Plants

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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Dr. Luca Vitale

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Institute for Agricultural and Forestry Systems in the Mediterranean (ISAFoM), National Research Council of Italy-CNR, 80055 Portici, NA, Italy
Interests: agroecology; greenhouse gases; ecosystem carbon fluxes; crop ecology; crop physiology; nitrogen and carbon cycles
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Dr. Manuel Viuda-Martos

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Research Group in Food Products Innovations (IPOA), Institute for Agri-Food and Agri-Environmental Research and Innovation, Miguel Hernández University (CIAGRO-UMH), 03312 Orihuela, Alicante, Spain
Interests: valorization of agri-food industry coproducts; development of new functional food products; meat product innovation; food chemistry; bioactive compounds; use of natural inhibitors (antioxidants and antimicrobials) to increase the shelf life of food
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Prof. Dr. Katarina Vogel-Mikuš

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1. Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
2. Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Interests: metal stress in plants; metal accumulation and tolerance in plants; metal hyperaccumulator plants; mycorrhiza; interactions of engineered nanoparticles and plants; phytoremediation; biofortification; environmental monitoring; radionuclides; food chains; use of X-ray fluorescence and absorption-based techniques in plant biology; development of sample preparation procedures for the imaging of element distribution in biological samples for micro-PIXE; synchrotron micro-XRF and LA-ICPMS and MeV-SIMS
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Prof. Em. Dr. Despoina Vokou

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Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: aerobiology; allelopathy; aromatic plants and essential oils; conservation; Mediterranean ecosystems; plant ecology; plant-microbe interactions; protected areas; urban greenery
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Dr. Cécile Vriet

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Laboratory EBI (Ecology and Biology of interactions), University of Poitiers, UMR CNRS 7267, F-86073 Poitiers, France
Interests: plant primary metabolism and sugar transport; oxidative stress; water-stress; plant-microorganism interactions
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Dr. Robert Philipp Wagensommer

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Faculty of Education, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Viale Ratisbona 16, 39042 Bressanone, Italy
Interests: vascular flora; taxonomy; systematics; vegetation; phytosociology; threatened plant taxa; nature conservation; red listing
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Dr. Vanessa Wahl

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Research Group Leader Metabolism and Development, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
Interests: developmental transitions in plants; shoot apical meristem; regulation of flowering

Dr. Janitha Wanasundara

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Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Saskatoon Research Centre, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0X2, Canada
Interests: plant proteins; seed storage proteins; protein functionality; Brassica oilseeds; pulses

Prof. Dr. Fengxin Wang

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Center for Agricultural Water Research in China, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: field crops; regulating plant growth; soil water; soil temperature; soil aeration; soil fertility; soil salinity; heat and humidity in crop canopy
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Prof. Dr. Sheng-Yang Wang

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Department of Forestry, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung 402, Taiwan
Interests: essential oils; terpenoid biosynthesis; phytomedicines; plant metabolomics
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Dr. Xu Wang

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School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Interests: mitochondria biology; bioinformatics; systems biology

Prof. Dr. Yiming Wang

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College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: plant-microbe interactions; plant immunity, signal transduction; proteomics; apoplast
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Prof. Dr. Zonghua Wang

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1. State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, Ministerial and Provincial Joint Innovation Centre for Safety Production of Cross-Trait Crops, College of Plant Protection, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China
2. Institute of Oceanography, Minjiang University, Fuzhou 350108, China
Interests: plant-fungal interactions
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Prof. Dr. Kazuo N. Watanabe

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Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8577, Japan
Interests: plant cytogenetics; plant genetics and breeding; genetic resources; biodiversity; biotechnology
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Dr. Xiangjin Wei

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State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Center for Rice Improvement, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, China
Interests: genetic improvement of rice quality; developmental biology of rice
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Dr. Stephan Weise

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Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) Gatersleben, Corrensstr. 3, 06466 Seeland, Germany
Interests: plant genetic resources documentation, databases; integrative bioinformatics; data integration/data quality; phenotyping; biodiversity and conservation

Prof. Dr. Jiangqi Wen

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Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
Interests: legume genomics; plant development; flowering time regulation
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Dr. Christopher Winefield

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Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Lincoln University, Lincoln 7647, Canterbury, New Zealand
Interests: plant transposons; plant genomics; epigenomics; plant biochemistry; plant secondary metabolism
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Dr. Manuela Winkler

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GLORIA Co-Ordination, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) & Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research (IGF), Austrian Academy of Sciences, A-1190 Vienna, Austria
Interests: biodiversity; alpine plants; climate change; population biology; molecular ecology
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Dr. Sebastian Wolf

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Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Interests: plant cell walls; signaling pathways

Dr. Hye Ryun Woo

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Department of New Biology, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
Interests: leaf senescence; stress response; leaf development; DNA repair; transcriptome; Arabidopsis

Prof. Dr. Andrew J Wood

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School of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901-6899, USA
Interests: abiotic stress; desiccation; drought-stress; water-stress; osmotic-stress; water-relations; seed quality; mosses; bryophytes

Dr. Changyin Wu

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National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: rice functional genomics; plant flowering time; plant inflorescence architecture; rice reproductive development; crop yield

Prof. Dr. Di Wu

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College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: fruit quality; preservation and intelligent packaging materials; postharvest physical sterilization
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Prof. Dr. Hong Wu

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Medicinal Plants Research Center, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
Interests: plant reproductive structure development; secondary metabolites; medicinal plant genome
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Dr. Honghong Wu

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MOA Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River, College of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Interests: nano-enabled agriculture; plant salt tolerance; nano-improved plant stress tolerance; smart plant by nanosensors; nanocarriers

Dr. Xiaorong (Shawn) Wu

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Grain Quality and Structure Research Unit, Center for Grain and Animal Health Research, USDA, ARS, Manhattan, KS 66502, USA
Interests: basic and application research on product quality and new uses related with hard winter wheat and grain sorghum including NIR sorting; milling; physical and chemical analysis of raw materials and end
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