On behalf of the editorial board, the I would like to thank the following colleagues for their contribution as peer reviewers during the past year. It is thanks to the anonymous contributions of these scientists that the journal can function and science can flourish.

Theo van Hintum, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Editor-in-Chief

The anonymous reviewers of Plant Genetic Resources Characterization and Utilization in the year 2015:

R. Abdolshahi, Kerman, Iran

S. Agostino, Reggio Calabria, Italy

M. Akbulut, Kayseri, Turkey

J.B. Alvarez, Cordoba, Spain

W. Amer, Giza, Egypt

Z. An, Haikou, China

A. Arzani, Isfahan, Iran

B.K. Babu, Andhrapradesh, India

N. Babu, India

J. Baldessari, Manfredi, Argentina

F. Baloch, Turkey

D. Bazile, Montpellier, France

I. Ben El Hadj Ali, Tunis, Tunisia

P. Besse, France

S. Bhattacharyya, West Bengal, India

J. Bonnet, Bordeaux, France

G. Breccia, Zavalla, Argentina

V. Britto, Uberlândia, Brazil

A.N. van den Broeck, Geraardsbergen, Belgium

D. Carputo, Portici, Italy

L. Chalak, Beirut, Lebanon

O.T. Coomes, Montreal, Canada

S. Cosmulescu, Craiova, Romania

D. Costich, Texcoco, Mexico

B. Courtois, Montpellier, France

C.P. da Cunha, Campinas, Brazil

L. De La Rosa, Madrid, Spain

N. Dhillon, Kamphaeng Saen, Thailand

A. Diederichsen, Saskatoon, Canada

H.K. Dikshit, New Delhi, India

D. Dodig, Belgrade, Serbia

M. Enam, Mansoura, Egypt

J. Engels, Citta della Pieve, Italy

J. van Etten, Turrialba, Costa Rica

Y. Fan, Launceston, Australia

Farhatullah, Peshawar, Pakistan

M. Ferguson, Nairobi, Kenya

A. Frary, Izmir, Turkey

Y.B. Fu, Saskatoon, Canada

F. Fuentes, Piscataway, USA

P. Gangashetty, Niamey, Niger

M. Gangola, Saskatoon, Canada

T. Gavrilenko, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

M. Geleta, Alnarp, Sweden

K. Ghamkhar, Palmerston North, New Zealand

I. Goldringer, Gif sur Yvette, France

B. Gouesnard, Montpellier, France

V. Govindan, Texcoco, Mexico

S. Groot, Wageningen, The Netherlands

S. Gyawali, Rabat, Morocco

R.H. Priolli, Piracicaba, Brazil

V. Hahn, Hohenheim, Germany

N. Haider, Damascus, Syria

N. Haq, Southampton, UK

S. Heuer, Adelaide, Australia

W.S. Ho, UNIMAS. Sarawak, Malaysia

J. Hu, China

K. Hummer, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

M.S. Iqbal, Gujrat, Pakistan

A, Jannatizadeh, Qazvin, Iran

D.I. Jarvis, Rome, Italy

A. Kahraman, Konya, Turkey

I. Kamau, Nairobi, Kenya

M. Karaca, Antalya, Turkey

A. Karagöz, Aksaray, Turkey

H. Knüpffer, Gatersleben, Germany

J. Krajic, Piestany, Slovakia

D. Kuhn, Miami, USA

S. Kumer, Patna, India

M.L. Kapur, Delhi, India

X. Li, Changsha, Hunan, China

L. Liu, Nanjing, China

Y. Liu, Nanjing, China

K. Liu, China

C. Lizarazo, Helsinki, Finland

E. M. A. Bashir, Hohenheim, Germany

L. M. Souza, Campinas, Brazil

G. M. Bascón, Ithaca, USA

E. Mace, Warwick, Australia

E. Manyasa, Nairobi, Kenya

M. Maras, Ljubljana, Slovenia

F. Marra, Palermo, Italy

S. Melito, Sassari, Italy

I. Molnár, Martonvásár, Hungary

B. Mondal, Kanpur, India

G.U. Mori, Piracicaba, Brazil

E. Mutegi, Columbus, USA

M. Nagel, Gatersleben, Germany

P. Nimmakayala, West. Virginia, USA

Z. Noormohammadi, Tehran, Iran

A. C. Ochogavía, Santa Fe, Argentina

O. Ojuederie, Ota, Nigeria

J.A. Okeno, Nairobi, Kenya

K. Okuno, Tsukuba, Japan

R. Ortiz, Alnarp, Sweden

O. Oyatomi, Nigeria

H.P. Singh, Ludhiana, India

Q. Pan, Guangzhou, China

X. Pang, Beijing, China

A. Pankin, Cologne, Germany

D. Pljevljakusic, Belgrade, Serbia

E. Prats, Cordoba, Spain

L. Prom, College. Station, Texas, USA

A. Pucher, Stuttgart, Germany

N. Rajashekhara, Sullia, India

J.C. Rana, New Delhi, India

U. Reddy, West Virginia, USA

P.A. Roberts, Riverside, USA

S. Roy, Shillong, India

M. Ruiz, Madrid, Spain

R. Sammour, Tanta, Egypt

M.C. Sánchez-Mata, Madrid, Spain

S. Sareen, Karnal, India

A. Sartie, Palmerston. North, New Zealand

B. Sasikumar, Kerala, India

R. Sharma, Dundee, UK

Y. Shavrukov, Adelaide, Australia

A. Shcherban, Novosibirsk, Russia

H.A. Shimells, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

W. Sinebo, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

R. Singh, New Delhi, India

D. Sitnicka, Warsaw, Poland

L. Skot, Aberystwyth, UK

J. Śliwka, Młochów, Poland

L. Smith, Cambridge, England

J. Souframanien, Mumbai, India

D. Spooner, Madison, USA

J. Stommel, Beltsville, USA

M. Sujatha, Hyderabad, India

B. Teeken, Wageningen, The Netherlands

G. Teshome, Ontario, Canada

V. Tiwari, Manhattan, USA

R. van Treuren, The Netherlands

H. Upadhyaya, Hyderabad, India

E. Uslu, Bolu, Turkey

R.K. Varshney, Hyderabad, India

E. Veasey, São Paulo, Brazil

G. Velu, Texcoco, Mexico

P. Vikram, Mexico

M. Vishwakarma, India

P. Wangsomnuk, Khon Kaen, Thailand

H. Yasui, Japan

K.S. Zimmerer, Pennsylvania, USA