Editorial Board for section 'Crop Production'

Please see the section webpage for more information on this section.

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 Crop Production Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ekologicentrum, Ulls väg 16, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Interests: biodiversity; agriculture; plant physiology; plant biology; plant ecology; biodiversity and conservation; plant biodiversity; crop physiology; biomass; nitrogen; seedling; abiotic stress; crop; ecophysiology; ecosystem services; photosynthesis and bioenergy; energy crops; water use efficiency; nutrient use efficiency
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College of Life Science, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, China
Interests: salt tolerance; sodium proton exchange protein; salinity; phytochelatins; heavy metal; ascorbate peroxidases; drought stress; antioxidant

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Horticultural Sciences Department, Southwest Florida Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), Immokalee, FL 34142-9515, USA
Interests: hormonal regulation of citrus fruit abscission; citrus tree health; fruit maturation and quality; fruit senescence
Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Piazza Università, 5-39100 Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Interests: efficient use of water resources in vineyard; canopy management techniques to control berry ripening dynamic in grapevine; use of natural biostimulants to enhance performances and sustainability of fruit crops
Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications, Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251 St. Petersburg, Russia
Interests: crop modelling; yeild estimation; phase prdiction; crop rotation; digitalisation of crop production

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Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, (DISTAL), University of Bologna, Viale Fanin 44, 40124 Bologna, Italy
Interests: biomass crops; non-food crops; organic cropping; sustainable crop production; herbs and medicinal plants; soil fertility; spatial variability of soil and crop characteristics

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Istituto di Biofisica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Interests: microalgae; euglena; b-glucan; environmental monitoring; algae by-products; immunostimulants; algal photoreception
Plant Physiology Unit, Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Torino, via Quarello 15/A, I-10135 Torino, Italy
Interests: plant biostimulants; plant physiology; plant abiotic and biotic stress responses; secondary metabolism; plant DNA fingerprinting and barcoding
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Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
Interests: biofuel crops; lignocellulosic biomass; plant cell wall polysaccharide; biotic and abiotic stress of plants; bioenergy and biomaterial; consolidated bioprocessing; fermentation; plant physiology; chlorophyll metabolism; G-protein signaling; plant-microbe interactions; glycolipids; nanocomposites

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Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 98, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
Interests: fruit quality; crop load management; sustainable orchard floor management; soil health
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Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), Department of Horticulture, Ctra. Moncada-Naquera km. 4.5, 46113 Moncada, Valencia, Spain
Interests: vegetable grafting; abiotic stress; photosynthesis; chlorophyll fluorescence; antioxidant activities
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Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Box 101, 23053 Alnarp, Sweden
Interests: plant oil; plant breeding; carbon allocation; sustainable crop production; plant biotechnology; next-generation plant breeding techniques
Research Group of Sustainable Agriculture and Engineering, Department of Agrarian Sciences and Engineering, Avenida de Portugal 41, 24009 Leon, Spain
Interests: crop production; crop protection; landraces, indigenous microorganism; natural products; environment and climate change in agriculture; plant × microorganism interaction

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College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: physiology; abiotic stress; biotic stress; flooding; salinity; pathogen; flower development; flower pigmentation

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The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
Interests: plant physiology; rhizosphere interactions; root system architecture and functions; mycorrhizal technology and applications; crop growth and physiology in stressed environments; plant root development, plant–soil–microbe interactions; pre-breeding; phenotyping
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Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano, via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italy
Interests: chlorophyll a fluorescence; crop physiology; fruit quality; plant hormones; postharvest; senescence; vegetables quality
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Department of Agri-Food Sciences and Technologies, University of Bologna | UNIBO, Viale Fanin 44, 40127 Bologna, Italy
Interests: tropical and tubtropical truit growing; biology and physiology of trees; arboriculture; temperate fruit growing
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Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
Interests: soil and water resources engineering; nutrient, pathogen, and pesticide transport in water; water quality; cover crops; vertical farming; hydroponics
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Laboratory of Ecophysiology Applied to Agriculture, Department of Crop Production, School of Agricultural Sciences, UNESP-São Paulo State University, Botucatu, SP, Brazil
Interests: ecophysiology; plant growth regulators; biostimulants; Sugarcane saccharum spp.; plant growth promoting rhizobacteria; crop physiology; water stress
Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia, 06121 Perugia, Italy
Interests: phytoremediation; nanoparticle; biostimulant; heavy metal; oxidative stress; plant nutrition; plant biochemistry; herbicides; abiotic stress in plant
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Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Interests: organic agriculture; agroecology; food health; circular economy; plant secondary metabolities
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Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 6, 18059 Rostock, Germany
Interests: sustainable crop production; mixed cropping systems; agrobiodiversity; soil fertility; nutrient cycles in agro-ecosystems

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Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, 80055 Portici, Italy
Interests: horticultural crops; microgreens; protected cultivation; hydroponics; plant biostimulants; nutrient eustress; biofortification; space farming; nutrient recovery from urine
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Department of Biology, University of Naples “Federico II”, Via Cinthia, 80126 Napoli, Italy
Interests: G6PDH; kinetics; nitrogen metabolism; protein folding; plant physiology; abiotic stress
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Department of Sustainable Crop Production, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Via Emilia Parmense 84, 29122 Piacenza, Italy
Interests: viticulture; abiotic stress; grapevine eco-physiology; biostimulants; particle-film-technologies
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Research Centre for Viticulture and Enology, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA-VE), Via XXVIII Aprile 26, TV, 31015 Conegliano, Italy
Interests: viticulture; grapevine eco-physiology; abiotic stress; vine nutrition management; grape quality
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Department of Agricultural sciences, Food, Natural resources and Engineering (DAFNE), University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
Interests: durum wheat; nitrogen; deficit irrigation; processing tomato; organic system

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Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 411 Borlaug Hall, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, Saint Paul, MN 55108-6024, USA
Interests: phytochemicals; regulation of crop growth (cereals, legume grains and grapevine); induced resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses; integrated disease management; sustainable use of agricultural chemicals and biologicals; sustainable agriculture practices
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Institute of Sugar Beet Research at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Interests: sugar beet; quality; abiotic stress; drought; WUE; N nutrition; N mineralization; texture; storage

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Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand
Interests: functional plant biology; plant eco-physiology; and stress physiology, with a focus on mechanisms of stress resistance for crop improvement
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