Agriculture

Prof. Kenichi Tsuda

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State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Interdisciplinary Science Research Institute, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: plant immunity and abiotic stress; phytohormones; plant microbiota; plant evolution

Dr. John C. Tyndall

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Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
Interests: water quality; bioenergy; land use valuation; agroforestry; conservation

Dr. Francesco Primo Vaccari

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Institute of BioEconomy, National Research Council (IBE-CNR), Via Caproni 8, 50145 Firenze, Italy
Interests: plant ecology; climate change impact and mitigation; effects of high CO2 on crops and natural ecosystems; biosphere atmosphere interactions; biochar
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Prof. Dr. Hrvoje Valpotić

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Department of Animal Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: animal nutrition; feed additives; dairy cows; nutraceuticals; weaned pigs; gut immunity; broilers

Dr. Luciano Kayser Vargas

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Department of Agricultural Research and Diagnosis, Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Sustainable Production and Irrigation of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Interests: soil microbiology and biochemistry
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Prof. Dr. Andon Vassilev

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Department of Plant Physiology, Biochemistry and Genetics, Faculty of Agronomy, Agricultural University, Mendeleev Str., 12, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Interests: field crops; crop physiology; plant abiotic stress physiology; plant biostimulants; plant-heavy metal interactions

Prof. Dr. Daniel Vecchiato

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Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padova, Via dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
Interests: agricultural economics and policy; agribusiness and marketing; appraisal; consumer behaviour; environmental economics; renewables; ecosystem services
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Dr. Mirna Velki

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Department of Biology, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Osijek 31000, Croatia
Interests: ecotoxicology; biomarkers; environment; pesticides; metals; earthworm; fish; birds
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Dr. Mauro Viccaro

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School of Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Basilicata, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Interests: agri-food economics and policy with a specific focus on sustainability issues; consumer behavioral studies; input–output analysis
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Prof. Dr. Gabriella Antonella Vindigni

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Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, Via S. Sofia 100, 95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: agri-food supply chains

Dr. Valentin Vlăduț

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Development for Machines and Installations Designed to Agriculture and Food Industry, National Institute of Research, INMA Bucharest, 013813 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: agricultural machinery; harvest technologies; testing of agricultural machines; precision agriculture; safety and health in the exploitation of agricultural machines; tillage machines; agriculture 4.0
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Prof. Dr. Eva Voslarova

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Central Veterinary Administration of the State Veterinary Administration, 120 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: animal protection; animal welfare; animal behavior; stress; husbandry; transport; slaughter
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Prof. Dr. Stavros G. Vougioukas

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Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Interests: agricultural robotics; agricultural automation; agricultural mechanization; human-robot collaboration

Prof. Dr. Jiandong Wang

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Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: water-saving irrigation; water and fertilizer coupling; agricultural water resources management; supplemental irrigation method; water-saving benefit assessment
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Prof. Dr. Jiaqi Wang

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Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: animal health and milk quality; risk assessment of milk products; evaluation of milk bioactive compounds
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Prof. Dr. Jun Wang

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College of Urban and Environmental Science, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
Interests: soil C & N cycling; greenhouse gas emission in cropping system; carbon sequestration; soil microbial community structure and function; cover cropping; management practices in dryland cropping systems; crop production; soil fertility; sustainable agriculture

Dr. Liangju Wang

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College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: precision livestock farming; machine vision; agricultural robotics; animal sensors; animal environment

Prof. Dr. Lijun Wang

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College of Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Interests: grain harvesting; straw return technologies

Prof. Dr. Linhai Wang

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Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Science, Wuhan 430062, China
Interests: sesamum indicum; oil; lignan; plant architecture; abiotic stress; quality; yield; genome; gene; metabolite
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Dr. Pei Wang

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College of Engineering and Technology, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
Interests: pest identification; weed science; intelligent agricultural equipment; pesticide application; machine learning
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Dr. Qibing Wang

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State Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Vegetation Ecology, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
Interests: soil ecology; soil microbial ecology; ecosystem ecology; grassland ecology; soil carbon and nitrogen cycles; soil carbon sequestration; soil organic carbon stability; soil multifunctionality; plant-microbe-soil feedback

Prof. Dr. Qiuxia Wang

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State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: soil disinfection; soil health restoration; soil pollution remediation
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Prof. Dr. Shiqin Wang

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Key Laboratory of Agricultural Water Resources, Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Interests: agricultural non-point pollution; water and nitrogen cycle; water and salt transport; numerical simulation of soil water and groundwater; sustainable management of groundwater resources
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Prof. Dr. Shiwen Wang

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1. Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, China
2. State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, China
Interests: water management; water use efficiency; plant nutrition; nitrogen use efficiency; crop physiology; abiotic stresses
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Dr. Siran Wang

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Institute of Animal Science, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Science, Nanjing 210014, China
Interests: silage; ensiling; function potential; microbial community; metabolites
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Dr. Wei Wang

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College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: soil erosion monitoring technology; water-saving irrigation technology and equipment

Prof. Dr. Wei Wang

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College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: hyperspectral imaging; machine vision; near infrared spectroscopy; nondestrctive detection; sorting; instruments and equipment
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Prof. Dr. Wensheng Wang

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Institute of Crop Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
Interests: rice; germplasm; genome; abiotic stresses; epigenetic; molecular mechanism; genetic diversity; gene cloning; GWAS

Prof. Dr. Xiaofeng Wang

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State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, China
Interests: plant biochemistry; plant molecular biology; plant biotechnology; plant tissue culture; molecular breeding

Dr. Xiaoshuai Wang

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College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: ventilation design and environmental control in livestock building; assessment of animal heat stress; precision livestock farming
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