26 January 2026
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Board Members of Plants

Plants (ISSN: 2223-7747) is pleased to announce that the following 52 researchers have been added to our group of 2025–2026 Early Career Editorial Board Members (ECEBMs). Applications for the Early Career Editorial Board are now closed. Please join us in congratulating them on joining the Plants community! 

Name: Dr. Anning Zhang
Affiliation: Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai 201106, China
Research Interests: rice breeding; drought; molecular breeding; hybrid rice

Name: Dr. Baohua Feng
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Center for Rice Improvement, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 310006, China
Research Interests: rice–abiotic interaction; plant hormone; heat stress; low temperature stress; salt stress; sugar metabolism

Name: Dr. Barlin Orlando Olivares Campos
Affiliation: Biodiversity Management Research Group (GESBIO), University of Cordoba, 14014 Córdoba, Spain
Research Interests: plant biology; soil science; environmental stress; climate change; food security;. Artificial Intelligence (AI); machine learning

Name: Dr. Byung-Chun In
Affiliation: Department of Smart Horticultural Science, Andong National University, Andong, Republic of Korea
Research Interests: plant physiology; horticulture

Name: Dr. Chao Shen
Affiliation: College of Biological and Food Engineering, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Maoming 525000, China
Research Interests: genomics; comparative genomics; population genetics; association mapping; genome assembly

Name: Dr. Chao Wang
Affiliation: Institute of Grassland, Flowers and Ecology, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences (BAAFS), Beijing, China
Research Interests: plant ecology; functional trait; nutrient balance; grassland stability

Name: Dr. Chuanying Fang
Affiliation: School of Breeding and Multiplication, Hainan University, Sanya 572022, China
Research Interests: plant metabolism; metabolic adaptation; phytohormones; genomics; quantitative genetics; rice; passion fruit

Name: Dr. Cheng Li
Affiliation: Department of Ecology, School of Plant Protection/Jiangsu Province Engineering Research Center of Green Pesticides, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
Research Interests: climate change and vegetation responses; remote sensing of vegetation

Name: Dr. Claudia Genovese
Affiliation: Institute for Agricultural and Forest Systems in the Mediterranean, National Research Council (ISAFOM-CNR), Via Empedocle 58, 95128 Catania, Italy
Research Interests: natural products; carbohydrates; minerals; bioactive compounds; phytochemicals; secondary metabolites; phenolics; flavonoids; antioxidant activity; phytoremediation; ion chromatography; HPLC; HPAEC-PAD

Name: Dr. Deyong Zeng
Affiliation: National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Synthesis, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Research Interests: space biology effect; space mutagenesis breeding; abiotic stress

Name: Dr. Dong Luo
Affiliation: College of Animal Science and Technology, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
Research Interests: forage; abiotic stress; nitrogen fixation; functional gene; molecular breeding

Name: Dr. Gerardo Alejo Jacuinde
Affiliation: Department of Plant and Soil Science, Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance (IGCAST), Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
Research Interests: desiccation tolerance; resurrection plants; functional genomics; genome assembly and analysis; Selaginella; abiotic stress; extremophiles

Name: Dr. Gianmarco Tavilla
Affiliation: National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research (CNR-IIA), c/o Interateneo Physics Department, Via Amendola 173, 70126 Bari, Italy
Research Interests: vegetation ecology; invasive alien species; plant conservation; phytosociology; plant taxonomy; floristic studies; botanical nomenclature; habitat monitoring

Name: Dr. Hasbagan Ganjurjav
Affiliation: Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Research Interests: grassland ecology; plant-soil interactions; climate change ecology

 

Name: Dr. Ivna Štolfa Čamagajevac
Affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Osijek, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
Research Interests: plant antioxidative status; abiotic stress; heavy metals; metalloids; biofortification

Name: Dr. J. C. Luis Jorge
Affiliation: Department of Botany, Ecology and Plant Physiology, Area of Plant Physiology, Science Faculty, University of La Laguna, Avenida Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez s/n, 38200 San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
Research Interests: biotic and abiotic stress; priming; biostimulants; crop production; transcriptomics

