Agronomy

Dr. Maria del Carmen Salas Sanjuán

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Department of Agronomy, Higher Engineering School, Research Centres CIAIMBITAL and CeiA3, University of Almería, 04120 Almeria, Spain
Interests: hidroponics; horticulture; plant nutrition; irrigation and fertigation (mineral and organic); soilless crops, water sources & management; bio-fertilizers
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Dr. José Luis Santiago Blanco

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Misión Biológica de Galicia (CSIC) Carballeira 8, 36143 Salcedo, Pontevedra, Spain
Interests: viticulture; grapevine; Ampelographic, anatomic, histological, agronomic and molecular description of grapevine varieties/clones

Dr. Valentina Scariot

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Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Torino, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy
Interests: ornamental horticulture; floriculture; medicinal and aromatic plants; functional quality
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Dr. Jörg Schaller

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Silicon Biogeochemistry Group, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Müncheberg, Germany
Interests: biogeochemistry; ecosystem ecology; carbon sequestration; nutrient cycling; silicon

Dr. Jörg Schaller

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Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), 15374 Müncheberg, Germany
Interests: silicon biogeochemistry; plant silicon
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Dr. Karsten Schmidt

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eScience Center, University of Tübingen, Keplerstr. 2, 72076 Tübingen, Germany
Interests: digital soil mapping; precision farming; predictive modelling; representative soil sampling; geoinformatics; spatial statistics
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Prof. Dr. Andrea Sciarretta

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Department of Agriculture, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, Via de Sanctis 1, I-86100 Campobasso, Italy
Interests: lepidoptera; fruit fly; IPM; precision farming; agro-ecology; geostatistics; smart agriculture; monitoring; trapping; fruit crops
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Dr. Danilo Scordia

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Dipartimento di Agricoltura, Alimentazione e Ambiente (Di3A), University of Catania, Via Valdisavoia 5, 95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: biomass; bioenergy; biofuels; bioeconomy; climate change; global warming; perennial grasses; abiotic stress; plant agronomy; plant physiology; ecosystem services
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Dr. Marco Scortichini

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Council for Agricultural Research and Economics-Research Centre for Olive, Fruit and Citrus Crops, Via di Fioranello, 52, I-00134 Roma, Italy
Interests: detection; host–plant interaction; taxonomy; field control strategies
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Dr. Paula Scotti-Campos

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1. Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, I.P., Av. da República, Quinta do Marquês, 2784-505 Oeiras, Portugal
2. Unidade de Geobiociências, Geoengenharias e Geotecnologias (GeoBioTec), Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Interests: plant physiology; membrane lipids; cellular injury; stress tolerance; acclimation responses; physiological traits for genotypes screening
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Dr. Diego Fernando Segura

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Instituto de Genética “E.A. Favret”, INTA, GV-IABIMO, CONICET, Partido de Hurlingham B1686, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Interests: insect–plant interactions; pest behavioral ecology; olfactory response and feeding preference; reproductive behavior; host plant volatiles; life history traits; physiological adaptation and stress tolerance; insect nutritional ecology; transcriptomic and molecular responses; insect-associated symbionts and microbiota; biological control and sterile insect technique (SIT); insect mass-rearing technology; agricultural pest management

Dr. Sara Serra

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Fruit Research and Extension Center, The Pennsylvania State University, Biglerville, PA 17307, USA
Interests: apple; pear; fruit quality; dry matter; flower biology and pollination; training systems; rootstocks; crop load; tree fruit physiology; photoselective netting; salt stress

Prof. Dr. Tao Shao

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Institute of Ensiling and Processing of Grass, College of Agro-Grassland Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: silage fermentation
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Dr. Danyu Shen

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College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: plant pathology; bioinformatics; plant-pathogen interaction; oomycetes; genomics; transcriptomics
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Dr. Ainong Shi

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Department of Horticulture, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
Interests: QTL mapping; GAWS; GP; molecular breeding; vegetable breeding
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Dr. Yuanzhi Shi

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Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310008, China
Interests: organic fertilizer; soil health; compound ecological model of tea garden; tea quality and safety
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Dr. Mukund R. Shukla

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Department of Plant Agriculture, Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
Interests: in vitro plant conservation; crypreservation; phytochemical characterization; stress physiology
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Dr. Camelia Smaranda

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Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection "Cristofor Simionescu", Ghe. Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania
Interests: sorption and transport processes of pollutants in soil; soil remediation; persistent organic pollutants; heavy metals; hytoremediation; bioremediation; bioaccumulation; ecological risk assessment

Dr. John Stephen C. Smith

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Department of Seed Science, Iowa State University, 506 4th St, P.O. Box 404, Polk City, IA 50226, USA
Interests: molecular marker technology; genetic gain; crop domestication and evolution; conservation of genetic resources; intellectual property protection; maize and wild relatives; cultivar identification; plant genetic resources; gene-bank; molecular techniques; economic aspects

Prof. Dr. Magdalena Sobocińska

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Department of Marketing Research, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Komandorska 118/120, 53-345 Wrocław, Poland
Interests: marketing research; marketing and marketing management; sustainable development; sustainable consumption; internet marketing; social media marketing; market of culture; consumer behaviour; marketing communication
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Prof. Dr. Aiping Song

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State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Key Laboratory of Landscaping, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: ornamental plants; bioinformatics; biotechnology; gene editing
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Dr. Zhenwei Song

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Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: conservation agriculture; agro-ecosystem
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Dr. José Miguel Soriano

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Sustainable Field Crops Programme, Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology (IRTA), 25198 Lleida, Spain
Interests: plant breeding; genomics; marker-assisted selection; gene discovery
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Dr. Roberto Sorrentino

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Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’Analisi dell’Economia Agraria (CREA), Centro di Ricerca Ceralicoltura e Colture industriali / Cereal and Industrial Crops Centre. Via Torrino, 2 - 81100 Caserta (CE), Italy
Interests: plant pathology; crop production; plant virology; diagnostics

Prof. Dr. Claus Grøn Sørensen

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
Interests: operations research; route planning; logistics; supply chain management; system engineering; precision agriculture
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Dr. Carmelina Spanò

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Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via Ghini 13, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Interests: plant physiology; crops; nanomaterials; emerging contaminants; oxidative stress; antioxidant response; abiotic stress
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Dr. Andreas Stahl

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Univ Giessen, IFZ Res Ctr Biosyst Land Use & Nutr, Dept Plant Breeding, Heinrich Buff Ring 26-32, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
Interests: nitrogen use efficiency (NUE); plant breeding; digital plant phenotyping; heterosis; genetic variation in root traits

Dr. Menelaos Stavrinides

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Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology and Food Science, Cyprus University of Technology, Archbishop Kyprianos 30, 3036 Limassol, Cyprus
Interests: the biological control of pests; the demographic impacts of pesticides on natural enemies; the evolution of pesticide resistance in insect and mite pests; the effects of plant water stress on pest

Dr. Katherine Steele

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School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, LL57 2UW, UK
Interests: genetics; molecular markers; molecular breeding; quantitative trait loci; applied genomics; rice; barley; tomato

Dr. Baskaran Stephen Inbaraj

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Department of Food Science, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City 242062, Taiwan
Interests: nanoscience and nanotechnology; nanodiagnostics and nanotherapeutics; sensors; food/environmental/agricultural waste valorization; food and environmental toxins—analysis and treatment; food and environmental analytical chemistry; novel and green extraction/pretreatment techniques; chromatography—method development; pharmacokinetics and bioavailability; adsorption science and technology
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