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Carlos A. Busso

Departamento de Agronomía-CERZOS(CONICET) Universidad Nacional del Sur, ARGENTINA

Research Interests: the response mechanisms of plants to disturbances (fire, drought, herbivory and their interactions)
Xiangyang Hu

Shanghai University, CHINA

Research Interests: plant reaction to abiotic stress, specifically the impact on molecular mechanisms, germination, and flowering time at the epigenetic level

Associate Editors

Andrzej Bajguz

Faculty of Biology, Department of Biology and Plant Ecology, University of Bialystok, Bialystok, POLAND

Research Interests: abiotic stress, phytohormones, oxidative stress, heavy metals
Jun Cao

Jiangsu University, CHINA

Research Interests: comparative genomics, molecular evolution, plant molecular genetics
Fadi Chen

Nanjing Agricultural University, CHINA

Research Interests: horticulture research
Antonios Chrysargyris

Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology and Food Science, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol 3036, CYPRUS

Research Interests: aromatic plants and vegetable cultivation; development of strategies for plant nutrition and response to abiotic stress; soil-less culture, substrates and hydroponics; postharvest storage and processing of medicinal and aromatic plants; essential oil analysis and biocidal activity; evaluation of natural products
Xuewu Duan

Agriculture and Biotechnology Research Center, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Science, Guangzhou, CHINA

Research Interests: biochemistry and molecular biology (transcription regulation, posttranslational modification, epigenetic regulation), postharvest biology of fruits and vegetables, fruit development and ripening, postharvest handling and storage techniques of subtropical and tropical fruits
Mohamed A. El-Esawi

Tanta University, EGYPT

Research Interests: key regulatory mechanisms involved in the development of plants and their environmental stress responses, characterization of plant genome and transcriptome using next-generation sequencing technologies, QTL mapping and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in plants
Weijun Fu

Zhejiang A&F University, CHINA

Research Interests: heavy metals tranfer in soil-crop system, spatial analysis of environmental variables, carbon and nutrients cycles in forest ecosystem
Mirza Hasanuzzaman

Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, BANGLADESH

Research Interests: plant abiotic stress, agronomy, crop physiology, antioxidant defense, ROS
Rachid Lahlali

Phytopathology Unit, Department of Plant Protection, National School of Agriculture of Meknes (ENAM), Meknes, MOROCCO

Research Interests: plant pathology, molecular plant pathology, environmental stress responses in plants, biological control of plant diseases, crop science
María Vanessa Lencinas

CADIC (CONICET), ARGENTINA

Research Interests: forest management, biodiversity conservation, silviculture, forest ecology, understory plants, birds, arthropods
Qianfeng Li

Yangzhou University, CHINA

Research Interests: brassinosteroid (BR) signal transduction and its interaction with other plant hormones
Fernando José Cebola Lidon

Faculdade de CIências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Departamento de Ciências da Terra, Campus da Caparica, 2829-514, Caparica, Almada, PORTUGAL

Research Interests: photosynthesis, nutrients uptake in higher plants, oxidative stress, agronomic biofortification, plant biochemistry
Panagiotis Madesis

1. School of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Agriculture Crop Production and Rural Environment, University of Thessaly, 38446 Volos, GREECE
2. Institute of Applied Biosciences, The Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas, GREECE

Research Interests: genomics; plant breeding; CRISP/R; stress tolerance; molecular genetics; population genetics molecular species identification and authentication
Othmane Merah

University of Toulouse, Laboratory of Agro-industrial Chemistry (Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse/INRAE, France), University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse III, 31030 Toulouse, FRANCE

Research Interests: agronomy, lipids, essential oils, bioactives, physiology, cereals, oil crops, quantitative genetics, drought, abiotic stresses, aromatic plants, foods
Michael Moustakas

School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, GREECE

Research Interests: photosynthesis, plant ecophysiology, mineral nutrition, plant-insects interactions, photoprotective and antioxidative mechanism to biotic and abiotic stress
Marko S. Sabovljevic

Institute of Botany and Botanical Garden, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, SERBIA

