The guest editor for the 2016 edition is Bob Bors, the Project Leader of the Domestic Fruit Program and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the university of Saskatchewan. He began in 1999 to head the Fruit Program. Bob obtained a BSC from the University of Maryland, and a PHD from the University of Guelph. Bob's research focuses on breeding, tissue culture, propagation, disease screening, and interspecific hybridization of hort crops with emphasis on fruit and ornamentals.