Prof. Dr. Martin Weih Appointed Editor-in-Chief of Section “Crop Production” in Agriculture

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Martin Weih has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Crop Production” in Agriculture (ISSN: 2077-0472). 

Prof. Dr. Martin Weih is a professor of plant ecology and eco-physiology of agricultural crops at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Department of Crop Production Ecology. 

He holds a doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in ecological botany from Uppsala University (1998) and is currently the Chair of Plant Ecology at the SLU in Uppsala, Sweden. His major research activities focus on the improvement of the yield and ecological sustainability (e.g., resource use efficiency) of agricultural crops and trees grown for food, feed, and biomass (e.g., wheat for food and feed; Salix and Populus for biomass).

He is the author of more than 140 papers indexed by Scopus. His teaching activity includes courses on sustainable crop production, experimental approaches in plant growth analysis and phenotyping, plant nutrient use efficiency, and the production of biomass for energy.

He is participating as a proposer or as a scientific partner for several R&D projects funded by various national and international research funding organizations, including the framework of the European Union (e.g., DIVERSify, Dendromass4Europe).

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Martin Weih as the Section Editor-in-Chief of “Crop Production”, and we look forward to achieving many milestones under his leadership. For further information on the journal's Sections, please visit the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/agriculture/sections.