Research Interests: bryology, bryophytes, bryophyte biology, mosses, liverworts, conservation, conservation physiology, plant ecology, in vitro, ex situ
Shucai Wang

Linyi University, CHINA

Research Interests: plant physiology
Wenzhi Yang

Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, CHINA

Research Interests: LC/MS-based metabolites characterization, holistic quality control of herbal medicine, quality standards elaboration for TCM
Feihai Yu

Taizhou University, CHINA

Research Interests: biological invasions, clonal growth, environmental heterogeneity
Hongxia Zhang

Qingdao Agriculture University, CHINA

Research Interests: salt tolerant and drought tolerant plant

Editorial Board Members

Osama M. Ahmed

Beni-Suef University, EGYPT

Research Interests: diabetes mellitus, arthritis, carcinogenesis, medicinal plant constituents, schistosomiasis, drug toxicity, neurodegenerative diseases
Mukhtar Ahmed

PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, PAKISTAN

Research Interests: agroecosystem modeling and climate change
Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar

Gandhi Faiz-e-Aam College, INDIA

Research Interests: soil microbiology, applied microbiology, environmental microbiology, molecular biology, plant pathology and plant nanobiotechnology
Sajid Ali

Department of Horticulture and Life Science, Yeungnam University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Research Interests: biotechnology, microbial biotechnology, agriculture biotechnology, plant-microbe interactions, microbiome
Stephen O. Amoo

Medicinal and Industrial Crop Division, ARC-Vegetables, Industrial and Medicinal Plants, SOUTH AFRICA

Research Interests: medicinal plant research, plant tissue culture/micropropagation, plant physiology, biostimulants, ethnobotany/ethnopharmacology
Giovanni Bacaro

University of Trieste, ITALY

Research Interests: plant diversity; ecosystem services; alpha and beta diversity; cross-taxon analysis; multivariate analysis; ecological modelling; invasive alien species; remote sensing
Mingxun Chen

Northwest A&F University, CHINA

Research Interests: molecular mechanism of seed lipid metabolism in arabidopsis and rapeseed, genetic engineering towards improvement of rapeseed agronomic traits
Jinhui Chen

Nanjing Forestry University, CHINA

Research Interests: forestry sciences (tree somatic cell propagation)
Julián Cuevas

Department of Agronomy, University of Almeria, Almeria, SPAIN

Research Interests: fruit crops, fruit set, flowering, pollination, pollen-pistil interactions
Rahul Datta

Department of Geology and pedology, Faculty of Foresty and Wood Technology Mendel University in Brno, CZECH REPUBLIC

Research Interests: soil biochemistry; molecular biology; microbiology; soil science
Weixin Ding

Institute of Soil Science Chinese Academy of Sciences: Nanjing, Jiangsu, CHINA

Research Interests: soil organic C, soil carbon and nitrogen tranformation process; greenhouse gas emission, wetland, croplands
Honglang Duan

Institute for Forest Resources & Environment of Guizhou, Guizhou University, CHINA

Research Interests: plant physiological responses to climate change, plant carbon and water relations, drought-induced tree mortality
Yinbo Gan

College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, 866 Yuhangtang Road, 310058, Hangzhou, CHINA

Research Interests: crop genetics and breeding , plant molecular biology
Changan Geng

Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA

Research Interests: natural products, active constituents, LCMS analysis, isolation and structural elucidation
Bimal Kumar Ghimire

Konkuk University, REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Research Interests: medicinal plants, phenolic compounds, antioxidants activity, genetic variations, transgenic plants, allelopathy, invitro plant regeneration, light emitting diodes, bioenergy crops, volatile compounds, antimicrobial activity, osteoporosis
Mansour Ghorbanpour

Arak University, IRAN

Research Interests: phytonanotechnology (nanotechnology in plant science and Agriculture), bioavailability of emerging contaminants, environmental stresses effects on plant growth and metabolism, natural products and bioactive compounds of aromatic medicinal plants.
Daniel González-Mendoza

Instituto de Ciencias Agrícolas de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (ICA-UABC), Baja California, MEXICO

