Editorial Board for section 'Plant Physiology and Metabolism'

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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 Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA), University of Torino, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy
Interests: hydraulic conductivity; abiotic stress; role of aquaporins in water and CO2 transport in plants; grapevine ecophysiology; vulnerability of plants to cavitation and mechanisms to recover embolism; abiotic-stress caused hormonal signaling: abscisic acid; strigolactones

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School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, SBS-02s-88e, Singapore 637551, Singapore
Interests: plant lipid biosynthesis; regulation of gene expression; intrinsically disordered proteins in plants; post-translational modifications; plant signal transduction


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MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, 612 Wilson Rd, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Interests: plant defense; biotic stress; growth-defense trade-offs; jasmonate signaling; specialized metabolism; plant physiology; plant biochemistry; trees
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Science Research Center, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi 753-8515, Japan
Interests: reactive oxygen species (ROS) signaling; reactive carbonyl species; oxylipin; environmental stress; programmed cell death
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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plant Products, Instituto de la Grasa, CSIC, Campus University Pablo de Olavide, Ctra. Utrera km 1, Building 46, 41013-Seville, Spain
Interests: plant lipid metabolism with special emphasis on fatty acid and triacylglycerol biosynthesis in oilseeds and olive fruit; gene and enzyme characterization and regulation; genomics; plant oil quality

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Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 78000 Versailles, France
Interests: nutrient recycling; plant senescence; autophagy; nitrogen use efficiency
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Department of Genetics, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 425G Henry Mall, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Interests: molecular genetics of root growth behavior and root responses to environmental stressors; role of polyamines in plant stress response
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Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
Interests: chloroplast biogenesis; tetrarpyrrole biosynthesis; photosynthesis

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Departamento de Biología Funcional (Área Fisiología Vegetal), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Interests: molecular and physiological aspects of seeds development
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Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 60131 Ancona, Italy
Interests: berries breeding; biotechnological approaches for the genetic improvement; fruit tree crops; cisgenesis and RNAi disease resistance; fruit quality and nutritional profile
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Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Lubicz 46, 31-512 Krakow, Poland
Interests: salt stress; photosynthesis; C3 and CAM photosynthesis; heavy metal stress

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Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Kyoto 606-8522, Japan
Interests: reactive oxygen species; oxidative stress; abiotic stress response; redox regulation; germination; seed storage proteins; rice
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Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Japan
Interests: plant biology; understanding plant responses to nutrient starvation, pathways and regulation of autophagy in plant cells, and vacuole genesis

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Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, Via del Borghetto 80, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, 34127 Trieste, Italy
Interests: plant hydraulic architecture; leaf hydraulics; root hydraulics; xylem embolism; functional plant ecology
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Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 78000 Versailles, France
Interests: seed physiology and biology; plant polysaccharides; plant molecular and association genetics; Arabidopsis natural variation

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Tropical Biosphere Research Center, University of the Ryukyus, Senbaru 1, Nishihara 903-0213, Okinawa, Japan
Interests: lipid metabolism in stress response

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Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas (UPM-INIA), Campus Montegancedo, Autopista M40, km 38, Pozuelo de Alarcón, 28223 Madrid, Spain
Interests: seed germination; seed vigor; gibberellin-signaling; integration of growth and stress; transcriptional regulation; protein–protein interactions
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UCD School of Biology and Environmental Science and UCD Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Interests: ecosystem greenhouse gas emissions and their mitigation; carbon sequestration; climate change; invasive plants; underutilized crop species; crop productivity
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Viikki Plant Science Centre and Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Program, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, FI‐00014 Helsinki, Finland
Interests: plant interactions with fungal pathogens; fungal genomics and pathogenicity; plant immune signaling; phytopathogenic yeasts; Reactive oxygen species (ROS) signaling

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1. Department of Analytical Chemistry and Physical Chemistry, University of Food Technologies, 26 Maritza Blvd., 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2. Laboratory of Cell Biosystems, Department of Biotechnology, The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 139 Ruski Blvd., 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Interests: bioactive substances by plant in vitro systems; bioprocess engineering of plant in vitro systems; plant biotechnology
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Departamento de Biotecnología, Genómica y Mejora Vegetal; IMIDA, 30150 La Alberca, Murcia, Spain
Interests: in vitro culture; breeding; mutagenesis; citrus; salinity; lemon; rootstocks

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Department of biological engineering, Enzyme and Cell Engineering laboratory, University of Technology of Compiègne, 60203 Compiègne, France
Interests: plant biotechnology; plant genetic engineering; plant tissue culture; plant physiology; plant metabolism; plant lipid metabolism
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School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA
Interests: amino acid transporters in plants; amino acid metabolism in plants; regulation of amino acid and nitrogen homeostasis
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Department of Biology and Biotechnlogy, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Interests: mechanisms of abiotic stress resistance; photosynthesis; photoprotection; light harvesting; mosses; heterologous expression; genome editing
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Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - Production, Landscape, Agroenergy (DiSAA), Università degli Studi di Milano, 20122 Milano, Italy
Interests: plant proteomics; plant metabolomics; plant physiology; plant biochemistry; plant mineral nutrition; secondary metabolism; plant abiotic stress; nutraceutical properties
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Department of Biology, Lund University, SE-22362 Lund, Sweden
Interests: redox metabolism; membrane biology; membrane active peptides; plant interactions with biostimulant fungi; apoplast; mitochondria

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EA3900-BIOPI, Biologie des Plantes et Innovation, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 80039 Amiens, France
Interests: plant cell wall; functional characterization of pectin remodeling enzymes; cold stress; salt stress; bioinformatics
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