Agronomy

Prof. Dr. Jonathan Wong

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Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, HKSAR, Hong Kong
Interests: composting; land application of organic waste; soil plant interaction; soil contamination; phytoremediation; low input farming

Dr. Annette Lynn Wszelaki

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Department of Plant Sciences, 112 Plant Biotechnology Bldg., 2505 EJ Chapman Dr. Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
Interests: vegetable production systems; organic agriculture; postharvest physiology; food safety

Prof. Dr. Di Wu

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College of Resources and Environmental Science, China Agricultural Unversity, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: soil carbon and nitrogen cycle; greenhouse gas emissions mitigation from agriculture; sustainable farming; organic agriculture

Prof. Dr. Fuyong Wu

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College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
Interests: AM fungi; crop; soil health; mineral nutrients
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Dr. Ting Wu

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College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: genetics; natural variation; fruit quality; abiotic stress; long distance mobile RNA; apple
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Prof. Dr. Wei Wu

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Hainan Key Laboratory for Sustainable, Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Forestry, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
Interests: agronomic practices; crop lodging; crop management; cropping systems; nitrogen management; water use efficiency; tropical crops

Prof. Dr. Yupeng Wu

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College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: green house gas emission; soil organisms; soil quailty
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Prof. Dr. Xiaoping Xin

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Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: grassland ecosystem observation; simulation and management
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Prof. Dr. Ai-Sheng Xiong

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State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
Interests: plant growth regulators; circadian clock; plant biotechnology; plant genetics and breeding
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Dr. Xiangyang Xu

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USDA-ARS Peanut and Small Grains Research Unit, Stillwater, OK 74075, USA
Interests: wheat genetics and genomics; Russian wheat aphid; greenbug; leaf rust; powdery mildew resistance

Dr. Xian Xue

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Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Interests: desertification and rehabilitation; soil salinization; sustainable drylands agriculture; watershed management; climate change
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Dr. Jun Yan

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College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094 China
Interests: plant genomics; bioinformatics; maize genome; gene mining

Dr. Fei Yang

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Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Interests: corn entomology; insect resistance management and mechanism; transgenic Bt crops; population genetics and genomics; insect ecology; row crop IPM; host plant resistance
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Prof. Dr. Guijun Yang

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1. Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China, Beijing, China
2. National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture, Beijing, China
Interests: quantitative remote sensing; smart agriculture

Dr. Jianjun Yang

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Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: soil nutrient management; soil C sequestration; soil contamination and food security; biochar; soil microbiology

Prof. Dr. Zhimin Yang

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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
Interests: functional genes for regulating plant response to abiotic and environmental stresses; mechanisms for DNA methylation and non-coding RNAs involved in plant environmental stress response
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Prof. Dr. Chuyu Ye

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Institute of Crop Science & Institute of Bioinformatics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: crop genomics
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Dr. Daojun Yuan

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National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: cotton; polyploid; domestication; crop production; bioinformatics

Dr. Eli Zaady

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Department of Natural Resources, Institute of Plant Sciences Agriculture Research Organization, Ministry of Agriculture, Gilat Research Center, Mobile Post Negev 8531100, Israel
Interests: open spaces; AgroEcologist; soil ecology
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Dr. Antonios Zambounis

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Department of Deciduous Fruit Trees, Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources, Hellenic Agricultural Organization ‘Demeter’, Naoussa, Greece
Interests: biological and integrated control of plant pathogens; climate change; crop protection; defense genes; fungal genetics and genomics; metagenomics; molecular markers for disease resistance; oomycetes; plant pathology; plant-pathogen interactions
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Dr. Federica Zanetti

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Department of Agriculture and Food Sciences (DISTAL), Università di Bologna – Alma Mater Studiorum, 40127 Bologna, Italy
Interests: agronomy and physiology of oilseed crops; biomass crops; natural rubber; protein crops; sustainable cropping systems; biobased products
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Dr. Olfa Zarrouk

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Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA) Torre Marimon, CTRA. C-59 KM. 12,1, 08140 Caldes de Montbui (Barcelona), Spain
Interests: water stress; crop physiology; deficit-irrigation; fruit ripening; hormones; grapevine and fruit trees; crop water relations; saline water; fruit quality; aquaporins; plant hydraulics; primary and secondary metabolisms; rootstocks

Prof. Dr. Aying Zhang

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College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: agricultural biotechnology; plant abiotic stress responses; hormone biology

Dr. Baohua Zhang

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College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: quality and safety assessment of agricultural products; harvesting robots; robot vision; robotic grasping; spectral analysis and modeling; robotic systems and their applications in agriculture
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Prof. Dr. Fei Zhang

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State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Key Laboratory of Biology of Ornamental Plants in East China, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: quantitative genetics; germplasm enhancement and breeding in ornamental crops
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Prof. Dr. Hengyou Zhang

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Key Laboratory of Soybean Molecular Design Breeding, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.138 Haping Rd., Nangang Dist., Harbin 150081, China
Interests: soybean molecualr biology; soybean genetics and genomics; soybean seed traits improvement

Prof. Dr. Jiaen Zhang

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Department of Ecology, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Interests: agricultural ecology; soil ecology; invasion ecology; intercropping & crop rotation; rice and aquatic animal coculture; acid deposition & acid rain; soil C and N cycling; greenhouse gases (GHGs) emission; soil biodiversity; soil remediation & restoration

Prof. Dr. Shulan Zhang

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College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
Interests: water and nutrient management on dryland cereals (wheat, maize); response of soil fertility to nutrient management
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Prof. Dr. Wei Zhang

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Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China
Interests: understanding the effects of human disturbance and land-use change on carbon sequestration and the cycling of nutrients in terrestrial ecosystems; element biogeochemical cycle; ecosystem functions; vegetation restoration; karst
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Dr. Wei Zhang

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South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
Interests: soil carbon, nitrogen, and/or phosphorus cycles; atmospheric N deposition; greenhouse gases (e.g. CO2, CH4, N2O) fluxes from soil; soil ecological process and environmental change; soil fertility

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