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Dr. Moshe Lapidot

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Department of Vegetable Research, Institute of Plant Sciences, ARO, Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel
Interests: viral resistance in vegetable crops; mechanisms and genetics of viral resistance; whitefly-transmitted viruses

Dr. Marta Laranjo

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1. MED-Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development & CHANGE-Global Change and Sustainability Institute, IIFA-Institute for Advanced Studies and Research, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal
2. Department of Veterinary Medicine, School of Sciences and Technology, University of Évora, Évora, Portugal
Interests: food microbiology; food science and technology; food fermentation; molecular biology
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Dr. Dariusz Latowski

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Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Krakow, Poland
Interests: biochemistry and biophysics of plants and algae; biochemistry and biophysics of pigments; interactions of the biotic (pathogens) and abiotic (temperature, light) factors with plants; environmental biotechnology; lipid models of biological membranes; plant-bacterial interactions; xanthophyll cycle
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Prof. Dr. Choon-Hwan Lee

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Department of Molecular Biology, Pusan National Biology, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
Interests: structure and function of photosynthetic machineries; functional genomics of plants related to the defense; regulation mechanisms against environmental stresses; selection and in vivo phenotyping of mutants; optimum light harvesting antenna size for photosynthesis and plant productivity; photosynthesis and bio-inspired solar energy utilization

Prof. Dr. Hojoung Lee

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Division of Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Anam-Dong, Sungbuk-Ku, Seoul 136-713, Republic of Korea
Interests: plant abiotic stress; plant biotic stress; plant nitrogen signaling; ABA signaling

Dr. Hyoungseok Lee

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1. Division of Life Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Republic of Korea
2. Department of Polar Sciences, University of Science and Technology, Incheon, Republic of Korea
Interests: cold and freezing stress; bryophyte; extremophile; Antarctic; Arctic; moss; global warming; genome; transcriptome
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Dr. Jae-Hyeok Lee

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Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British, CO V6T1Z4, Canada
Interests: life cycle transitions of sexual eukaryote; molecular mechanisms of nutrient sensing in phototrophic eukaryotes; ubiquitin-dependent mechansism for chloroplast quality control; evolution of developmental/epigenetic mechanisms; macroevolutionary transitions from prokaryotes to eukaryotes and from green algae to land plants; mitigating climate change by engineering algae for efficient carbon capture and biofuel production

Prof. Dr. Jin Suk Lee

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Biology Department, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Interests: molecular mechanisms that control plant growth and development

Prof. Dr. Seok-Geun Lee

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Department of Biomedical Science and Technology, Bionanocomposite Research Center, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Seoul 02447, Republic of Korea
Interests: molecular genetics; cancer biology; cancer pharmacology; bioactive phytochemicals
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Dr. Eduardo O. Leidi

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Department of Plant Biotechnology, IRNAS-CSIC, E-41012 Seville, Spain
Interests: plant nutrition; metal toxicity; salt stress

Dr. Julien Gad Lévy

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Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Interests: tomato and potato pathology; plant-microbe interaction; plant-insect vector interaction; biological control of plant diseases; breeding for disease resistance; plant biotechnology; abiotic stress; gene expression and regulation

Prof. Dr. Bo Li

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1. State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
2. The Provincial Key Lab of Plant Pathology of Hubei Province, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: plant defense; plant-microbe interactions

Prof. Dr. Lei Li

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State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Interests: retrograde signaling; plant development; miRNA; organelles; cell biology; genomics; stress tolerance
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Prof. Dr. Mingjun Li

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College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling 712100, China
Interests: fruit quality; sugar metabolism and accumulation in both source and sink; phloem loading and transport; malate metabolism and accumulation; carbon-nitrogen interaction; nutrient uptake and metabolism; molecular physiology of abiotic and biotic stress tolerance and biotechnology of fruit crops with emphasis on apple and kiwifruit
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Dr. Wanlong Li

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Department of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, 252 McFadden Biostress Laboratory, Brookings, SD 57007, USA
Interests: wheat genetics; genomics; evolution; domestication and germplasm enhancement

Dr. Yin Li

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College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
Interests: crop functional genomics; cereal crop transformation; grain quality; carbohydrate metabolism; cereal nutritional quality; sorghum; maize; wheat
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Dr. Xun Liao

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Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China
Interests: medicinal plants; natural products chemistry; drug screening; analytical methods; ligand fishing
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Prof. Dr. Fernando Lidon

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Departamento de Ciências da Terra, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Campus da Caparica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Interests: food technology; nutritional phytotechnology; photosynthesis and primary production; plant biochemistry
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Prof. Dr. Roberto Ligrone

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Department of Plant Biology, The University of Campania, Naples, Italy
Interests: plant ultrastructure; plant phylogeny and evolution; plant-environment interactions
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Prof. Dr. Yong Pyo Lim

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Molecular Genetics and Genomics Laboratory, Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Republic of Korea
Interests: molecular breeding; genetics; plant nutritional genomics
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Prof. Dr. Anis Limami

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1. Department of Biology, University of Angers, 2 Bd Lavoisier, 49045 Angers, France
2. INRAE, Institut de Recherche en Horticulture et Semences (IRHS), 42 rue Georges Morel, CEDEX, 49071 Beaucouzé, France
Interests: nitrate transporters; nitrate signaling; nitrogen and carbon metabolisms; low oxygen stress (waterlogging); legumes; seedling establishment; seedlings – microbiome interactions; root exudates; isotope (15N, 13C) labeling; metabolome
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Prof. Dr. Chentao Lin

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Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Interests: Photobiology; plant photoresponses; cryptochromes; Photoresponsive protein-protein interaction
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Prof. Dr. Guanghui Lin

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Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Interests: plant physiology; plant ecophysiology; plant ecology; plant diversity; plant conservation biology

Dr. Sylvia Lindberg

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Dept. of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-114 18 Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: calcium signaling; ion transport; oxygen deficiency; salt stress; stress tolerance
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Prof. Dr. Guido Lingua

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Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Viale Teresa Michel, 11-15121 Alessandria, Italy
Interests: plant-microbe interactions; arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; plant growth promoting bacteria
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Prof. Dr. Chang Liu

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Department of Epigenetics (190e), Institute of Biology, University of Hohenheim, D-70599 Stuttgart, Germany
Interests: transcriptional regulation; epigenetics; 3D genomics

Dr. Fengxia Liu

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Frontiers Science Center for Molecular Design Breeding (MOE), Department of Plant Genetics and Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: cloning and mechanism of genes related to important agronomic traits and abiotic stress resistance in wild rice
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Prof. Dr. Fulai Liu

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Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Højbakkegaard Allé 13, 2630 Taastrup, Denmark
Interests: crop ecophysiology; agricultural water and nutrient management; plant stress physiology
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Prof. Dr. Shiming Liu

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Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: nematode resistance and plant–nematode interactions
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Prof. Dr. Wende Liu

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State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: fungal pathogenesis; functional genomics; Plant-Fungal Interaction
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