Habil. Dr., Prof. Dr. Ákos Máthé has 40 years' background of teaching and research in plant ecophysiology and agricultural botany. He is Professor Emeritus at the Albert Kázmér Faculty of Széchenyi István University, Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary. He was a Fulbright Scholar in 1986 and 1995 and a visiting professor at University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna (1995–1997). He is involved in teaching/research/consulting and publications in ecophysiology, plant domestication/introduction, production of MAPs, new crops, new uses of plants, including feed-additives. He has served as the president of ICMAP (2014–2019) and the Chairman of ISHS Section MAPs (20062014). He is also the Founding secretary of Hungarian Medicinal Plant Association. He has collaborated in international projects such as FEED SEG, CEEPUS, ERASMUS+, HERBAID, GOOD HERBS, Herbs4Youth, EOHUB, etc. He has authored around 100 publications and he is the former editor of Herba Hungarica, Acta Agronomica Hungarica. He has been a convener/speaker at international scientific congresses and conferences and he is the network co-ordinator of ESCORENA MAP. He is also the editor (occassionally co-editor) of the Springer Series Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of the World. The ten titles that he has already published within this Springer series cover Middle East, Africa, North and South America and India.Prof. Irfan Ali Khan obtained his MSc from Aligarh Muslim University and PhD in Botany from Osmania University, Hyderabad, specializing in ‘Genetics and Plant Breeding’. Professor Khan is the Former Director of Nawab Shah Alam Khan Centre For Post Graduate Studies and Research (Affiliated to Osmania University), Anwarul Uloom College Campus, Mallepally, Hyderabad. Presently, he is the Managing Director of Ukaaz Publications, Hyderabad. He has published 163 research papers in reputed national and international journals and is now on the panel of ‘Experts on Mungbean’ for all countries of the South-East Asia and the Middle East. Professor Khan has been the editor of “Frontiers in Plant Science”, has edited seventy-four reference books and has co-authored three textbooks with his wife, Professor Atiya Khanum. Among his works, the most renowned is “Fundamentals of Biostatistics” co-authored with Atiya Khanum and Shiba Khan and it has been released by world renowned agricultural scientist, Dr. M.S. Swaminathan on February 13, 1994 in Hyderabad. This textbook has been included as a textbook and also as reference book in more than 400 universities and research institutes in India and abroad. Besides this, he has given a formula of LSD (Least Significant Difference) with suitable examples which is more or less a substitute for Student’s ‘t’ test to compare to two treatments. He is also a Fellow of the Indian Society of Genetics (F.I.S.G.) and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of "Annals of Phytomedicine," an international journal.
