Editorial Board for section 'Genetics, Genomics, Breeding, and Biotechnology (G2B2)'

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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.

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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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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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Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Interests: horticultural plant breeding; genetics, genomics and transcriptomics; disease resistance
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Department of Horticulture and Food Science, Faculty of Horticulture, University of Craiova, RO-200585 Craiova, Romania
Interests: fruit and nut crops breeding; collecting, evaluation and conservation of plant genetic resources; plant propagation; sustainable and organic horticulture; bioactive compounds
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Research Centre for Agricultural and Food Biotechnology (BITAL), Universidad de Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain
Interests: breeding; molecular markers; genetics; genomics; epigenetic

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Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University, P.O. Box 30003, MSC 3Q, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA
Interests: onion breeding; plant disease resistance; Fusarium basal rot; Iris yellow spot; onion thrips
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Department of Environmental Horticulture, Gulf Coast Research and Education Center, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Wimauma, FL 33598, USA
Interests: plant breeding; disease resistance; genetics; genome research; biotechnology; genome editing; ornamental plants; citrus; blackberry; raspberry; pomegranate; hops

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Department of Genetics, University of Cordoba, Campus de Rabanales, C-5, 14071 Cordoba, Spain
Interests: bioinformatics; breeding; gene expression; genetics; NGS, qPCR
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Branch of Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russion Academy of Science, 142290 Pushchino, Russia
Interests: tissue culture; gene expression; vegetable growing

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Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Giovanni Amendola, 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy
Interests: plant host-pathogen; genetics; fungal resistance

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Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), Campus of Agripolis, University of Padova, Viale dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
Interests: plant breeding; plant biotechnology; gene expression
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Institution of Genomics and Bioinformatics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Interests: ecological genomics; conservation genomics and comparative genomics of tropical horticultural plants

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Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 190, 234 22 Lomma, Sweden
Interests: apple breeding; genetics

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Grainger Bioinformatics Center, Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Interests: genomics; phylogenomics; molecular evolution; symbiosis; mitochondrial genomes; bioinformatics

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College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: citrus genetic improvement via cell engineering techniques; molecular dissection of eliete traits of polyploids via multi-omics-based approaches; protoplast regeneration based gene editing and molecular breeding

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Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Interests: fruit tree genomics; particularly in genetic basis and molecular mechanisms of fruit quality in peach and apple

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Department of Biology, School of Science and the Environment, University of Worcester, Worcester WR2 6AJ, UK
Interests: epigenetics; fruit development and ripening; flowering time; RNA signaling in plants; mobile RNA silencing; virus-plant interactions; molecular plant pathology

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United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Southern Institute of Forest Genetics, Forest Tree Molecular Cytogenetics Laboratory, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Interests: cytogenetics of southern pines and hardwoods (Populus, Castanea, Fraxinus, Quercus spp.); comparative cytogenetics and genomics of southern pines and hardwoods; organization and distribution of rRNA genes, and distribution of repetitive DNA and transposable elements in tree genomes
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Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Interests: horticultural genetic resources; genomics; molecular breeding; phytohormone; molecular biology

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Biological Resource Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Saga University, 1 Honjomachi, Saga 840-8502, Japan
Interests: flowering; citrus; apple; phytohormone; secondary metabolites; genomics

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1. Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Shimogamo, Kyoto 606-8522, Japan
2. Biotechnology Research Department, Kyoto Prefectural Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Technology Center, 74 Oji, Kitainayazuma, Seika, Soraku, Kyoto 619-0244, Japan
Interests: classification; DNA marker; flowering lotus; linkage analysis; plant mitochondria; tea; vegetable

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Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania Via Valdisavoia, 5-9123 Catania, Italy
Interests: breeding; germplasm characterization; minor fruit tree species; citrus; molecular characterization
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Institute of Horticulture, LV-3701 Dobele, Latvia
Interests: horticultural genetic resources; molecular biology; bioinformatics; resistance; horticulture; association analysis; plant breeding; genomics; marker assisted selection; molecular breeding; molecular marker development
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Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA
Interests: improving economically important woody plant species using genomics and biotechnology plant; plant hormones
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Key Laboratory for Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China
Interests: molecular regulation of unusual fatty acids and lipids biosynthesis in oilseeds; functional genomes of oilseed crops; epigenetic regulation of seed development and storage materials

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Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: vegetable crops; molecular genetic breeding; germplasm innovation; genome design; gene editing; multi-omics techniques
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The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited, Private Bag 92169 (mail) 120 Mt Albert Road, Mt Albert (courier), Auckland, New Zealand
Interests: horticulture; plant viruses; mycoviruses; RNAi; mild strain cross-protection; quarantine; certification; high health programme; biocontrol

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Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, 50019 Florence, Italy
Interests: functional genomics; antioxidants; pharmaceuticals; nutraceuticals; berries; Mediterranean basin
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Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27608, USA
Interests: breeding for fruit quality; differential gene expression analysis; genomic selection; GWAS; molecular breeding; plant breeding; QTL mapping; resistance breeding; stress tolerance
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