Research Interests: mycology, phytoremediation, green synthesis of nanoparticles, microbiology, biotechnology
Junfei Gu

College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, CHINA

Research Interests: rice, grain yield, grain quality, photosynthesis, nitrogen fertilizer, soil, irrigation, crop modelling, greenhouse gases, nitrogen use efficiency
Mahmoud Ramadan Sofy Hassan

Al-Azhar university, EGYPT

Research Interests: drought, heavy metals, stress, plant, salinity
Huyi He

Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, CHINA

Research Interests: evaluation and innovative utilization of tuber crop germplasm resources, physiological and molecular mechanisms of crop abiotic stress tolerance, and analysis of important functional genes
Imre J. Holb

Faculty of Agronomy, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Debrecen, HUNGARY

Research Interests: plant pathology, crop protection, integrated pest management, sustainable agriculture, precision agriculture
Mohammad Anwar Hossain

Bangladesh Agricultural University, BANGLADESH

Research Interests: plant molecular stress physiology and breeding, stress tolerance mechanisms, ROS and methylglyoxal metabolism and signaling, cross-stress tolerance, heavy metal toxicity, mutation breeding, crop quality improvement and variety development
Wei Hu

Nanjing Agriculture University, CHINA

Research Interests: abiotic stress, photosynthetic physiology, and crop production
Min Huang

Hunan Agricultural University, CHINA

Research Interests: agronomy, ecophysiology, grain yield, grain quality, resource-use efficiency, rice
Aleksandr N. Ignatov

Department of Agrobiotechnology, Agrarian Technological Institute; Russian University of People’s Friendship (RUDN), Moscow, RUSSIA

Research Interests: plant pathogenic bacteria, plant disease control, plant breeding, pathogen diagnostics, bacteria taxonomy, plant viruses
Ali Inal

Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ankara, TURKEY

Research Interests: salinity and crop management, salinity and mineral nutrition interactions in plants, boron tolerance mechanisms, P-Use efficiency in wheat genotypes
Marcello Iriti

Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Sciences, Milan State University, ITALY

Research Interests: essential oils; bioactive phytochemicals; ethnopharmacology; antimicrobial resistance; one health; food security
Xiuliang Jin

Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, CHINA

Research Interests: remote sensing, precision agriculture, crop phenotyping, crops, yield
Youssef Khamis

Agricultural Research Center, Plant Pathology Research Institute, 9 Gamaa St., 12619 Giza, EGYPT

Research Interests: plant Pathology, postharvest pathology, fruit diseases, applied microbiology
Arafat Abdel Hamed Abdel Latef

South Valley University, EGYPT

Research Interests: physiological, biochemical and molecular responses of different plants to environmental stresses, and their tolerance strategies under these stresses
Marcello Salvatore Lenucci

Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali (Di.S.Te.B.A.), Università del Salento, Via Prov.le Lecce Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, ITALY

Research Interests: secondary metabolism; antioxidants; plastid differentiation; plant cell wall architecture; abiotic stress; extraction of bioactives from plant organs; sub- and supercritical fluids; development of innovative functional foods
Yuan Li

Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, CHINA

Research Interests: crop diseases, weeds control, molecular approaches, identification and quantification, soil disinfestation, biocontrol agents, application equipment, crop growth and yield
Weibiao Liao

Gansu Agriculture University, CHINA

Research Interests: biotic stress, gasotransmitter, signaling transduction, protein S-nitrosylation, post-translational modification, adventitious root formation, postharvest preservation
Fang Liu

School of Agriculture, Yunnan University, CHINA

Research Interests: rhizosphere processes under arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal symbiosis; molecular mechanism of plant regulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal symbiosis; molecular mechanism of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal symbiosis promoting plant nutrient uptake
Antonio Lupini

Department of Agriculture, Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, ITALY

Research Interests: nutrient use efficiency, molecular markers, transcriptomic, phenotyping, genotyping, nitrogen, genetic diversity, plant breeding
Mariangela Marrelli

Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, ITALY

Research Interests: medicinal plants; plant extracts; natural bioactive compounds; essential oils; nutraceuticals; antioxidant activity; antiproliferative activity; anti-inflammatory properties; photocytotoxic compounds
Heba Ibrahim Mohamed

Ain Shams University, EGYPT

Research Interests: abiotic and biotic stress microorganisms plant interactions molecular markers in response to abiotic and biotic stress
Yong-Hwan Moon

Department of Molecular Biology, Pusan National University, Republic of Korea

Research Interests: plant abiotic stress response; plant development regulation; Arabidopsis; non-tandem CCCH zinc finger genes; AP2/ERF transcription factors; osmotic stress; hypoxia stress; salt stress
Mohammad Golam Mostofa

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, BANGLADESH

Research Interests: plant physiology
Adele Muscolo

Agriculture Department，Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, ITALY

Research Interests: effects of abiotic stress on plant growth and development,salinity and drought stress on plant metabolism,antioxidants and their activities within plants, the role of antioxidant phytochemicals in both the prevention and treatment of various illnesses
Mónica Tereza Boscaiu Neagu

Department of Agroforest Ecosystems, Polytechnic University of Valencia, SPAIN

Research Interests: halophytes, salinity, salt marshes, endangered species, invasive species, ornamental plants, drought tolerance
Madhav P. Nepal

Department of Biology and Microbiology, South Dakota State University, Brookings, USA

Research Interests: plant phylogenetics, bioinformatics, comparative genomics, ethnobotany, gene families
Georgia Ntatsi

Laboratory of Vegetable Production, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, GREECE

Research Interests: vegetable production, hydroponics, plant nutrition, plant physiology, abiotic stress, fruit quality, biofortification, biostimulants, nitrogen fixation, phytohormones, plant metabolism, organic production and vertical farming
Maciej Pach

Department of Ecology and Silviculture, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Krakow, POLAND

Research Interests: adaptive forest management，close-to-nature silviculture，primaeval (old-growth) forest，mixed species forest，climate-smart forestry，adaptation and mitigation of forests to climate change，sustainable forest management，silviculture, afforestation, forest renewal, forest tending, tree species growth
Mario A. Pagnotta

Department of Agricultural and Forest scieNcEs, Tuscia University, Viterbo, ITALY

Research Interests: plant population genetics; plant evolution and domestication; in situ and ex situ conservation of plant germplasm; molecular characterization; molecular markers; molecular evolution; plant breeding
Jésus Palá-Pául

Complutense University of Madrid, SPAIN

Research Interests: essential oils; chemical composition; seasonal variation; chemotypes; antibacterial activity; antifungal activity
Ioannis E. Papadakis

Agricultural University of Athens, GREECE

Research Interests: horticulture (grape)
Alessio Papini

Department of Biology, University of Florence, Via Micheli 3, 50121 Florence, ITALY

Research Interests: autophagy, programmed cell death, sex plant reproduction, algae, cyanobacteria
Diego Pizzeghello

DAFNAE of University of Padova, Padua, ITALY

Research Interests: mechanisms of activity of humic substances in plant growth，soil fertility relationships in forest ecosystems, phosphorus forms in relation to agronomic and environmental aspects
Serena Polverigiani

Marche Polytechnic University, ITALY

Research Interests: horticulture (olive; apple)
Jianqiang Qian

Institue of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA

Research Interests: restoration ecology, bud bank, soil seed bank, clonal traits, grassland ecology
Rahmatullah Qureshi

Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, PAKISTAN

Research Interests: ethnobotany, medicinal plants and their bioactivity
Ain Raal

Institute of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, ESTONIA

Research Interests: pharmacy, pharmacognosy, phytochemistry, ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology, essential oils, phenolic substances, alkaloids
Anshu Rastogi

Poznan University of Life Sciences, POLAND

Research Interests: stress physiology, photosynthesis, fluorescence, sun-induced fluorescence
Reiaz Ul Rehman

Department of Bioresources, University of Kashmir, INDIA

Research Interests: plant biology and stress physiology
Domenico Ronga

Pharmacy Department, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, n.132, 84084 Fisciano, ITALY

