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Centre for Crop and Disease Management, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6109, Australia
Interests: plant genomics; plant fungal disease; plant disease tolerance; biotic stress; metal homeostasis

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Department of Sustainability Sciences/Biology, Lakehead University, Orillia campus, Orillia, ON, Canada L3V0B9
Interests: periphyton ecology; biofilms; phytoplankton; biofouling organisms; inland water quality; wetland ecology.

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Department of Biochemistry, Biosciences Center, Federal University of Pernambuco, Pernambuco, Recife 50050-900, Brazil
Interests: lectins; protease inhibitors; plant extracts; essential oils; insecticidal activity; antimicrobial activity; immunomodulatory activity; antitumor activity
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1. Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
2. Department of Plant Pathology, Citrus Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Lake Alfred, FL, USA
Interests: plant responses; metabolomics; biotic stress; phytobacteriology; citrus greening disease; host–pathogen interaction; phytochemistry
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Department of Agriculture, School of Geotechnical Sciences, International Hellenic University, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: agronomic use of plant genetic resources; abiotic stress; multi-environment field evaluation; cereals; legumes; medicinal and aromatic crops; crop physiology; cultivation systems; resource use efficiency; agro-biodiversity
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Faculty of Engineering and Aplied Technology, University of Life Sciences “King Michael Ist”, Timisoara, Romania
Interests: vineyards management; climate variability influence on grape yield, grape berries and wine quality
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NSF Center for Integrated Pest Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA
Interests: plant pathology; plant-fungal interactions; fungal secondary metabolism; polyketides; transcriptomics; regulatory science
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Food Colour and Quality Laboratory, Department of Analytical Chemistry, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Seville, Spain
Interests: hyperspectral imaging; near infrared spectroscopy; vibrational spectroscopy; liquid chromatography; food chemistry; food analysis; polyphenols; extraction; high-performance; chemical engineering; sensory analysis; antioxidant activity
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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy
Interests: plant stress physiology; secondary metabolites; terpenoids; abiotic stresses related to climate change; oxidative stress; plant antioxidants; salt-stress; drought stress; soil organic amendment


Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Uniwersytetu Poznanskiego 6, 61-614 Poznan, Poland
Interests: transcriptomics; small RNAs; plant nutrition; Arabidopsis; crop plants; synthetic biology

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Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Interests: molecular plant breeding; genomic selection; transcriptomics of plant stress response; metabolomics for end-user quality traits

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Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: acclimatization to drought; signaling under stress; the physiological and biochemical response of the plant to stress
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Institute of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 15, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
Interests: resistance; powdery mildew; molecular markers; crops; genetic diversity; population structure
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College of Agriculture, 6-1-1 Tamagawagakuen, Machida, Tokyo 194-8610, Japan
Interests: plant molecular biology; transformation; genome editing; chloroplast transformation
Department of Science, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore 487372, Singapore
Interests: extraction technologies; separation techniques; metabonomics; molecular mechanism and signal transduction pathway
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Faculty of Biology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, 700506 Iasi, Romania
Interests: salinity and drought alleviation; green chemistry for nanoparticle synthesis; food biochemistry; antioxidant activity; biotic and abiotic stress responses; oxidative stress; plant physiology and biochemistry; antioxidant system in plants and fungi
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Laboratorio de Botánica, Facultade de Farmacia, Universidade de Santiago, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
Interests: plant systematics; phylogeny; angiosperms; Asteraceae; Compositae; Polygonaceae; Boraginaceae; Campanulaceae; Hyacinthaceae (currently within Asparagaceae); tropical and southern Africa, Europe, Brazil
Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Via Vetoio, 67100 Coppito, Italy
Interests: environmental and applied botany; plant-microbe interactions; plant growth-promoting bacteria; ex situ conservation; plant in vitro and in vivo propagation; sustainable agriculture
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Noble Research Institute, 2510 Sam Noble Pkwy, Ardmore, OK 73401, USA
Interests: plant systems biology; molecular biology; biochemistry; redox regulation; physiology; molecular pathology; heat stress; drought stress; nutrient signaling; Asian Soybean Rust

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Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, Irapuato, Mexico
Interests: understanding of metabolic processes and their relation to plant human nutrition; modification of metabolic processes to improve nutrition potential of plants for human beings; nutraceutical messages of plants and their fruits
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Department of Biology and Chemistry, Changwon National University, Changwon, Republic of Korea
Interests: herbal medicinal plants; plant genomics; transcriptomics; chloroplast genome; plant DNA barcodes; plant breeding; QTLs

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Division of Plant Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Interests: plant-microbiome interaction; abiotic stress; plant-plant interaction
CEO, InfoBoss Inc., Seoul 06008, Republic of Korea
Interests: bioinformatics; genomics; organelle genomes; whole genomes; systematics; databases; integrated systems
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Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo (USP), Piracicaba 13418-900, Brazil
Interests: plant disease physiology; biochemistry; induced resistance in plants against pathogens

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Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Ambientali - Produzione, Territorio e Agroenergia (DiSAA), via Celoria 2, 20133, Milano, Italy
Interests: plant-microbe interaction; plant-pathogen interaction; biocontrol; plant-associated microbiota; phytoplasma-associated diseases
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Interests: resveratrol; solid lipid nanoparticle; medicinal chemistry; organic chemistry
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, IN 47907-2061, USA
Interests: tree ecophysiology; plant water relations; plant sensor; plant hydraulics; abiotic stresses

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Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária (INIAV), Avenida da República, 2780-505 Oeiras, Portugal
Interests: cyanobacterial symbiosis; Azolla; secondary metabolites; biological activities; phylogeny; biofertilizers; agriculture
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Department of Marine Sciences/Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Interests: soil biodiversity/ecology; plant parasitic nematode systematics; ecology; and phylogeny; eDNA; metabarcoding

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GreenUPorto—Sustainable Agrifood Production Research Centre and Inov4Agro, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, s/nº, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
Interests: vacuolar sorting; vacuole biogenesis; sorting signals; endomembranes; trafficking; abiotic stress; plant specific insert
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