**Meet the editor**

Dr. Tobias M. Ntuli holds a doctorate in Cell Biology from the Department of Biological and Conservation Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. Dr. Ntuli has carried out numerous postdoctoral research on various universities such as the Universty of Cape Town, South Africa, Tropical Botanical Gardens in Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan in China and

at the Univeristy of South Africa based in Structural Biology Laboratory of the Biosciences Unit of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in Petoria. He edited a book entitled "Apoptosis and Medicine" in 2012. He contributed a chapter entitled "Drought and Desiccation-Tolerance and Sensitivity in Plants". Dr. Ntuli's current research interests include anti-oxidants, apostosis, programmed cell death, espiratory metabolism, free radical activity, ipid peroxidation and metabolic dysunction, regulation and imbalance.
