Meet the Volume Editor

Marian D. Quain is a chief research scientist with the CSIR-Crops Research Institute, Ghana. She is a biotechnologist whose research focuses on the utilization of tissue culture techniques for the production of clean planting materials, germplasm conservation, and the use of molecular tools for crop diversity, disease diagnostics, and molecular marker-assisted selection breeding using transcriptomics and proteomics, as well as application of recombinant

gene technology for crop improvement. During 2011–2013, she was a visiting research fellow at Leeds University, UK. She is a 2017 Cochran fellow and a fellow of the Africa Science Leadership Program. In 2018, she won the American Society for Plant Biologists Award for Excellence in Education. In 2022 she was celebrated as Biotechnology Hero by the African Agricultural Technology Foundation.

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Plant Cryopreservation Importance, Approaches and Future Trends *by Victor Acheampong Amankwaah, Ruth Naa Ashiokai Prempeh and Marian Dorcas Quain*
