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Dr. Veronique Seidel

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Natural Products Research Laboratory, Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0RE, UK
Interests: purification and structure elucidation of bioactive natural products; ethnopharmacological investigation of traditional natural remedies; bioassay-guided fractionation of natural extracts; screening of natural products for antimicrobial activity
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Dr. Georg Seifert

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Department of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Muthgasse 18, A-1190 Vienna, Austria
Interests: cell biology; plant cell walls; Arabidopis genetics

Dr. Kassa Semagn

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Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G2R3, Canada
Interests: genetic diversity studies; genomics of genebanks; germplasm conservation; gene and QTL discovery; germplasm enhancement (pre-breeding); marker-assisted selection; genomic selection
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Dr. Young-Su Seo

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Dept. of Microbiology & Dept. of Integrated Biological Science, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
Interests: plant-microbe interactions; plant microbiology; plant disease and immunity; plant biotechnology

Dr. Francesco Serio

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Institute of Sciences of Food Production, CNR–National Research Council of Italy, Via Amendola 122/D, 70126 Bari, Italy
Interests: assessment and improvement of quality traits in horticultural products; cultivation protocols aimed to produce high nutritional value vegetables (biofortification, application of artificial light in greenhouse; soilless systems
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Prof. Dr. Tim Setter

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Section of Soil and Crop Sciences, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Interests: field of crop sciences; physiology; drought and abiotic stress; cassava and maize; environmental stresses; transcriptome responses
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Prof. Dr. William N. Setzer

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Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
Interests: natural product drug discovery; essential oils; chemical ecology; molecular modeling
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Prof. Dr. Barbara Sgorbini

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Department of Drug Science and Technology, University of Turin, 10125 Turin, Italy
Interests: essential oils and bioactive plant volatiles; solvent-free sample preparation techniques; GC–MS analysis of bioactive plant secondary metabolites; botanicals
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Dr. Babar Shahzad

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Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
Interests: plant physiology; plant stress management; abiotic stress; oxidative stress; crop agronomy; sustainable agriculture
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Prof. Dr. Hongbo Shao

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Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Bioresources of Saline Soils, Jiangsu Synthetic Innovation Center for Coastal Bio-Agriculture, Yancheng Teachers University, Yancheng 224002, China
Interests: plant stress biology; molecular biology and biotechnology; plant (vegetation)–environment interactions; soil biology; plant nutrition, physiology and ecology under abiotic stress; bio-measures for salt-affected soil improvement and costal zone eco-environmental restoration; eco-marine fishery
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Dr. Zhu-Qing Shao

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School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Interests: plant immunity system; plant–microbe interactions; plant genome evolution
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Prof. Dr. Wenbiao Shen

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College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: physiological functions and potential applications of gasotransmitters in plants
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Prof. Dr. Brad Sherman

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School of Law, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
Interests: legal aspect of genetic resource

Prof. Dr. Takuro Shinano

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Laboratory Plant Nutrition, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan
Interests: remediation from radionuclide contamination; rhizosphere; plant-soil interaction

Prof. Dr. Tomoko Shinomura

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Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, School of Science and Engineering, Teikyo University, 1-1 Toyosatodai, Utsunomiya, Tochigi 320-8551, Japan
Interests: plant physiology; microalgae; photomorphogenesis; photoregulation of life cycle; physiological functions of carotenoids
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Prof. Dr. Huixia Shou

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State Key Laboratory of Plant Environmental Resilience, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: Functional genomics in rice and soybean; Crop improvement through genetic engineering; Plant transformation technology development; herbicide resistant transgenic soybean

Dr. Sonja Siljak-Yakovlev

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Ecology, Society and Evolution, AgroParisTech, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Interests: chromosome evolution and genome organization; cytogenetics and evolution of plants; biodiversity; endemism
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Prof. Dr. Derly Henriques Silva

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Agronomy Department, Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV), PH Rolfs Avenue, Viçosa 36570-000, MG, Brazil
Interests: vegetable genetic resource; genetic resources and breeding of tomato, pumpkin, and capsicum chinense; production and cultural treatments of vegetables; protected environment; genetic resources sustainability; breeding and ecophysiology of Cannabis sativa
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Dr. Marco C. Simeone

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Department of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
Interests: phylogenetics; biogeography; taxonomy; conservation of tree species, with special focus on West Eurasian and Mediterranean taxa

Prof. Dr. Mario Juan Simirgiotis Aguero

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1. Instituto de Farmacia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Campus Isla Teja, Valdivia 5090000, Chile
2. Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on the Nervous System (CISNe), Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia 5090000, Chile
Interests: metabolic syndrome; inflammation; cancer; diabetes; antioxidants; metabolomics
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Dr. Andrew J. Simkin

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School of Biological Sciences, Wivenhoe Park, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK
Interests: crop biotechnology; breeding; photosynthesis, secondary metabolism, crop improvement
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Dr. Carmen Simón

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Directora del Departamento de Postgrado y Especialización, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), C/ Serrano 113, 28006 Madrid, Spain
Interests: plant-virus interaction; RNA silencing; virus resistant plants

Prof. Dr. Henrik Toft Simonsen

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Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Interests: terpenoids; plant biotechnology; plant biochemistry
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Dr. Krzysztof Sitko

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Plant Ecophysiology Team, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, 28 Jagiellonska Str., 40-032 Katowice, Poland
Interests: photosynthesis; chlorophyll fluorescence; ecophysiology; heavy metals; abiotic stress; hormesis; drought

Dr. Iyyakkannu Sivanesan

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Department of Environmental Health Science, Human and Eco Care Center, Konkuk University, 1, Hwayang-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 05029, Republic of Korea
Interests: plant tissue culture; secondary metabolites; hydroponics; environmental protection
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Dr. Antonella Smeriglio

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Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences (CHIBIOFARAM), University of Messina, Via SS Annunziata, 98168 Messina, Italy
Interests: natural compounds; polyphenols; plant extracts; pharmacognosy; functional foods; nutraceuticals; pharmacology; toxicology; antioxidant activity; anti-inflammatory activity; cytoprotective activity; clinical studies
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Prof. Dr. Kouichi Soga

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Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka 558-8585, Japan
Interests: graviresponse; cell wall; microtubule; space biology

Prof. Dr. Knut Asbjørn Solhaug

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Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O.Box 5003, NO-1432 Ås, Norway
Interests: Lichen ecophysiology; UV-B; photosynthesis

Dr. Katalin Solymosi

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Department of Plant Anatomy, ELTE - Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
Interests: plant stress biology; salt and drought stress; cell biology; plastids; photosynthesis

Prof. Dr. Aiping Song

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State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Key Laboratory of Landscaping, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: ornamental plants; bioinformatics; biotechnology; gene editing
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