Editorial Board for section 'Viruses of Plants, Fungi and Protozoa'

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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.

Members

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Department of Plant Pathology, Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Interests: RNA viruses; long noncoding RNAs; plant viruses; virus-host interactions; viral and bacterial diseases of citrus; citrus tristeza virus
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Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council, Strada Delle Cacce 73, 10135 Turin, Italy
Interests: plant virology; geminivirus; plant–virus interactions; plant virus evolution; diagnostic methods
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Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura (CEBAS)—Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Campus Universitario de Espinardo, Edificio 25, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Interests: plant pathogenic viruses; viral and host mRNAs; viral factories; emergent plant viruses
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Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Plant Gene Expression Center, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Interests: molecular, genetic and biochemical bases of host-microbe interactions, and investigates mechanisms of pathogen-induced host disease and disease resistance
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Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University, 201 Rightmire Hall, 1060 Carmack Road, Columbus, OH, USA
Interests: geminivirus; gene silencing; silencing suppression; DNA methylation; virus induced gene silencing (VIGS); viroids

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Professor Emeritus, Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Interests: plant–virus–insect interactions; plant stress responses; resistance to plant viruses
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Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
Interests: viral suppressors of RNAi; viral siRNAs; antiviral RNAi

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Department of Plant Pathology, Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
Interests: computational biology; bioinformatics; small RNA biology; antiviral immunity; virus-host interactions; molecular virology; gene silencing
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1. Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK
2. Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical and Biological Science, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK
Interests: mycoviruses; mycovirus infection; mycovirus population studies; mycovirus evolution; mycovirus–fungus interactions; bacterial gene expression; RNA damage and repair; oxidative stress; antibiotics resistance; CRISPR-Cas
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Institute of Biotechnology, College of Agriculture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: genome editing; CRISPR/Cas; viral vector; transient delivery; plant virology; rhabdovirus; bunyavirus
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Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Olive, Fruit and Citrus Crops, Corso Savoia 190, 95024 Acireale, Italy
Interests: plant viruses; virus-plant interactions; viral and bacterial diseases of citrus; citrus tristeza virus; diagnostic methods; virus characterization
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Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Interests: environmental virology; algal-virus ecology and biology; host–virus infection dynamics; virus diversity; ocean biogeochemistry

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Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, USA
Interests: plant antiviral defenses; including RNA silencing and resistance gene-mediated defense
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Department Plant Pathology, University Wisconsin – Madison, Russell Laboratories, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA
Interests: RNA plant viruses; plant viruses host defenses

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Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Interests: plant viruses; plus-strand RNA virus replication/translation; RNA structure/function
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Institute of Plant Science and Resources (IPSR), Okayama University, Chuou 2-20-1, Kurashiki, Okayama 710-0046, Japan
Interests: fungal viruses; antiviral RNA silencing; mycovirus
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lant Health & Environment Laboratory, Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI)/Manatū Ahu Matua, Auckland, New Zealand
Interests: diagnostics; nanotechnology; RNA structure and function; virus discovery and evolution

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Department of Plant Pathology, 205 Morrison Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
Interests: PBCV-1; chlorella viruses (chloroviruses); algal viruses (phycodnaviruses); large dsDNA viruses

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Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Interests: plant bunyaviruses; potyviruses; potexviruses; unfolded protein response; cell biology; virus-host interactions; bioinformatics; infectious clone technology; viroids
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Plant Pathology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Interests: viroid; plant virus; viral replication; viral movement; RNA silencing

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Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS, 12, rue du général Zimmer, CEDEX, 67084 Strasbourg, France
Interests: plant viruses; viral movement; suppressor of RNA silencing; virus-plant interactions; aphid transmission
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