Prof.  Olubukola Oluranti Babalola

Food Security and Safety Focus Area, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University, Private Bag X2046, Mmabatho, 2735, South Africa.

Research Interests: rhizospheric soil; soil metagenomics; plant-microbe interactions; biofertilizer; rhizobiome; sequencing; rhizosphere; PGPR; bioinformatics; agricultural microbiology.

Prof.  Zhaoshi Xu

State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Resources and Breeding, Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing 100081, China.

Research Interests: molecular regulation mechanism of wheat drought resistance; molecular breeding of wheat drought resistance; analyzing the signal transmission mechanism of wheat drought resistance; providing a theoretical basis for wheat drought resistance breeding.

Dr.  Babar Shahzad

Department of Animal, Plant & Soil Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Research Interests: salt stress physiology; abiotic stress physiology; heavy metal stress; drought stress.

Dr.  Qianwen Zhang

Truck Crops Branch Experiment Station, Mississippi State University, 2024 Experiment Station Road, Crystal Springs, MS 39059, United States.

Research Interests: organic agriculture; biostimulant application; controlled environment agriculture; hydroponics; analytical chemistry; food science; microbiology; sensory evaluation.

Prof.  Adamo Rombolà

Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Viale G. Fanin, 44, Bologna, 40127, Italy.

Research Interests: nutrition of woody crops; sustainable management of soil and water resources in woody crops; quality of fruits of woody crops; viticulture; ecophysiology of woody crops; development; management and dissemination of agroecological and agroforestry systems; protection and valorization of woody species biodiversity.

Dr.  Johann Martínez-Lüscher

Plant Stress Physiology group (Associated Unit to EEAD, CSIC), BIOMA Institute for Biodiversity and the Environment, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.

Research Interests: digital agriculture; viticulture; flavonoids; fruit ripening; climate change; ultraviolet radiation; water deficit; elevated CO2; bud dormancy; phenology.

Prof.  Saman Seneweera

• 1. School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
• 2. Department of Agricultural Engineering and Environmental Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ruhuna, Kamburupitiya, Sri Lanka.

Research Interests: plant stress physiology; photosynthesis; respiration; grain quality; zinc and iron biofortification; plant nutrient use efficiency and plant response to elevated CO2.

Prof.  Inmaculada Pascual

Plant Stress Physiology group (Associated Unit to EEAD, CSIC), BIOMA Institute for Biodiversity and the Environment, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

Research Interests: plant physiology; grapevine; plant stress; photosynthesis; climate change

Prof.  Yerco Moreno Simunovic

Centro Tecnológico de la Vid y el Vino, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad de Talca, 2 Norte 685, Casilla 747, Talca 3460000, Chile.

Research Interests: bioclimatic indices; volatile compounds; phenolic compounds; pruning cuts; amino acids; viticulture; grape ecophysiology; grapevine selection; rootstocks.

Dr.  Georgia Ouzounidou

Institute of Technology of Agricultural Products, ELGO-DIMITRA, Lycovrissi, Attika,141 23, Greece.

Research Interests: plant biology; plant stress physiology; biostimulant application; plant nutrition; postharvest physiology; bioenergetics of photosynthesis.

Assoc. Prof.  Ferenc Fodor

Department of Plant Physiology and Molecular Plant Biology, Eötvös Loránd University, 1/C Pázmány Péter sétány, 1117 Budapest, Hungary.

Research Interests: iron deficiency; cucumber plants; photosynthesis; cadmium; iron.

Dr.  Nazareth Torres

Department of Agronomy, Biotechnology and Food Science, Public University of Navarre, 31006 Pamplona, Spain.

Research Interests: grapevine physiology under climate change conditions; symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, polyphenols, and crop management; plant physiology; grapevine; plant stress.

Dr.  Marouane Baslam

• 1. Laboratory of Agro-Food, Biotechnologies and Valorization of Plant Bioresources (AGROBIOVAL), Department of Biology, Faculty of Science Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, 40000, Marrakesh, Morocco.
• 2. Laboratory of Biochemistry, Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Niigata, Niigata, 950-2181, Japan.

Research Interests: climate-smart agronomy; vertical farming; controlled-environment agriculture; microbiome-plant interactions; biotechnology for stress resilience; precision and digital agriculture; sustainable crop production.

Prof.  Ajmi Larbi

Research Laboratory “Integrated Olive Production in Humid, Sub Humid and Upper Semi-Arid Regions”, Olive Tree Institute, University of Sfax, BP1087, 3000, Sfax, Tunisia.

Research Interests: olive growing; fertilisation; production systems; physiology; salinity stress; agroforestry.

Dr.  Mónica Pineda

Departamento de Estrés, Desarrollo y Señalización en Plantas, Estación Experimental del Zaidín (EEZ-CSIC). Profesor Albareda, 1. C.P. 18008, Granada, Spain.

Research Interests: photosynthesis; chlorophyll fluorescence imaging; multicolour fluorescence imaging; thermal imaging.

Dr.  Alvaro Sanz-Saez

Department of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences, 201 Funchess Hall, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.

Research Interests: crop sciences; plant sciences; high-throughput phenotyping; abiotic stress; symbiosis; photosynthesis; nitrogen fixation; high temperature; carbon dioxide; water use efficiency.