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Prof. Dr. Daniel Potter

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Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Interests: angiosperm systematics (taxonomy, evolution, and phylogenetic relationships of flowering plants); diversity and relationships of crop plants and their wild relatives; ethnobotany (study of the direct relationships and interactions between people and plants)
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Dr. Bhakti Prinsi

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Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - Production, Landscape, Agroenergy (DiSAA), Università degli Studi di Milano, 20122 Milano, Italy
Interests: plant proteomics; plant metabolomics; plant physiology; plant biochemistry; plant mineral nutrition; secondary metabolism; plant abiotic stress; nutraceutical properties
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Dr. Marion Prudent

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UMR Agroecology, INRAE Dijon, 21000, France
Interests: legumes; nitrogen nutrition; water stress; plant x microorganism interactions; recovery; resilience; memory effect; integrative biology; cost-benefit

Dr. Fulvio Pupilli

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Istituto di Bioscienze e Biorisorse, National Research Council (CNR), Via della Madonna alta 130, 06128 Perugia, Italy
Interests: apomixis; plant developmental biology; plant reproduction

Dr. Yin-Long Qiu

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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Interests: land plant phylogeny and evolution; mitochondrial genome evolution
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Prof. Dr. Víctor Quesada

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Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, 3202 Elche, Spain
Interests: genetics; plant development; abiotic stress; arabidopsis; chloroplast biogenesis; mTERF; organelle gene expression
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Prof. Dr. Ain Raal

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Institute of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
Interests: pharmacy; pharmacognosy; phytochemistry; phytotherapy; ethnomedicine; ethnobotany; history of pharmacy
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Dr. Volodymyr Radchuk

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Leibniz-Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Corrensstrasse 3, 06466 Gatersleben, Germany
Interests: seed development; sugar and nitrogen transports; programmed cell death; cereals; yield components

Dr. Srinivasan Ramachandran

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Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117604, Singapore
Interests: rice decarbonization; functional genomics of rice; sustainability; carbon credits
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Prof. Dr. Allan G. Rasmusson

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Department of Biology, Lund University, SE-22362 Lund, Sweden
Interests: redox metabolism; membrane biology; membrane active peptides; plant interactions with biostimulant fungi; apoplast; mitochondria

Prof. Dr. Nikolai Ravin

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Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119071 Moscow, Russia
Interests: extremophiles and biotechnology; genomics and other “omics” techniques; metagenomic analysis of microbial communities; recombinant vaccines; nanotechnological approaches; expression of vaccine proteins in plants
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Dr. Catherine Rayon

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EA3900-BIOPI, Biologie des Plantes et Innovation, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 80039 Amiens, France
Interests: plant cell wall; functional characterization of pectin remodeling enzymes; cold stress; salt stress; bioinformatics

Dr. Fernando Henrique Reboredo

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Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Interests: environmental impact assessment; environmental analysis; ecology; plant biology; food; forestry; agroforestry
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Dr. Robert J. Redden

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RJR Agriculture Consultants, 62 Schier Drive, Horsham, VIC 3401, Australia
Interests: plant breeding; genetic resources; agronomy; farming systems; food security
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Dr. Moshe Reuveni

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Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Volcani Center, P.O. Box 6, Bet Dagan 5025001, Israel
Interests: genetic transformation; developing tissue culture methods; molecular events during shoot regeneration in plant tissue culture
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Dr. Felipe Klein Ricachenevsky

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Departamento de Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre 91501-970, RS, Brazil
Interests: plant nutrition; agricultural plant science; genetics; biotechnology; ionomics; transporter; iron; zinc; copper
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Prof. Dr. Daniela Rigano

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Department of Pharmacy, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Naples Federico II, Via D. Montesano 49, 80131 Naples, Italy
Interests: natural products; secondary metabolites; structure elucidation; essential oils; NMR spectroscopy; GC-MS and LC-MS
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Dr. Chance Riggins

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Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Interests: crop-wild relative genetic resources; underutilized and neglected crops; plant stress; phytochemistry

Dr. Heiko Rischer

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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Tietotie 2, P.O. Box 1000, 02044 VTT Espoo, Finland
Interests: secondary metabolism; plant biotechnology; carnivorous plants
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Dr. Rosa M. Rivero

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Department of Plant Nutrition, Center of Efaphology and Applied Biology of Segura (CEBAS), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), 30100 Murcia, Spain
Interests: abiotic stress; stress combination; NO; ROS; melatonin; transcriptomics; metabolomics; proteomics; system biology
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Prof. Dr. Fabrício Ávila Rodrigues

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Laboratório da Interação Plan-ta-Patógeno, Departamento de Fitopatologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa 36570-900, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Interests: plant pathology; induced resistance; mineral nutrition; photosynthesis
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Dr. María Pilar Rodríguez-Rosales

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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC, Calle Profesor Albareda, 1, 18008 Granada, Spain
Interests: ion homeostasis and membrane transporters

Dr. Mikeal L. Roose

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Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Interests: citrus; QTL mapping; molecular markers; plant genetics

Dr. Cristina Rosa

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Department of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, Penn State, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Interests: plant virology; microbe-plant interaction; vectors of plant viruses and of other plant pathogenic microbes; plant disease prediction and management models
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Dr. Lorenzo Rossi

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Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), Indian River Research and Education Center (IRREC), Fort Pierce, FL 34945, USA
Interests: tree physiology; plant root biology; environmental stresses; root anatomy
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nils Rostoks

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Faculty of Biology, University of Latvia, 1 Jelgavas Street, Riga, Latvia
Interests: plant disease resistance; lesion mimic mutants; genome editing; CRISPR/Cas; genetic transformation; biosafety of genetically modified organisms

Dr. Hatem Rouached

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The Plant Resilience Institute, Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Interests: plant molecular physiology; plant mineral nutrition: sensing, signaling, and transport

Prof. Dr. Baruch Rubin

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Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, RH Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 76100 Rehovot, Israel
Interests: weed biology and management in various crops; herbicides - their mode of action, selectivity and behavior in plants, soil and environment; herbicide resistant weeds and crops - mechanisms and management

Prof. Dr. Patrizia Rubiolo

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Department of Drug Science and Technology, University of Turin, 10125 Turin, Italy
Interests: plant volatiles and essential oils; botanicals; analysis of plant secondary metabolites through GC–MS and LC–MS
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Dr. Eric Ruelland

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Laboratoire Génie Enzymatique et Cellulaire, Université Technologique de Compiègne, CNRS-UMR 7025, CEDEX, 60203 Compiègne, France
Interests: salicylic acid; plant response to stresses; plant lipids; lipid signalling
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