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Dr. Sally Bound

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Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 98, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
Interests: fruit quality; crop load management; sustainable orchard floor management; soil health
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Dr. Giancarlo Bozzo

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Department of Veterinary Medicine (DIMEV), University of Bari Aldo Moro, Strada Provinciale per Casamassima km 3, 70010 Valenzano, Italy
Interests: animal welfare; slaughterhouse; epidemiology; risk assessment; food
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Prof. Dr. Roberto Alves Braga Júnior

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Department of Automatica, Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), Caixa Postal 3037, CEP 37200-900 Lavras, MG, Brazil
Interests: optical metrology; biospeckle laser; agricultural engineering; sensors; image analysis
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Dr. Robert Brueggeman

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Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA
Interests: plant breeding; genetics; genomics; host-pathogen interactions; biotic and abiotic stress responses

Prof. Dr. Daniel Bucur

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Department of Pedotechnics, Faculty of Agriculture, "Ion Ionescu de la Brad" Iasi University of Life Sciences, 3 Aleea Mihail Sadoveanu, 700490 Iasi, Romania
Interests: land planning; water exces removal; irrigation; soil erosion control; soil fertility; environment protection
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Dr. Angeles Calatayud

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Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), Department of Horticulture, Ctra. Moncada-Naquera km. 4.5, 46113 Moncada, Valencia, Spain
Interests: vegetable grafting; abiotic stress; photosynthesis; chlorophyll fluorescence; antioxidant activities
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Dr. Lesley G. Campbell

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Department of Chemistry and Biology, Toronto Metropolitan University, 350 Victoria St., Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada
Interests: population biology; plant evolution; wild crop relatives; gene flow; Cannabis; quantitative genetics; weed evolution

Prof. Dr. Fabian Capitanio

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Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production, University of Naples Federico II, 80121 Naples, Italy
Interests: rural development; farm management; risk analysis; climate change and agriculture
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Prof. Dr. Maria Grazia Cappai

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Animal Nutrition and Feeding, Institute of Animal Production, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, via Vienna no. 2, 07100 Sassari, Sardinia, Italy
Interests: animal nutrition; metabolomics; undesirable substances in feeds of food producing animals; welfare of nutrition; nutritional ecology of domestic and wild animals

Prof. Dr. Alessio Cappelli

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Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment, and Forestry (DAGRI), University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Interests: agricultural engineering; food science; environmental sustainability; Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA); waste management; wheat and bakery product; dough rheology; ancients wheats; food processing equipment; food processing and engineering; Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO); cereal technology; usability engineering; process and product innovations; insects as food; agricultural mechanization
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Prof. Dr. Francesco Caracciolo

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Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80055 Naples, Italy
Interests: agricultural and food economics; assessment of ecosystem services; household strategies and rural livelihood diversification
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Prof. Dr. Martin Caraher

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Centre for Food Policy, School of Health and Medical Sciences, Northampton Square, City St George’s, University of London, London EC1V 0HB, UK
Interests: food poverty; inequality; food skills; food cultures; food retail/food hospitality
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Dr. Paolo Carletti

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Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Interests: plant biostimulants; organic farming; soil chemistry; soil biodiversity; soil enzyme activities; soil fertility; heavy metals; proteomics; plant physiology; plant nutrition
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Prof. Dr. Anders S. Carlsson

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Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 190, SE-234 22 Lomma, Sweden
Interests: plant oil; plant breeding; carbon allocation; sustainable crop production; plant biotechnology; next-generation plant breeding techniques

Dr. Fernando P. Carvalho

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Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: biotechnology; radiation protection and monitoring of the environment; organic pollutants (pesticides, hydrocarbons, PCBs); heavy metals, marine pollution; consumer water quality; analytical quality control
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Prof. Dr. Geraldo Andrade Carvalho

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Department of Entomology, Universidade Federal de Lavras-UFLA, P.O. Box 3037, Lavras 37200-900, MG, Brazil
Interests: botanical insecticides; selectivity and compatibility of botanical insecticides and chemical pesticides for non-target organisms
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Dr. Eugenio Cavallo

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Institute of Sciences and Technologies for Sustainable Energy and Mobility (STEMS) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Strada delle Cacce 73, 10135 Torino, Italy
Interests: agriculture; innovation; sustainability; soil management; natural resources; occupational safety and health; ergonomics
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Dr. Cristina Cecchini

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CREA-Research Centre for Engineering and Agro-Food Processing, Via Manziana 30, 00189 Rome, Italy
Interests: cereals; durum wheat; gluten quality; transformation processes (milling; pasta-making); pasta

Dr. Young Ki Chang

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Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57006, USA
Interests: precision agriculture automation; cost-effective camera/sensor system development; biosystems automation & robotics (drone & unmanned ground vehicles); spot-application of agrochemicals using image processing and deep learning; information and communication technology (ICT) for agricultural big data processing; edge/cloud computing connectivity and cyber security; animal behavior analysis using image/IoT devices
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Dr. Theocharis Chatzistathis

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Institute of Soil and Water Resources, Hellenic Agricultural Organization-Demeter, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: organic and inorganic fertilization; plant nutrition; Olea europaea L.; Vitis vinifera L.; vegetable crops; horticultural crops; sustainable horticulture; sustainable nutrient management; sustainable crop management; soil fertility; organic matter; nutrient use efficiency
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Prof. Dr. Lianqiang Che

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Key Laboratory of Animal Disease-Resistance Nutrition, Ministry of Education, Animal Nutrition Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
Interests: swine nutrition; parturition; formula milk; maternal nutrition; IUGR

Dr. Mumtaz Cheema

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School of Science and the Environment, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL A2H 5G4, Canada
Interests: Integrated nutrient management; nutrient cycling; sustainable cropping systems; boreal climate; agronomic crops; horticultural crops; growth media/formulations; soil amendments; industrial waste; wood ash; wood sludge; dairy digestate; rock dust; fish waste; abiotic stresses management strategies; stress tolerance; GHG emission monitoring; GHG emission mitigation; crop rotation/cover crops; biochar; nitrification inhibitors
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Prof. Dr. Changjun Chen

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Department of Pesticide Science, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
Interests: disease control; biology of phytopathogenic fungi; mode of action of fungicides; management of subpopulations of phytopathogens resistant to fungicide; mechanism underlying the resistance against fungicides

Prof. Dr. Chen Chen

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Agricultural College, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
Interests: rice; molecular biology; seed development
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Dr. Chen Chen

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Department of Botany, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: phytomicrobial interactions; bioremediation of polluted environment; adaptive evolution of plant and microbial communities
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Prof. Dr. Fadi Chen

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College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: physiology; abiotic stress; biotic stress; flooding; salinity; pathogen; flower development; flower pigmentation

Dr. Hao Chen

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School of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China
Interests: soil organic matter; carbon; phosphorus; microbial ecology; cropland; grassland

Dr. Ji Chen

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Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, 8830 Tjele, Denmark
Interests: global climate change; fertiliation; yield production; nutrient availability; soil microorganisms; soil extracellular enzyme
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Prof. Dr. Jianjun Chen

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Mid-Florida Research and Education Center, Environmental Horticulture Department, University of Florida, 2725 S. Binion Road, Apopka, FL 32703, USA
Interests: bioremediation; environmental plant physiology; plant biotechnology; plant breeding; plant genetics; specialty crops
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Dr. Jianle Chen

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Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Agro-Food Processing, Fuli Institute of Food Science, Zhejiang R & D Center for Food Technology and Equipment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: fruit and vegetables; clean processing; phytochemicals; polysaccharides
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