Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany Open Access Editors-in-Chief: Carlos A. Busso, Xiangyang Hu
Editorial Board
Editors-in-Chief
Carlos A. Busso

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

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

Xiangyang Hu

Shanghai University, CHINA   

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

Interests: abiotic stress, phytohormones, oxidative stress, heavy metals

 

Jun Cao

Jiangsu University, CHINA  

Interests: comparative genomics, molecular evolution, plant molecular genetics

 

Fadi Chen

Nanjing Agricultural University, CHINA  

Interests: horticulture research

 

Xuewu Duan

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

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  

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  

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

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

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

 

María Vanessa Lencinas

CADIC (CONICET), ARGENTINA

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

 

Qianfeng Li

Yangzhou University, CHINA

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Shucai Wang

Linyi University, CHINA

Interests: plant physiology

 

Wenzhi Yang

Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, CHINA

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

 

Feihai Yu

Taizhou University, CHINA

Interests: biological invasions, clonal growth, environmental heterogeneity

 

Hongxia Zhang

Qingdao Agriculture University, CHINA

Interests: salt tolerant and drought tolerant plant

Editorial Board Members

Osama M. Ahmed

Beni-Suef University, EGYPT

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

 

Mukhtar Ahmed

PMAS Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, PAKISTAN

Interests: agroecosystem modeling and climate change

 

Mohd. Sayeed Akhtar

Gandhi Faiz-e-Aam College, INDIA

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

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

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

 

Giovanni Bacaro

University of Trieste, ITALY

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  

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  

Interests: forestry sciences (tree somatic cell propagation)

 

Julián Cuevas

Department of Agronomy, University of Almeria, Almeria, SPAIN

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

Interests: soil biochemistry; molecular biology; microbiology; soil science

 

Weixin Ding

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

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

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

Interests: crop genetics and breeding , plant molecular biology

 

Changan Geng

Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA

Interests: natural products, active constituents, LCMS analysis, isolation and structural elucidation

 

Bimal Kumar Ghimire

Konkuk University, REPUBLIC OF KOREA

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

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

Interests: mycology, phytoremediation, green synthesis of nanoparticles, microbiology, biotechnology

 

Junfei Gu

College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, CHINA

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

Interests: drought, heavy metals, stress, plant, salinity

 

Huyi He

Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, CHINA

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

Interests: plant pathology, crop protection, integrated pest management, sustainable agriculture, precision agriculture

 

Mohammad Anwar Hossain

Bangladesh Agricultural University, BANGLADESH

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

Interests: abiotic stress, photosynthetic physiology, and crop production

 

Min Huang

Hunan Agricultural University, CHINA

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

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

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

 

Xiuliang Jin

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

Interests: remote sensing, precision agriculture, crop phenotyping, crops, yield

 

Youssef Khamis

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

Interests: plant Pathology, postharvest pathology, fruit diseases, applied microbiology

 

Arafat Abdel Hamed Abdel Latef

South Valley University, EGYPT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interests: plant physiology

 

Adele Muscolo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interests: essential oils; chemical composition; seasonal variation; chemotypes; antibacterial activity; antifungal activity

 

Ioannis E. Papadakis

Agricultural University of Athens, GREECE

Interests: horticulture (grape)

 

Alessio Papini

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

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

 

Diego Pizzeghello

DAFNAE of University of Padova, Padua, ITALY

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

Interests: horticulture (olive; apple)

 

Jianqiang Qian

Institue of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA

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

 

Rahmatullah Qureshi

Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, PAKISTAN

Interests: ethnobotany, medicinal plants and their bioactivity

 

Ain Raal

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

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

 

Anshu Rastogi

Poznan University of Life Sciences, POLAND

Interests: stress physiology, photosynthesis, fluorescence, sun-induced fluorescence

 

Reiaz Ul Rehman

Department of Bioresources, University of Kashmir, INDIA

Interests: plant biology and stress physiology

 

Domenico Ronga

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

Interests: agronomy, horticulture, crop physiology, precision agriculture, sustainability

 

Yukui Rui

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Anket Sharma

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

Interests: abiotic stress tolerance, brassinosteroids, phytohormones, heavy metals, plant metabolomics

 

Mohamed Salah Amr Sheteiwy

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

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

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

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

Interests: molecular biology, genetics, microbiology

 

Ramasamy Srinivasan

World Vegetable Center, TAIWAN, CHINA

Interests: plant protection

 

Milan Stanković

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

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

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  

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

 

Bo Sun

College of Horticulture, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, CHINA

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

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

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

Interests: abiotic stress tolerance, nutrient metabolism,ion transport, BTW

 

Yuanwen Teng

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

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

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

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

 

Chunpeng Wan

Jiangxi Agricultural University, CHINA

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

Interests: ascomycota, fungal diversity, phylogeny, taxonomy, canopy research

 

Zhengwen Wang

Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA

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

 

Fuzhong Wu

Fujian Normal University, CHINA

Interests: forest ecology

 

Qiangsheng Wu

Yangtze University, CHINA

Interests: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plant growth

 

Junzeng Xu

Hohai University, CHINA

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

Interests: mechanism of biosynthesis of plant secondary metabolites

 

Pingfang Yang

Hubei University, CHINA

Interests: plant proteomics

 

Nenghui Ye

Hunan Agriculture University, CHINA

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

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

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

Interests: remote sensing of vegetation

 

Sheng Zhang

Sichuan University, CHINA

Interests: plant proteomics, metabonomics and molecular biology

 

Yuhong Zheng

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

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

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

 

Sikandar Amanullah

College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Northeast Agricultural University, CHINA

Interests: molecular genetics and breeding in melon and watermelon, 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

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

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

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

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

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

Interests: nanotechnology, plant extracts, phytopathology, microbiology

 

Hongbo Jiang

Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA

Interests: microbiology; fungi; phylogeny; diversity

 

Dilek Killi

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

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

 

Weibin Li

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

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

Interests: secondary metabolism; multi-omics; nitrogen metabolism; molecular biology; drought resistance

 

Shaibur Rahman Molla

Jashore University of Science and Technology, BANGLADESH

Interests: bio-control and bioenvironmental sciences

 

Roberta Passafiume

Università degli Studi di Palermo, ITALY

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

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

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

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

Interests: plant stress physiology, phytochemistry

 

Pengshuai Shao

Binzhou University, CHINA

Interests: interactions of Plant-soil-microbes

 

Liehua Tie

College of Forestry, Guizhou University, Guizhou, CHINA

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

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

 

Eszter Virág

Institute of Metagenomics, University of Debrecen, HUNGARY

Interests: plant biology, physiology, stress, genetics

 

Zhanbiao Wang

Cotton Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, CHINA

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

 

Yue Wang

Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, CHINA

Interests: natural product analysis and metabolism research

 

Yunjian Xu

Yunnan University, CHINA

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

 

Chunyan Yu

Ludong University, CHINA

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

Interests: plant molecular biotechnology