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Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University, Truro, NS, Canada
Interests: precision agriculture automation; cost-effective camera/sensor system development; biosystems automation and robotics (drone and unmanned ground vehicles); spot-applications 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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Commodity Sciences, Department of Economic & Business, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Interests: quality and environmental management systems; life cycle assessment; circular economy; eco sustainability instruments
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School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Interests: grapevine abiotic stress; vineyard sensing; irrigation management
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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, Australia
Interests: field phenomics; digital agriculture; thermal sensing; wheat; physiology; plant water uptake
Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition and Feed, College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
Interests: rumen microbiota; microbial stability; stress; gut microbiota
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Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Biotechnology and Horticulture, University of Agriculture in Krakow, 31-425 Krakow, Poland
Interests: plant eco-physiology; biotic and abiotic stresses; biofortification and biostimulation of horticultural crops and cultivated mushrooms; functional food
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Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Science, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy
Interests: soil quality; soil C sequestration; technosols; agricultural soils; grubbing; soil microbial biomass and activity; soil diffuse reflectance spectroscopy; biostimulant; plant nutrition
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Department of Management and Rural Entrepreneurship, Division of Agroeconomy and Informatics, University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture, Svetošimunska Cesta 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Interests: agribusiness management; risk management in agriculture; entrepreneurship
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Council for Agricultural Research and Economics(CREA), Research Centre for Olive, Fruit and Citrus Crops, 47121 Forlì, Italy
Interests: tree fruit ecophysiolology; mineral nutrition; water relationships; agroecology; biomasses
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Department of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Lincoln University of Missouri, Jefferson City, MO 65101, USA
Interests: animal production; poultry nutrition; environmental physiology; gut health, immunology; alternative feed ingredients; nutrient metabolism
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Department of Agriculture and Food, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB, 750-07 Uppsala, Sweden
Interests: agriculture; soil; manure; biofertilizer; sludge; processing; carbon storage
Tobacco Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao, China
Interests: rhizosphere microbiome–plant interaction; soil carbon cycle; improving or repairing soil; regulating soil microecology
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Swedish environmental engineer from the University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
Interests: pyrolysis; biochar; bone char; phosphorus recovery
Grenfell Campus, Memorial University, Environmental Science, Room AS 222, 20 University Drive, Corner Brook, NL A2H 5G4, Canada
Interests: functional foods production, sensory perception, development, safety and preservation; use of nanotechnology to enhance plant performance in Boreal Ecosystem; spatial, functional and compositional lipid metabolism in response to environmental stressors; influences of gut microbiome on brain lipid metabolism and brain health; chemometrics and lipid modeling; increase yield, nutritional and value added production in control systems agriculture and alternative forage production systems; hydroponics: (sprouted fodder, herbs and vegetable production)
1. School of Environment and Disaster Management, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Kolkata 700103, West Bengal, India
2. School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia 4072, Queensland, Australia
Interests: remote sensing; UAV imaging; precision agriculture; yield prediction; machine learning

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CICYTEX-Technological Institute of Food and Agriculture-INTAEX (Government of Extremadura), Av. Adolfo Suárez, s/n, 06071 Badajoz, Spain
Interests: polyphenols; aminoacids; grapevines; wines; minority grape varieties
Embrapa Soja, National Soybean Research Center, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Londrina 86085-981, Brazil
Interests: multispectral data; hyperspectral data; thermal imaging system; drought monitoring; spectral data processing; UAV systems
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Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF). Research area on Agricultural Landscape Systems (working in a group on land use decisions in a spatial and system context) Eberswalder Street 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany
Interests: soil ecosystem services; soil organic carbon dynamics; food modelling; sustainable management practices; sustainable food systems
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Institute of Animal Science, Biotechnology and Nature Conservation, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management, University of Debrecen, 138 Böszörményi Street, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary
Interests: animal breeding; design and evaluation of breeding program; biotechnology; livestock farm management; biostatistics
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State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, China
Interests: plant resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses; plant genetics; plant molecular biology; plant breeding; plant biotechnology
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Post Doctoral Researcher, Department of Agricultural Machinery Engineering, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
Interests: image processing; UAV-based remote sensing; smart farming; yield monitoring; machine learning for agriculture; artificial intelligence; ground-based sensing; sensor-based irrigation; automation in agriculture
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Hellenic Agricultural Organization “Demeter”/Institute of Industrial and Forage Crops, 41335 Larissa, Greece
Interests: breeding of legumes and industrial crops; legume-cereal intercropping; organic and low-input agriculture; novel breeding schemes; stewardship of genetic diversity; development of new varieties

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Rothamsted Research, Harpenden AL5 2JQ, UK
Interests: systems modelling; image based phenotyping; automation; image processing; sustainable development goals
Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52., 6726 Szeged, Hungary
Interests: photosynthesis; dark-light transition; plant-microbe interaction; tomato science; stomata

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Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences Department, Michigan State University, 1066 Bogue St A286, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Interests: plant; soil; microbial sciences

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Department of Chemistry, University of Trnava, Hornopotočná 23, 918 43 Trnava, Slovakia
Interests: pyrolysis; biochar; carbon sequestration; waste valorization; nutrients recycling; soil chemistry
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Department of University Transfer, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, NorQuest College, Edmonton, AB T5J 1L6, Canada
Interests: mathematical-process-based; machine learning modeling; ecohydrology; biogeochemistry; ecosystem productivity
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