Agronomy

Dr. Giampiero Lombardi

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Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Torino, 10124 Torino, Italy
Interests: sustainable agriculture; mountain agriculture; mountain farming; environmental management
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Dr. Sara Lombardo

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Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: agronomy; sustainable crop production; biodiversity; fertilization; crop quality; nutraceuticals
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Prof. Dr. Juan Antonio López González

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Unit of Microbiology, Department of Biology and Geology, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain
Interests: composting; bioremediation; biological control; lignin degradation; microbiome of composting; enzymes of composting; organic waste management
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Prof. Dr. Changhe Lü

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Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: land change; land degradation assessment; sustainable land management; crop productivity and yield gaps; food security
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Dr. Junsheng Lu

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College of Water Resources and Architectural Engineering, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang, China
Interests: water-saving irrigation; water–nitrogen coupling; crop water productivity; deficit drip irrigation; soil–plant–environment feedback; crop growth modeling; UAV re-mote sensing; data assimilation; climate-smart irrigation decision-making in dry-land and semi-arid agricultural systems; efficient utilization of agricultural water and fertilizer resources
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Dr. Jiafa Luo

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Land & Environment, AgResearch, Hamilton, New Zealand
Interests: fertilizers; agriculture; soil analysis

Dr. Xuesong Luo

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Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation (Middle and Lower Reaches of Yangtze River), Ministry of Agriculture, College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Interests: soil microbial ecology; nitrogen cycling; antibiotic resistome; organic pollutant degradation; heavy metal stabilization by soil microbes
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Dr. Bin Ma

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Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: bioinformation; microbial ecology; rhizosphere ecology; microbial network; metagenome; high-throughtput sequencing

Prof. Dr. Nan Ma

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Department of Ornamental Horticulture, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Development and Quality Control of Ornamental Crops, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Interests: ethylene signaling and downstream network in petals during flower opening; integrated internal and external signals in regulation of petal senescence
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Dr. Zeyang Ma

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College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: gene regulation; epigenetics; maize kernel development; maize seed development; protein quality; molecular genetics
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Prof. Dr. Jennifer MacAdam

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Department of Plants, Soils & Climate, Utah State University, 4820 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322, USA
Interests: forage production; irrigated pasture management; forage physiology; forage management; ruminant production
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Prof. Elena Maestri

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Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 33/A, 43124 Parma, Italy
Interests: environmental biotechnology; sustainability; sustainable nanotechnology; applied biology; remediation; plant and crop biology
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Dr. Sudheesh Manalil

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1. Amrita School of Agricultural Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore 641112, India
2. UWA School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, M082, Locked Bag 5005, Perth, WA 6001, Australia
Interests: greenhouse gas emission; herbicide resistance evolution; weed ecology; agronomy; artificial intelligence and image processing
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Dr. Giacomo Mangini

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Italian National Research Council, Institute of Bioscience and BioResources (CNR-IBBR), Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy
Interests: wheat genetic diversity; durum wheat breeding and genetics; QTL mapping; genome-wide association study (GWAs); yield and grain quality
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Dr. Roberto Marani

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Institute of Intelligent Industrial Technologies and Systems for Advanced Manufacturing, National Research Council of Italy, via Amendola 122 D/O, Bari, Italy
Interests: advanced perception; intelligent systems; data processing; computer vision; machine learning; deep learning
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Dr. Ilaria Marcotuli

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Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, Via G. Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy
Interests: genetics, plant biotechnology, cereal, fibre, molecular biology, GWAS, linkage analysis, phylogeny
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Prof. Dr. Thomas E. Marler

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Western Pacific Tropical Research Center, University of Guam, UOG Station, Mangilao, GU 96923, USA
Interests: abiotic stress; biodiversity; neglected and underutilized plant species; whole plant physiology

Prof. Dr. Jesús Martín-Gil

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Agriculture and Forestry Engineering Department, ETSIIAA, Universidad de Valladolid, Avenida de Madrid 44, 34004 Palencia, Spain
Interests: natural polymers; chitosan; Green Chemistry; FTIR; nanomaterials; biorrefineries; photocatalysis; waste management and valorization

Prof. Dr. Pablo Martín-Ramos

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ETSIIAA, Universidad de Valladolid, Avenida de Madrid 44, 34004 Palencia, Spain
Interests: sensors and actuators; biorrefineries; photocatalysis; waste management and valorization; soil pollution; life cycle analysis; nanomaterials applied to agriculture
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Prof. Dr. María del Carmen Martínez Ballesta

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Agronomic Engineering Department, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Paseo Alfonso XIII, 48., Murcia, 30203 Cartagena, Spain
Interests: water relations; aquaporins; secondary metabolism (glucosinolates); membrane proteins and nutrition in plants; crop production under different salinity stress
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Prof. Dr. Endre Mathe

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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
Interests: antioxidants; food nutrition; public health; antioxidant capacity; antiradical capacity; natural products; biotechnology; polyphenols; volatile oils; sensory analysis; bioactive compounds

Dr. Carmelo Maucieri

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Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment—DAFNAE, University of Padua, Agripolis Campus, Viale dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
Interests: nature-based solutions; greenhouse gas emission; crops irrigation
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Prof. Dr. Giovanni Mauromicale

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Department of Agriculture, Food, and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: agronomy; crop production; allelopathy; weed science; weed management; cover crops; fertilization; Cynara cardunculus; potato
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Dr. Andrea Liliana Clavijo McCormick

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School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
Interests: insect pheromones; plant volatiles; insect chemoreception and behaviour; plant-insect interactions; invasive species ecology; biological control; conservation biology
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Dr. Marco Medici

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Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy
Interests: internet of food; cost-benefit analysis; innovation in food supply chains and telemetry systems in agriculture
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Dr. Shaohui Mei

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School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710129, China
Interests: remote sensing image processing; pattern recognition and machine learning
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Dr. Maria Grazia Melilli

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CNR-IBE National Council of Research, Institute of BioEconomy - Via Paolo Gaifami n.18, 95126 Catania, Italy
Interests: valorisation and characterization of typical Mediterranean germplasm for food a no food applications/recovery of molecules from agricultural wastes for food fortification/novel foods/antioxidants/fructans
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Dr. Siegbert Melzer

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Plant Breeding Institute, University of Kiel, Kiel 24118, Germany
Interests: plant development and flowering time in Arabidopsis, Brassica napus and Beta vulgaris; vernalization; photoperiod; epigenetics; gene editing

Prof. Dr. Marcelo Menossi

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Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Genética, Evolução, Microbiologia e Imunologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas 13083-970, SP, Brazil
Interests: sugarcane biotechnology; plant biotechnology; plant stress responses; development; synthetic biology
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Dr. Alessandro Miceli

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Department of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Sciences, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: greenhouse horticulture; innovative cultivation technologies; vegetable crop genetics; salinity stress management; sustainable horticulture; environmental impact reduction; postharvest quality; biofortified vegetables; plant extracts; antimicrobial activity
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