Name: Dr. Jasmina Lukinac
Affiliation: Faculty of Food Technology Osijek, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Franje Kuhača 18, 31000 Osijek, Croatia
Research Interests: food technology; machine vision; novel foods; food byproducts; mathematical modeling and optimization; image analysis (food, beverage, dairy, plant, and grain crop quality)

Name: Dr. Jiabao Ye
Affiliation: College of Horticulture and Gardening, Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434025, China
Research Interests: secondary metabolism; plant physiology; regulation mechanism; noncoding RNA

Name: Dr. Jie Wang
Affiliation:
Tobacco Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao 266101, China
Research Interests:
endocytosis; programmed cell death; peptide-receptor signaling; meristem homeostasis regulation; leaf senescence

Name: Dr. Jingli Yang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China
Research Interests:
molecular breeding of tree stress resistance; genetic transformation, plant tissue culture; somatic embryogenesis

Name: Dr. Jingshan Lu
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement and Utilization, Key Laboratory of Landscaping, Key Laboratory of Flower Biology and Germplasm Innovation (South), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Key Laboratory of Biology of Ornamental Plants in East China, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Research Interests:
plant nutrition; water stress; disease detection

Name: Dr. Jinjin Guo
Affiliation:
Faculty of Modern Agricultural Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China
Research Interests:
plant–water–nutrient relations; drip fertigation; water and fertilizer productivity; crop high yield theory and technology

Name: Dr. João Everthon da Silva Ribeiro
Affiliation:
Agricultural Sciences Center, Federal Rural University of the Semi-Arid Region, Mossoró 59625-900, Brazil
Research Interests:
plant production; plant physiology; gas exchange; abiotic stress; plant hormones; plant ecophysiology

Name: Dr. José Ramón Acosta Motos
Affiliation:
Plant Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture Group (BioVegA2), Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, Avenida de los Jerónimos 135, 30107 Guadalupe, Murcia, Spain
Research Interests:
plant physiology; abiotic stress; water relations; salt stress; reclaimed water; postharvest; food preservation

Name: Dr. Julio Nogales-Bueno
Affiliation:
Food Colour and Quality Laboratory, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Seville, Spain
Research Interests:
hyperspectral imaging; near infrared spectroscopy; vibrational spectroscopy; liquid chromatography; food chemistry; food analysis; polyphenols; extraction; high-performance; chemical engineering; sensory analysis; antioxidant activity

Name: Dr. Katarzyna Pobiega
Affiliation:
Institute of Food Sciences, Department of Food Biotechnology and Microbiology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW, 02-776 Warszawa, Poland
Research Interests:
natural extract; antimicrobial agents; propolis; fungal and bacterial diseases; postharvest control; food quality; pullulan; tomatoes; blueberry

Name: Dr. Liang Le
Affiliation:
Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Research Interests:
maize; epigenetics; plant architecture; phenotyping

Name: Dr. Long Li
Affiliation: Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Research Interests:
wheat; drought; root; genome-wide association study

Name: Dr. Luigi Gennaro Izzo
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via Università 100, 80055 Portici, Italy
Research Interests:
plant-environment interactions; plant tropisms; altered gravity; gravitropism; phototropism; light quality; photosynthesis

Name: Dr. Maria João Rodrigues
Affiliation:
Centre of Marine Sciences—CCMAR, University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
Research Interests:
bioprospecting of natural products; plant tissue culture; plant biotechnology; phytorremediation; saline cultivation

Name: Dr. Mather A Khan
Affiliation:
Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Research Interests:
plant molecular biology; metal homeostasis; micronutrients; nutrients transporters; metals sensing and signaling; transcriptional regulators; abiotic stress; phenome and ionome

Name: Dr. Mingjia Chen
Affiliation:
College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Research Interests:
RNA acetylation; plant; modified nucleosides

