Dr. Tsuneo Watanabe received his B.A. from the University of Tokyo in 1961 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in plant pathology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 and 1967. Dr. Watanabe was active as a plant pathologist and mycologist in the field of soil-borne diseases, their pathogens, and soil fungi at the National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences, Forestry, and Forest Products Research Institute of Japan for 30 years. He has written nearly 170 scientific papers on the subject and books titles Photomicrographs and Illustrations of Soil Fungi (Soft Science Publications, Ltd, Tokyo, 1993), and Dictionary of Soilborne Plant Diseases (Asakura Publishing Company, Ltd, Tokyo, 1998), and Pictorial Atlas of Soil and Seed Fungi Third Edition (CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla, USA, 2010).