Mohammad Ajmal Ali is an Associate Professor in the Department of Botany and Microbiology at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he has taught molecular biology and bionanotechnology since 2010. He received his M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2006) degrees in Botany from TM Bhagalpur University in Bihar, India, and pursued postdoctoral research at Korea Research Institute of Biosciences and Biotechnology in Daejeon, South Korea. Ali's research program encompasses next-generation sequencing, computational chemistry, bioprospecting and bionanotechnology. He has authored/co-authored eight books and over 200 research articles in more than 52 journals of international repute. Joongku Lee is a Professor in the Department of Environment and Forest Resources at Chungnam National University in Daejeon, South Korea. He received Ph.D. (1998) from the Department of Biology at SungKyunKwan University, South Korea. He conducted postdoctoral work at Jepson Herbarium and Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Lee’s present research program encompasses next-generation sequencing, bioprospecting, and plant phylogeny. He has authored/co-authored 17 books and 171 publications.