Name: Dr. Natale Badalamenti
Affiliation:
Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies (STEBICEF), University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Parco d’Orleans II, Bldg. 17, 90123 Palermo, Italy
Research Interests:
natural product drug discovery; phytochemistry; liquid chromatography; essential oils; gas chromatography–mass spectrometry; solid phase extraction; high-performance liquid chromatography

Name: Dr. Nikola Major
Affiliation:
Department of Agriculture and Nutrition, Institute of Agriculture and Tourism, K. Hugues 8, 52440 Poreč, Croatia
Research Interests:
Allium extracts; vegetable production; food chemistry; bioactive properties; volatile compounds; multivariate data analysis; sensory profile; food and nutrition

Name: Dr. Qiangqiang Xiong
Affiliation:
Research Institute of Rice Industrial Engineering Technology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
Research Interests:
physiology and genetic breeding of rice

Name: Dr. Renwu Wu
Affiliation:
College of Landscape Architecture, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou, China
Research Interests: history of plant taxonomy; plant dissemination and specimen collection history; biodiversity

Name: Dr. Tian Pan
Affiliation:
College of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311400, China
Research Interests: genetics and molecular biology; agricultural and biological sciences; cell and developmental biology; plant cell protein transport; vesicle transport; abiotic stress

Name: Dr. Wenxing Pang
Affiliation:
College of Horticulture, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110866, China
Research Interests: genetics; gene function; cytology; clubroot disease resistance

Name: Dr. Xiande Zhao
Affiliation:
Research Center of Intelligent Equipment, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China
Research Interests: agricultural sensors; spectral detection; plant growth evaluation

Name: Dr. Xiaojun Jin
Affiliation:
National Engineering Research Center of Biomaterials, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
Research Interests: crop protection; artificial intelligence in plant science; integrated weed management; precision agriculture

Name: Dr. Xu Shutu
Affiliation:
College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
Research Interests: maize genetics and breeding

Name: Dr. Yan Yan
Affiliation:
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Research Interests: plant innate immunity

Name: Dr. Yifeng Wang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China
Research Interests: seed germination; dormancy; phytohormone; molecular mechanism

Name: Dr. Yiwei Zhou
Affiliation:
Environmental Horticulture Research Institute, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Research Interests: horticultural plants; phytochemistry; plant physiology; genetic; breeding; plant volatiles; biosynthesis; regulation

Name: Dr. Yongjian Xie
Affiliation:
College of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Zhejiang A & F University, Hangzhou 311300, China
Research Interests: plant protection; plant essential oils; natural products; secondary metabolites; bioactive compounds

Name: Dr. Yu Han
Affiliation:
National Engineering Research Center for Floriculture, State Key Laboratory of Efficient Production of Forest Resources, Beijing Key Laboratory of Ornamental Plants Germplasm Innovation & Molecular Breeding, Beijing Laboratory of Urban and Rural Ecological Environment, Key Laboratory of Genetics and Breeding in Forest Trees and Ornamental Plants, Ministry of Education, School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Research Interests: landscape plants and ornamental horticulture

Name: Dr. Yuge Guan
Affiliation: Food and Health College, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou 311300, China
Research Interests: physiological and biochemical regulation; preservation technology; nutritional

Name: Dr. Jifang Zhang
Affiliation:
Institute of Bast Fiber Crops, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Changsha 410205, China
Research Interests: molecular genetic improvement of important agronomic traits in radishes

Name: Dr. Zhen Zhang
Affiliation:
College of Agriculture, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
Research Interests: wheat; gene function; multi-omics; plant phenomics; drought

Name: Dr. Zhibo Cheng
Affiliation:
College of Agriculture, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832000, China
Research Interests: soil–plants interaction; rhizospheric microorganism; crop phosphorus utilization

Name: Dr. Zhiyong Li
Affiliation: Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, The National Orchid Conservation Center of China and the Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518114, China
Research Interests: plant physiology; plant genetics; phytohormone; abiotic stress tolerance

Name: Dr. Ziqiang Yuan
Affiliation:
Collage of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Research Interests: soil carbon; vegetation ecology; ecosystem functioning; biogeochemistry; soil ecology

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