Editorial Board

15 Editors in 7 Countries/Regions

China (7)

Mexico (2)

United States (2)

Greece (1)

Pakistan (1)

Serbia (1)

Sweden (1)

Editor-in-Chief

Rodomiro Ortiz

rodomiro.ortiz@slu.se

Professor, Department of Plant Breeding, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Alnarp), Sweden

Research Interests: Basic, strategic and applied research in crop improvement and crop quality.

Associate Editors

Palacios Rojas Natalia

Head of Department, Global Maize program, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Texcoco, Mexico

Research Interests: Plant biochemistry, food chemistry, crop improvement

Boddupalli Maruthi Prasanna

Regional Director for Asia at the Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Texcoco, Mexico

Research Interests: • Maize germplasm improvement • Drought tolerance breeding • Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) resistance • Vitamin E enrichment in maize (biofortification) • Genomic prediction and genome-wide association studies (GWAS) • Root architecture and salinity tolerance • Mycotoxin management (Gibberella ear rot) • Sustainable pest management • Seed systems and participatory trials with farmers

Editorial Board Member

Muhammad Adeel

Associate Professor, Advanced Institute of Natural Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China

Research Interests: Environmental Nanobiotechnology, Nano safety, Rhizosphere Engineering, Crop improvement, Soil fauna

Mukhtar Ahmed

Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy, University of Arid Agriculture: Rawalpindi, Punjab, PK

Research Interests: Climate Change impact assessment, Modeling and Remote sensing/GIS, Climate extremes Adaptation, Modelling biomass flows, Biogeochemical cycling

Fernando M. Alferez

Associate Professor, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Immokalee, FL 34142, USA

Research Interests: fruit ripening; citrus quality; postharvest physiology

Watkins Christopher Brian

Professor, School of Integrative Plant Science, Horticulture Section, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States

Research Interests: Agricultural Development, Postharvest Science Of Fruits And Vegetables, Sustainable Agriculture And Food Systems, Value Chains

Min Huang

Professor, Department of Agronomy, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Research Interests: Rice physiology; Rice cultivation; Nitrogen management; Nitrogen use efficiency; Rice grain quality; Yield–quality relationships; Cropping systems; Sustainable agriculture.

Spyridon A. Petropoulos

Professor, Department of Agriculture, Crop Production and Rural Environment, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

Research Interests: bioactive compounds; essential oils; fruit quality; greenhouse production; horticulture; salinity; stress physiology; vegetable quality; vegetable production; water stress

Nikola Puvača

Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Management in Biotechnology, University Business Academy in Novi Sad Novi Sad, Serbia

Research Interests: Animal Nutrition, Food Quality, Toxicology

Fulu Tao

Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, and University of Chinese Academy of Science Beijing, China.

Research Interests: Agricultural systems modeling, Climate-smart agriculture & adaptation, Food-water-energy nexus, Crop productivity & GEM interactions

Jianmin Wan

Professor, National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China

Research Interests: Rice genetics; Molecular breeding; Grain quality; Yield–quality relationships; Crop improvement; Genomic selection; Disease resistance.

Feibo Wu

Professor, Institute of Crop Science, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, China

Research Interests: Molecular physiology of abiotic stress tolerance in crops; gene expression; gene regulation; Molecular Physiology of Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops

Wei Wu

Professor, College of Tropical Crops, Hainan University, Haikou, China

Research Interests: Crop quality & lodging resistance, Nitrogen & mulching management, GEM interactions & sustainability

Pei Xu

Professor and Dean of the College of Life Sciences, Director, Zhejiang-Israel Joint Lab for Plant Metrology & Equipment Innovation, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Research Interests: Plant phenomics; Molecular breeding; Crop genomics; Vegetable crops; Legume biology; Stress response; Crop quality and safety.

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