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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Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences - DISTAL, University of Bologna, viale Fanin 44, 40127 Bologna, Italy
Interests: grapevine physiology; berry ripening; phenolic maturity; sustainable management techniques; precision viticulture; climate change; vineyard mechanization
* Section EiC of Viticulture
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
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Section Editor-in-Chief
CNR, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, 80055 Portici, Italy
Interests: biological control; endosymbionts; integrative taxonomy; invasive species
* Section: Insect Pest Management
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Agricultural Sciences, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, 80138 Napoli, NA, Italy
Interests: open field vegetable production; greenhouse production; sustainable water and nutrition management; hydroponic systems; crop water and salinity stress-tolerance
* Section: Vegetable Production Systems
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Horticulture, Washington State University, 155 Johnson Hall, P.O. Box 646414, Pullman, WA 99164, USA
Interests: genomics; plastid biology; stress, ripening; ethylene; photobiology; photosynthesis; genetics, phenomics; biotechnology
* Section: Genetics, Genomics, Breeding, and Biotechnology (G2B2)
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Section Editor-in-Chief
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Parma Research and Extension Center, University of Idaho, Parma, ID 83660, USA
Interests: fruit crop physiology
* Section: Fruit Production Systems
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Section Editor-in-Chief
ARO-the Volcani Center, Department of Postharvest Science of Fresh Produce, 68 HaMakkabbim Road, P.O. Box 15159, Rishon LeZiyyon 7505101, Israel
Interests: postharvest physiology; pathology; sensory and biochemistry issues; fruit; vegetables
* Section: Postharvest Biology, Quality, Safety, and Technology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, 39100 Bolzano, Italy
Interests: horticultural economics, management and marketing; horticultural value and supply chains; fruit and vegetable consumer behaviour; rural development and horticultural policies
* Section: Horticultural Economics, Policy, Business Management and Marketing
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Crop Science Research, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Piazza Martiri della Libertà 33, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
Interests: antioxidant; chlorophyll fluorescence; fruit quality; tree; heavy metals; phytoremediation; xenobiotic
* Section: Biotic and Abiotic Stress
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
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Section Editor-in-Chief
INRES—Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, Division of Horticultural Sciences, University of Bonn, 53121 Bonn, Germany
Interests: vegetables; climate change; horticulture; soilless culture; growing media; protected cultivation; greenhouse production
* Section: Protected Culture
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, DISAFA, Horticulture and Landscape, University of Turin, UNITO, Largo Paolo Braccini, 2 (TO), Grugliasco, 10095 Torino, Italy
Interests: horticultural sciences; advanced production systems; protected cultivations; urban horticulture; postharvest of fresh produce
* Section: "Protected Culture" and "Medicinals, Herbs, and Specialty Crops"
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Texas A&M University, 17360 Coit Road, Dallas, TX 75252, USA
Interests: controlled environment agriculture; hydroponics; indoor vertical farming; environmental stress physiology; urban landscape water conservation
* Section: Floriculture, Nursery and Landscape, and Turf
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Interests: plant physiology; vegetable crops; greenhouse horticulture; fruit quality
* Section: Developmental Physiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Agriculture, Oecotrophology and Landscape Development, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Strenzfelder Allee 28, 06406 Bernburg, Germany
Interests: plant hormones; plant nutrition; responses of primary and secondary plant metabolism to plant nutrition; orphan crops; analytical methods including HPLC; UHPLC; GC; mass spectrometry; optical spectroscopy; electrophoresis and quantitative PCR; separation and analysis of chiral molecules; enzyme assays; inhibitors
* Section: Plant Nutrition
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, 120 Carlton Street Athens, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Interests: plant pathogen biology; epidemiology, and integrated disease management; diseases of fruit and vegetable crops and their control
* Section: Plant Pathology and Disease Management (PPDM)
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
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Section Editor-in-Chief
Food Environmental Toxicology Laboratory, University of Florida, 3025 McCarty Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Interests: food safety; food quality; composition
* Section: Outreach, Extension, and Education
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

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Associate Editor
Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: Brassica genomics and genetics; molecular breeding
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

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Associate Editor
National Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation and Utilization of Horticultural Crops, College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: the vegetable quality (nutrition, flavor) formation and its regulation; molecular biology and biotechnology applied in vegetable crops; vegetable germplasm enhancement and molecular breeding
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
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Advisory Board Member
Department of Horticulture, University of Kentucky, N318 Agricultural Sciences North, Lexington, KY 40546, USA
Interests: fruit set and development; polyol metabolism; ripening and senescence;aroma volatiles
* the Honorary Editor-in-Chief
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

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Editorial Board Member
Department of Agriculture, Food and Enviroment, University of Catania, Via S. Sofia 100, 95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: plant pathology; morphological and molecular diagnosis of bacteria and fungi; development of diseases control strategies; soil and substrate disinfestation against soil-borne pathogens; fungicides resistance
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

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Editorial Board Member
U.S. Horticultural Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 2001 S. Rock Rd., Fort Pierce, FL 34945, USA
Interests: the interactions of plants, substrates, water treatment systems, and production practices as they relate to sustainable production as influenced by the nutrient release rate and formulation of fertili; water and nutrient holding capacities of substrates; water and nutrient requirements of crops; irrigation water quality; plant and substrate chemical and physical properties; environmental conditions; and plant species

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Southwest Florida Research and Education Center, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Immokalee, FL 34142, USA
Interests: citrus; citrus production; citrus diseases; rootstocks; rootstock propagation; root traits; rootstock-scion interactions; huanglongbing
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

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Editorial Board Member
Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, University of Molise, 86100 Campobasso, Italy
Interests: agriculture; crop management; horticultural crops; irrigation; precision agriculture; remote sensing
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

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Editorial Board Member
Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DiSTAL), Alma Mater Studiorum, University di Bologna, Viale Fanin 46, 40127 Bologna, Italy
Interests: soil organic matter; root morphology and physiology; fruit tree mineral and organic nutrition; fruit quality; soil sickness
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

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Editorial Board Member
CREA-IT Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Engineering and Agro-Food Processing, USSA Turin, Area di Ricerca di Torino, Strada delle Cacce, 73, 10135 Turin, Italy
Interests: bioeconomy; bioremediation and phytoremediation; rhizospheric microorganisms; microbial biotechnologies; crops tolerance to abiotic stresses; fruit trees response to climate change

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Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Via Università, 100, 80055 Portici (Napoli), Italy
Interests: applied environmental physiology of fruit trees and grapevines; water relations; light relations; source-sink relations; carbon partitioning; fruit quality; orchard/vineyard planting systems; pruning; deficit irrigation

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Editorial Board Member
Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Milan, Via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italy
Interests: systematic pomology; tree fruit breeding and cultivar evaluation for fruit quality; disease resistance and tree growth type

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Institute for Organic Farming, Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Maribor, Pivola 10, Hoče, 2311 Maribor, Slovenia
Interests: vegetables; field crops; organic production; food quality; environmetal issues; agroecology
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