Dr Abdelbagi Mukhtar Ali Ghanim was born in Sudan and holds a BSc in Agriculture, an MSc in Plant Breeding and Genetics and a PhD in Plant Breeding and Genetics. He leads a team in plant breeding, in-cluding mutation breeding at the Ag-ricultural Research Corporation (Wad Medani, Sudan) and before joining us, was a visiting researcher at the Ar-id Land Research Center (Tottori, Japan). Dr Ghanim brings a thorough understanding of plant breeding pro-cesses from parental selection to varietal release. He is a very experienced mutation breeder with a high interna-tional profile, substantiated by strong international col-laborations, international exposure and an excellent pub-lication record in pertinent (plant breeding) journals. He has been involved with the development of mutant varie-ties in wheat, sorghum, maize, millet, cotton, banana to-mato, with drought tolerance in wheat being a major goal. We welcome Dr Ghanim as new staff member in the Seibersdorf Plant Breeding and Genetics Laboratory. If you want to contact Abdelbagi, please feel free to use the following electronic address: [email protected]