Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Yi Li, Professor
Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
University of Connecticut, USA
Interests: Development of plant biotech and breeding techniques; Plant breeding; Molecular physiology of plant hormones

Associate Editors

Dr. Yosef Shahin Al Shoffe, Senior Research Associate
School of Integrative Plant Science Horticulture Section
Cornell University, USA
Interests: Postharvest of fruit and vegetable; Storage systems; Safety and sustainability

Dr. Pablo Carbonell-Bejerano
Grape and Wine Sciences Institute (ICVV), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain
Interests: Grapevine genetics and genomics

Dr. Marco Cirilli, Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - Production, Landscape, Agroenergy
University of Milan, Italy
Interests: Apple trees microRNAs; Genetics and genomics; Flower biology; Development of a high-throughput genomic variant database; Secondary metabolism of grapes

Dr. Fabrizio Costa, Associate professor
Centre Agriculture Food Environment
University of Trento, Italy
Interests: Genetic analysis of fruit ripening and postharvest performance in climacteric type of fruit, especially apple and pear

Dr. Zhanwu Dai, Professor
Key laboratory of Plant resources
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Interests: Fruit quality; Fruit developent and metabolism; Plant modelling

Dr. Zhanao Deng, Professor
Gulf Coast Research and Education Center
University of Florida, USA
Interests: Genetic bases for disease resistance traits

Dr. Richard Espley
The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, New Zealand
Interests: Phytochemicals; Regulation of gene expression; Transcriptomics; Molecular cloning; Next generation sequencing

Dr. Brian Farneti
Department of Genomics and Biology of Fruit Crop (DGBPF)
Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy
Interests: Plant phenotyping; Fruit quality; Vocs

Dr. Luciano Freschi
Department of Botany
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Interests: Plant physiology; Metabolism; Plant biotechnology; Photosynthesis; Antioxidants; Abiotic stress

Dr. Zhihong Gao, Professor
College of Horticulture
Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Interests: Germplasm collection and evaluation; Molecular mechanism of pistil abortion and the seasonal dormancy release

Dr. Ksenija Gasic, Professor
College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences
Clemson University, USA
Interests: Peach genetics and breeeding

Dr. Da-Long Guo, Professor
College of Forestry
Henan University of Science and Technology, China
Interests: Grape; Fruit development and ripening; Postharvest of fruit; Genomics

Dr. Craig Hardner, Associate Professor
Centre for Horticultural Science
The University of Queensland, Australia
Interests: Quantitative genetics; Conservation genetics of macadamia; Tree breeding

Dr. Jin Kong, Professor
College of Agronomy and Biotechnology
China Agricultural University, China
Interests: Transcriptional regulation of abiotic stress; Scavenging of reactive oxygen species under abiotic stress

Dr. Satish Kumar
Department of Breeding and Genomics
The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, New Zealand
Interests: Fruit quality; Rootstock; Fruit breeding; Apple genomics; Quantitative genetics; Quantitative trait loci

Dr. Chunlong Li, Professor
College of Horticulture and Foresty Science
Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Interests: Physiological and quality regulation of fruit tree cultivation; Membrane transport vectors; Functional genes for stress response in fruit trees

Dr. Mingjun Li, Professor
College of Horticulture
Northwest A&F University, China
Interests: Sugar metabolism and accumulation in both source and sink; Phloem loading and transport; Malate metabolism and accumulation; Carbon-nitrogen interaction; Nutrient uptake and metabolism; Molecular physiology of abiotic and biotic stress tolerance and biotechnology of fruit crops with emphasis on apple and kiwifruit

Dr. Xian Li, Professor
College of Agriculture & Biotechnology
Zhejiang University, China
Interests: Fruit quality biology; Fruit nutrition

Dr. Yuanyuan Li, Professor
Horticulture Science and Engineering
Shandong Agricultural University, China
Interests: Fruit quality biology of fruit trees

Dr. Juhua Liu
China Academy of Tropical Agriculture Sciences, China
Interests: Banana genetic breeding; Molecular mechanisms of banana fruit quality formation and banana molecular breeding and new variety creation; Molecular mechanisms of banana fruit ripening quality formation; Banana transgenic technology

Dr. Jiang Lu, Professor
School of Agriculture and Biology
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Interests: Grapevine germplasm resources and genetic breeding; Grapevine functional genome and immune mechanisms of disease resistance; Wine making process and comprehensive utilization of grape by-products

Dr. Doreen Main, Professor
Department of Horticulture
Washington State University, USA
Interests: Plant genome databases, comparative genomics of rosaceous crops

Dr. Pedro Martinez-Gomez
Center for Edaphology and Applied Biology of the Segura River, Spain
Interests: Prunus molecular breeding including genetics, genomics, transcriptomics and epigenetics

Dr. Jose A. Mercado
Department of Botany and Plant Physiology
University of Málaga, Spain
Interests: Biotechnological study of species; In vitro culture and genetic transformation of plants

