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Prof. Dr. Rodomiro Ortiz
Prof. Dr. Rodomiro Ortiz
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE 2 3053 Alnarp, Sweden
Interests: agrobiodiversity; food security; genetic resources; genetics; plant breeding
* Section: Genotype Evaluation and Breeding
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Section Board Member
CIRAD, UMR AGAP (Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes Méditerranéennes et Tropicales), 34398 Montpellier, France
Interests: rice based cropping systems; rice plant related research; genetics and plant breeding
Dr. Yong-Qiang Charles An
Dr. Yong-Qiang Charles An
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Section Board Member
Plant Genetics Research Unit, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, 975 N Warson Rd, St. Louis, MO 63132, USA
Interests: soybean; functional marker; structural genomics; functional genomics; seed quality; seed biology; data science
Dr. Stanislaus Antony Ceasar
Dr. Stanislaus Antony Ceasar
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Section Board Member
Department of Biosciences, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Kochi 683104, Kerala, India
Interests: plant nutrient transport; plant phosphate transport; plant metal transport; millet improvement; CRISPR/Cas; plant transformation
Prof. Dr. Nacer Bellaloui
Prof. Dr. Nacer Bellaloui
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Section Board Member
Crop Genetics Research Unit, 141 Experiment Station Road, P. O. Box 345, Stoneville, MS 38776, USA
Interests: seed nutrition; soybean; Plant Physiology; grain nutrition; genetics
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Dr. Andres Belver Cano
Dr. Andres Belver Cano
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Section Board Member
Department of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Granada, Spain
Interests: Na+, Cl- and K+ homeostasis in plants; functional analysis of plant ion transporters; salinity; abiotic stress; crop plants (tomato and citrus)
Dr. Filippo Biscarini
Dr. Filippo Biscarini
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Section Board Member
Institute for Biology and Biotechnology in Agriculture, National Research Council (CNR-IBBA), Milan, Italy
Interests: biostatistics; bioinformatics; genetics; precision agriculture; breeding; artificial intelligence
Dr. Robert Brueggeman
Dr. Robert Brueggeman
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Section Board Member
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA
Interests: plant breeding; genetics; genomics; host-pathogen interactions; biotic and abiotic stress responses
Dr. Diogo Cavalcanti Cabral De Mello
Dr. Diogo Cavalcanti Cabral De Mello
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Section Board Member
1. Department of General and Applied Biology, UNESP, Rio Claro, Brazil
2. Department of Experimental Biology, Genetic Area, University of Jaén, Jaén, Spain
Interests: genome; insects; heterochromatin; repetitive DNA; molecular cytogenetics
Dr. Lesley G. Campbell
Dr. Lesley G. Campbell
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Section Board Member
Department of Chemistry and Biology, Faculty of Science, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada
Interests: population biology; plant evolution; wild crop relatives; gene flow; Cannabis; quantitative genetics; weed evolution
Prof. Dr. Jianjun Chen
Prof. Dr. Jianjun Chen
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Section Board Member
Mid-Florida Research and Education Center, Environmental Horticulture Department, University of Florida, 2725 S. Binion Road, Apopka, FL 32703, USA
Interests: bioremediation; environmental plant physiology; plant biotechnology; plant breeding; plant genetics; specialty crops
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Dr. Jiedan Chen
Dr. Jiedan Chen
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Section Board Member
National Center for Tea Improvement, Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310008, China
Interests: plant genomics; Omics database; genetic resources; molecular breeding; tea plant
Prof. Dr. Liang Chen
Prof. Dr. Liang Chen
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Section Board Member
Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China
Interests: tea plants; genetic resources; genetics and breeding; molecular biology; genomics
Dr. Ming Chen
Dr. Ming Chen
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Section Board Member
Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China
Interests: abiotic stress; wheat; drought resistance; Low nitrogen stress; salt stress; transgenic crop; gene cloning
Dr. Shuangyan Chen
Dr. Shuangyan Chen
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Section Board Member
Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
Interests: forage; genetic resources; molecular breeding; biotechnology; genomics; gene discovery
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Section Board Member
Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Area, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518120, China
Interests: crop genome; molecular breeding; genome evolution; epigenome; association studies
Prof. Dr. Raúl De la Rosa Navarro
Prof. Dr. Raúl De la Rosa Navarro
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Section Board Member
IFAPA Centro Alameda del Obispo, Ave. Menéndez Pidal s/n, 14004 Córdoba, Spain
Interests: olive; fruit crops; breeding; marker assisted selection; comparative trials; olive oil quality; flowering; cross-compatibility; germplasm conservation; heritability
Prof. Dr. Antonio Di Matteo
Prof. Dr. Antonio Di Matteo
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Section Board Member
Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via Università 100, 80055 Portici, Italy
Interests: plant biotechnologies; genomics; molecular breeding; transcriptomics; abiotic stresses; plant response and tolerance; drought; salinity; genetic engineering; synthetic biology
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Prof. Dr. Junjie Fu
Prof. Dr. Junjie Fu
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Section Board Member
Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: crop genomics; bioinformatics; genomic selection; genomics-assisted breeding
Prof. Dr. Jun-Yi Gai
Prof. Dr. Jun-Yi Gai
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Section Board Member
College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: genetics and plant breeding; quantitative genetics; experimental statistics; germplasm population; cropping system; soybean science
Prof. Dr. Yinbo Gan
Prof. Dr. Yinbo Gan
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Section Board Member
Crop Research Institute, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: trichome and root hair development; heavy metal stress; plant hormone vs. plant development; nitrate signal and lateral development
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Prof. Dr. Jiping Gao
Prof. Dr. Jiping Gao
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Section Board Member
Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Key Laboratory of Crop Genomics and Molecular Breeding of Jiangsu Province, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology of Jiangsu Province, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
Interests: genetic regulation; rice; quality traits
Prof. Dr. Zhenyu Gao
Prof. Dr. Zhenyu Gao
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Section Board Member
State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 310006, China
Interests: rice; genetics; molecular breeding; yield; nitrogen use efficiency; heterosis; grain quality
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Dr. Pietro Gramazio
Dr. Pietro Gramazio
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Section Board Member
1. Department of Biotechnology, Institute for Conservation and Improvement of Valencian Agrodiversity (COMAV), School of Agricultural Engineering and Environment (ETSIAMN), Vera Campus, Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Camino de Vera s/n, Building 8E, 46022 Valencia, Spain
2. Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
Interests: plant breeding; introgression breeding; crop wild relatives (CWRs); solanaceae vegetable crops; genomics; genetics; molecular markers; genetic mapping
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Prof. Dr. Zhenfei Guo
Prof. Dr. Zhenfei Guo
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Section Board Member
College of Grassland Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: abiotic stress; antioxidants; breeding; Ca
2+ signaling; calmodulin-like protein; forage legume; receptor-like protein kinase; ROS homeostasis; turfgrasses
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Dr. Carlos Guzmán
Dr. Carlos Guzmán
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Section Board Member
Department of Genetics, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain
Interests: wheat quality; flour color; gluten; bread-making; pasta-making; wheat fiber
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Section Board Member
Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic
Interests: plant biotechnology; plant anatomy and morphology; plant physiology; plant genetics; plant tissue culture
Prof. Dr. Yuqing He
Prof. Dr. Yuqing He
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Section Board Member
College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Interests: rice; grain quality; molecular breeding; gene clone; blast resistance; plant hopper resistance
Dr. Yongbo Hong
Dr. Yongbo Hong
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Section Board Member
National Center of Rice Improvement, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 310008, China
Interests: disease resistance cloning; dissecting molecular mechanism; disease genetic network regulation; gene pyramiding molecular breeding