Plants

Dr. Imke Thormann

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Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, 53179 Bonn, Germany
Interests: plant genetic resources; In situ conservation; Ex situ conservation; crop wild relatives; conservation strategies; national plant genetic resources program; international Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture ITPGRFA; PGR documentation

Dr. Stefan Timm

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Plant Physiology Department, Albert-Einstein-Str.3, 18059 Rostock, Germany
Interests: photorespiration; photosynthesis; Calvin–Benson cycle; metabolic regulation; metabolite signaling; environmental acclimation
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Dr. Leila Tirichine

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Department of Biology, University of Nantes, CNRS, US2B, UMR 6286, F-44000 Nantes, France
Interests: histone modification; DNA methylation; genetics; gene regulation; chromatin; evolution; ecology; environmental microbiology; plant microbes interactions; microalgae-bacteria interactions epigenomics; omics; next generation sequencing; computational biology; bioinformatics
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Dr. Sotiris Tjamos

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Phytopathology Department, Agricultural University of Athens, 11855 Athens, Greece
Interests: biological control; epigenetics; microbial volatile organic conmpounds; plant–microbe interactions; soil-borne diseases; induced systemic resistance
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Dr. Valeria Todeschini

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Department of Science and Technological Innovation, University of Eastern Piedmont, 13100 Vercelli, Italy
Interests: phytoremediation; heavy metal stress; abiotic stress; plant-soil beneficial microorganism interaction; mycorrhizal symbiosis; plant growth promoting bacteria; plant nutritional quality; plant secondary metabolites; photosynthetic activity

Prof. Dr. Daniela Torello Marinoni

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Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA) – University of Turin, 10095 Grugliasco, TO, Italy
Interests: biodiversity; biotechnologies; breeding; embryogenesis; fingerprinting; genetic traceability; genetic resources; genetic transformation; molecular markers; nut and fruit tree species; in vitro culture
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Prof. Dr. Bruno Touraine

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Faculty of Sciences, University of Montpellier, Bât. 15, 3rd fl., CC002, CEDEX 5, 34095 Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Interests: plant-PGPR interactions; plant nutrition; root biology; ion transports; plant molecular physiology; developmental responses to abiotic constraints; regulatory networks

Prof. Dr. Anna Traveset

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Mediterranean Institute of Advanced studies (CSIC-UIB), Esporles, Mallorca, Spain
Interests: plant-animal interactions; insular ecology; global change; mutualistic diruptions; pollination; seed dispersal; plant reproductive ecology

Dr. Brian Traw

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1. State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
2. Department of Biology, Berea College, Berea, KY 40404, USA
Interests: plant-enemy interactions; population genetics; glucosinolates; trichomes; coevolution; herbivores; pathogens; gene mapping

Prof. Dr. Alex Troitsky

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Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow 119991, Russia
Interests: plant molecular phylogeny and systematics; genome evolution; biodiversity; phytoplanktonic metagenome
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Prof. Dr. Domenico Trombetta

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Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences (ChiBioFarAm), University of Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno d’Alcontres 31, 98166 Messina, Italy
Interests: natural compounds; polyphenols; plant extracts; functional foods; nutraceuticals; food supplements; pharmacology; toxicology; pharmacognosy; antioxidant activity; anti-inflammatory activity; cytoprotective activity; wound healing activity; photoprotective activity; pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic studies; clinical studies; inflammatory bowel disease; circular economy
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Dr. Daniela Trono

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Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops, S.S. 673, Meters 25200, 71122 Foggia, Italy
Interests: plant physiology and biochemistry; functional analysis of genes; abiotic stress; oxidative stress; secondary metabolites
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Dr. Matthew Tucker

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School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, Waite Research Institute, The University of Adelaide, Urrbrae, SA 5062, Australia
Interests: plant reproduction; seed development; ovule development; cell differentiation; microscopy; transcriptomics; cell walls
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Prof. Dr. Rosa Tundis

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Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, Via P. Bucci, Edificio Polifunzionale, 87036 Arcavacata, CS, Italy
Interests: natural products; antioxidants; chemical analysis; Mediterranean species; plant bioactivities; agro-food by-products; enzymes inhibition; functional foods
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Dr. Chih-Wei Tung

