Editorial Board

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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Editor-in-Chief
Group of Fruit Biotechnology, Department of Fruit Breeding, CEBAS-CSIC, P.O. Box 164, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Interests: antioxidant systems; ASC-GSH cycle; halophyte plants; hormone profile; hydrogen peroxide; reactive oxygen species; redox signaling; proteomic; saline agriculture; salinity; seed biology; seed dormancy
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Biotechnology for Agriculture and Food Group, Campus de Los Jerónimos, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM), 30107 Murcia, Spain
Interests: plant physiology; stress physiology; abiotic stress; salinity; antioxidative metabolism; water saving strategies; postharvest technology; ornamental plants; rice; fruit trees
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Association BLC3—Campus of Technology and Innovation, Centre BIO R&D Unit | North Delegation, Rua Comendador Emílio Augusto Pires, Edifício Side Up, 5340-257 Macedo de Cavaleiros, Portugal
Interests: agricultural innovation; abiotic stress responses; omics approaches; seed development and germination; seed technology
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Department of Biology and Biotechnology ‘Lazzaro Spallanzani’, University of Pavia, via Ferrata 9, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Interests: seed germination; DNA repair; genotoxic stress; antioxidant response
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Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura, CSIC, Grupo de Biotecnología de Frutales, Departamento de Mejora Vegetal, E-30100 Murcia, Spain
Interests: Antioxidant metabolism; biosaline agriculture; crop management; Plant biotechnology and breeding; plant stress physiology; proteomics, molecular biology; redox biology; seed germination
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Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
Interests: autophagy; autophagic body degradation; plant physiology and biochemistry; programmed cell death (PCD); pexophagy; seed metabolism; selective autophagy; sugar starvation; seed development and germination; storage lipid metabolism; uncommon nucleotides; vacuolar processing enzymes (VPE); vacuole
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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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National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement and Utilization, Jiangsu Province Engineering Research Center of Seed Industry Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: seed germination; seed vigour; seed dormancy; salt stress; abiotic stresses; molecular biology
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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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Biologie des Semences, UMR 7622, IBPS, Sorbonne Université, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
Interests: seed biology; seed germination and dormancy; seed ageing and storage; seed quality and priming; key factors of germination (temperature and oxygen); hormonal regulation by absicic acid and ethylene; reactive oxygen species and antioxidants

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CEBAS-CSIC, Department of Plant Breeding, Campus de Espinardo, P.O. Box 164, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Interests: salt-stress response; abiotic and biotic stresses; growth regulator; antioxidant; antioxidative metabolism; Environmental Stresses; oxidative stress; cell proliferation; metabolomics; plant tissue culture; plant physiology and biochemistry; reactive oxygen species
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School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
Interests: crop physiology; crop genetics and genomics; plant-microbe interaction; seed physiology; seed priming
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IRHS, Agrocampus-Ouest, INRA, Université d’Angers, SFR 4207 QUASAV, 49000 Angers, France
Interests: seed response to biotic and abiotic constraints; seed developmental transitions through maturation; germination and seedling emergency
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Department of Plant Sciences and Powell Research Center, University of Wyoming, Powell, WY, USA
Interests: crop yield physiology; common bean; chickpea, yield components; pod and seed set, seed protein

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Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
Interests: plant lipid biochemistry; oil accumulation; protein content; fatty acid composition; omega-3 content; mucilage

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Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Department of Stress, Development and Signaling in Plants, Estacion Experimental del Zaidin, Profesor Albareda Street, 1, E-18008 Granada, Spain
Interests: plant biochemistry; plant molecular and cell biology; seed biology; functional foods; molecular nutraceutics; legumes; pulse; lupinus ssp. pollen and seed allergen proteins; molecular allergy; food allergen; proteomics; transcriptomics; metabolomics and allergomics; computational biology; proteins structure modeling and functional characterization; proteins docking and molecular dynamics
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Department of Horticulture, Aristotle University, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: cultivation techniques for vegetable production; quality of vegetable products; hydroponic vegetable production; postharvest physiology of vegetables; role of light on vegetables’ growth; quality of seedlings; quality and seed germination; vegetable grafting; innovative forms of vegetable products; organic cultivation of vegetables
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Key Laboratory for Forest Resources Conservation and Utilization in the Southwest Mountains of China, Ministry of Education, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, China
Interests: molecular regulation of unusual fatty acids and lipids biosynthesis in oilseeds; functional genomes of oilseed crops; epigenetic regulation of seed development and storage materials

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Department of Genebank, Research Group Resources Genetics and Reproduction Corrensstrasse 3, OT Gatersleben, D-06466 Seeland, Germany
Interests: genebank management; long-term seed storage; plant taxonomy; medicinal & aromatic plants; legumes; molecular studies

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Centro Conservazione Biodiversità, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell’Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Viale S. Ignazio da Laconi 11, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
Interests: seed ecology; ex-situ Conservation; seed banking; seed dormancy and germination; conservation; threatened species; rural seed banks
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Department of Development Economics, Wageningen University and Plantum, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Interests: seeds; biodiversity; property law; genetic resources for plant species; gene banks; development cooperation; plant breeding and genetics; variety testing; seed inspection; seed regulations; breeder's rights; seed production
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National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics & Germplasm Enhancement and Utilization, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Interests: seed vigor; seed molecular biology
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Department of Biology and Biotechnology “L. Spallanzani”, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Interests: DNA damage response (DDR); microRNAs; abiotic stress response; systems biology; seed biology
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Tuscia Germplasm Bank, Tuscia University, Largo dell’Università—Blocco C, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
Interests: conservation biology; plant ecology; seed/spore ecology and conservation; germination ecology; orchid conservation; fern and lycophyte conservation
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Departamento de Biología Funcional (Área Fisiología Vegetal), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Interests: molecular and physiological aspects of seeds development
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Laboratory of Pomology, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 570 01 Thessaloniki-Thermi, Greece
Interests: fruit ripening biology; fruit tree physiology; metabolomics; olive cultivation; proteomics
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Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Kyoto 606-8522, Japan
Interests: reactive oxygen species; oxidative stress; abiotic stress response; redox regulation; germination; seed storage proteins; rice
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Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, Nowoursynowska 159 Str., 02-776 Warsaw, Poland
Interests: antioxidant system; gene silencing; light signaling; phytohormones; proteasome; protein turnover; reactive oxygen species; seed germination and dormancy; allelopathy; transcription factors; transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression
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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto per la BioEconomia (IBE), 95126 Catania, Italy
Interests: seed germination; abiotic stresses; deficit irrigation; agronomy; crop management; energy biomass crops
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Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for the Conservation of Biodiversity (CCB), University of Cagliari, Viale Sant’Ignazio da Laconi 11-13, 09123 Cagliari, Italy
Interests: seed germination; salt stress and recovery; invasive species; Mediterranean coastal habitats; environmental restoration coastal habitats; plant ecology; biodiversity conservation
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