Editorial Board

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.

Members


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Agronomic Engineering Department, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Paseo Alfonso XIII, 48., Murcia, 30203 Cartagena, Spain
Interests: water relations; aquaporins; secondary metabolism (glucosinolates); membrane proteins and nutrition in plants; crop production under different salinity stress
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Departamento de Agroquímica y Medio Ambiente, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Ctra. Beniel km 3.2, 03312 Orihuela, Alicante, Spain
Interests: postharvest; fruit quality; by-products; biocompounds


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Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Nambour, QLD 4560, Australia
Interests: agronomy; horticulture; agricultural; plant science; control of fruit size; strawberry plants
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1. Laboratory of Pomology, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
2. Joint Laboratory of Horticulture, Institute of Soil and Water Resources, ELGO-Dimitra, 57001 Thessaloniki-Thermi, Greece
Interests: agriculture; plant nutrition; fertilizers; proteomics; horticulture; fruit quality; fruit science; postharvest physiology; postharvest; postharvest biology; pomology; sweet cherry; metabolomics; transcriptomics
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Department of Agriculture, University of Naples Federico II, 80055 Naples, Italy
Interests: botany; floras; alien species invasions; biodeterioration of historical and archaeological buildings; ethnobotany; iconographic analysis of artistic representations of natural elements in archaeological remains and artifacts of the Mediterranean region
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Dipartimento di AGRARIA, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, 89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Interests: plant pathology; biological control; plant extracts

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Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food (LEAF), Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA), Universidade de Lisboa, 1349-017 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: fruit tree physiology; fruit tree propagation, cultural practices (thinning, pruning, ground covers, fertilization and fertigation) fruit development and fruit quality

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College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: accumulation and regulation of aroma and flavonoid compounds in grape berries; changes and sensory contribution of aroma profiles during wine making
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Department of Biology and Plant Protection, Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, 7 Prof. S. Kaliskiego Ave., 85-796 Bydgoszcz, Poland
Interests: entomology; agronomy; plant protection; biopesticides; volatile organic compounds; odors; plant priming; natural defence system of plants; secondary plant metabolites
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Department of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 157 71 Athens, Greece
Interests: humic substances; aluminosilicate materials; fertilizers; adsorption; soil quality; clays and clay minerals; waste management; perlites
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Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Interests: grapevine physiology; photosynthetic carbon assimilation and partitioning; viticulture; Michigan cultivar evaluation
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United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, 9611 South Riverbend Ave, Parlier, CA 93648, USA
Interests: postharvest management; fungicide resistance; efficacy of fungicide

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Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Biotechnology, University of Limpopo, Private Bag X1106, Sovenga 0727, South Africa
Interests: agriculture; plant protection; plant pathology; nematology; microbiology; zoology; taxonomy; phylogenetic analysis; ecology and evolution; biodiversity; phylogeography; soil biology and health; sustainable agriculture
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Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Amendola 165/A, 70120 Bari, Italy
Interests: biofortification of vegetables; soilless cultivation technique; microgreens production; exploitation of underutilized crop and wild edible plants; light spectrum effect on leafy vegetables; plant nutrition; informatic tools related to (agro)biodiversity; Nitrates
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Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona, Villa Lebrecht, Via della Pieve 70, 37029 San Pietro in Cariano, Verona, Italy
Interests: physiology and molecular biology of grape berry development, ripening and postharvest dehydration; large scale analysis of gene expression in grapevine under different field conditions; study of the factors affecting the metabolism of phenylpropanoids in the grape berry; functional analysis of grapevine genes; grapevine transformation, cisgenesis, transgenesis, genome editing

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Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 5, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: fungal plant pathogens; biological control of plant diseases; fungal ecology; mycorrhizae; fungal endophytes; applied mycology
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Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: tetranychus spider mite; bemisia tabaci; pesticide resistance; integrated pest management
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Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: peony; flowering; chemical compound identification; edible food development; medicinal compound
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College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: genetic breeding and biotechnology of vegetable crops; radish germplasm enhancement and utilization

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Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory ARS-USDA, 10300 Baltimore Avenue, Beltsville, MD, USA
Interests: phytoplasma plant pathogens

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State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: germplasm collection and evaluation of fruit tree; genomics on domestication and improvement of fruit tree; molecular and genetic mechanism of fruit trait; marker assisted breeding of fruit tree

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State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: plant disease; biological control; mycovirus

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College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
Interests: horticultural plant disease; fruit virus; grapevine breeding; molecular biology; sections-horticulturae: biotic stress; genetics; breeding
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Food Quality Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA
Interests: genetic and biochemical mechanisms determining fresh produce quality and shelf life; functional studies of genes controlling fruit development and ripening; response to stresses; secondary metabolism
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School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Interests: medicinal and chemical biology of plant natural products; plant molecular metabolism and biotechnology; plant-microbe interaction; soil microbial & molecular diversity

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School of Horticulture, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, China
Interests: fruit development and quality; fruit postharvest biology and technology; fruit tree and environmental responses; plant hormones and their interactions; molecular biology
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Key Laboratory of Urban Agriculture (North) of Ministry of Agriculture, College of Biological Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Agriculture, Beijing 102206, China
Interests: microbial resources and environmental engineering; lignocellulosic biodegradation; ecological restoration of environmental pollution; edible and medicinal fungi and their active component
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