Dr. Zoë Migicovsky
Department of Biology
Acadia University, Canada
Interests: Biodiversity of apples and grapes

Dr. Stefano Pavan
Dipartimento di Scienze del Suolo, della Pianta e degli Alimenti (Di.S.S.P.A.)
University of Bari, Italy
Interests: Amygdalin accumulation in almond tree; Powdery mildew resistance in tomato and pea; Orobanche resistance in pea

Dr. Wenping Qiu, Professor
College of Agriculture
Missouri State University, USA
Interests: Molecular and genetic basis of disease resistance in grapevines and on identifying viruses and prevention of virus diseases that cause significant losses to grape industries

Dr. Miroslava Rakocevic
Northern Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil
Interests: Plant physiology; Plant biology; Plant ecology; Biodiversity

Dr. Markus Rienth, Professor
Changins College for Viticulture and Oenology
University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland, Switzerland
Interests: Next generation sequencing; Transcriptomics; NGS data analysis; Genetic analysis; Plant physiology

Dr. Raquel Sánchez-Pérez, Senior Research Scientist
Plant Breeding Department
CEBAS-CSIC, Spain
Interests: Prunus; Molecular markers; Biochemistry and physiological studies; Sequencing of the almond genome

Dr. Robert Schaffer
Motueka research site
The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, New Zealand
Interests: Fruit development, ripening, genetics, genomics and more recently indoor growing

Dr. Guo-Qing Song, Professor
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Michigan State University, USA
Interests: Improvement of horticultural crops using genomic, genetic, and biotechnology approaches

Dr. Jun Song, Research Scientist
Kentville Research and Development
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada
Interests: Plant proteomics; Postharvest physiology; Genomics; LC-MS/MS

Dr. Margaret Staton, Associate Professor
Institute of Agriculture
University of Tennessee, USA
Interests: Computational genomics; Genomic database development; Trees genomics; Transcriptomics; Forest health

Dr. Alessandro Vannozzi, Researcher
Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and the Environment DAFNAE
University of Padova, Italy
Interests: Phylogenetic analysis; Arabidopsis; Next generation sequencing; Genotyping

Dr. Ana Wünsch
Department of Plant Science
Centro de Investigacióny Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón, Spain
Interests: Genetics; Molecular biology; Improvement and study of fruit species; Molecular markers; Floral self-incompatibility, phenology and fruit quality in cherry

Dr. Rui Xia, Professor
College of Horticulture
South China Agricultural University, China
Interests: Small RNAs and genomics of horticultural plants

Dr. Hao Xu
Summerland Research and Development Centre
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada
Interests: Tree fruit physiology; Aquaporin; Plant ecophysiology; Mycorrhiza

Dr. Kenong Xu, Associate Professor
Department of Horticulture
Cornell University, USA
Interests: Tree fruit genomics; Apple gene regulatory networks

Dr. Weirong Xu, Professor
Ningxia Grape&Wine Research Institute
Ningxia University, China
Interests: Grape; Molecular mechanisms of cold tolerance; Genetic transformation; Abiotic stresses

Dr. Yan Xu, Professor
College of Horticulture
Northwest A&F University, China
Interests: Grapes disease resistant signaling mechanisms and disease resistance genes; Developing grapes new variety with resistance to fungi diseases, such as Downy mildew; Genetics of resistance to fungal disease, genetic diversity and aggressivity; Host/pathogen interactions of fungal with Chinese wild grape species

Dr. Sara Zenoni, Associate Professor
Department of Biotechnology
University of Verona, Italy
Interests: Fruit development; Transcriptome analysis by mRNA profiling and NGS technologies; Functional studies of transcription factors; Secondary metabolite accumulation; Seed development in table grapes; Cell wall polymer dynamics in berry during ripening and senescence phase

Dr. Bo Zhang, Professor
College of Computer Science and Technology 
Zhejiang University, China
Interests: Fruit flavor quality; Fruit ripening and postharvest biology

Dr. Dong Zhang, Professor
College of Horticulture
Northwest A&F University, China
Interests: Apple development biology and high density cultivation techniques; Apple rootstock breeding

Dr. Fei Zhang, Professor
National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement
Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Interests: Functional genomics of citrus; Molecular mechanisms of regulation of plant meristem development; Molecular mechanisms and genetic improvement of developmental regulation of orange tree types; Single cell sequencing

Dr. Zhihong Zhang, Professor
College of Horticulture
Shenyang Agricultural University, China
Interests: Genetic breeding and molecular biology of fruit trees

Dr. Shuangxi Zhou
Department of Primary Industries & Regional Development
Macquarie University, Australia
Interests: Drought stress; Photosynthesis; Plant physiology; Water stress; Ecophysiology; Salinity

Dr. Yanmin Zhu, Molecular Biologist (Plants)
Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
United States Department of Agriculture(USDA) , USA
Interests: Utilization of various functional genomics approaches to identify and validate specific apple genes for their regulatory roles in contributing to disease resistance in apple root to soilborne necrotrophic replant pathogens