Editorial Board

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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Editor-in-Chief
Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
Interests: bioenergy crops and cropping systems; alternative industrial crops; experimental design and analysis

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Associate Editor
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
Interests: weed ecology; cover crops; environmental factors

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Associate Editor
The Land Institute, 2440 E. Water Well Rd., Salina, KS 67401, USA
Interests: perennial groundcovers; crop mixtures; breeding; cover crops; legumes; clover; sustainable intensification; perennial grains

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School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
Interests: applied statistics; plant breeding; quantitative genetics; bioinformatics

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Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, NSW 2753, Australia
Interests: carotenoid biology; mechanical stress; epigenetics; plant physiology; molecular biology; crop nutrition; postharvest; horticulture; protected cropping; tree genomics; climate change; stress acclimation
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Department of Integrative Bio-Industrial Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Republic of Korea
Interests: crop genetics; molecular breeding; plant genomics; abiotic stress; variety development
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International Rice Research Institute-Korea Office, Wanju-gun 55365, Jeollabuk-do, Korea
Interests: molecular genetics of virus resistance in rice; genetic and biological diversity of rice viruses; virus-insect vector interactions

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CIRAD, UPR Bioagresseurs, 34398 Montpellier, France
Interests: plant epidemiology; quantitative genetics; biostatistics
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Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Interests: precision irrigation; remote sensing; crop and soil spatial variability; water resources management; irrigation engineering; crop and climate change modeling
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Gilat Research Center, Agricultural Research Organization (The Volcani Center), M.P. Negev 8528000, Israel
Interests: fruit tree physiology; olive biology and cultivation; reproductive biology of fruit trees; crop pollination; pomology in semi-arid conditions; developing guava as an export crop

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IFZ Research Centre for Biosystems, Land Use and Nutrition, Department of Plant Breeding, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, 35392 Gießen, Germany
Interests: genomics; transcriptomics; bioinformatics; brassica; legumes; long non-coding RNAs; plant sexual reproduction

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Environmental Science, School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Palmerston North 4442, New Zealand
Interests: soil science; soil management; irrigation; water management; crop and soil interactions
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1. Agronomy Department, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University (Zijingang Campus), Hangzhou 310058, China
2. Head of Seed Engineering and Industrialization Team, Hainan Institute of Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou 310058, China
Interests: seed germination; seed vigour; seed priming and coating; seed storage; polyamine metabolism; core collection construction

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Department of Animal, Plant and Soil Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora 3086, Australia
Interests: crop physiology; agronomy; agriculture; farming systems; crop modelling

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Research Centres CIAIMBITAL and CeiA3, Department of Biology and Geology, Higher Engineering School, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain
Interests: plant breeding; plant genetics; plant genomics; developmental genetics; plant sex determination; postharvest biology; horticulture

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Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University, 5009 LSB, Provo, UT 84602, USA
Interests: chromosomal and molecular genetics of oats (Avena) and quinoa (Chenopodium)
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State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Interests: Fe nutrient; Fe signaling; nitrogen nutrient, nutrient interaction; zinc nutrient; heavy metal
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Plant Phenomics Research Centre, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: plant phenomics; remote sensing; deep learning; image analysis; LiDAR; 3D phenotyping
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Department of Plant Breeding, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 101, SE-230 53 Alnarp, Sweden
Interests: end-use quality; genetic and environment interaction; cereals; agricultural systems; proteins; nutritive value, bioactive compounds; minerals, cultivars; industrial crops, renewable use of agricultural crops

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School of Applied Life Science, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Korea
Interests: plant protection; control of fruit tree diseases; early diagnosis; mushroom cultivation; microbial systematics; plant quarantine

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Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
Interests: wheat cytogenetics; crop molecular biology; crop genetics

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Western Regional Research Center, USDA-ARS, Albany, CA 94710, USA
Interests: crop breeding; crop genetics; plant biotechnology; agriculture; wheat

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Field Crops Program, Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology (IRTA), Lleida, Spain
Interests: field crops breeding; genetics; drought tolerance; heat tolerance; resistance to biotic stresses; nutritional quality; marker-assisted selection
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Department of Plant Protection, Institute of Industrial and Fodder Crops, Hellenic Agricultural Organization “DEMETER”—NAGREF, Volos, Greece
Interests: crop protection; aphid-plant interactions; aphid-virus interactions; insecticide resistance; population genetics of aphid and lepidopteran pests
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School of Agriculture Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Adelaide, SA 5064, Australia
Interests: agriculture; agronomy; crop and pasture improvement; crop and pasture nutrition; crop and pasture physiology; crop and pasture production

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Department of Molecular Genetics, Crop Research Institute, 161 06 Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: genetics; plant breeding; the quality of plant products

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Crop Research Institute, Drnovska 507, 161 06 Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: crop protection; plant extracts; botanical pesticides; essential oils; biotechnology

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South Australian Research and Development Institute, Adelaide, SA 5064, Australia
Interests: crop physiology; crop production; crop adaptation; environmental stresses; drought, heat, frost, nitrogen, salinity, soil compaction, insects and diseases

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Biotechnology Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan
Interests: crop genetics; rice; plant nutrition; nitrogen; phosphorus; chlorophyll metabolism; leaf senescence; light signaling
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1. Wheat, Sorghum and Forage Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
2. Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
Interests: using biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics and genomics to understand the developmental and biochemical pathways that affect grain and bioenergy/forage quality in sorghum and other grasses
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