Trinh Xuan HoatPlant Protection Research Institute (PPRI) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Trinh Xuan Hoat has completed M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at Kobe University, Japan. His current position is Deputy Director General of Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Vietnam Academ of Agricultural Sciences (VAAS). His team has studied on sugarcane grassy shoot, sugarcane white leaf, cassava witches broom diseases, and longan witches broom syndrome. His team is focusing on detection, identification of phytoplasma diseases, and their management in Vietnam and has published many papers related to phytoplasma diseases on different crops such as sugarcane, cassava, rice, maize, sesame. Read More Read Less