Editorial Board for section 'Plant Genetics and Genomics'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

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Department of Fruit Quality and Biotechnology, Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (UPV-CSIC), Ingeniero Fausto Elio, s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Interests: tomato; genetics; genomics, biochemistry; fruit quality
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Institute of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Al. 29 Listopada 54, 31-425 Krakow, Poland
Interests: apiaceae; carrot; crop domestication; genetic diversity; molecular markers; plant breeding; plant genomics; transposable elements
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Taxonomy & Evolutionary Biology, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany
Interests: apomixis; evolution; genetics; genomics; hybridization; plant reproduction; polyploidy
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The James Hutton Institute, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland, UK
Interests: plant electron microscopy; nitrogen fixation by legumes; nitrogen fixation by non-legumes
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Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Interests: genomics; genetics; epigenetics; small RNAs; chromatin; transcription; post-transcriptional regulation; polyploidy; hybrids; circadian regulation; molecular evolution; plants; Arabidopsis; cotton; maize; rice; wheat

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College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: functional genomics of brassicas; germplasm of rapeseed; genome editing technologies
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Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre, 6726 Szeged, Hungary
Interests: nitrogen fixing symbiosis; legumes; rhizobia; plant genetics and genomics; microbial genetics and genomics

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Department of Plant and Environmental New Resources, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Republic of Korea
Interests: plant science; wood formation; secondary wall biosynthesis; biotechnological improvement
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CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai 200032, China
Interests: DNA methylation; histone modification; epigenetics; plant nutrition; gene expression regulation; genome editing

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Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Beadle Center, Lincoln, NE 68503, USA
Interests: regulation of gene expression; single cell; genomic and epigenomic regulation
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State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Interests: gene family evolution; forage molecular biology; drought resistance; genetic engineering
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State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Interests: forage molecular breeding; drought tolerance; pod shattering; alfalfa; common vetch
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Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
Interests: lignin biosynthesis; secondary metabolism; cytokinin; plant hormone; plant lectins; wheat; medicinal plants

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Department of Biology and Biotechnology “L. Spallanzani”, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Interests: DNA damage response (DDR); microRNAs; abiotic stress response; systems biology; seed biology
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Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, 24126 Bergamo, Italy
Interests: transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation mechanisms; genetic analysis of quantitative traits related to grain yield and quality of cereals; functional analysis of abiotic stress regulated genes
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Shanghai Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
Interests: plant-pathogen interaction; PAMP-triggered immunity; effector-triggered immunity; immune signal transduction; plant disease resistance

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Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea La Mayora (IHSM-UMA-CSIC), Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, University of Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain
Interests: cell wall; fruit physiology; fruit biotechnology; fruit texture; genetic transformation; olive; postharvest; strawberry, subtropical fruits
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Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, 37129 Verona, Italy
Interests: plant biotechnology; solanum lycopersicum; parthenocarpy; fruit growth and development; phytohormones
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Department of Agronomy and Horticulture and Center for Plant Science Innovation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
Interests: plant evolutionary genetics; mitochondrial genomics; plastid genomics; phylogenetics

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1. Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
2. Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Interests: bioinformatics; databases; Solanaceae; cassava; root and tuber crops; breeding

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Laboratory of Beneficial Plant-Microbe Interaction Research, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 300 Feng Lin Road, Shanghai 200032, China
Interests: symbiosis; nodulation; arbuscular mycorrhiza; rhizobial and mycorrhizal infection; rhizosphere; nitrogen signaling; flavonoids; gene networks

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Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Interests: plant breeding; genetic resources conservation; quantitative genetics; agrobiodiversity; plant production systems

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CIRAD, INRAE, Institut Agro, UMR AGAP Institut, Montpellier University, 34090 Montpellier, France
Interests: bioinformatics; phylogeny; genetic diversity; sequence-based genotyping; durum wheat; polyploidy

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Cell & Molecular Sciences, The James Hutton Institute, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland, UK
Interests: crop genetics and genomics; sequence-based genotyping; genome-wide association studies; genomics-assisted breeding

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Department of Agricultural Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
Interests: grain legumes; faba bean; protein crops; cropping systems; pre-crop effects; yield stability; yield gap; crop breeding; sustainable intensification

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Department AGRARIA, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Località Feo di Vito snc, I-89124 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Interests: plant genetics and breeding; molecular-assisted selection (MAS); vegetable crops (mainly tomato and eggplant); abiotic stress; nitrogen use efficiency (NUE); genetic structure of plant biodiversity; genomics; transcriptomics; genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS)
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Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS), Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Interests: molecular plant pathology; plant diseases; resistance breeding; NLR proteins; pathogens; solanaceae; Fusarium oxysporum

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Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, P.O. Box 386, 6700 AJ Wageningen, The Netherlands
Interests: biobased economy; biotechnology; molecular biology; plant breeding; cell walls; cellulose; maize; starch

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Department Biology and Biotechnology C. Darwin, Sapienza Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Interests: arabidopsis thaliana; seed germination; light signaling; phtomorphogenesis; Dof proteins

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State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
Interests: rice; genome editing; apomixis; recombination; meiosis; hybrid vigor; heterosis; plants
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