Agronomy

Dr. Georgia Ntatsi

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Laboratory of Vegetable Production, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 11855 Athens, Greece
Interests: vegetable production; hydroponics; plant nutrition; plant physiology; abiotic stress; fruit quality; biofortification; biostimulants; nitrogen fixation; phytohormones; plant metabolism; organic production; vertical farming
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Dr. Nikolaos Ntoulas

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Laboratory of Floriculture and Landscape Architecture, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, 11855 Athens, Greece
Interests: urban horticulture; green roofs; living walls; turfgrass science and management; inorganic and organic amendments
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Dr. David O'Connor

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School of Real Estate and Land Management, Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester GL7 1RS, UK
Interests: soil and groundwater contamination; biochar production and application; microplastics (MPs) in the soil evironment; green and sustainable solutions; contaminated land remediation

Dr. Jana Okleštková

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Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Palacký University and Institute of Experimental Botany AS CR, CZ-771 47 Olomouc, Czech Republic
Interests: analysis of plant hormones; brassinosteroids; crosstalk of BRs and ethylene; immunochemistry of phytohormones
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Prof. Dr. Francesco Orsini

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DISTAL, Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna University, Viale Fanin 44, Bologna, Italy
Interests: vegetable crops; vertical farming; rooftop farms; hydroponics; greenhouse crop management
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Prof. Dr. Pedro Palencia

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Department of Organisms and Systems Biology, Polytechnic School of Mieres, Oviedo University, Mieres, 33600 Asturias, Spain
Interests: biofortification; fruit peduncle sap; leaf petiole sap; small fruits; strawberry
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Dr. Shenggang Pan

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State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Interests: rice cultivation; rice physiology; high nutrition use efficiency in rice

Dr. Xiaoping Pan

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Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
Interests: plant pathology; nematodes; bioinformatics

Dr. Camilla Pandolfi

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Scienze e Tecnologie Agrarie, Alimentari, Ambientali e Forestali (DAGRI), University of Florence, Firenze FI, Italy
Interests: plants; plant biology; plant physiology; plant environmental; stress physiology; plant ecology; biomechanics; physiology horticulture; botany; ecology
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Dr. Dilip R. Panthee

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Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27608, USA
Interests: breeding for fruit quality; differential gene expression analysis; genomic selection; GWAS; molecular breeding; plant breeding; QTL mapping; resistance breeding; stress tolerance
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Dr. Paula Paredes

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Research Center on Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food (LEAF), School of Agriculture (ISA), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: crop and reference evapotranspiration; crop water requirements; irrigation management; modelling; water–yield relations; coping with water scarcity
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Dr. Pierluigi Paris

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Istituto di Ricerca sugli Ecosistemi Terrestri (IRET), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Via G. Marconi, 2 -05010 Porano (Tr), Italy
Interests: agroforestry; multipurpose trees; timber plantations; energy crops; precision irrigation; drought adaptation

Dr. Sophie Parks

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1. School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, NSW 2258, Australia
2. Central Coast Primary Industries Centre, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Ourimbah, NSW 2258, Australia
Interests: plant nutrition; hydroponics; protected cropping; blueberry; cucumber; Asian vegetables
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Prof. Dr. Zvi Peleg

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The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
Interests: herbicide resistance; weed control under changing environment; weed genetics
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Dr. Junhua Peng

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Center of Crop Germplasm Innovation & Utilization, Huazhi Bio-Tech Co., Ltd., Changsha 410125, China
Interests: crop breeding; crop germplasm enhancement; crop molecular genetics and genetic improvement; molecular breeding for resistance/tolerance against environmental stress; functional genomics of plant defense response; plant evolutionary/domestication genomics
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Dr. Dragan Perovic

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Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Julius Kühn Institute, Erwin-Baur-Str. 27, 06484 Quedlinburg, Germany
Interests: mapping; barley/wheat; molecular markers; resistance gene isolation; plant genetics

Dr. Catherine Picon-Cochard

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French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA), VetAgro Sup, UREP, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
Interests: impacts of climate change on grassland; grass recovery after extreme weather; root functional traits; functional ecology
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Prof. Dr. Enrico Porceddu

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Department of Cultural Heritage Sciences, Tuscia University, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
Interests: plant biology; plant genetics; plant breeding; plant molecular biology; molecular markers; agricultural biotechnology; crop improvement; molecular plant breeding; molecular breeding; plant phenotyping
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Dr. Francesc Xavier Prenafeta Boldú

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Program of Sustainability in Biosystems, Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA), Torre Marimon, E-08140 Caldes de Montbui, Barcelona, Spain
Interests: circular economy and bioeconomy; environmental biotechnology; extremophilic fungi, environmental microbiology, mycology
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Dr. Aiming Qi

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School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK
Interests: crop production; food security; grassland systems; modelling crop growth and development; climate change; whole crop physiology; arable crop diseases

Dr. Yongliang Qiao

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Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), The University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia
Interests: artificial intelligence; agricultural robots; smart farming; intelligent perception
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Prof. Dr. Xiaobo Qin

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Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: climate change; GHG mitigation; carbon sequestration
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Dr. Emanuele Radicetti

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Department of Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Agricultural Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
Interests: crop management and production; weed management; weed community composition; integrated weed management (IWM); soil fertility and plant nutrition; sustainable cropping systems; environmental science
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Prof. Dr. C.B. Rajashekar

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Department of Horticulture and Natural Resources, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66503, USA
Interests: plant environmental stress; health promoting phytochemicals; secondary metabolism; food safety; food crops

Dr. Mehran Rezaei Rashti

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Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
Interests: soil biogeochemistry; soil C sequestration; carbon and nitrogen cycling; biochar; organic amendments; nitrous oxide emissions; soil resistance and resilience to environmental stresses; soil health; microplastics

Prof. Dr. Søren Kjærsgaard Rasmussen

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Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Copenhagen, Denmark
Interests: mutational breeding; genome-wide association studies; quality traits; grain crops; molecular plant breeding
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Dr. Daniel Real

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Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, South Perth, WA 6151, Australia
Interests: breeding, agronomy, and animal production of forage species
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Prof. Dr. Yulong Ren

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National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: understanding the molecular and genetic bases of rice quality; intracellular trafficking of storage proteins and starch-related proteins in rice endosperm
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Dr. Pedro Revilla

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Department of Maize Breeding and Genetics, Misión Biológica de Galicia (Spanish National Research Council, CSIC), P.O. Box 28, 36080 Pontevedra, Spain
Interests: maize breeding; maize genetics; maize germplasm; cold tolerance; drought tolerance; sweetcorn; maize bread
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Dr. Olivia Reynolds

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Charles Sturt Univ, Graham Ctr Agr Innovat, Orange, NSW, Australia
Interests: sterile insect technique; silicon and insect plant defence; fruit fly behaviour; ecology and management; biological control; landscape ecology; habitat manipulation; area wide
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