Topical Advisory Panel

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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 Civil Engineering, Architecture, Environment, Land Planning and Mathematics (DICATAM), Università degli Studi di Brescia, 25121 Brescia, Italy
Interests: sustainability; livestock farming management; environmental impact assessment
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Biochemistry and Biotechnology Group, Department of Biology, Biochemistry and Natural Sciences, Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castellón de la Plana, Spain
Interests: plant microbe interaction; plant protection; induced resistance; beneficial microorganisms; fungal endophytes; nitrogen fixation
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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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Research and Development Station for Cattle Breeding, Dancu, Iasi
Interests: dairy science; precision livestock science; milk quality; antibiotic resistance; cattle reproduction; cattle welfare
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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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State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Center for Rice Improvement, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, China
Interests: genomics; crop biotic and abiotic tolerance; genetics and breeding; rice quality; salinity stress
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Department of Crop Production, University of Rzeszów, Zelwerowicza 4 St., 35-601 Rzeszów, Poland
Interests: agrotechnics; crop production; fertilization; foliar fertilization; nutrients; legumes
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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
Apple Research Center, National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Sciences, Rural Development Administration, Gunwi-gun, Daegu 43100, Republic of Korea
Interests: smart farming; cultivation technology; horticultural machinery; plant physiology; crop production; plant nutrients; bioactive compounds; post-harvest technology; fruit quality
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Independent Researcher, Valencia, Spain
Interests: plant-soil interactions; fertilisers; biostimulants; physiological and molecular responses; abiotic stress; plant production
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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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Institute of Plant Protection, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu 610066, China
Interests: soil nematode; entomopathogenic nematode; plant-parasitic nematode; soil-borne disease; pest biological control; soil ecosystem
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)
School of Information Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China
Interests: UAVs; remote sensing; digital agriculture; deep learning; insects; diseases
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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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Department of Agroforestry Sciences, ETSI University of Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain
Interests: blueberry; blackberry; integrated pest management; Verticilium dahliae; remote sensing; machine learning
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