Research Interests: agronomy, horticulture, crop physiology, precision agriculture, sustainability
Yukui Rui

College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, CHINA

Research Interests: botanical effects of nanomaterials and their applications in agriculture, soil heavy metal control and agricultural product safety
Leo Sabatino

Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, ITALY

Research Interests: vegetable production, vegetable grafting, soilless cultivation, nutritional and nutraceutical vegetable fruit quality linked to cultivation condition and practices, biofortification of leafy and fruiting vegetable crops and propagation of ornamental plants
Aykut Saglam

Karadeniz Technical University, TURKEY

Research Interests: plant responses to abiotic stresses; leaf rolling phenomenon; ctenanthe setosa plant
Veronique Seidel

Natural Products Research Laboratory, Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UNITED KINGDOM

Research Interests: medicinal plants, bioactive phytochemicals, bioactive plant extracts, antimicrobial activity
Mahmoud F. Seleiman

Plant Production Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University; Department of Crop Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Menoufia University, EGYPT

Research Interests: crop science, plant nutrition, heavy metals in sewage sludge, bioenergy crops
Adriana Sestras

Department of Forestry, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, ROMANIA

Research Interests: biodiversity, biostatistics, ecology, environmental impact assessment, genetics and plant breeding, plant biology, plant biotechnology
Anket Sharma

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

Research Interests: abiotic stress tolerance, brassinosteroids, phytohormones, heavy metals, plant metabolomics
Mohamed Salah Amr Sheteiwy

Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Mansoura University, EGYPT

Research Interests: field crops cultivars identification in the field and laboratory, crop Rotation and cropping system
Peili Shi

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGSNRR, CAS), Beijing, CHINA

Research Interests: plant eco-physiology, plants in stress and adaption to alpine environment, plant and soil, plant-plant interaction, ecosystem structure and functioning, treeline, global warming, diversity and community stability, resistance and resilience to extreme events
Noomene Sleimi

University of Carthage, TUNISIE

Research Interests: plant physiology, abiotic stresses, antioxidant activities, phytohormonal regulation, hyperaccumulation of heavy metals
Cláudia Regina Batista de Souza

Universidade Federal do Pará-UFPA Laboratório de Biologia Molecular Rua Augusto Corrêa 01, Guamá, Belém-PA, 66075-110, Brazil

Research Interests: molecular biology, genetics, microbiology
Ramasamy Srinivasan

World Vegetable Center, TAIWAN

Research Interests: plant protection
Milan Stanković

Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology and Ecology，University of Kragujevac, Republic of Serbia

Research Interests: biological sciences, plant sciences, botany, ecology, biodiversity, medicinal plants – applications of plants in biotechnology, plant secondary metabolites – biology, ecology and applications
Adriano Stinca

Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, ITALY

Research Interests: plant diversity, vascular flora, invasive plants, plant conservation, plant-plant interactions, plant-environment interactions, plant taxonomy, plant nomenclature, vegetation
Haijun Sun

Nanjing Forestry University, CHINA

Research Interests: nitrogen cycling in soil system, Biochar application, Soil-plant interaction
Bo Sun

College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, CHINA

Research Interests: brassica vegetables, Chinese kale, mustard, glucosinolates, carotenoids, postharvest
Monika Szczecińska

Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, POLAND

Research Interests: population genetics and genomics, ecology of rare and endangered plant species, conservation genetics, organellar genomes of plants
Agnieszka Sękara

University of Agriculture in Krakow, 29 Listopada 54, 31-425 Krakow, POLAND

Research Interests: the reaction of horticultural crops to stress, the relationships between plants, microorganisms, and the environment in horticultural ecosystems, culinary and medicinal mushrooms, biofortification and biostimulation of horticultural crops and mushrooms, functional food, biodiversity in horticulture in the present day and historical context (ethnobotany and herbaria)
Mohsin Tanveer

University of Tasmania, AUSTRALIA

Research Interests: abiotic stress tolerance, nutrient metabolism,ion transport, BTW
Yuanwen Teng

