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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Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon S7N 5A2, Canada
Interests: economics of genetic resources and biodiversity; genebanks; economics of PGR conservation; crop wild relatives; experimental economics; varietal diffusion; climate change adaptation

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Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8528, Japan
Interests: Plant molecular physiology; Salinity tolerance; drought tolerance; plant nutrition

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Department of Applied Biosciences, Toyo University, Itakura-machi, Ora-gun, Gunma 374-0193, Japan
Interests: leaf senescence; plant biotechnology; plant tissue and organ culture; plant hormones; plant physiology; shoot branching
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Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 660041 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Interests: endroclimatology; wood anatomy; tree growthl; meristem (mainly cambium); modelling
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Molecular Biology & Genomics, Department of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Lincoln University, 1220 Chestnut Street, Jefferson City, MO 65101, USA
Interests: genomics; genetics; soybean; legumes; genome sequencing; abiotic stress; drought; high temperature stress; genomics assisted breeding

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Institute for Plant Biochemistry and Photosynthesis CSIC, University of Seville, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
Interests: plant development; floral transition; circadian clock; evolution; proteomics; system biology; biochemistry; molecular biology

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Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Bahia 44036-900, Brazil
Interests: plant taxonomy; plant phylogenetics; plant population genetics
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Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Department of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
Interests: abiotic stress; biochemistry; biotechnology; bioinformatics; genetics; hormonal signaling; physiology
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Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Biology Building, 251 W Pitkin St, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
Interests: abiotic stress; salt stress; water stress; water use efficiency; nitrogen use efficiency; plant physiology; adaptation to climate; synthetic biology

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Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid (RJB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
Interests: Taxonomy; evolution; systematics; phylogenetics; ecological interactions; botany outreach

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Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, 38010 Trento, Italy
Interests: plant molecular evolution; plant functional genomics; plant biodiversity; plant comparative genomics; plant transcriptomics

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Council for Agricultural Research and Economics - Research Center for Viticulture and Enology, Via XXVIII Aprile 26, 31015 Conegliano, Italy
Interests: grape genetics and genomics; plant breeding; molecular biology; phytopathology
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Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Univercité Claude Bernard Lyon1, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
Interests: plant reproduction; masting; crop; fruit trees; modelling; plant–insect interactions


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Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre, Temesvári krt. 62., H-6726 Szeged, Hungary
Interests: light signalling; UV-B signalling; photomorphogenesis; skotomorphogenesis; photoreceptors; phytochromes; transcription factors; optogenetics
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Plant Physiology Unit, Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Interests: plant's responses to abiotic stresses (nutrient deficiencies, water deficiency and salt stress); interaction among nutrients in plants and the impact of multiple nutrients stress on plant growth and metabolism; effect of belowground plant-microbe interactions on plant nutritional status
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Institute for Agricultural and Forestry Systems in the Mediterranean (ISAFoM), National Research Council of Italy-CNR, 80055 Portici, NA, Italy
Interests: agroecology; greenhouse gases; ecosystem carbon fluxes; crop ecology; crop physiology; nitrogen and carbon cycles
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Agrofood Technology Department, Centro de Investigación e Innovación Agroalimentaria y Agroambiental (CIAGRO-UMH), Miguel Hernández University, 03312 Orihuela, Alicante, Spain
Interests: essential oils; food chemistry; bioactive compounds; use of natural inhibitors (antioxidants and antimicrobials) to increase the shelf life of food; valorization of agrofood industry coproducts; development of new functional food products; meat product innovation
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Laboratory EBI (Ecology and Biology of interactions), University of Poitiers, UMR CNRS 7267, F-86073 Poitiers, France
Interests: plant primary metabolism and sugar transport; oxidative stress; water-stress; plant-microorganism interactions
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Research Group Leader Metabolism and Development, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Interests: developmental transitions in plants; shoot apical meristem; regulation of flowering

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Department of Forestry, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan
Interests: essential oils; terpenoid biosynthesis; phytomedicines; plant metabolomics
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College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: plant-microbe interactions; plant immunity, signal transduction; proteomics; apoplast
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Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8577, Japan
Interests: plant cytogenetics; plant genetics and breeding; genetic resources; biodiversity; biotechnology
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China National Center for Rice Improvement and State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China
Interests: genetic improvement of rice quality; developmental biology of rice
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Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Corrensstr. 3, 06466 Seeland, Germany
Interests: plant genetic resources documentation, databases; integrative bioinformatics; data integration/data quality; phenotyping; biodiversity and conservation

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Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Lincoln University, Lincoln 7647, Canterbury, New Zealand
Interests: plant transposons; plant genomics; epigenomics; plant biochemistry; plant secondary metabolism
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GLORIA Co-Ordination, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) & Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research (IGF), Austrian Academy of Sciences, A-1190 Vienna, Austria
Interests: biodiversity; alpine plants; climate change; population biology; molecular ecology
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Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Interests: plant cell walls; signaling pathways

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Department of New Biology, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
Interests: leaf senescence; stress response; leaf development; DNA repair; transcriptome; Arabidopsis

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School of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901-6899, USA
Interests: abiotic stress; desiccation; drought-stress; water-stress; osmotic-stress; water-relations; seed quality; mosses; bryophytes

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College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Interests: fruit quality cell and molecular biology; fruit antimicrobial nanomaterial and physical sterilization technology; postharvest commercial processing and preservation of fruit; non-destructive measurement of fruit quality; fruit smart supply chain
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