Advisory Board and Editors Plant Science
Sapna Langyan
Sapna Langyan is a scientist at ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, India. She holds an experience of more than 11 years in agricultural research. She aims to contribute towards food and nutritional security of the world and alleviating malnutrition through research support. She has more than 30 research papers, book chapters, conference proceedings and many others in reputed national and international journals and also holds editorship of many reputed journals including Frontiers. She has also edited one book on ‘Maize: Nutrition dynamics and novel uses’, published by Springer https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9788132216223. She has been awarded many prestigious awards, fellowship and grants throughout her research career by premier science academies and by the Govt. of India.
Gerard R. Lazo
Geneticist with the Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, CA, USA.
Tong Geon Lee
Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Corn, Tomato, Soybean, Wheat-Rye Translocation
Jim Leebens-Mack
Prof. James H. Leebens-Mack is a Professor of Plant Biology within the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Georgia, US.
His research employs genomic, phylogenetic and experimental analyses to investigate the genetic and ecology processes that influence diversification. Specific interests include the molecular genetics of diversification including speciation; the molecular basis of adaptation; the evolution of genome structure; genomic processes influencing gene family evolution; the evolutionary consequences of species interactions; and the coevolution of genes interacting in regulatory and developmental pathways.
Marcello Salvatore Lenucci
Dr. Marcello Salvatore Lenucci graduated with honors in Biological Sciences at the University of Lecce in 1996. He obtained the qualification to the profession of biologist in 1998. In 2000 he specialized with honors in Biotechnological Applications at the University of Bari. In 2001, during his PhD, he spent a period of 18 months in the laboratory of Prof. SC Fry at the "Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology" , University of Edinburgh, UK. In 2003 he obtained the title of PhD in Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Lecce and received the "Italian Botanical Society Award" for the best doctoral thesis of the year 2003. From 2003 to 2008 he carried out activities as research fellow. Since 2008 he has been a researcher at the University of Salento. He is currently Associate Professor and holds various teaching positions in the study courses of Biology. He is part of the teaching staff for the PhD in Nanotechnology of the University of Salento. He has participated in several research projects; he is the author of numerous publications in national and international journals, mostly in JCR newspapers. He is a member of the Italian Botanical Society. he is the author of numerous publications in national and international journals, mostly in JCR journals. He is a member of the Italian Botanical Society. he is the author of numerous publications in national and international journals, mostly in JCR journals. He is a member of the Italian Botanical Society.
Efi Levizou
Associate Professor in Plant Physiology at the Department of Agriculture, Crop Production and Rural Environment, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece. My research interests lie in the field of Plant Stress Physiology and I’m particularly interested in studying how plants cope with degraded irrigation water and soils. Focus is given on the effects of cyanotoxins-rich irrigation water on plant function as well as on how enhanced levels of potentially harmful trace elements in soil affect plant performance, in the phytoremediation context. Recent research projects include the study of crop function and the identification of possible stress factors in aquaponics production systems.
Xin Li
Professor of plant immunity with over twenty years of research experience in the field of molecular plant-microbe interactions.
Chun Liang
Professor in Bioinformatics, Biology Department, Miami University, Ohio, USA
Fernando Lidon
Prof. Fernando Lidon is Full Professor within the Department of Earth Sciences in the Faculty of Science and Technology of the New University of Lisbon.
His research interests include, Phytotechnology, Food Technology, Biochemistry, Plant Physiology and Agro Industry.
Ivy Sichinga Ligowe
Dr. Ivy Sichinga Ligowe is a researcher within the Department of Forestry at Mzuzu University in Malawi.
Her research interests include, Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture, Agricultural Development, Soil Fertility and Analysis, Plant Nutrition, and Crop Production.
Charlotte Lindqvist
Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo 2010-present; Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Associate, University of Oslo 2003-2008; PhD, University of Copenhagen 2003.
Rafael Lira Saade
Prof. Rafael Lira Saade is a Mexican botanist specializing in plant systematics, ethnobotany, and phytogeography. He earned his undergraduate degree in biology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), with a thesis on the pteridological flora of the Sierra de Santa Marta in Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz. He pursued his master’s studies at the Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Sobre Recursos Bióticos (INIREB), focusing on the taxonomy and ethnobotany of the Cucurbitaceae family in the Yucatán Peninsula. Lira Saade later completed his PhD at UNAM with a dissertation on the taxonomy of the genus Sechium P. Br. (Cucurbitaceae).
Currently, he is a full-time professor (titular 'B') at UNAM's Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala. His research centers on the demography of useful plants and has resulted in the publication of over 60 scientific articles, 7 books, and 10 book chapters. A dedicated mentor, he has supervised numerous undergraduate and postgraduate theses.