Plants

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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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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Agrofood Technology Department, Centro de Investigación e Innovación Agroalimentaria y Agroambiental (CIAGRO-UMH), Miguel Hernández University, 03312 Orihuela, Alicante, Spain
Interests: essential oils; food chemistry; bioactive compounds; use of natural inhibitors (antioxidants and antimicrobials) to increase the shelf life of food; valorization of agrofood industry coproducts; development of new functional food products; meat product innovation
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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. 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

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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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. 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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China National Center for Rice Improvement and State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology and Breeding, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 311400, 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

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

Prof. Dr. Di Wu

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College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Interests: fruit quality cell and molecular biology; fruit antimicrobial nanomaterial and physical sterilization technology; postharvest commercial processing and preservation of fruit; non-destructive measurement of fruit quality; fruit smart supply chain

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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Prof. Dr. Yanqi Wu

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Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74708, USA
Interests: breeding; turfgrass; forage and turfgrass sciences; genetics; horticultural crop development; horticultural production

Dr. Mingming Xin

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College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: Genetics and genomics of plant tolerance to heat stress

Prof. Dr. Minggang Xu

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Key Laboratory of Arable Land Quality Monitoring and Evaluation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs/State Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Arid and Semi-ARID Arable Land in Northern China, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing 100081, China
Interests: soil fertility; crop productivity
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Prof. Dr. Tongda Xu

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FAFU-UCR Joint Center for Horticultural Biology and Metabolomics, Institute of Science and Technology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China
Interests: auxin signaling; transmembrane kinases; post-translational modification; plant cell fate; plant development
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Prof. Dr. Zhaoshi Xu

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Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: drought; salt; heat; fusarium crown rot (FCR); regulation network; wheat; soybean
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Dr. Gitanjali Yadav

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1. NIPGR Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067 India
2. Bioinformatics Training Developer, Bioinformatics Training Facility, University of Cambridge, Downing Site, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK
Interests: complex networks; computational genomics; food security; conservation; machine learning; phytochemistry
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Prof. Dr. Igor A. Yakovlev

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Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Postboks 115, NO-1431 Ås, Norway
Interests: epigenetic memory; transcriptomics; small RNAs; DNA methylation; molecular genetics

Dr. Nobutoshi Yamaguchi

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Division of Biological Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma-shi, Nara 630-0192, Japan
Interests: molecular biology; plant biology; plant molecular biology; epigenetics; plants; plant development; arabidopsis; transcription factors; arabidopsis thaliana; chromatin; plant hormones; phytohormones; gibberellins; flower development; auxin

Dr. Takaki Yamauchi

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1. Japan Science and Technology Agency, PRESTO, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
2. Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
Interests: plant physiology; plant developmental biology; plant molecular biology; plant abiotic stress; signal transduction; waterlogging/flooding (and drought); root anatomical traits; aerenchyma formation

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