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Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea La Mayora (IHSM-UMA-CSIC), Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, CP 29071 Málaga, Spain
Interests: microbial ecology; plant–bacteria interactions; biocontrol; bacterial phytopathogens; bacterial evolution; soil microbiome

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Department of Agricultural Research and Diagnosis, Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation of Rio Grande do Sul. 570,Gonçalves Dias St., Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul State 90130-060, Brazil
Interests: livestock; range and pasture management; vegetation; integrated crop-livestock systems; grazing ecology; forage intake

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1. Department of Plant Biology and Soil Science, Area of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Vigo, 32004 Ourense, Spain
2. Agroecology and Food Institute (IAA), University of Vigo—Campus Auga, 32004 Ourense, Spain
Interests: sustainable agriculture; soil ecosystem services; sustainable agricultural management; soil carbon sequestration; carbon farming
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Institute of Industrial and Forage Crops, Hellenic Agricultural Organization-Demeter, 41335 Lycovrissi, Greece
Interests: crop physiology and biochemistry; heat and drought stress
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Department of Agronomics, Faculty of Agriculture and Biotechnology, UTP University of Science and Technology, Kaliskiego Ave. 7,E,311, 85 796 Bydgoszcz, Poland
Interests: agricultural plant science; integrated cropping; weed management; experimental methods in agronomy
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Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente, Catania University via Valdisavoia, 5 95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: vegetable and flowery industry; crop breeding and propagation; abiotic stress; plant physiology; germplasm characterization and conservation
UCD School of Biosystems & Food Engineering, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Interests: soil carbon; soil quality; soil geochemistry; nutrient management; vis-near infrared spectroscopy; mid-infrared spectroscopy; XRF

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Department of Environmental Geosciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 00 Praha-Suchdol, Czech Republic
Interests: environmental geochemistry; environmental mineralogy; soil remediation and phytostabilization; contaminant behavior and immobilization; metal and metalloid speciation
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Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Saitama University, Saitama 338-8570, Japan
Interests: aquatic & environmental engineering; environmental issues

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Department of Agriculture, University of Patras, Nea Ktiria, 30200 Mesolonghi, Greece
Interests: plant and insect nematology; integrated control of plant pathogens and pests; valorization of side-streams; by-products of insect mass-rearing as plant health promoters
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Department of Food Science, Institute for Postharvest Technology and Food Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion 7505101, Israel
Interests: nematology and pest control; hydropic anthelmintics; biofilms; positive biofilms and probiotics

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College of Science and Sustainability, Central Queensland University, Bundaberg Campus, Norman Gardens, QLD 4670, Australia
Interests: agriculture soil and water management; agriculture irrigation; remote sensing and spatial analysis; biosystems engineering; precision agriculture
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Institute for Environmentally Integrated Dairy Management, USDA-ARS, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Interests: agronomy; best practices; biogeochemistry; contaminant hydrology; nitrogen; nutrient management; overland flow; phosphorus; subsurface flow; tile drains; water quality
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School of International Business and Economics, University of Greenwich, London, UK
Interests: nutrition; food security; sub-Saharan Africa; household level data; survey; urban agriculture; biodiversity; agricultural diversification; food diversity
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Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, Coventry, UK
Interests: agroecology; food sovereignty; political ecology; agrarian change
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Laboratory of Vegetable crops, Institute of Olive tree, Subtropical crops and Viticulture (IOSV), ELGO Dimitra, 71307 Heraklion, Greece
Interests: vegetable crops; secondary metabolism; quality of agricultural products; organic agriculture; plant physiology
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Institute for Water, Land and Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, 2640 NSW, Australia
Interests: spatial modelling; soil degradation; geostatistics; uncertainty assessment; environmental monitoring

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Department of Biomechatronics Engineering, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung County 91201, Taiwan
Interests: artificial intelligence; mechatronics; internet of things; edge computing; signal processing
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CNR-IBE Institute of BioEconomy of National Research Council, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
Interests: soil ecology and climate change relations; soil fertility and amendments; soil biological quality index (QBS); soil biodiversity and functions; soil management to mitigate climate change effects; soil organic carbon; biochar; soil and sediments pollutions
Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Interests: perennial crop breeding and genetics; crop genomics; crop domestication; computational biology; genomic prediction
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Research Institute of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Chungbuk, Korea
Interests: big data analysis in agriculture; consumption prediction using SNS data; livestock epidemics on livestock product consumption

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International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, Via Ceglie 9, 70010 Valenzano, Bari, Italy
Interests: soil; land and water management; land degradation; desertification; sustainable natural resources management; rural and agricultural development
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Interests: nanomaterials; heavy metals; nanotoxicology; phytotoxicity; biotransformation; bioavailability; nano-enabled agriculture; nanofertilizer; nanopesticide
Eau Terre Environnement Centre, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Quebec City, QC G1K 9A9, Canada
Interests: precision agriculture; UAVs; GIS; remote sensing data-based modeling; crop mapping; soil salinity mapping; digital mapping
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Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia
Interests: precision agriculture; machine learning; automated decision making; data fusion; probabilistic modelling

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Department of Deciduous Fruit Trees, Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources, Hellenic Agricultural Organisation-DIMITRA, Athina, Greece
Interests: fruit; chilling requirements; postharvest; quality; cultivation
1. Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD 4350, Australia
2. Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay Campus, Hobart, TAS 7005, Australia
Interests: rop modelling; crop eco-physilogy; climate change; drought stress; model uncertainty; data aggregation

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Ellinikos Georgikos Organismos—DIMITRA, Forest Research Institute, Vasilika, 57006 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: operational research; forest ecosystem management tools; decision optimization tools; multi-objective forest management; heuristic algorithms
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Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
Interests: ruminant nutrition; animal production; dairy science; crop production; feeding; beef production; carbon footprint; LCA; biodiversity; environmental impact
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