Topical Advisory Panel

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Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University, Truro, NS, Canada
Interests: biosystems automation; ANN/DCNN for optimization; Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Agriculture; FPGA-based camera; hyper/multi-spectral imaging; soil mapping with UAV/UGV; animal behaviour monitoring
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Department of Dendrology, Pomology and Nursery Production, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Dąbrowskiego 159, 60-461 Poznań, Poland
Interests: horticulture; bioactive compounds; storage of horticulture commodities; fruit processing; Pomology; fruit production; fruits and berries
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Commodity Sciences, Department of Economic & Business, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Interests: quality and environmental management systems; life cycle assessment; circular economy; eco sustainability instruments
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School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
Interests: grapevine abiotic stress; vineyard sensing; irrigation management
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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, Australia
Interests: field phenomics; digital agriculture; thermal sensing; wheat; physiology; plant water uptake
Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, Engineering Research Center of Feed Development, College of Animal Science and Technology, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
Interests: quorum-sensing; rumen bacteria; animal nutrition; animal physiology; ruminant; meat quality; microbial homeostasis; feed science; stress; sheep; cattle; goat

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Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Biotechnology and Horticulture, University of Agriculture in Krakow, 31-425 Krakow, Poland
Interests: plant eco-physiology; biotic and abiotic stresses; biofortification and biostimulation of horticultural crops and cultivated mushrooms; functional food
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Laboratory of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Area of Vegetal Physiology, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castellon, Spain
Interests: plant microbiology; plant–microbe interaction; plant protection; induced resistance; plant physiology
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Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Science, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy
Interests: soil quality; soil C sequestration; technosols; agricultural soils; grubbing; soil microbial biomass and activity; soil diffuse reflectance spectroscopy; biostimulant; plant nutrition

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Council for Agricultural Research and Economics(CREA), Research Centre for Olive, Fruit and Citrus Crops, 47121 Forlì, Italy
Interests: tree fruit ecophysiolology; mineral nutrition; water relationships; agroecology; biomasses
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Department of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Science, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: postharvest physiology of fruit and vegetables; postharvest technologies to preserve overall quality; functional and nutritional quality; native resources valorization; pomology
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Department of Agriculture and Food, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB, 750-07 Uppsala, Sweden
Interests: agriculture; soil; manure; biofertilizer; sludge; processing; carbon storage
National Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 310006, China
Interests: rice; grain yield; drought stress; water management; chemical regulation; physiological mechanism
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Institute of Tobacco, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: soil-borne diseases prevention and control; disease-resistant microbiota; soil carbon and nitrogen cycle; soil fumigation; biological control
Institute of Plant Protection, Sichuan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Chengdu 610066, China
Interests: soil nematode; entomopathogenic nematode; plant-parasitic nematode; soil-borne disease; pest biological control; soil ecosystem
Swedish environmental engineer from the University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
Interests: pyrolysis; biochar; bone char; phosphorus recovery
Grenfell Campus, Memorial University, Environmental Science, Room AS 222, 20 University Drive, Corner Brook, NL A2H 5G4, Canada
Interests: functional foods production, sensory perception, development, safety and preservation; use of nanotechnology to enhance plant performance in Boreal Ecosystem; spatial, functional and compositional lipid metabolism in response to environmental stressors; influences of gut microbiome on brain lipid metabolism and brain health; chemometrics and lipid modeling; increase yield, nutritional and value added production in control systems agriculture and alternative forage production systems; hydroponics: (sprouted fodder, herbs and vegetable production)

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CICYTEX-Technological Institute of Food and Agriculture-INTAEX (Government of Extremadura), Av. Adolfo Suárez, s/n, 06071 Badajoz, Spain
Interests: polyphenols; aminoacids; grapevines; wines; minority grape varieties

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Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF). Research area on Agricultural Landscape Systems (working in a group on land use decisions in a spatial and system context) Eberswalder Street 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany
Interests: soil ecosystem services; soil organic carbon dynamics; food modelling; sustainable management practices; sustainable food systems
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Institute of Animal Science, Biotechnology and Nature Conservation, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Environmental Management, University of Debrecen, 138 Böszörményi Street, 4032 Debrecen, Hungary
Interests: animal breeding; design and evaluation of breeding program; biotechnology; livestock farm management; biostatistics
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Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Scientific Directorate of Pesticides Control and Phytopharmacy, Laboratory of Chemical Control of Pesticides, 8 Stefanou Delta Street, Kifissia, 14561 Athens, Greece
Interests: pesticide residues; soil and sediment; soil environmental chemistry; soil contamination and monitoring; pesticides; method validation; risk assessment; fate and behavior of pesticides in the environment; agricultural solid waste management; nontarget analysis
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Department of Biology, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO 80918, USA
Interests: floral biology; genetic engineering; genetic containment; gene flow; gene editing
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State Key Laboratory of Efficient Utilization of Arid and Semi–Arid Arable Land in Northern China, Key Laboratory of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizer, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: Fertilizer; Fertilization; Plant nutrition; Urea; Phosphorus fertilizer; Biostimulant; Biofortification; Plant-based food; Agrochemical; Soil health; Soil fertility
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Hellenic Agricultural Organization “Demeter”/Institute of Industrial and Forage Crops, 41335 Larissa, Greece
Interests: breeding of legumes and industrial crops; legume-cereal intercropping; organic and low-input agriculture; novel breeding schemes; stewardship of genetic diversity; development of new varieties

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Rothamsted Research, Harpenden AL5 2JQ, UK
Interests: systems modelling; image based phenotyping; automation; image processing; sustainable development goals

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Department of Macroeconomics and Agricultural Economics, Poznan University of Economics and Business, al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875 Poznań, Poland
Interests: agricultural and food economics; sustainable agriculture; food security; international trade with agricultural products; agricultural policy and support measures
Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Közép fasor 52., 6726 Szeged, Hungary
Interests: photosynthesis; dark-light transition; plant-microbe interaction; tomato science; stomata
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