Agronomy

Prof. Dr. Yong Li

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Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: photosynthesis; CO₂ assimilation; mesophyll conductance; stomatal conductance; high temperature stress; drought; nitrogen
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Dr. Zhigang Li

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Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA
Interests: crop improvement; biotechnology

Prof. Dr. Zhou Li

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College of Grassland Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
Interests: forage or ground-cover plant in response to abiotic stresses such as heat or cold stress, drought, and ionic stress (salt, aluminum, or cadmium); turf management; stress-defensive gene and protein; omics study; signal transduction; gene function; phytohormone; plant growth regulator
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Dr. Zimin Li

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UCLouvain, Earth and Life institute, Environment science, Croix du Sud 2 bte L7.05.10, de Serres,Level 0, Room A031.10 à, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Interests: cycle of silicon, carbon, Al, Fe and nutrients; biogeochemical cycles and soil processes in agrosystems; biochar; phytolith

Prof. Dr. Shan Lin

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College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: nutrient management; plant nutrition; N cycling; balanced resource management; greenhouse gas; sustainable production; water saving rice; vegetable; tabocco; grassland ecosystem

Prof. Dr. Wanting Ling

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College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: soil remediation; organic pollutants; agro-environmental contamination and human health; endophytes; biodegradation and bioremediation; crop residue and biochar; rhizosphere; plant uptake of pollutants

Dr. Kesi Liu

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College of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: grassland and pasture ecology and their management and utilization; the restoration of degraded grassland and soil systems; the sustainable management of agro-pastoral coupling systems
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Prof. Dr. Linglong Liu

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National Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement and Utilization, Jiangsu Plant Gene Engineering Research Center, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: rice grain quality and yield; gene cloning of crop important traits

Prof. Dr. Pei Liu

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Colleague of Resources and Environment Science, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Interests: plant hormone; plant evolution

Dr. Shuyu Liu

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Soil and Crop Science, Texas A&M University/AgriLife Research, Amarillo, TX 79106, USA
Interests: wheat breeding; genetic and genomics; gene/QTL mapping; marker-/Genomic-assisted selection; genomic prediction; association analyses
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Dr. Wen-Cheng Liu

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Key Laboratory of Plant Stress Biology, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
Interests: plant molecular biology; plant genetics; plant physiology; plant development; abiotic stress tolerance; plant cell biology

Prof. Dr. Xiaobing Liu

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State Key Laboratory of Black Soils Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harbin 150081, China
Interests: soil fertility; crop physiology; agroecology
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Dr. Xingwang Liu

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Department of Vegetable Science, College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: cucurbitaceous vegetables; agronomic traits; development mechanism; cultivation physiology; gene mapping; molecular breeding

Prof. Dr. Yong-Xin Liu

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Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518120, China
Interests: plant microbiome; metagenomics; bioinformatics
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Dr. Yu Liu

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Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Qinling Ecological Intelligent, Monitoring and Protection, School of Ecology and Environment, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710129, China
Interests: ecological hydrology; grassland ecology; soil erosion; carbon sequestration
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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. 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; 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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