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Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Grassi

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Department of Biology, University of Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy
Interests: grape
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Dr. Gea Guerriero

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Environmental Research and Innovation (ERIN) Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), L-4940 Hautcharage, Luxembourg
Interests: plant bioprocesses; plant cell wall; transcriptomics; plant secondary metabolites; plant tissue culture; plant molecular biology
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Prof. Dr. De-Guo Han

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College of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
Interests: transcription factors in abiotic stress (cold, drought, salt, etc.) and response of fruit
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Prof. Dr. Robert Hasterok

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Plant Cytogenetics and Molecular Biology Group, Institute of Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, 40-032 Katowice, Poland
Interests: plant molecular cytogenetics; structure and evolution of karyotypes; arrangement of chromosomes at interphase; nucleolar dominance; cytogenetics of meiosis; application of Brachypodium as a model genus to study various aspects of plant nuclear genome structure; dynamics; (in)stability and evolution at the cytomolecular level
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Prof. Dr. Shaozhen He

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College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, 2 Yuanmingyuan Xilu, Haidian District, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: molecular breeding; biotic and abiotic stress; molecular mechanism
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Prof. Dr. Maria Hrmova

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1. School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5064, Australia
2. School of Life Science, Huaiyin Normal University, Huai’an 223300, China
Interests: bioinformatics; biotechnology; enzymology; molecular modeling; plant transport proteins; protein structure-function; synthetic biology; X-ray crystallography
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Dr. Elisabeth Jamet

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Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, 24 Chemin de Borde Rouge, 31320 Auzeville-Tolosane, France
Interests: plant; cell wall biology; development; evolution; proteomics; post-translational modification; cell wall architecture; protein/protein; protein/polysaccharide interaction
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Prof. Dr. Tibor Janda

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Department of Plant Physiology, Agricultural Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Martonvásár, Hungary
Interests: abiotic stress; acclimation; oxidative stress; polyamines; plant stress physiology; photosynthesis; salicylic acid; signalling
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Dr. Jong Seong Jeon

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Graduate School of Green-Bio Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin 17104, Republic of Korea
Interests: rice functional genomics; plant immunity; plant carbon metabolism; plant source-sink interaction; photosynthesis
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Dr. Jose C. Jimenez-Lopez

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Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Department of Stress, Development and Signaling in Plants, Estacion Experimental del Zaidin, Profesor Albareda Street, 1, E-18008 Granada, Spain
Interests: plant biochemistry; plant molecular and cell biology; seed biology; functional foods; molecular nutraceutics; legumes; pulse; lupinus ssp. pollen and seed allergen proteins; molecular allergy; food allergen; proteomics; transcriptomics; metabolomics and allergomics; computational biology; proteins structure modeling and functional characterization; proteins docking and molecular dynamics
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Prof. Dr. Jesus V. Jorrin Novo

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Agroforestry and Plant Biochemistry, Proteomics and Systems Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Cordoba, UCO-CeiA3, 14014 Cordoba, Spain
Interests: forest species; biotic and abiotic stresses; molecular markers; omics approaches; systems biology
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Prof. Dr. Hunseung Kang

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Department of Plant Biotechnology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
Interests: abiotic stress; RNA modification; epitranscriptomics; RNA biology; post-transcriptional gene regulation

Prof. Dr. Kwon-Kyoo Kang

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Division of Horticultural Biotechnology, Hankyung National University, Anseong 17579, Republic of Korea
Interests: functional analysis of genes via CRISPR/Cas9; functional genomics; MABc (marker-assisted backcross); transcriptomics; plant biotechnology; molecular breeding in plants
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Dr. Cha Young Kim

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Biological Resource Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), Jeongeup 56212, Republic of Korea
Interests: plant biotechnology; plant cell cultures; secondary metabolites; metabolite farming; elicitation technology; elicitors; healthcare biomaterials; plant metabolism; gene–metabolite; regulatory network; biological activities; plant cell and tissue cultures
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Prof. Dr. Sunghwan Kim

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Department of Chemistry, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
Interests: biological and toxic effect of plant metabolite; micro plastic degradation product; toxicity; dye degradation product

Dr. Gábor Kocsy

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Agricultural Institute, ELKH Centre for Agricultural Research, 2462 Martonvásár, Hungary
Interests: abiotic stress; antioxidants; cereals; reactive oxygen species; redox regulation
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Dr. Tomotsugu Koyama

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Bioorganic Research Institute, Suntory Foundation for Life Sciences, Kyoto 619-0284, Japan
Interests: gene regulation; leaf development; senscence; transcription factor; transgenic plant
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Prof. Dr. Hongjie Li

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1. The National Engineering Laboratory of Crop Molecular Breeding, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
2. Xianghu Laboratory, Institute of Biotechnology, Hangzhou 311231, China
Interests: wheat genetics and breeding; wheat germplasm enhancement; molecular characterization and map-based cloning of wheat; disease resistance genes; resistance to wheat diseases caused by fungi and nematodes
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Prof. Dr. Maoteng Li

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Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Interests: cruciferae; QTL mapping; gene editing; oil content; seed yield; molecular breeding
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Dr. Mengyao Li

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College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
Interests: vegetable genetics and functional genomics; bioinformatics; abiotic stress response; biotechnology
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Dr. Yi Li

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Department of Plant Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA
Interests: plant genetic transformation technologies; gene editing technologies; molecular physiology of hormones; mutation breeding; horticultural crops

Prof. Dr. Zhou Li

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College of Grassland Science and Technology, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
Interests: abiotic stress; gene function; omics; metabolic regulation; stress signal transduction; molecular mechanism; grass species; stress physiology
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Prof. Dr. Fucheng Lin

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College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: plant pathogenic fungi; molecular interaction between plant and microbe; autophagy of pathogenic fungi
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Dr. Feng Liu

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CAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), Qingdao, China
Interests: organellar genome of algae; adaptive evolution; molecular evolution; evolutionary driving force; group I/II intron; horizontal gene transfer; molecular marker; comparative genomics; molecular diversity; biodiversity; genome rearrangement; gene duplication, inverted repeats; phylogenomic analysis; circular plasmid; DNA-directed RNA polymerase; intron-encoded protein
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Prof. Dr. Yonggen Lou

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Institute of Insect Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: insect–plant interactions; herbivore-induced plant defense; defense-related signaling
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Prof. Dr. Keming Luo

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Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation, School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
Interests: functional genomics of woody plants; secondary cell wall biosynthesis; transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation; plant biotechnology
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Dr. Honghao Lv

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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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Prof. Dr. Massimo Maffei

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Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Via Quarello 15/a, 10135 Turin, Italy
Interests: astrobiology; plant interactions with the surrounding environment; plant–insect interactions; plant responses to varying magnetic fields; metabolomics and transcriptomics of secondary plant metabolites and related genes
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Dr. Pedro Martínez-Gómez

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CEBAS-CSIC, Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura, Department of Plant Breeding, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Interests: Prunus breeding; marker-assisted selection; integrating genetic; genomic; transcriptomic; proteomic and epigenetic approaches
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Dr. Anna M. Mastrangelo

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Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, 24126 Bergamo, Italy
Interests: transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation mechanisms; genetic analysis of quantitative traits related to grain yield and quality of cereals; functional analysis of abiotic stress regulated genes
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