Editorial Board for section 'Plant Protection and Biotic Interactions'

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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.

Members


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Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milan, 20133 Milan, Italy
Interests: fungal pathogens; disease management; epidemiology; biological control

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Division of Biologically Active Compounds, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG and GUMed, University of Gdansk, 80-307 Gdansk, Poland
Interests: Bacteriophages; prophages; bacterial pathogens; plant pathology; phytopathology; plant–microbe interactions; Pectobacterium; Dickeya; microbial ecology; biological control; alternative hosts; bacteria–phage–plant interactions
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Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba, 222 Agriculture Building, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
Interests: plant-pathogen interactions; molecular plant pathology; mechanisms of plant defense; mechanisms of defense suppression; secondary metabolism; biocontrol of plant diseases; phytoalexins
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Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Interests: fungal population genetics; population biology; ecology of plant-associated microorganisms; Fusarium and Verticillium wilts; Fusarium oxysporum; Verticillium dahliae; biology of fungal endophytes

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Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Interests: bacterial pathogenesis; plant-microbe interaction; gene regulation


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Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, Université Côte d'Azur, INRAE, CNRS, 06000 Nice, France
Interests: multi-trophic interactions; arthropod ecology; community ecology; ecotoxicology; biological control; integrated pest management; sublethal effects
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Istituto per la Protezione Sostenibile delle Piante, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 70126 Bari, Italy
Interests: plant virology; viroids; virus and viroid diseases; plant-virus interactions; pathogenesis; pest risk assessment

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Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, Agricultural Research Organization ARO | aro, Bet Dagan, Israel
Interests: tomato; viruses; TMV; ToMV; ToBRFV; cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV)
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Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo of Bari, Via Ceglie 9, 70010 Valenzano, BA, Italy
Interests: biotechnology; plant virology; virus- and virus-like diseases; host-parasite interaction; epidemiology; diagnostics; evolution and taxonomy
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School of Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Sciences (SAFE), University of Basilicata, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano 10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Interests: natural products; microbiology; plant pathology; antimicrobial activities; bioactive secondary metabolites
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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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Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia-CSIC, Genetica Molecular de Plantas, Campus Universidad Autonoma, Darwin 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Interests: plant viruses; RNA silencing
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Department of Science of Crop Production, Laboratory of Agricultural Zoology and Entomology, Agricultural University of Athens, 11855 Athens, Greece
Interests: nematology; plant extracts; crop protection; chemical control; biological control
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Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (CSIC-UPV), 46011 Valencia, Spain
Interests: plant virus; virus replication; virus translation; antiviral silencing; viral suppression of RNA silencing; virus-host interactions
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Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea "La Mayora", Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IHSM-UMA-CSIC), Malaga, Spain
Interests: microbial biofilms; cell-to-cell communication; bacterial-host mutualism; amyloids; biotechnology
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School of Agriculture and Food science, University College Dublin, Ireland
Interests: plant-insect herbivore interactions; pollinator ecology; organic weed management; non-chemical insect control; rhizobia-host interactions
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Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Interests: bacterial plant pathogens; ecology; microbe fitness; host–parasite interaction; avirulence genes; resistance mechanisms
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Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-0110, USA
Interests: herbicide resistance; weed physiology; genetics; molecular cytogenetics; metabolism of herbicides; herbicide-tolerant crops

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MATE (Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences), Genetics and Biotechnology Institute, 2100 Gödöllő, Hungary
Interests: symbiotic nitrogen fixation; legume genetics; rhizobia; plant development

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Faculty of Agriculture, Tottori University, Tottori 680-8553, Japan
Interests: plant-microbe interactions; plant protection; plant immunity; mycorrhizal symbiosis; molecular biology; plant physiology; chitin; cell death

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Hellenic Agricultural Organization—Demeter, Lycovrissi, Greece
Interests: plant-microbe interactions; symbiosis; endophytes with emphasis to plant protection; root and foliar microbiomes

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Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
Interests: plant virology
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The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8566, Japan
Interests: molecular plant virology; pathogenesis; plant immunity; plant-virus interaction; viral gene expression

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Plant Systems Engineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology 125 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
Interests: plant biotechnology; plant genomics; plant-microbe interaction

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Department of Vegetable Research, Institute of Plant Sciences, ARO, Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel
Interests: viral resistance in vegetable crops; mechanisms and genetics of viral resistance; whitefly-transmitted viruses

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Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Krakow, Poland
Interests: biochemistry and biophysics of plants and algae; biochemistry and biophysics of pigments; interactions of the biotic (pathogens) and abiotic (temperature, light) factors with plants; environmental biotechnology; lipid models of biological membranes; plant-bacterial interactions; xanthophyll cycle
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A&L Biologicals, Agroecology Research Services Centre, 2136 Jetstream Road, London, ON N5V 3P5, Canada
Interests: plant microbiome; soil ecology; plant endophytes; biological control; biofertilizers; agroecology; remote sensing


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Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Interests: tomato and potato pathology; plant-microbe interaction; plant-insect vector interaction; biological control of plant diseases; breeding for disease resistance; plant biotechnology; abiotic stress; gene expression and regulation
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