**Meet the editor**

Ibrokhim Y. Abdurakhmonov received his B.S. Degree (1997) *in biotechnology* from the National University of Uzbekistan, M.S. degree i*n plant breeding* (2001) from Texas A&M University of USA, Ph.D. degree (2002) *in molecular genetics*, Doctor of Science degree (2009) *in genetics*, and full professorship (2011) i*n molecular genetics and molecular biotechnology* from the Institute of Genetics

and Plant Experimental Biology, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. He founded (2012) and is currently leading the Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics of Uzbekistan. He serves as an associate editor/editorial board member of several international and national journals on plant sciences. He received Government award, 2010 chest badge Sign of Uzbekistan," 2010 TWAS prize, and "ICAC Cotton Researcher of the Year 2013" for his outstanding contribution to cotton genomics and biotechnology. He was elected as the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Fellow (2014) on *Agricultural Science* and as a co-chair/chair of "Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics" workgroup (2015) of the International Cotton Genome Initiative (ICGI).

## Contents

#### **Preface XI**


#### **Section 3 Regulation of Plant Genes and Genomes by Small RNAs 101**


Jorge Ricaño-Rodríguez, Jacel Adame-García, Silvia Portilla-Vázquez, José M. Ramos-Prado and Enrique Hipólito-Romero

