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Department of Chemical Technology and Environmental Analytics, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Cracow University of Technology, 31-510 Cracow, Poland
Interests: coumarins; thiadizoles; betalains; Caryophyllales; fluorescence probes; inflammation markers; antioxidative properties; anti-hypochlorite properties; metal homeostasis; neurodegeneration; oxidative stress; plant extracts; plant pigments; molecular spectroscopy
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Agricultural Plant Physiology and Ecology Research Institute, University of Buenos Aires & National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Avenida San Martin 4453, 1417DSE, Argentina
Interests: ecophysiology of plants under low oxygen conditions; crop and forage species responses to waterlogging and submergence; root physiology under hypoxia (root oxygenation, radial oxygen loss and rhizosphere oxidation)
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Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Hohenheim, 70593 Stuttgart, Germany
Interests: plants; Arabidopsis; sweet potato; plant peptide; peptide maturation; subtilase; post-translational modification; tyrosine sulfation; proline hydroxylation; plant growth; plant development


Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (UASMV), Cluj-Napoca, Street Mănăştur 3-5, 400372 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Interests: food chemistry; bioinorganic chemistry; analytical chemistry; biochemistry
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Molecular Genetics and EpiGenomics Laboratory, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Delaware State University, Dover, DE 19901, USA
Interests: plant genetic transformation; plant metabolic engineering; transcriptomics and epigenomics of biotic, and abiotic stresses in plants and plant metabolomics under environmental stresses

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Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Montreal, QC H9X 3V9, Canada
Interests: plant-microbe interaction omics; plant intelligence and behaviour; anti-microbial peptides and biomolecule characterization
Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Mycology and Ecology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 19 Akademicka Street, 20-033 Lublin, Poland
Interests: plant ecology; plant diversity; population dynamics; vegetation dynamics; plant conservation; wetland ecology; restoration ecology; medicinal and aromatic plants; bioactivity of secondary metabolites

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Department of Plant Production Sciences, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
Interests: plant ecophysiology; crop physiology; C3 & C4 photosynthesis; non-structural carbohydrates; rice; legumes

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Department of Botany, Institute of Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences SGGW, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: plant responses to abiotic stress; legume-rhizobia symbiosis; mycorrhiza; functioning of the host plants and their symbionts under abiotic stress
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Dept. of Biological Scienes, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79401, USA
Interests: plant-pathogen interaction; plant viruses; geminiviruses; CRISPR-Cas9; genome editing; RNA silencing; genomics; transcriptomics; transgenic crops
Department of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya emb. 7/9, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
Interests: plant biomechanics; cell walls; cell expansion growth; gravitropism
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Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, Università degli Studi di Padova, 35122 Padua, Italy
Interests: chemical characterization of plants; HPLC; mass spectrometry; NMR; isolation of natural compounds
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Institute of Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Jagiellonska 28, 40-032 Katowice, Poland
Interests: plant morphogenesis; modeling of plant growth; lateral root formation; phyllotaxis

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Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, Section of Entomology and Zoology, University of Bari A Moro, 70126 Bari, Italy
Interests: plant pathology; biological control; pest management; entomopathogenic nematode; inter-specific horizontal transmission; pathogen-host-parasitoid interaction; forest and urban entomology
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Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, CH-3013 Bern, Switzerland
Interests: crop breeding and genomics; plant breeding; crop intensification; enabling environment; plant ideotype; yield potential
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Museum of Biological Diversity, Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Interests: plant systematics; ecology of tropical plants; biodiversity; medicinal plants; plant morphology & anatomy

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Mode of Action Center of Expertise, Crop Protection Discovery, Corteva Agriscience, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Interests: herbicide biochemistry; mode of action; herbicide resistance; weed management
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Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Breeding, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
Interests: plant endophytes; plant growth promotion; nitrogen fixation
Institute of BioEconomy (IBE)– Biology, Agriculture and Food Sciences Department– National Research Council (CNR), Research Campus of Florence– Via Madonna del Piano, 10 – 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
Interests: sustainable agriculture; organic agriculture; biofertilizers; arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; medicinal and aromatic plants; essential oils; biocidal activities; plant tissue culture; cryopreservation; in vitro storage
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School of Chemistry and Bioscience, University of Bradford, Richmond Rd, Bradford BD7 1DP, UK
Interests: life-history evolution; plant mating-systems; self-incompatibility; adaptation; genomics; evolutionary ecology; population genetics


Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue Straße 9, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany
Interests: diatoms; chloroplast; photosynthesis; thylakoid; light-harvesting complexes (LHC); fucoxanthin-chlorophyll a/c-binding proteins (FCP)

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International Platform for Dryland Research and Education (IPDRE), Tottori University, Tottori 680-0001, Japan
Interests: crop improvement; seed production; abiotic stress tolerance; saline agriculture; food security; salinity stress; drought; drylands
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Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, UK
Interests: light signaling; light-temperature signal integration; photoreceptors; light control of metabolism; environmental adaptation; environmental acclimation; thermosensing; phytochromes
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Research Institute of Green Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka 422-8529, Japan
Interests: genetics and genes for hybrid sterility; dysgenesis; breakdown


Department of Viticulture and Enology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
Interests: Grapevine; climate change; flavonoids; arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi


Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute – National Research Institute, Bonin Research Center, Laboratory of Molecular Diagnostics and Biochemistry, 76-009 Bonin, Poland
Interests: immunological and molecular methods of plant virus detection; molecular biology of plant viruses; regulation of viral proteins translation; plant-virus interactions; natural elicitors inducing plant resistance to pathogens; biostimulants alleviating plant reaction to biotic and abiotic stresses; biochemical and molecular markers of drought tolerance by plants; plant antimicrobial peptides

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Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste (CIBNOR-La Paz), Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 195, Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, La Paz 23096, Mexico
Interests: salt strss, plants
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Institute of Environmental Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Zabrze, Poland
Interests: trace element uptake by plants; hyperaccumulators; climate > change impact

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The Laboratory of Biotechnology, Federal Scientific Center of East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, 690022 Vladivostok, Russia
Interests: plant secondary metabolism; DNA methylation; viticulture; plant cell cultures
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