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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Centro de Investigación Forestal (CIFOR), Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Carretera de la Coruña km 7.5, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: C3 and C4 photosynthesis; water use efficiency; mesophyll conductance; stable isotopes; leaf anatomy; plant energy budget; primary metabolism; water and heat stresses
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Departamento de Biología Molecular y Bioquímica, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, Campus Universitario de Teatinos, 29071 Málaga, Spain
Interests: nitrogen metabolism; molecular enzymology; gene regulation; genomics; tree biotechnology


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CREA-Centro di Ricerca Orticoltura e Florovivaismo, Pontecagnano Faiano, Italy
Interests: growth and quality of vegetable plants under different nutrient conditions or abiotic stress; studies on interactions between biostimulants and plants
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Plant Stress Lab, Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Turin, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy
Interests: abiotic stress responses and acclimation; phytohormones; flowering; microRNAs; gene regulation; tomato; Arabidopsis

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Centro de Investigación Forestal (CIFOR), Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Carretera de la Coruña km 7.5, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: photosynthesis; mesophyll conductance; leaf anatomy; hydraulics; embolism; water relations; bryophytes; cell wall

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Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy
Interests: plant physiology and applied plant biology; plant response to abiotic stresses
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Department of Agro-Environmental and Territorial Sciences, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Piazza Umberto I, 70121 Bari, Italy
Interests: agriculture; fertilization; forage; silage

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College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: turfgrass; bulbous flower; phytohormone; abiotic stress; development; senescence

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National Center for Natural Products Research, Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, The University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677, USA
Interests: conservation; cultivation and improvement of medicinal plants; effects of climate change on physiology and secondary metabolites of medicinally important plants

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School of Forestry and Resource Conservation, National Taiwan University, No.1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Da’an Dist, Taipei City 106, Taiwan
Interests: tree physiology; secondary metabolite synthesis

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Division of Applied Life Science (BK21 Program), Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-701, Republic of Korea
Interests: arabidopsis; abiotic stress signaling; auxin signaling; MAP kinase

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Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion 7505101, Israel
Interests: plant lipophilic barriers; suberin; cutin; lignin; epicuticular waxes; plant–pathogen interactions; skin reticulation of cucurbitaceous fruit
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Istituto di Biologia e Biotecnologia Agraria, CNR, Milano, Italy
Interests: seed nutritional quality; phytic acid metabolism; ABC-MRP type phytic acid transporter; lpa mutants; abiotic stresses; mineral accumulation
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Department of Science, University of Roma Tre, 00146 Rome, Italy
Interests: polyamines; amine oxidases; reactive oxygen species; plant responses to abiotic stress; wounding; xylem differentiation; stomatal closure

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Biological Sciences Department, State University of New York at Cortland, Bowers Hall, Cortland, NY 13045, USA
Interests: ascorbic acid biosynthesis; oxidative stress; regulation; signal transduction
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Department of Plant Biology/BioISI-Biosystems and Integrative Sciences Institute, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: deep learning; plant phenotyping; plant stress biology; photosynthesis; plant-water relations
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Full Professor of Plant Physiology in the Plant Biology Department, Universidade Federal de Vicosa, 36570-900 Viçosa, MG, Brazil
Interests: ecophysiology of photosynthesis; plant responses to abiotic stresses; water relations; photosynthesis and productivity of tropical and subtropical plants; plant organic metabolism

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Department of Biology, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Interests: plant reproduction; pollen tube growth; self-incompatibility; programmed cell death; pollen allergens
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Plant Molecular Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences , Royal Holloway University of London, Egham TW20 0EX, UK
Interests: photomorphogenesis; light input to the plant circadian clock; high-throughput analysis of light responses in plants; supplemental lighting in horticulture; plant-microbiome interaction; metabarcode-based analysis of the microbiome

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Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology, IRNAS, Seville, Spain
Interests: photosynthesis; stomatal conductance; mesophyll conductance; leaf hydraulics; process-based models; plant water relations; precision agriculture; applied plant physiology
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College of Agronomy, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210093, China
Interests: Source-sink relations; Global change and mitigation strategies; Panicle development; Transport of nutrients, Long distance signaling

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Institute of Biology II, Faculty of Biology, Department of Cell Biology, University of Freiburg, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
Interests: deciphering the molecular mechanisms regulating plant-environment interactions, particularly, the molecular mechanisms regulating plant response to gravity and microgravity; the communication plants-soil fungi/bacteria during symbiosis establishment and the impact of mechanical stimuli on root system architecture
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National Plant Phenomics Centre, Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth SY23 3EB, UK
Interests: plant development; cell cycle and growth control

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Department of Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA
Interests: plant–insect interaction; plant defense; biology of green leaf volatiles; plant–plant interaction; volatile organic compounds; defense signaling; metabolism
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Centre for Integrative Legume Research (CILR), The University of Queensland, Brisbane St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
Interests: legumes, legume nodulation and nitrogen fixation; Plant molecular physiology, signalling and development; plant functional genomics (genetics, transcriptomics); plant-microbe interactions (symbioses)
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Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Interests: ABA signaling; seed development; germination; hormone signaling; Arabidopsis

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Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Campus UAB Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Valles, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: plant primary metabolism; environmental stresses; mitochondria-chloroplast metabolic interactions; crop productivity and quality

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Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Rome, Italy
Interests: abiotic stress response in plants; the production of secondary metabolites in vivo and in vitro; plant-growth-promoting bacteria; phytoremediation
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CNR - Istituto di Biologia e Biotecnologia Agraria (IBBA) - UOS di Roma, Via Salaria Km. 29,300, 00015 Monterotondo Scalo, Roma, Italy
Interests: plant development and organogenesis; functional genomics; transcription factors; plant hormones; cytokinin pathway; transcriptomics; nodule organogenesis; translational plant biology; regulatory networks and hub genes
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Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA)—Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Via S. Protaso 302, 29017 Fiorenzuola d’Arda, PC, Italy
Interests: seed dormancy; germination; seed physiology and biology; red rice; barley and rice seed quality; barley and rice breeding
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