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Ana O. Quintana-Escobar, Hugo A. Méndez-Hernández, Rosa M. Galaz-Ávalos, José M. Elizalde-Contreras, Francisco A. Reyes-Soria, Victor Aguilar-Hernández, Eliel Ruíz-May and Víctor M. Loyola-Vargas
Instituto de Agrobiotecnología (IdAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-Gobierno de Navarra, Av. Pamplona 123, 31192 Mutilva, Spain
Gabriella Pocsfalvi
Institute of Biosciences and BioResources, Research Division Naples, National Research Council, 80131 Naples, Italy
Elisa Garzo
Departamento de Protección Vegetal, Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias (ICA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 28006 Madrid, Spain
Cinzia Margherita Bertea
Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, 10123 Turin, Italy
Winner
Khalid Mahmood Arif
Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, School of Food and Advanced Technology, Massey University, Auckland 0632, New Zealand
Branka Salopek-Sondi
Department of Molecular Biology, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička c. 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Katrin Fischer-Schrader
Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Zülpicher Str. 47, University of Cologne, 50674 Cologne, Germany
Chiara Biselli
Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics, via S. Protaso 302, 29017 Fiorenzuola d’Arda (PC), Italy
Winner
María Dolores Ibáñez and María Amparo Blázquez
Departament de Farmacologia, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de València, Avd. Vicent Andrés Estellés s/n, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain
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Lazar Novaković
La Trobe Institute for Agriculture and Food, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC 3086, Australia
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