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Department of Agronomy, National Taiwan University, Taipei City 10617, Taiwan
Interests: rice genetics and genomics; rice QTL mapping; genetics and breeding of rice tolerant to abiotic stress; rice traits discovery
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Dr. Nicholas Tyack

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Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, College of Agriculture and Bioresources, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon S7N 5A2, Canada
Interests: economics of genetic resources and biodiversity; genebanks; economics of PGR conservation; crop wild relatives; experimental economics; varietal diffusion; climate change adaptation

Dr. Nikolaos Tzortzakis

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Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology and Food Science, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus
Interests: hydroponics, soilless culture and substrate determination for vegetables and aromatic plants; exploitation of plant wastes, recycled materials, compost, biochar, biostimulants in greenhouse and open field crops; crop performance under abiotic stress (salinity, drought, heat, chilling, heavy metals, osmosis etc.) and climate change; exploitation of the use of ozone, natural extracts and essential oils as sanitizers with antimicrobial and antioxidant properties for fresh produce preservation under pathogenic, physiological and bio
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Dr. Akihiro Ueda

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Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8528, Japan
Interests: Plant molecular physiology; Salinity tolerance; drought tolerance; plant nutrition

Prof. Dr. Mikihisa Umehara

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Department of Applied Biosciences, Toyo University, Itakura-machi, Ora-gun, Gunma 374-0193, Japan
Interests: leaf senescence; plant biotechnology; plant tissue and organ culture; plant hormones; plant physiology; shoot branching
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Prof. Dr. Eugene A. Vaganov

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Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 660041 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Interests: endroclimatology; wood anatomy; tree growthl; meristem (mainly cambium); modelling
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Dr. Babu Valliyodan

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Molecular Biology & Genomics, Department of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Lincoln University, 1220 Chestnut Street, Jefferson City, MO 65101, USA
Interests: genomics; genetics; soybean; legumes; genome sequencing; abiotic stress; drought; high temperature stress; genomics assisted breeding

Dr. Federico Valverde

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Institute for Plant Biochemistry and Photosynthesis CSIC, University of Seville, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
Interests: plant development; floral transition; circadian clock; evolution; proteomics; system biology; biochemistry; molecular biology

Dr. Cássio Van den Berg

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Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Bahia 44036-900, Brazil
Interests: plant taxonomy; plant phylogenetics; plant population genetics
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Dr. Chien Van Ha

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Institute of Genomics for Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Department of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
Interests: abiotic stress; biochemistry; biotechnology; bioinformatics; genetics; hormonal signaling; physiology
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Dr. Michael J. Van Oosten

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Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Biology Building, 251 W Pitkin St, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
Interests: abiotic stress; salt stress; water stress; water use efficiency; nitrogen use efficiency; plant physiology; adaptation to climate; synthetic biology

Dr. Claudio Varotto

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Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, 38010 Trento, Italy
Interests: plant molecular evolution; plant functional genomics; plant biodiversity; plant comparative genomics; plant transcriptomics

Dr. Riccardo Velasco

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Council for Agricultural Research and Economics - Research Center for Viticulture and Enology, Via XXVIII Aprile 26, 31015 Conegliano, Italy
Interests: grape genetics and genomics; plant breeding; molecular biology; phytopathology
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Dr. Samuel Venner

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Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Univercité Claude Bernard Lyon1, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
Interests: plant reproduction; masting; crop; fruit trees; modelling; plant–insect interactions

Dr. András Viczián

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Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre, Temesvári krt. 62., H-6726 Szeged, Hungary
Interests: light signalling; UV-B signalling; photomorphogenesis; skotomorphogenesis; photoreceptors; phytochromes; transcription factors; optogenetics
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Dr. Gianpiero Vigani

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Plant Physiology Unit, Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Interests: plant's responses to abiotic stresses (nutrient deficiencies, water deficiency and salt stress); interaction among nutrients in plants and the impact of multiple nutrients stress on plant growth and metabolism; effect of belowground plant-microbe interactions on plant nutritional status
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