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## Meet the editor

Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov received a BS in Biotechnology from the National University, Uzbekistan, in 1997, an MS in Plant Breeding from Texas A&M University in 2001, and a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics, DSc in Genetics, and a full professorship in Molecular Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology from the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan in 2002, 2009, and 2011, respectively. He founded the Center of Genomics and Bioinfor-

matics of Uzbekistan in 2012. He received the 2010 prize from The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and "ICAC Cotton Researcher of the Year 2013" for his outstanding contribution to cotton genomics and biotechnology. He was elected as a fellow to TWAS in 2014 and as a member of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan in 2017. In the same year, he was appointed Minister of Innovative Development of Uzbekistan.

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