Topical Advisory Panel

Members

Department of Agricultural, Forest, and Food Sciences, DISAFA, Vegetable Crops and Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, VEGMAP, University of Turin, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy
Interests: horticulture; abiotic stress; biostimulant; soilless cultivation; microgreens; vegetable quality; ornamentals; postharvest quality
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Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Akademicka 19, 20-033 Lublin, Poland
Interests: plant physiology; plant response to abiotic and biotic stress factors; metal phytotoxicity; enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants; secondary metabolites; photosynthesis
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Department of Horticulture, Chonnam National University, Agricultural Science Building 4-205, 77 Yongbong-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea
Interests: plant physiology; plant biochemicstry; plant metabolomics; food crops postharvest storage; food crops biosafety
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Faculty of Bioscience and Industry, Jeju National University, Jeju 63243, Republic of Korea
Interests: molecular breeding and physiology in citrus, kiwifruits, and tea plant
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Pueblo, Chemistry Department, Colorado State University - Pueblo, 2200 Bonforte Blvd., Pueblo, CO 81001-4901, USA
Interests: plant metabolites; metabolic adaptations of plants to climate change and invasive species; plant–predator and pollinator reward dynamics; chemical ecology
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Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA), Department of Biology, Universidade do Minho, 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
Interests: grapevine; plant physiology; plant biochemistry; plant cell biology; molecular biology; wine; water deficit stress; abiotic stress mitigation; micropeptides; secondary metabolism; grape berry quality
Plant Technology Laboratories, Agricultural Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu 30093, Taiwan
Interests: pomology; physiology of flowering; dormancy; tea; phenotyping
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Department of Crop and Forest Sciences, Universitat de Lleida, 25198 Lleida, Spain
Interests: IPM; biological control; insect dispersal; insect biology-ecology; insect rearing
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Center Agriculture Food Environment (C3A), University of Trento, 38098 San Michele all’Adige, Italy
Interests: crop physiology; gas exchange; photosynthesis; stomata; phenotyping; abiotic stress tolerance; yield and yield components; quality traits; grapevine; canopy management; viticulture
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Department of Agricultural Science, Mediterranean, University of Reggio Calabria, 89124 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Interests: fruit growing (citrus, grapevine, olive); fruit plant physiology
Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Torino, Largo Paolo Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy
Interests: plant physiology; plant biology; abiotic stress tolerance; agronomy; plant development; floriculture; medicinal and aromatic plants

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MED—Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, Departamento de Fitotecnia, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, Pólo da Mitra, Ap. 94, 7006-554 Évora, Portugal
Interests: vegetable crops; vegetable production systems; greenhouse and open-field systems; fertigation; root dynamics; salinity; organic fertilization and soilless cultivation
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CREA Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, C.so Savoia, 190, 95024 Acireale, Italy
Interests: phenotyping and genetics applied to the breeding of perennial fruit crops; vis-NIR spectroscopy; texture analysis; image analysis; chromosome mapping; QTL discovery; in-vitro culture; plant biotechnology; plant transformation; genome editing

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Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
Interests: controlled environment agriculture; crop stress tolerance; environmental plant physiology; floriculture; horticultural lighting applications; hydroponic crop production; photobiology
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Department of Agricultural, Forest, and Food Sciences, DISAFA, Ornamental Crops and Landscape Design, University of Turin, 10095 Grugliasco, Italy
Interests: landscape and urban horticulture; urban greening; parks and gardens
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Department of Vegetal Biology, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Interests: abiotic stress; phytohormones; secondary metabolism; biostimulants; plant biochemistry
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Division of Agronomy, North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Service, Raleigh, NC 27699-1001, USA
Interests: plant-microbe interactions; biological control; molecular nematology; plant health promoting microbes; plant pathology
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School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
Interests: controlled environment horticulture; plant ecophysiology in controlled environment; greenhouse environment adjustment; photobiology; LED lighting; soilless cultivation; horticultural crop production; organic horticulture
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Institute of Chemical Technology of Food, Lodz University of Technology, 90-924 Lodz, Poland
Interests: bioactive natural products; polyphenols; ellagitannins; HPLC-MS; rosaceae family; berry fruits; Agrimonia L. (Agrimonia eupatoria L., Agrimonia procera Wallr.)
Tree Fruit Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Wenatchee, WA 98801, USA
Interests: functional genomics; molecular plant-microbe interaction; molecular regulation of plant root defense responses; plant natural resistance to apple replant disease; soilborne pathogens

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Faculty of Horticulture, University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, Bdul Mărăști, Nr. 59, 011464 București, Romania
Interests: fruit growing technologies including conventional propagation, micropropagation and other in vitro techniques, planting systems, canopy and orchard management; breeder of kiwifruit, Chinese jujube and pawpaw


ENEA, Department for Energy Efficiency (DUEE), Integrated Services Division for Territorial Development, Lungotevere Thaon di Revel, 76-00196 Roma, Italy
Interests: biology and agronomy; energy efficiency and sustainability in agriculture; agroindustry and rural development; greenhouse technologies for extreme environments
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Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, 00790 Helsinki, Finland
Interests: strawberry; flowering; vegetative development; plant architecture; photoperiodism; temperature; genetics; molecular genetics; agricultural biotechnology
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Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A2, Canada
Interests: utilization of molecular biology, biochemistry, breeding, and plant tissue culture in understanding or improving crop quality

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Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 20 Nanxincun, Beijing 100093, China
Interests: plant factory; indoor horticulture; grape science
Bioenergy and Environment Science and Technology Laboratory, College of Engineering, China Agricultural University, Qinghuadonglu 17, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: protected horticulture; agroecosystems and environment; sustainable development of horticulture; ecosystem services of bioenergy for horticulture sustainability; soil health and sustainability; biogas for horticultural biowaste treatment; digestates; composting; by-products and biofertilizer

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Faculty of Agriculture, Department for Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Belgrade, Nemanjina 6, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia
Interests: phytochemistry; environmental science; agricultural plant science; environmental chemistry; food quality and safety; organic chemistry
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Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy
Interests: weed management; weed biology; cover crops; organic farming
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Department of Applied Sciences, Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation, Put Duilova 11, 21000 Split, Croatia
Interests: plant nutrition; abiotic stress; vegetable production

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Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Economics, Socio-Human Sciences and Engineering, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, 400112 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Interests: plant-microbe interaction; plant growth promoting rhizobacteria; role of PGPR in plant abiotic stress; heavy metal stress; salt stress
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