Prof. Dr. Ragab Abdel-Mohsen El-Mergawi was born in Giza, Egypt. He obtained his bachelor and master degree in Plant Biochemistry from Ein Shams University and his doctoral degree in Biochemistry from Cairo University in 1992. Currently he is working at National Research Centre, Egypt. His main area of specialization is Plant biochemistry. Over the last years, he also focused on those areas: metabolism of plant secondary metabolites, production of phenolic compounds, quality of organic and conventional vegetables and fruits, antioxidant activity and antioxidant constituents of vegetables, fruits and waste products, antioxidant capacity and antioxidant constituents of different varieties of date palm seeds and flesh, phytoremediation of toxic pollutants, allelopathy studies for producing natural herbicides, plant hormones.