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Prof. Dr. Setsuko Komatsu

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Department of Applied Chemistry and Food Science, Fukui University of Technology, Fukui 910-0028, Japan
Interests: proteomics; omics; crop; abiotic stress; phosphorylation; signal transduction
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Prof. Dr. Sixue Chen

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Department of Biology, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS 38677, USA
Interests: disease triangle; guard cells; glucosinolates; proteomics; metabolomics; mass spectrometry
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Dr. Karel Doležal

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1. Laboratory of Growth Regulators, Faculty of Science, Palacký University & Institute of Experimental Botany Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
2. Department of Chemical Biology, Faculty of Science, Palacký University, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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Dr. Jean-Francois Hausman

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Environmental Research and Innovation (ERIN) Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), 5 Rue Bommel, Hautcharage, L-4940 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Interests: plant biotechnologies; integrative biology; abiotic stress; plant cell and tissue culture; plant physiology
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Prof. Dr. Bartolome Sabater

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Department of Life Sciences (Ciencias de la Vida), University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, 28805 Madrid, Spain
Interests: genetic machinery of chloroplasts; molecular mechanisms of plant senescence; molecular mechanisms of stress responses; organism entropy; regulation of photosynthetic electron transport
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Prof. Dr. Soulaiman Sakr

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Research Institute of Horticulture and Seeds, Agrocampus-Ouest, INRA and Angers University, 49035 Angers, France
Interests: sugar transport and metabolism; sugar signaling; crosstalk between sugar and hormones; abiotic stress; plant branching; urban plant physiology
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Dr. Gustavo A. Slafer

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Department of Crop and Forest Sciences, University of Lleida, AGROTECNIO Center, Av. Rovira Roure 191, 25198 Lleida, Spain
Interests: crop physiology
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Dr. Massimiliano Tattini

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Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council, Turin, Italy
Interests: secondary metabolites; photoprotection; photosynthesis; plant physiology; plant environmental stress physiology; flavonoids; anthocyanins; reactive oxygen species
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Dr. Nicolas L. Taylor

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ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, School of Molecular Sciences and Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Interests: molecular phenotyping; salinity; thermal stress; wheat; pulses; protein; metabolite and lipid mass spectrometry; metabolism
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Dr. Richard R.-C. Wang

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Forage and Range Research Lab, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-6300, USA
Interests: molecular markers; salinity tolerance; disease resistance; DNA sequencing; genome; chromosome; evolution; genetics
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Dr. Nagib Ahsan

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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Interests: mass-spectrometry based proteomics
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Dr. Alessio Aprile

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1. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, Salento University, 73100 Lecce, Italy
2. Centro Ecotekne via Provinciale Lecce Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Interests: mechanisms of mineral nutrient uptake in plants; impact of heavy metals on plant nutrient homeostasis; role of the rhizosphere microbiome in plant nutrient and heavy metal dynamics; sustainable agricultural practices for managing mineral nutrition and mitigating heavy metal stress
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Dr. Vicent Arbona

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Departament de Ciències Agràries i del Medi Natural, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló de la Plana, Spain
Interests: abiotic stress; Arabidopsis; biochemistry; citrus; drought; flooding; metabolomics; plant physiology; tomato
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Dr. Stefania Astolfi

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Department of Agricultural and Forest Sciences (DAFNE), University of Tuscia, Via S. C. de Lellis, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
Interests: plant physiological response to mineral deficiencies (mainly S and Fe); problems related to soil contamination with cadmium; the role of membrane activities in the plant\'s response to stress and variations in nutrient availability
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Prof. Dr. Jinsong Bao

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College of Agricultural and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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Prof. Dr. Prem L. Bhalla

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Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Laboratory, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia
Interests: plant reproduction; plant biotechnology; crop biotechnology
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Prof. Dr. Atle M. Bones

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Cell, Molecular Biology and Genomics Group, Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Interests: molecular systems biology; host defence; plant/algae; genome editing; genomics; signaling

Prof. Dr. Adnane Boualem

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Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), INRAE, CNRS, Université Evry, Université de Paris, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
Interests: glandular trichome development; transcription factor; specialized metabolism; Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood); Solanum lycopersicum (tomato)

Dr. Leonardo Bruno

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Department of Ecology, University of Calabria, Ponte Bucci, 87030 Arcavacata di Rende, Cosenza, Italy
Interests: plant developmental biology and response to stress

Prof. Dr. Hikmet Budak

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Director of Agriculture Programs, Arizona Western College, P.O. Box 929, Yuma, AZ 85366, USA
Interests: plant genomics; next generation sequencing; small RNA; genome editing; plant
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Prof. Dr. Micaela Carvajal

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Aquaporins Group, Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura, CEBAS-CSIC, Campus Universitario de Espinardo, 25, E-30100 Murcia, Spain
Interests: aquaporins; plant adaptation to climate change; water absorption and transport in plants; proteomics and genomics of aquaporins; nanotechnology of proteins; biomolecules of industrial use
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Prof. Dr. Luigi Cattivelli

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Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Via S. Protaso 302, 29017 Fiorenzuola d’Arda (PC), Italy
Interests: cereals; genomics; functional genomics; cereal breeding
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Dr. Mauro Centritto

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Institute for Sustainable Pant Protection - National Research Council of Italy, 10 Sesto Fiorentino, 50019 Firenze, Italy
Interests: environmental physiology; photosynthesis; biogenic volatile organic compounds; plant growth; carbon allocation
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Prof. Dr. Shaoliang Chen

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Key Laboratory of Forest and Flower Genetics and Breeding of Ministry of Education, College of Biological Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: plant response; abiotic stress; plant biology
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Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
Interests: rice; yield traits; panicle development; grain development; plant type
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Prof. Dr. Yong-Gu Cho

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Department of Crop Science, College of Agriculture, Life and Environment Sciences, Chungbuk National University, 1 Chungdae-ro, Seowon-gu, Chongju 28644, Republic of Korea
Interests: marker-assisted breeding (MAS); plant breeding by CRISPR/Cas9; functional genomics; GWAS; biotic and abiotic tolerance; transcriptomics; functional analysis of genes; plant biotechnology; molecular breeding in rice
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Prof. Dr. Henryk Hanokh Czosnek

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Professor Emeritus, Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Interests: plant–virus–insect interactions; plant stress responses; resistance to plant viruses
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Dr. Nunzio D'Agostino

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Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80055 Portici, NA, Italy
Interests: bioinformatics; computational biology; genomics; transcriptomics; population genomics; molecular breeding
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Prof. Dr. Gian-Pietro Di Sansebastiano

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Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTeBA), University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, LE, Italy
Interests: endomembrane trafficking; unconventional routes; metabolites and xenobiotics compartmentalization; biostimulation
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Prof. Dr. Christophe Dunand

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Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, UPS, UMR 5546, Université de Toulouse, Castanet-Tolosan, France
Interests: plant; developement; evolution; terestrialisation; cell wall; peroxidase; reactive oxygen species
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