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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Takuji Sasaki
New Content ItemNODAI Research Institute, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan






 

MANAGING EDITOR

Baltazar A Antonio
New Content ItemJapan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Japan






 

ADVISORY BOARD

David Mackill
New Content ItemUniversity of California Davis, USA
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Specialisms: Rice, Breeding, Genetics

 


Susan McCouch
New Content ItemCornell University, United States of America
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Specialisms: Rice, Stress tolerance, Molecular genetics




Blake Meyers
New Content ItemDonald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA
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Specialisms: Small RNA, Gene expression, Genomics, Evolution




Antonio Costa de Oliveira
New Content Item (1)Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil
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Specialisms: Cereal genomics. Abiotic and biotic stresses response mechanisms, Transcription factor regulation


 

Gynheung An, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
Emmanuel Guiderdoni, CIRAD, France
Bin Han, National Center for Gene Research, China
Yue-ie Caroline Hsing, Academia Sinica Plant Genome Center, Taiwan
Gurdev Khush, University of California, Davis, United States of America
Jan Leach, Colorado State University, United States of America
Graham Moore, John Innes Centre, United Kingdom
Naoko Nishizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Andy Pereira, University of Arkansas, United States of America
Pamela C Ronald, University of California, Davis, United States of America
Narayana Upadhyaya, CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia
Rod A Wing, University of Arizona, United States of America
Takaki Yamauchi, Nagoya University, Japan
Qifa Zhang, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Qian Qian, China National Rice Research Institute, China

EDITORIAL BOARD

Siwaret Arikit
New Content ItemKasetsart University, Thailand
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Specialisms: Molecular Breeding, Functional Genomics, Epigenomics
 



Motoyuki Ashikari
New Content ItemNagoya University, Japan
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Specialisms: Stem elongation




Dai-Yin Chao
New Content ItemCAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, China
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Specialisms: Ionomics, Heavy metal, Abiotic stress, Plant nutrition




Chengcai Chu
New Content ItemSouth China Agricultural University, China
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Specialisms: Nutrients, Nitrogen use efficiency, Nitrogen signaling, Crop, Rice




Concha Domingo
New Content ItemInstituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias, Spain
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Specialisms: Breeding, Genetic diversity, Functional genomics, Salinity




Masaki Endo
New Content ItemNational Institute of Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan
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Specialisms: Genome editing, CRISPR/Cas9, Transformation, Rice

 


Shuichi Fukuoka
New Content ItemNational Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan
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Specialisms: Genetics of disease resistance




Jitender Giri
New Content ItemNIPGR, India
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Twitter: @jitende00944955
Specialisms: Rice, Roots, Phosphate, Gene editing, Transgenics, Plant nutrition



Amelia Henry
New Content ItemInternational Rice Research Institute, Philippines
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Specialisms: Drought, Root, Abiotic stress, Field
 



Sigrid Heuer
New Content ItemNIAB, UK
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Specialisms: Crop improvement, Heat, Drought, Nitrogen, Phosphorus
 



Kiyosumi Hori
New Content ItemNational Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Japan
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Specialisms: Genetics, QTL mapping, Grain quality




Takeshi Itoh
New Content ItemNational Taiwan University, Taiwan
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Specialisms: Bioinformatics, Molecular evolution




Cheng-Ruei Lee
New Content ItemNational Taiwan University, Taiwan
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Twitter: @ChengRuei_Lee
Specialisms: Population genetics, Genomics, Evolution, Adaptation
 

Mathias Lorieux
New Content ItemIRD, France
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Specialisms: Interspecific sterility, Meiotic recombination, QTL mapping, Nested-Association Mapping, Imputaiton


 

Jian Feng Ma
New Content ItemOkayama University, Japan
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Specialisms: Plant nutrition, Transporter, Toxic metal
 



Amane Makino
New Content ItemTohoku University, Japan
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Specialisms: Photosynthesis; Nitrogen utilization
 



Gloria Mosquera
New Content Item (1)International Center for Tropical Agriculture, CIAT, Colombia
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Specialisms: Pathology, Microbiology, Disease resistance, Races, Gene discovery, Molecular, Pathogens
 



