Editorial Board for section 'Plant–Soil Interactions'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

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Olive Cultivation Lab, Institute of Olive Tree, Subtropical Crops and Viticulture, Hellenic Agricultural Organization DEMETER, (NAGREF), 73134 Chania, Greece
Interests: climate change; agricultural sustainability; circular economy; soil, water and biodiversity conservation; remote sensing; plant breeding; ecosystem services; olive growing
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MED-Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, IIFA-Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada & Departamento de Medicina Veterinária, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal
Interests: food microbiology; food science & technology; food fermentation; molecular biology
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Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Viale Teresa Michel, 11-15121 Alessandria, Italy
Interests: plant-microbe interactions; arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; plant growth promoting bacteria
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Department of Physical and Environmental Geography, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
Interests: floodplain geomorphology and geoecology; anthropogeomorphology; landscape rehabilitation (with special regard to river floodplains); agricultural land evaluation; plant/environment interactions
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MED—Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, Departamento de Fitotecnia, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, Pólo da Mitra, Ap. 94, 7006-554 Évora, Portugal
Interests: vegetable crops; vegetable production systems; greenhouse and open-field systems; fertigation; root dynamics; salinity; organic fertilization and soilless cultivation
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Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish Univeristy of Agricultural Sciences, Box 7014, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Interests: viticulture; soil biology; plant nutrition

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Associate Professor, Soil Science Department, Lincoln University, Christchurch, Lincoln 7647, New Zealand
Interests: soil fertility; nutrient cycling in soil/plant/animal systems, fertilisers; plant nutrition; pasture legumes; nutrient use efficiency
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Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, 1349-017 Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: abiotic stress biochemistry; plant response to oxidative stress caused by potentially toxic substances; heavy metal phytotoxicity; plant contamination; mineral element quantification; effect of pharmaceutical products in plants; food safety
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Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Agrarie, Agripolis, Università di Padova, Viale dell’Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, Padova, Italy
Interests: plant-soil interactions; biological and biochemical activity of soil; plant biostimulants; phosphorus and nitrogen plant metabolism and biogeochemical cycle

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College of Resources and Environment Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: biochar; soil-plant interaction and healthy agriculture
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Department of Bioscience and Technology for Food, Agriculture and Environment, University of Teramo, Via Balzarini 1, 64100 Teramo, Italy
Interests: food-borne pathogens; shelf life; essential oils; biofilm; food preservation
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Department of Biology, University of Florence, Via Micheli 3, 50121 Florence, Italy
Interests: plant cell biology; autophagy; programmed cell death; plant anatomy
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Centre for Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry (CBQF), Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Rua Diogo Botelho 1327, 4169-005 Porto, Portugal
Interests: environmental biotechnology; phytoremediation; phytomanagement; microbial-assisted phytotechnological approaches; plant–microbe interactions; soil fertility; development of bioinoculant formulations; effects of climate change and related abiotic stresses on plant growth and development
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Department of Biology, University of Naples “Federico II”, via Cintia 26, 80126 Naples, Italy
Interests: cyanobacteria; microalgae; rhdodophyta; chlorophyta; extreme environments

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Sardinian Germplasm Bank (BG-SAR), Hortus Botanicus Karalitanus (HBK), Department of Life and Environmental Sciences (DiSVA), University of Cagliari (UNICA), v.le Sant'Ignazio da Laconi, 9-11, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
Interests: conservation biology; ex situ conservation; seed dormancy and germination; germination under heavy metal stress; germination in response to climate change; Mediterranean species; plant ecology
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Plant Sciences, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Interests: sustainable intensification of agriculture; chemical and biological characterization of plant biostimulants from agro-industrial by-products; structure-activity relationships for plant biostimulants; designing of novel plant bioassays; formulation of innovative materials in agriculture; chemical characterization of lignin and lignin-derived products

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National Research Council, Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Interests: mycorrhizal symbiosis; mycorrhizal networks; ectomycorrhiza in forest ecosystems; truffle biology; fungal vegetative compatibility; microbial interactions; plant-microbe interactions; plant microbiome; nutrient flow in soil/plant systems; microbial plant biostimulants; sustainable agriculture; ex situ microbial conservation; food microbiology; foodborne diseases; food safety

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Julius Kühn-Institut, Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Epidemiology and Pathogen Diagnostics, Messeweg 11/12, 38104 Braunschweig, Germany
Interests: molecular analyses of the colonization mechanisms of human pathogenic bacteria on plants; function of bacterial effector proteins; molecular studies on resistance mechanisms induced by bacterial quorum sensing molecules; priming for enhanced resistance; signal cascades induced in plant cells after pathogen attack

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School of Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Basilicata, Viale dell’ Ateneo Lucano, 10, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Interests: environmental pollution; heavy metals; abiotic stresses; soil ecology

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1. Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Bioresources of Saline Soils, Jiangsu Synthetic Innovation Center for Coastal Bio-Agriculture, Yancheng Teachers University, Yancheng 224002, China
2. Salt-Soil Agricultural Center(SSAC), Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences(JAAS), Nanjing 210014, 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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Laboratory Plant Nutrition, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan
Interests: remediation from radionuclide contamination; rhizosphere; plant-soil interaction

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Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Biologiche, Farmaceutiche ed Ambientali, Università di Messina, Viale Ferdinando Stagno d'Alcontres, 31, 98166 Messina, Italy
Interests: plant hydraulics and its changes in response to environmental stress and growth condition; xylem water transport: dysfunction (xylem embolism) and regulation (hydraulic recovery, ion-mediated enhancing); plant water relations; drought stress; tree mortality in response to climate change
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Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Martelarenlaan 42, 3500 Hasselt, Belgium
Interests: plant–microbiome interactions; abiotic stress; pollution; phytoremediation; bioremediation; plant growth promotion
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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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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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Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Institute for Agricultural Biosciences, Oklahoma State University, 3210 Sam Noble Parkway, Ardmore, OK 73401, USA
Interests: legume genomics; plant development; flowering time regulation
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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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Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari (DISTAL), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Interests: ectomycorrhizas; truffle; mushrooms; plant pathogenic fungi; ligninolytic fungi
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