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Dr. Corrinne E Grover

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Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
Interests: polyploidy; cotton; Gossypium; genome evolution; biological networks; transcriptomics; evolutionary genomics
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Prof. Dr. Rebecca Grumet

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Department of Horticulture, and Graduate Program in Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Interests: cucurbit genetics and genomics; disease resistance; fruit development; plant transformation; biotechnology; biosafety
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Dr. Ramon Gerardo Guevara-Gonzalez

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Center of Applied Research in Biosystems-CARB, School of Engineering-Campus Amazcala, Autonomous University of Queretaro, Amazcala, El Marques, Querétaro 76265, Mexico
Interests: plant physiology of stress; plant molecular biology; plant biochemistry; plant pathology; plant biotechnology
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Prof. Dr. Zhenfei Guo

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College of Grassland Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: abiotic stress; antioxidants; breeding; Ca²⁺ signaling; calmodulin-like protein; forage legume; receptor-like protein kinase; ROS homeostasis; turfgrasses
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Prof. Dr. Byung-Kook Ham

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1. Global Institute for Food Security, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 4J8, Canada
2. Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 52E, Canada
Interests: plant vascular system; long-distance signaling; nutrient homeostasis; plant responses to nutrient-limited stress; non-cell autonomous movement
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Prof. Dr. Fangpu Han

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State Key Lab of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Interests: chromosome; centromere; wheat; maize; breeding
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Prof. Dr. Mitsumasa Hanaoka

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Plant Molecular Science Center, and Division of Applied Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Horticulture, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
Interests: plastid molecular biology; light responses; retrograde signaling; gene regulation; circadian clock; endosymbiotic evolution
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Prof. Dr. John T. Hancock

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School of Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Interests: redox signaling; reactive oxygen species; hydrogen sulfide; hydrogen gas; nitric oxide
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Dr. Robert Hänsch

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Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institute for Plant Biology, Humboldtstr. 1, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Interests: cell biology; molecular biology; biochemistry; sulphur metabolism; protein localization and interaction

Dr. Jeremy Harbinson

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Laboratory of Biophysics, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Interests: Photosynthesis

Prof. Dr. Karl H. Hasenstein

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Biology Dept., University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504-43602, USA
Interests: plant biology – space & molecular biology; biophysics; hormone biology
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Prof. Dr. Polydefkis Hatzopoulos

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Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens, 11855 Athens, Greece
Interests: molecular biology; plant biotechnology; developmental genetics; abiotic stress and adaptation
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Dr. Matthew Haworth

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Institute for Sustainable Pant Protection - National Research Council of Italy, 10 Sesto Fiorentino, 50019 Firenze, Italy
Interests: stomatal control; stomatal evolution; photosynthesis; elevated [CO₂]; drought
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Dr. Barbara Hawrylak-Nowak

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Unit of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, Faculty of Environmental Biology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 15, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
Interests: plant physiology; mineral nutrition; stress response and resistance; trace elements; plant ecophysiology
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Dr. Xinhua He

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1. College of Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611134, China
2. School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
Interests: application of 15N and 13C stable isotope; nitrogen movement between plants; nutrient use efficiency; plant–soil–microbe interactions; responses of plant and soil processes to elevated CO₂
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Prof. Dr. Attila Hegedűs

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Department of Plant Biotechnology, Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 1118 Budapest, Hungary
Interests: fruit trees; Prunus species; genetic variability; molecular markers; transposable elements

Prof. Dr. Shelley R. Hepworth

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Department of Biology and Institute of Biochemistry, Carleton University,1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
Interests: plant development; Arabidopsis; transcription factors; gene expression regulation; meristems; reproductive architecture; flowering

Dr. Carmen Hernández

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Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (CSIC-UPV), 46011 Valencia, Spain
Interests: plant virus; virus replication; virus translation; antiviral silencing; viral suppression of RNA silencing; virus-host interactions
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Dr. Luis E. Hernandez

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Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Department of Biology, Universidad Autónoma Madrid, ES28049 Madrid, Spain
Interests: oxidative stress responses; mechanisms of tolerance triggered in plants; microalgae exposed to toxic metals and metalloids
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Dr. Luis Herrera-Estrella

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Laboratorio Nacional de Genómica para la Biodiversidad, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV)—Unidad de Genómica Avanzada, Irapuato 36824, GTO, Mexico
Interests: plant physiology; plant response to environmental factor; nutrient and water availability; abiotic stress

Prof. Tarek Hewezi

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Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
Interests: molecular plant-nematode interactions; effector biology; functional genomics; epigenetics; gene silencing; miRNAs; phytohormones; signal transduction; transcriptional profiling; protein-protein interactions;
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Dr. Diego Hidalgo-Martinez

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Department of Biology, Health and Environment, Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences, University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: plant biotechnology; phytopharmaceuticals; molecular pharmaceutics; small RNA profiling; nanocarriers for the delivery of biomolecules
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Dr. Camilla Hill

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Agricultural Sciences, College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia
Interests: plant science; genetics; genomics; metabolomics; analytical biochemistry; plant stress physiology
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Prof. Dr. Diego F. Romero Hinojosa

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Instituto de Hortofruticultura Subtropical y Mediterránea "La Mayora", Universidad de Málaga-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IHSM-UMA-CSIC), Malaga, Spain
Interests: microbial biofilms; cell-to-cell communication; bacterial-host mutualism; amyloids; biotechnology
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Dr. Andrew Hitchcock

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School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Interests: photosynthesis; chlorophyll; bacteriochlorophyll; carotenoid; cyanobacteria; purple bacteria; tetrapyrrole biosynthesis; cytochrome b6f

Dr. Simon Hodge

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School of Agriculture and Food science, University College Dublin, Ireland
Interests: plant-insect herbivore interactions; pollinator ecology; organic weed management; non-chemical insect control; rhizobia-host interactions
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Dr. Michael Hodges

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Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2), CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, INRA, Université d’Evry, Université Paris-Diderot, Université Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Interests: primary metabolism interactions; photosynthesis; photorespiration; N-metabolism; post-translational regulation; protein phosphorylation; redox regulation; plant acclimation to elevated CO2

Dr. Zonglie Hong

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Department of Plant Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA
Interests: barley grain; cell wall; flower development; fruit; osmotic stress

Prof. Dr. Lucian Hritcu

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Faculty of Biology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Bd. Carol I, No. 11, 700506 Iasi, Romania
Interests: neurobiology; molecular biology; neuropharmacology; behavioral neuropsychopharmacology; phytomedicine and ethnopharmacology; neurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson, Alzheimer); brain aging
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Dr. Jiang Hu

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State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, No.28 Shuidaosuo Rd., Fuyang 311400, China
Interests: QTL mapping and genetic analysis of rice-important agronomic traits; gene cloning and function analysis of rice seed and organ size; construction and utilization of rice germplasm resource bank; rice molecular design breeding by CRISPR-Cas9 and MAS
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