Editorial Board for section 'Plant Science'

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Members (41)


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Faculty of Science, University of Western Australia, 6009 Perth, Australia
Interests: soil-plant-microbe interactions; nutrient transport; ion toxicity; biofortification
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School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, 104 Madison B Sturgis Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 708083, USA
Interests: plant molecular biology; genetic engineering; abiotic stress
IMBIO, University of Bonn, Kirschallee 1, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
Interests: tolerance to dehydration; stress gene networks; desiccation tolerance; regulation of gene expression on the transcriptional and posttranscriptional level; gene discovery
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Estación Experimental de Aula Dei, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 50080 Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: legume nodules; legume-rhizobia symbiosis; nitric oxide; plant hemoglobins (phytoglobins); reactive nitrogen species; reactive oxygen species
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Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Interests: plant membrane transport; drought; salinity; abiotic stress

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ECOMARE & Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), Department of Biology, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Interests: photosynthesis; chlorophylls; carotenoids; photoprotection; algae; kleptoplasty; photosynthetic sea slugs

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Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, INRA, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 78000 Versailles, France
Interests: plant nutrition; plant senescence; autophagy; abiotic stress; natural variation

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CNRS, INRA, Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay IPS2, Universite Paris Sud, Universite Evry, Universite Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cite, Universite Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
Interests: non-coding RNA; miRNA; root development; legume symbiosis; transcriptomics; alternative splicing
Francis Hobart Herrick Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
Interests: genetics; DNA variation; flax; marama; drought tolerance; legum
Life Sciences, Plants Division, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
Interests: bryophytes; desiccation biology; electron microscopy; fungal symbioses; land plant evolution; stomata
Faculty of Human Life Sciences, Hagoromo University of International Studies, Hamadera-minamimachi, Sakai, Osaka 592-8344, Japan
Interests: gravity sensing; calcium signaling; ROS signaling; calcium–ROS networks; ion channels; mechanosensors; protein kinases; long-distance signals
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School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Interests: plant endomembrane trafficking; plant endosomal sorting; plant autophagy; plant abiotic stress; plant biotechnology

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State Key Laboratory for Agro-Biotechnology and Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Pest Monitoring and Green Management, College of Plant Protection, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: plant virus diseases (poleroviruses; beet necrotic yellow vein virus; rice black-streaked dwarf virus; wheat yellow mosaic virus); identification of new viruses; virus-host interaction; cultivation of virus-resistant transgenic crops; diagnosis and control of main diseases of sugar beet
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USDA-ARS Southern Regional Research Center, 1100 Robert E. Lee Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70124, USA
Interests: cotton; cottonseed; seed storage protein; plant nutrition; applied and environmental chemistry; agricultural products/byproducts; bioactive additives
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Institute for Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Philosophenweg 16, 07743 Jena, Germany
Interests: plant speciation; hybridization; phylogeny; biogeography; morphology and karyology; anthropogenic evolution; collection-based research; history of botany

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1. School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
2. Department of Biology, School of Science and the Environment, University of Worcester, Worcester WR2 6AJ, UK
3. Research Center for Plant RNA Signaling, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China
Interests: epigenetics; DNA and RNA viruses; flowering time; fruit development/ripening; protein/RNA signaling; RNA silencing; RNA trafficking; virus-host interactions

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State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: abiotic stress; salt tolerance; Na+ transport; natural variation

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Department of Plant Biology, Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Interests: genetics; genomics; chromosome; chromatin; gene expression

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Institute of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
Interests: photobiology; circadian; cryptochrome; abiotic stress
Prof. Dr. Fiorella Lo Schiavo
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Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Padua, 35131 Padova, Italy
Interests: plant abiotic stress; plant cell cultures; plant physiology; plant cell biology; PCD; plant cell signaling pathways

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Department of Life Sciences, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
Interests: biological response of plants to environmental change; plant-soil relationships; use of bio-based products of plant origin
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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200333, China
Interests: biodiversity; conservation biology; evolutionary biology; population genetics; biotechnology; transgenic biosafety; agricultural botany
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Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Interests: Xylella; plant pathology; plant virus; plant bacteria; diagnostic; grapevine; olive

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School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 60 Nanyang Drive, SBS-02s-88e, Singapore 637551, Singapore
Interests: plant lipid biosynthesis; regulation of gene expression; intrinsically disordered proteins in plants; post-translational modifications; plant signal transduction
Dr. Pascale Maillard
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INRAE (Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentationet l’Environnement), UMR Silva 1434, Route d’Amance, 54280 Champenoux, France
Interests: abiotic stress; biotic stress; reforestation; growth; C assimilation; N absorption; NSC (non-structural carbohydrate); NSNC (non-structural nitrogen compound)
Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via Derna 1, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Interests: nomenclature, taxonomy, and systematics; vascular plants; Mediterranean flora; integrative taxonomy; evolution; biogeography; cytotaxonomy
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Prof. Dr. Hugh W. Pritchard
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Comparative Plant and Fungal Biology, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Wellcome Trust Millennium Building, Wakehurst Place, Ardingly, West Sussex RH17 6TN, UK
Interests: seed biology; cryobiology; climate change; desiccation tolerance; ecology; seed quality

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College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, Australia
Interests: biochemistry; plants physiology; signal transduction; plant hormones
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