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Section Board for 'Medicinals, Herbs, and Specialty Crops' (9)

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Dr. Alessandra Carrubba
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Deparment of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: medicinal and aromatic plants; industrial crops; Mediterranean native plant resources; plant secondary metabolites; non-chemical weed control
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Dr. Bastien Christ
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Agroscope, Plant Production Systems, Route des Eterpys 18, 1964 Conthey, Switzerland
Interests: Berries; medicinal and aromatic plants; plant physiology; plant biochemistry; plant specialized metabolism; metabolomics; plant production systems; soilless cultures
Dr. Alessandra Durazzo
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CREA-Research Centre for Food and Nutrition, Via Ardeatina 546, 00178 Rome, Italy
Interests: natural products; bioactive compounds; antioxidants; food quality; nutrition; food composition databases; dietary supplements; herbs; botanicals; natural substances databases; synthesis; bioavailability, metabolic pathways
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Dr. Jiri Gruz
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Department of Experimental Biology, Palacky University, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic
Interests: metabolomics; biologically active compounds; secondary metabolites
Dr. Rosario Paolo Mauro
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Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Catania, Via Valdisavoia, 5 - 95123 Catania, Italy
Interests: agronomic management in horticulture and floriculture; breeding of horticultural crops; crop physiology; vegetables quality; secondary metabolites
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Dr. Barbara Ruffoni
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CREA-Research Centre for Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Corso Inglesi 508, 18038 Sanremo, Italy
Interests: in vivo propagation; plant tissue culture; micropropagation; regeneration; somatic embryogenesis; in vitro cells and biomass production for secondary metabolites; Agrobacterium mediated transformation; Hairy root culture; biodiversity conservation and resilience; molecular analysis of the differentiation processes; ornamental plants and floriculture; medicinal and aromatic plants; edible flowers
Prof. Dr. Yonghua Yang
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School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Interests: medicinal and chemical biology of plant natural products; plant molecular metabolism and biotechnology; plant-microbe interaction; soil microbial & molecular diversity
Prof. Dr. Jing Zhuang
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College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
Interests: tea plant genetics and germplasm enhancement; tea plant secondary metabolism; tea plant evolutionary genomics and domestication; tea plant abiotic stress
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