Editorial Board for section 'Crop Breeding and Genetics'

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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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Section Editor-in-Chief
School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide, Urrbrae, SA 5064, Australia
Interests: plant genomics; genetic engineering; cereal genetics
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USDA-ARS, US Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center, 21881 North Cardon Lane, Maricopa, AZ 85138, USA
Interests: improvement of industrial, biofuels and natural rubber crops; conventional and molecular breeding methodologies
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Institute for Agri-Food Research and Development of Murcia (IMIDA), Department of Plant Production and Agrotechnology, C/ Mayor s/n, E-30150 La Alberca, Murcia, Spain
Interests: abiotic stress; root-to-shoot signaling; source-sink relationships; plant hormones; adaptive responses of plant metabolome; food security
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Centre for Crop Health, Institute for Agriculture and the Environment, Research and Development Division, University of Southern Queensland, 4350 Toowoomba, Australia
Interests: plant pathology; biological control; bacteriology; fungal genetics; population biology

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Department of Agronomy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA
Interests: plant breeding; genetics; genomics; physiology

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Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Plant Breeding Institute, The University of Sydney, Camperdown NSW 2006, Australia
Interests: wheat; rust resistance; molecular markers

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Southern Cross Plant Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore 2481, Australia
Interests: plant physiology; plant nutrition; proteomics; seed storage proteins; trichomes; salt tolerance

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CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Black Mountain Science and Innovation Park, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia
Interests: seed biology; germination; dormancy

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FSO, AFNS Labs and Genomics Unit Manager, Dept. of AFNS, 4-32A Ag/Forestry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AT T6G 2P5, Canada
Interests: plant genomics; functional genomics; biotechnology; proteomics; stress response and resistance

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School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Interests: crop genomics; brassica; disease resistance; pan genomics; evolutionary genomics; population genomics
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Department of Vegetables and Field Crops, Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization (ARO)—The Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion 7505101, Israel
Interests: plant breeding; plant genetics; plant physiology; molecular biology; genetics; genetic diversity; plant biotechnology; genomics; sequencing; PCR
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John Innes Centre, Department of Crop Genetics, Colney Lane, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK
Interests: wheat; barley; inflorescence development; flowering-time

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Centre for Crop Science, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture & Food Innovation, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
Interests: carbohydrate metabolism; carbon partitioning; biotechnology
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Northeast Research & Extension Center, University of Arkansas, P.O. Box 48, Keiser, AR 72351, USA
Interests: cotton breeding; cotton research; seed and seedlings

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National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge CB3 0LE, UK
Interests: crop genetics; crop bioinformatics

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College of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Interests: gene cloning; QTL mapping; forage grass; maize; sorghum; rice

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National Research Council (CNR) - Institute of BioEconomy(IBE) Via Gaifami 18, 95126 Catania, Italy
Interests: plant micropropagation; seed dormancy and germination; abiotic stress; conservative agriculture
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Independent Researcher, Corso Mazzini 256, 63100 Ascoli Piceno, Italy
Interests: climate change; genetic diversity; abiotic stress; participatory research; plant breeding; evolutionary plant breeding
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The UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Shenton Park, WA, Australia
Interests: plant genetics and breeding; plant heterosis and utilisation of hybrid vigour; plant germplasm resources and genetic diversity; marker-assisted selection and genomic selection in plant breeding
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China National Center for Rice Improvement, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou 310006, China
Interests: rice; cereal crops; agricultural biological breeding; plant genetic diversity; plant genetics and genomics; creation of germplasm materials

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Sugarbeet and Potato Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Fargo, ND, USA
Interests: plant genetics; chromosome; sugar beet; wheat; maize
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Australian Grain Technologies, Waite Campus, Wine Innovation Central Building, Cnr of Hartley Grove & Paratoo Rd, Urrbrae, SA 5064, Australia
Interests: biotechnology; transgenic; agronomic traits; input traits; output traits; phenotyping; breeding; genetics; genome engineering; hybridization; hybrid crops
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Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute—National Research Institute, Radzików, 05-870 Błonie, Poland
Interests: cereal; biodiversity; climate change; plant genetic resources; crop protection; ecology; sustainable agriculture; gene bank; genetics; plant breeding
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Institute of Sciences of Food Production, National Research Council of Italy, 70126 Bari, Italy
Interests: malnutrition; in vitro gastro-intestinal digestion process; bioavailability; tailored food; soilless system
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Plant Propagation, Biotechnology, Biodiversity and Germplasm Improvement, Science and Technology Branch, St. John's, NL, Canada
Interests: berry crops; breeding; biodiversity; biotechnology; genetic enhancement; in vitro culture; micropropagation; molecular marker; wild germplasm
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UMR1349 INRA-Agrocampus Ouest-Université Rennes1, IGEPP-Institut de Génétique, Environnement et Protection des Plantes, Centre de Bretagne-Normandie, BP35327, F-35653 Le Rheu, France
Interests: genetics; genomics; disease resistance; crop breeding

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Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: cytokinin; metabolism; signaling; rice
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Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Rua da Escola Politécnica 56/58, 1250-102 Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: global change adaptation; crop wild relatives conservation; species conservation
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Head, Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Research Group, Institute of Natural Resource Sciences, Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW, Life Sciences and Facility Management Department, Grüental Campus, P.O. Box, CH-8820 Wädenswil, Switzerland
Interests: plant pathology; genetics and genomics; multitrophic interactions; food safety; crop protection; microbial ecology

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Centre for Plant Science, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
Interests: RNA biology; RNA silencing; small RNA biology; microRNAs; environmental stress; molecular breeding; agricultural biotechnology
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