Editorial Board

Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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Institute Agro-Montpellier SupAgro, UMR CBGP, Montpellier SupAgro, INRA, CIRAD, IRD, University of Montpellier, Campus International de Baillarguet, CS 30016, 34988 Montferrier-sur-Lez, cedex, Montpellier, France
Interests: plant protection; insect taxonomy; biological control; mites; Phytoseiidae; biodiversity management

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1. Department of Plant Pests, Institute for Plant Protection and Environment, Banatska 33, Zemun, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia
2. CABI, 1 Rue des Grillons, 2800 Delémont, Switzerland
Interests: classical biological control of weeds; taxonomy and insect diversity; applied and experimental study of invasive pests; integrative pest management (IPM) of insects and weeds; molecular systematic, population genetics, phylogeny, and integrative taxonomy, especially in cryptic speciation events; molecular identification and characterization in organisms of economic importance and environmental protection; vector role of planthoppers and leafhoppers (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha) and epidemiology of phytoplasma induced diseases (Mollicutes, 'Candidatus Phytoplasma')
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Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan
Interests: soil science; soil; fertilizers; organic matter; carbon cycle; climate change; environmental impact assessment; nematodes
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Agroscope, Institute for Plant Production Systems, 1964 Conthey, Switzerland
Interests: ion channel; plant physiology; plant biology; cell biology; electrophysiology; mechanosensing; cell signalling; agronomy; greenhouse; Arabidopsis thaliana; Medicago truncatula; Mimosa pudica; tomato

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Department of Agronomy, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: control of field crop pests; control of field vegetable pests; IPM; biological control; alternative methods of pest control
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Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB), Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
Interests: GHG emissions; fertilizers; nitrogen; nitrogen mineralization; soil, legumes; animal manure management; dairy systems; crop residues; Nutrient cycles and soils; nutrient use efficiency; forage crops

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Horticultural Sciences Department, Southwest Florida Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Immokalee, FL 34142, USA
Interests: plant physiology; nutritional quality; hydroponics; soilless production; postharvest biology and technology
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Horticulture and Crop Science Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, USA
Interests: organic vegetable systems; organic soil amendments; organic fertilizers; biofuel crops

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Department of Plant Breeding, Wageningen University &Research (WUR), 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands
Interests: Ornamental Breeding and Genetics; interspecific hybridization; polyploidy; Lilium

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Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Rzeszów University of Technology, Powstańców Warszawy 12, 35-959 Rzeszów, Poland
Interests: wheat; triticale; cereals; molecular markers; DArTseq; genome wide association studies; genetic mapping; quantitative trait loci; steroids; RNA-seq; qPCR; fenugreek; medicinal plants

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Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India
Interests: agriculture biotechnology; transgenic; functional genomics; gene expression; genome engineering
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Institute of Sciences of Food Production, Italian National Council of Research, ISPA-CNR, Via Amendola 122/O, 70126 Bari, Italy
Interests: food fermentation; bioactive metabolites; prebiotics and probiotics; functional foods; antimicrobial activity
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Grassland Science, Aeres University of Applied Sciences, 8251 JZ Dronten, The Netherlands
Interests: grasslands; grazing; grass and forage systems; greenhouse gas emissions; biodiversity; ecosystem services; multi-stakeholder processes; grassland management
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Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
Interests: inheritance of resistance to Fusarium head blight; breeding for adaptation to climate change; genetic factors associated with nitrogen use efficiency; genomic selection; locally sourcing bread wheat
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Council for Agricultural Research and Economics - Research Center for Viticulture and Enology, Via XXVIII Aprile 26, 31015 Conegliano, Italy
Interests: grape genetics and genomics; plant breeding; molecular biology; phytopathology
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Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, CPMB Building, National Botanical Research Institute, Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow 226001, UP, India
Interests: plant molecular biology; pest resistance; genomics
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Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: postharvest physiology of fruits and vegetables; fat of plant origin
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Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Interests: agronomy; sustainability; soil health; microbiome; cover crops; statistics
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Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: agriculture; soil fertility; soil degradation; land use; crop production; phosphorus cycling; plant-growth-promoting bacteria; microbial ecology; ecosystem multifunctionality
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College of Resources and Environment Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: GHG emissions; nitrogen-oxide emission; biochar; soil N biogeochemical cycle; carbon neutral; climate-smart agriculture

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College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
Interests: bioinformatics; gene expression regulation; epigenetic regulation; postharvest biology and technology

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Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: pulses crop; genetic diversity; breeding
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Department of Analytical Chemistry, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CO 06511, USA
Interests: environmental chemistry; toxicology; sustainable nanotechnology; nanoparticles; crop plants; analytical chemistry
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Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: weed; seed dormancy; germination behavior; herbicide resistance; population dynamics; adaptive evolution; weed management
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Chinese National Center for Rice Improvement and State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Zhejiang, Hangzhou 310006, China
Interests: rice; rice breeding; germplasm resources; genetic resources; conservation of genetic diversity; crop genomics; stress tolerance
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Sugarcane Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Houma, LA 70360, USA
Interests: sugarcane; soil-water interactions; eddy covariance; carbon sequestration; cover crops; remote sensing

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Department of Horticulture and of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
Interests: Aromatic and medicinal plants; Ornamental plants (especially trees and shrubs); Crop domestication and evolution; Plant germplasm conservation, characterization, and evaluation; Modeling the invasiveness of non-native woody plants

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Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Pl. M. Curie-Skłodowskiej 5, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
Interests: plant–bacterial symbiosis; rhizobial genetics and physiology; biofertilizers
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Institute for Biosafety in Plant Biotechnology, Julius Kühn-Institut, Quedlinburg, Germany
Interests: plant biotechnology; genetic engineering; agriculture; plant genetics
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