College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, CHINA

Research Interests: Fruit germplasm resources, Physiology and molecular biology of fruit trees, Phylogeny and cultivar development of fruit trees, Breeding and cultivation of fruit trees
Ilias S. Travlos

Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, GREECE

Research Interests: integrated weed management systems, weed surveys, agronomy, precision agriculture, weed biology and ecology, herbicide resistance and crop-weed interactions
Daniela Trono

Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'Analisi dell'Economia Agraria, Centro di Ricerca Cerealicoltura e Colture Industriali, S.S. 673, Km 25,200, 71122 Foggia, ITALY

Research Interests: plant physiology and biochemistry, functional analysis of genes, abiotic stress, oxidative stress, secondary metabolites
Chunpeng Wan

Jiangxi Agricultural University, CHINA

Research Interests: study on postharvest storage technology, phytochemistry and function of citrus
Dhanushka Wanasinghe

Centre for Mountain Futures, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Honghe County 654400, Yunnan, CHINA

Research Interests: ascomycota, fungal diversity, phylogeny, taxonomy, canopy research
Zhengwen Wang

Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA

Research Interests: clonal plant ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, trait-based community assembly, plant life history strategy and evolution
Fuzhong Wu

Fujian Normal University, CHINA

Research Interests: forest ecology
Qiangsheng Wu

Yangtze University, CHINA

Research Interests: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plant growth
Junzeng Xu

Hohai University, CHINA

Research Interests: eco-environmental aspects of efficient irrigation and drainage management (non-point pollutions; greenhouse gases emissions; heavy metals bio-availability)
Feng Xu

College of Horticulture and Gardening, Yangtze University, CHINA

Research Interests: mechanism of biosynthesis of plant secondary metabolites
Pingfang Yang

Hubei University, CHINA

Research Interests: plant proteomics
Nenghui Ye

Hunan Agriculture University, CHINA

Research Interests: functional study of ABA in response to different stresses and in regulating plant growth and development; molecular mechanisms of seed germination under aerobic and hypoxia condition; molecular mechanism of grain filling by plant hormones in rice in response to environmental cues
Wajid Zaman

Department of Life Sciences, Yeungnam University, Gyongsan,SOUTH KOREA

Research Interests: phylogenetics and taxonomy, molecular systematics, biodiversity conservation, biogeography, evolutionary ecology, genomics and bioinformatics, ethnobotany, plant adaptation to extreme environments, plant-fungal interactions, systematic botany, multidisciplinary research, invasive species, floristic studies, microscopy, nanoparticles
Jorge Alberto Zavala

Facultad de Agronomía, Cátedra de Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA

Research Interests: plant biotechnology, insect ecology, ecology, beetles, plant biology, plant physiology, insect-plant interactions, insect, integrated pest management, pest management, plants, corn
Jingcheng Zhang

Hangzhou Dianzi University, CHINA

Research Interests: remote sensing of vegetation
Sheng Zhang

Sichuan University, CHINA

Research Interests: plant proteomics, metabonomics and molecular biology
Yuhong Zheng

Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Science, Nanjing, CHINA

Research Interests: the improvement and utilization of Bulbous flowers; the application of electrochemical technique in phytology

Early Career Editorial Board Member

Habib Ali

Khawaja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Rahim Yar Khan 64200, PAKISTAN

Research Interests: agricultural pests, entomology, molecular entomology, crop pests, insect-microbe interactions, biological control agents, integrated pest management
Sikandar Amanullah

Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center, USA

Research Interests: molecular genetics and breeding vegetable crops, QTL analysis, and fine genetic mapping to understand the genetic regulatory basis for various important morphological and quality traits
Mahmut Camlica

Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University,Bolu, TURKEY

Research Interests: Salinity, Aromatic plants, Antioxidants, Plant secondary metabolism, Organic agriculture, sustainability, genetics and genomics, biotic and abiotic stress, plant growth regulators, Field crops and production
Eleonora Cataldo

Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI), University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, ITALY

Research Interests: plant physiology and biochemistry, plant metabolism, plant ecology and evolution, plant bioinformatics, horticultural plants, medicinal plants, environmental physiology of plants
Huatao Chen

Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, CHINA

Research Interests: plant genomics, plant biotechnology, molecular biology, plant reaction to abiotic stress
Gianmarco Tavilla

National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research sect. Earth observation, Italy

Research Interests: plant ecology, Mediterranean flora, plant taxonomy, multivariate analysis, invasive plant species, remote sensing, plant nomenclature, vegetation, phytosociology, plant conservation, vascular flora, plant diversity, ethnobotany, salt marsh vegetation, and habitat conservation
Xiaotong Guo

Ludong University, CHINA

Research Interests: plant nutrition and molecular mechanisms; plant-soil interactions; hormones regulate plant response to nutrient stress
Eva Sánchez Hernández

Ingeniería Agrícola y Forestal, E.T.S. de Ingenierías Agrarias, Universidad de Valladolid, SPAIN

Research Interests: nanotechnology, plant extracts, phytopathology, microbiology
Hongbo Jiang

Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA

Research Interests: microbiology; fungi; phylogeny; diversity
Dilek Killi

Plant Production and Technologies Department, Konya Food and Agriculture University, Konya, TURKEY

Research Interests: plant physiology/ecophysiology, photosynthetic responses to abiotic stresses
Weibin Li

College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, CHINA

Research Interests: physiological regulation of plant carbon and water balance in relation to climate; vegetation survival and mortality; meta-analysis to quantify plant, and ecosystem-scale C & N cycling
Sen Meng

State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, CHINA

Research Interests: secondary metabolism; multi-omics; nitrogen metabolism; molecular biology; drought resistance
Shaibur Rahman Molla

Jashore University of Science and Technology, BANGLADESH

Research Interests: bio-control and bioenvironmental sciences
Roberta Passafiume

Università degli Studi di Palermo, ITALY

Research Interests: post-harvest fruit qualities；food processing；innovative technologies to improve shelf-life
Armin Saed-Mouchehshi

Horticulture and Crop Research Department, Kermanshah Agricultural & Natural Resources Research & Education Center (AREEO), Kermanshah, IRAN

Research Interests: plant breeding, abiotic stress, biostatistics
Noor Baity Saidi

Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, MALAYSIA

Research Interests: plant pathology, biological control, microbiome, molecular biology, host-pathogen interaction, plant defense signalling
Sandra Martins

Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB) University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, PORTUGAL

Research Interests: plant physiology; plant biochemistry; sustainable management; fruit quality; climate change adaptation and mitigation
Anis Ali Shah

Department of Botany, Division of Science and Technology, University of Education, Lahore, PAKISTAN

Research Interests: plant stress physiology, phytochemistry
Pengshuai Shao

Binzhou University, CHINA

Research Interests: interactions of Plant-soil-microbes
Liehua Tie

College of Forestry, Guizhou University, Guizhou, CHINA

Research Interests: the effects of global change (e.g., N deposition, P limitation, and drought), forest management on plant science, litter decomposition, soil C, N, and P biogeochemical cycle
Amaranatha Reddy Vennapusa

Delaware State University, Dover, DE, USA

Research Interests: botany, plant biology, stress physiology, plant biotechnology, molecular biology, genomics, herbicides and weed science
Eszter Virág

Institute of Metagenomics, University of Debrecen, HUNGARY

Research Interests: plant biology, physiology, stress, genetics
Zhanbiao Wang

Cotton Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, CHINA

Research Interests: crop cultivation and farming system; climate change; low-carbon agriculture; cropping system
Yue Wang

Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, CHINA

Research Interests: natural product analysis and metabolism research
Yunjian Xu

Yunnan University, CHINA

Research Interests: plants interact with microbes; mechanisms of nutrient uptake in plants
Chunyan Yu

Ludong University, CHINA

Research Interests: plant growth and development; molecular physiology of abiotic stress tolerance in crops and woody plants; sugar metabolism and wood formation in both crop and woody plants
Behcet İNAL

Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Agriculture Faculty, Siirt University, TURKEY

Research Interests: plant molecular biotechnology