Editorial Board

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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Chemical Research Laboratory, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Instituto al.1, Akademija, Kedainiai District, Lithuania
Interests: agriculture; soil; land use; agroforestry; carbon; humic substances; anaerobic digestate; chemical composition

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NIAB—National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, UK
Interests: food security; the application of ecological principles to the farming environment; plant microbial interactions; public engagement; agriculture, particularly the botany and agronomy of new crop species


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Department of Horticulture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
Interests: solanaceous breeding; wide crosses; germplasm evaluation; host-plant resistance to insects; trichomes; secondary metabolism; prebreeding

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1. Department of Sustainable Land Management & Soil Research Centre, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AR, UK
2. Environment Centre Wales, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK
Interests: phosphorus; carbon; nitrogen; stable isotopes; land use change; climate change; elevated CO2; soil chemistry; plan nutrition; heavy metals

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Key Laboratory of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizer, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: soil microorganism; soil health; nutrition cycling
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College of Environmental Science, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
Interests: nano enabled agriculture; soil nutrients cycling; intercropping; agricultural environment protection; phosphorus use and management
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College of Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: crop protection; drift in application; UAV; canopy deposition; air-assisted spray
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National Maize Improvement Center, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: maize genetics; seed development; storage protein synthesis; gene cloning; functional analysis

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Department of Agronomy, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain
Interests: soil quality; soil biology; soil and environmental microbiome; metagenomics; human microbiome

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Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, University of Bari “A. Moro”, 70125 Bari, Italy
Interests: precision agriculture; linear mixed effects models; spatial and temporal residual autocorrelation; sustainable agronomic management; soil physical quality indicators and soil quality indices computation
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Department of Agricultural Engineering and Safety, Faculty of Engineering, Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy, Studentų St. 15A, Kaunas District, LT-53362 Akademija, Lithuania
Interests: cereals harvesting technologies; combine harvesters; crop threshing process; agricultural sprayers; spray drift

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Department of Plant Breeding and Seed Production, Faculty of Environmental Management and Agriculture, Centre for Bioeconomy and Renewable Energies, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Pl. Łódzki 3, 10-724 Olsztyn, Poland
Interests: industrial and energy crops; biomass and byproducts; energy and economic efficiency; biomass production, harvesting, and logistics; multipurpose biomass utilization; bioproducts; biofuels; bioeconomy
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State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: beef cattle nutrition; beef quality; feed resource development
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Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: heavy metals; soil remediation; passivation; transformation; biochemical process; microorganisms; soil health; microbial diversity; resistance gene; microplastic

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College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: smart urban agriculture; artificial intelligence; agricultural robotics; automated control; unmanned aerial vehicle; plant phenotyping; computer vision; crop plant signaling; machine (deep) learning; food processing and safety; fluorescence imaging; hyper/multispectral imaging; Vis/NIR/MIR imaging spectroscopy
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Department of Veterinary Science, University of Parma, Via del Taglio 10, 43126 Parma, Italy
Interests: milk composition; milk proteins; genetic polymorphism; milk minerals; somatic cells count; rennet coagulation of milk; non-bovine milk
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Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: dairy cattle; functional genomics; genome-wide association analysis; genomic selection; genetic effect; gene expression; regulatory mechanism; genetic background

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Key Laboratory of Original Agro-Environmental Pollution Prevention and Control, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA), Agro-Environmental Protection Institute—MARA, Tianjin 300191, China
Interests: heavy metals; environmental pollution; heavy metal pollution; environmental impact assessment; environmental monitoring; remediation; soil remediation; remediation technology and ecological control of contaminated soil
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HUN-REN Centre for Agricultural Research, Institute for Soil Sciences, Herman O. út 15., H-1022 Budapest, Hungary
Interests: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF); microbial inoculation; organic farming; long-term experiments; plant stress physiology; bioremediation/phytoremediation
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School of Agricultural Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
Interests: harvester; mechanical troubleshooting
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1. State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China
2. Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
Interests: eco-physiology and climate change; experimental methodology development; nutrient metabolism and translocation in plants; plant productivity and sustainable agriculture; plant molecular physiology
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State of Israel/Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Agricultural Research Organization Volcani Center, Beit Dagan, Israel
Interests: ventilation; indoor airflow; CFD of indoor airflow; flow through screens; plant canopy flows; flow/structure interaction
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Faculty of Horticulture, University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Aleea Mihail Sadoveanu 3, 700490 Iasi, Romania
Interests: crop production; intercropping; maize; Phaseolus; sunflower

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Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Interests: agronomy; field crop; perennial grasses; biomass crops; bioenergy; sustainable crop production
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College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, 1 Weigang Road, Nanjing, China
Interests: crop precision management; agricultural remote sensing; precision agriculture

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Department of Agricultural, Food and Environment, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: economic and environmental sustainability; environmental impact assessment; efficiency analysis; food supply chain management; strategic marketing planning; agri-food economics; consumer economics (theory and empirical applications); agri-food supply chain management; food chain logistics and ICT; economics of technological innovation in the agri-food industry
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1. President of Research Association of Electric Field Screen Supporters, Nara 631-8505, Japan
2. Department of Agricultural Science, Kindai University, Nara 631-8505, Japan
Interests: electrostatic engineering for pest control; quantitative sporulation analysis for fungal phytopathogens; behavior analysis of insect pests; physical and biological methodologies for pest control
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Department of Agronomy, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: control of field crop pests; control of field vegetable pests; IPM; biological control; alternative methods of pest control
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Department of Management, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Interests: management accounting; business model; performance; sustainability; organic companies

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Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: soil organisms; biodiversity; climate change; ecosystem services; agro-ecosytems; Mediterranean
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