Rasheed Adeleke is presently a Full Professor with North-West University, Potchefstroom campus, North-West province of South Africa. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Pretoria. He is an alumnus of the Borlaug fellowship programme at Cornell University as well as a Canadian government commonwealth scholarship beneficiary. He collaborates with researchers both nationally and internationally and his current research interests include plant-microbe interactions, food production/agricultural microbiology, bioremediation, biological control of plant pathogens and soil ecology.