da Silva16. Rice Submergence Tolerance: Emerging Molecular Breeding Strategies in the Post-genomic EraAshish Gautam, Anamika Thakur, Charupriya Chauhan, Vinay Sharma, Karthick Babu Sivakumar, Rakesh Kumar, Sanjay Kumar Chetia17. Speed breeding in vegetable crops: Implications and challengesRuma Devi, Shivani Chauhan18. Strategies for speed breeding in crops to accelerate plant improvementNaglaa A. Abdallah, Aladdin Hamwieh, Khaled Radwan, Michael Baum

Jen-Tsung Chen is a professor of cell biology at the National University of Kaohsiung in Taiwan. He also teaches genomics, proteomics, plant physiology, and plant biotechnology. Dr. Chen’s research interests include bioactive compounds, chromatography techniques, plant molecular biology, plant biotechnology, bioinformatics, and systems pharmacology. He is an active editor of academic books and journals to advance the exploration of multidisciplinary knowledge involving plant physiology, plant biotechnology, nanotechnology, ethnopharmacology, and systems biology. He serves as an editorial board member in reputed journals, including Plant Methods, GM Crops & Food, Plant Nano Biology, Biomolecules, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and a guest editor in Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Journal of Fungi, and Current Pharmaceutical Design. Dr. Chen published books in collaboration with Springer Nature, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, and In-TechOpen and he is handling book projects for some more international publishers on diverse topics such as drug discovery, herbal medicine, medicinal biotechnology, nanotechnology, bioengineering, plant functional genomics, plant speed breeding, and CRISPR-based plant genome editing.

• 1. Technological development and prospects of crop speed breedingMarcelo Picanço de Farias, Charles Hobi Zimmer, João Kafer, Mayla Daiane Correa Molinari, Fabricio Barbosa Monteiro Arraes, Renata Fuganti-Pagliarini, Isabela Yamauchi Torres, Samantha Vieira Abbad, Liliane Mertz-Henning, Alexandre Nepomuceno, Hugo Molinari2. Speed breeding in the era of high throughput OMICS: recent developments and future outlookFurqan Tayyab, Momna Mehmood, Aqsa Parvaiz, Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammad Sarwar Khan, Faiz Ahmad Joyia3. Accelerate Crop Breeding Utilizing Modern Genomics and Phenomics ToolsAmooru Harika, Sivapragasam Ezhumalai, Biswabiplab Singh, Elangovan Allimuthu, Sukumar Taria, Dhandapani Raju, Sudhir Kumar, Mahesh Kumar, Madhurima Das and Viswanathan Chinnusamy4. Implementation of Novel Genomic and Biotechnological Interventions for Accelerated Breeding of CropsMuhammad Ramzan Khan, Nazia Rehman, Safeena Inam, Muhammad Kashif Naeem, Amna Muhammad, Muhammad Uzair, Aamir Riaz, Obaid Ur Rehman, Fara Muqaddas, Maryam Murtaza, Bilal Saleem, Muhammad Aqeel, Muhammad Zahid5. Recent Advances in Plant Phenomics and Speed Breeding for Climate-smart AgricultureRubab Zahra Naqvi, Muhammad Farooq, Rida Zahid, Ifrah Imran, Muhammad Arslan Mahmood, Muhammad Jawad Akbar Awan, Shahid Mansoor, Imran Amin, Muhammad Asif6. Genome editing technologies for accelerating crop improvement: An updated overviewAnil Namdev Kale, Raj Kumar, Rushikesh Sanjay Mane, Sagar Krushnaji Rangari, Praful Mukund Damdar, Zeba Quaiyum, Karma L. Bhutia, Akbar Hossain7. The CRISPR/Cas system for plant speed breeding: Advances and prospectsMuhammad Jawad Akbar Awan, Muhammad Ismail Buzdar, Asma Zia, Aiman Raza, Rubab Zahra Naqvi, Imran Amin, and Shahid Mansoor8. Genomic Selection Tools for Plant Speed BreedingSumi Sarkar, Marium Khatun, F. M. Era, A. K. M. Aminul Islam9. Network of low-cost RGB-Depth cameras and mini-computers for high-throughput monitoring of plant stress responseCORDIER Mathis, RASTI Pejman, TORRES Cindy, ROUSSEAU David10. Speed Breeding and High-Throughout Phenotypic Platforms to Accelerate Improvements in Cereal CropsIndra Rautela, Sonika Kalia1, Megha Katoch, Shanvi Nautiyal, Natasha Charaya, Monika Kalia, Himanshu Sharma, Vinay Sharma11. Proteomics: Aims at Stress Mitigation in Soybean under Abiotic StressFarhat Yasmeen, Rizwana Parveen, and Setsuko Komatsu12. Genome editing systems for speed breeding of tomato (Solanum lycopersicon L.)Madhusmita Barik, Jatindra Nath Mohanty, Animesh Pattnaik, Rukmini Mishra, Raj Kumar Joshi13. Speed germplasm generation and precision-designed breeding in tomato based on the CRISPR/Cas9 systemJiao Wang, Shuting Ding, Kai Shi14. Speed breeding in fruit trees: Current achievements and future perspectivesVadim Lebedev15. Molecular, morpho-functional and agronomic phenotyping tools for grapevine selection and breedingJ. Miguel Costa, Luísa Carvalho, Rui Figueira, Hiroyuki Shimono, J.Marques da Silva16. Rice Submergence Tolerance: Emerging Molecular Breeding Strategies in the Post-genomic EraAshish Gautam, Anamika Thakur, Charupriya Chauhan, Vinay Sharma, Karthick Babu Sivakumar, Rakesh Kumar, Sanjay Kumar Chetia17. Speed breeding in vegetable crops: Implications and challengesRuma Devi, Shivani Chauhan18. Strategies for speed breeding in crops to accelerate plant improvementNaglaa A. Abdallah, Aladdin Hamwieh, Khaled Radwan, Michael Baum