Keisuke Nagai
New Content ItemNagoya University, Japan
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Specialisms: Rice, Internode, Flooding, Aerenchyma, gibberellin, Hypoxia




Atsushi Nagano
New Content ItemRyukoku University / Keio University, Japan
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Specialisms: Field transcriptome, Genomics, Environmental response
 



Yuki Nakamura
New Content ItemRIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan
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Specialisms: Lipid metabolism, Lipid biochemistry
 



Kenneth Olsen
New Content ItemWashington University in St. Louis, USA
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Specialisms: Crop domestication genomics, Wild relatives, Genetics of adaptation




Yidan Ouyang
New Content ItemHuazhong Agricultural University, China
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Specialisms: Heterosis, Hybrid sterility, Male sterility, Yield




Nam-Chon Paek
New Content ItemSeoul National University, Republic of Korea
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Specialisms: Rice, Abiotic stress tolerance, Senescence, Flowering time




Nelson Saibo
New Content ItemITQB NOVA, Portugal
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Specialisms: Abiotic stress, Drought, Salinity, Cold, heat, Photosynthesis, Phytochrome, Phytochrome interacting factor
 

 

Yutaka Sato
New Content ItemNational Institute of Genetics, Japan
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Specialisms: Rice, Wild oryza, development, Embryo, Eeristem, Evolution




Jian Sun
New Content ItemShenyang Agricultural University, China
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Specialisms: Rice Genetics, Functional genomics, Weedy rice




Didier Tharreau
New Content Item (1)CIRAD, France
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Specialisms: Plant-pathogen interactions, Phytopathology, Resistance, Fungi, Rice blast, Brown spot, Genetics, Population
 


Michael Thomson
New Content ItemTexas A&M University, USA
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Specialisms: Rice genetics, Crop gene editing, Molecular breeding
 



Akhilesh Kumar Tyagi
New Content ItemUniversity of Delhi, India
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Specialisms: Genomics, Development, Abiotic stress




Yusaku Uga
New Content Item (1)National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan
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Twitter: @UgaZaku
Specialisms: QTL cloning, Root genetics, Abiotic stress resistance, High-throughput phenotyping
 


Guo-Liang Wang
New Content ItemOhio State University, United States of America
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Specialisms: Plant disease resistance and genomics
 



Yoshiyuki Yamagata
New Content ItemKyushu University, Japan
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Specialisms: Rice, QTL mapping and cloning, Reproductive isolation, Pollen, Wild species domestication




Toshio Yamamoto
A person in a blue shirtDescription automatically generatedOkayama University, Japan
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Specialisms: Rice breeding, Genetic diversity, Quantitative trait




Takaki Yamauchi 
Nagoya University, Japan
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Specialisms: Root development, Abiotic stress tolerance, Physiology and molecular biology of plants


 

 

Masahiro Yano
New Content ItemNational Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Japan
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Specialisms: Genetics, QTL mapping, Map-base cloning, Marker-assisted selection, Rice




Fang-Jie Zhao
New Content ItemNanjing Agricultural University, China
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Specialisms: Nutrients, Heavy metals, Transporters




Xiaoming Zheng
New Content ItemChinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, IRRI, China
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Specialisms: Germplasms, Wild rice, Population Genetics, Domestication, Adaptation




Dao-Xiu Zhou
New Content ItemUniversité Paris-Saclay, France
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Specialisms: Rice, Epigenetics, Chromatin, Histone modiifcation, DNA methylation




Shunsuke Adachi, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology,  Tokyo, Japan
Georgia C. Eizenga, Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, United States of America
Cécile Grenier, CIRAD, France
Jong-Seong Jeon, Kyung Hee University,  Republic of Korea
Yulin Jia, USDA, United States of America
Sanjay Kapoor, University of Delhi, India
Toshihiro Kumamaru, Kyushu University, Japan
Chengzhi Liang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jai Rohila, USDA-ARS, Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, United States of America
Blanca San Segundo, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Spain
Lianguang Shang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Hiroyuki Tsuji, Yokohama City University, Japan
Chih-Wei Tung, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Shinjiro Yamaguchi, Kyoto University, Japan
Bing Yang, University of Missouri, United States of America

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