Advisory Board and Editors Plant Science
Giuseppe Parrella
Dr. Giuseppe Parrella is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection of CNR, Italy.
Dr. Parrella's primary areas of expertise include plant virology, specifically with particular reference to bio-molecular characterization, diagnostics and epidemiology. He also considers Phytoplasmas and viroids among his study interests.
Dr. Parrella's current research topics include the study of the biological-molecular variability of the main viruses of horticultural, ornamental and aromatic crops; the development and validation of sensitive and highly specific diagnostic methods for the rapid diagnosis of viruses, with particular reference to emerging or recently introduced viruses and spread throughout the national territory (RT-PCR, cold probes, LAMP, real time RT-PCR, etc. .). Other interests of Dr. Parrella concern the research and characterization of sources of resistance to viruses in wild or cultivated germplasm; the use of beneficial microorganisms and their metabolites in the control of viroses; the identification and characterization of mitochondrial variants of Bemisia tabaci and of the associated geminiviruses and endosymbionts; the study of the impact of phytoviruses on human health.
Soraya Pelaz
I earned a PhD in development working with Drosophila in Ginés Morata laboratory in Madrid and later moved to flower development using another model system, Arabidopsis, in the Marty Yanofsky laboratory at UCSD, La Jolla, CA. Currently, I am an ICREA Research Professor at CRAG (Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics) located in Barcelona, Spain. I am very interested in the control of flowering and how other plant developmental processes are regulated by my favorite genes, TEMPRANILLO.
Alastair J Potts
I am interested in many aspects of South African œcology, including palaeovegetation distributions, plant phylogeography, drivers of biome boundaries and Albany Subtropical Thicket œcology (e.g. physiology, seed dispersal and restoration). I also spend time exploring the interface between phylogenetic trees and networks, as evolution is often poorly described using a bifurcating tree.
Bartosz J Płachno
Bartosz Jan Płachno (born in 1978), biologist specialized in plant anatomy, cytology and embryology, with particular emphasis on electron microscopy techniques. He mainly studies the structure of carnivorous plants. Scholarship holder of the Foundation for Polish Science and the Minister of Science and Higher Education. Professor of the Faculty of Biology of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He's also interested in fossil crinoids and art.
Santiago Ramirez-Barahona
I am specially interested in the ecological, geographical and historical factors that influence species and gene diversities at different spatial scales. For this, I'm studying different aspects of plant evolution, from genetic structure within and among populations to species diversification among lineages, community composition and distribution patterns.
Jenny Renaut
Responsible of the Environmental Research and Technology Platform
since 2015, and Leader of the Integrative Biology Platform at Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, including proteomics, metabolomics and genomics laboratories. Specialized in Plant proteomics, Chairwoman of the COST action FA0603 'Plant Proteomics in Europe', general secretary of the International Plant Proteomics Organization
Ana I.F. Ribeiro-Barros
PhD in Plant Molecular Biology (1997, Wageningen University and Research);
Director of the Tropical College, University of Lisbon (ULisboa);
Head of Research Lab and Professor of Cell Biology, Biotechnology, Microbiology and Tropical Ecosystems (School of Agriculture, ULisboa);
Invited professor Universidade da Madeira (Portugal), Eduardo Mondlane University and Gorongosa National Park (Mozambique;
Area of scientific activity (25+ years): Agrobiotechnology applied to the management and characterization of agro-forestry resources: Biodiversity; Conservation Genetics; Ethnobotany; Landscape genomics; Molecular Ecology; Plant-Environment Interactions (symbioses, pathogenesis and abiotic stresses); Soil diversity.
Scientific Identifiers:
Ciência Vitae: 081F-E3CE-9D52
ORCID: 0000-0002-6071-6460
Scopus: 35557486600
Google: https://scholar.google.pt/citations?hl=en&authuser=2&user=hzAWUTUAAAAJ
Diego Romero
Associate Professor of Microbiology in University of Málaga (Spain). Head of Department of Microbiology and Crop Protection in IHSM-UMA-CSIC. Past Ramon y Cajal Investigator. Postdoctoral training in Harvard Medical School.
Rajib Roychowdhury
Dr. Rajib Roychowdhury is a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research in Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) - The Volcani Center, Israel. His primary research interest is focused on crop genomics and genetics for abiotic stress response and disease resistance mechanism. Presently he is working on viral disease resistance of citrus and grapevine. Previously he worked on major cereals (wheat. Rice, barley) and berry fruits (strawberry, blueberry) for fungal disease resistance, yield and quality improvement, and osmotic stress (drought, heat, salinity) tolerance under challenging climate. He worked a lot on mutation breeding in carnation, which was a pioneer work on this floricultural crop in South-East Asia. He was elected as a Fellow Member of the Linnaean Society of London, UK. His biography was published in the Pearl Edition of Marquis Who’sWho of the World, USA. In 2019, he got the travel award by International Wheat Initiative (Germany) for presenting his research in 1 st International Wheat Congress, Saskatoon, Canada. He has a plenty number of impacted research papers, review articles, invited chapters and books in both international and nationally reputed journals and publishers. Currently he is serving in the editorial board of Frontiers in Genetics, Agronomy, South African Journal of Botany.
Yann Salmon
University researcher in tree ecophysiology at the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, University of Helsinki
Juliana Schietti
I am a plant ecologist and my interests include forest structure and dynamics, species diversity, plant traits and relationships with environmental gradients. I am an Ecology professor and researcher at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) and an associate researcher at the National Institute for Amazonia Research (INPA) in Manaus, Brazil.
Ahmet Tansel Serim
Dr. Ahmet Tansel Serim is an Associate Professor at Bilecik Seyh Edebali University. Turkey. He completed his B.Sc. in Plant Protection at Ankara University in 1997, and his Ph.D. in Weed Science at Ankara University in 2010.
Dr. Serim has worked at the Plant Protection Central Research Institute as an agricultural engineer, Directorate of Testing Agricultural Machinery and Tools, and General Directorate of Agricultural Research and Policy. He has also been a visiting researcher at Tuscia University, researching sustainable soil and water management.
Dr. Serim's research interests include weed science, weed biology and ecology, weed management strategies, herbicides, herbicide resistance, integrated weed management, rare arable weeds, weed suppression, allelopathy, cropping systems, population dynamics, carryover of herbicides, water stress-effects on crops and selectivity of herbicides.