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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
 

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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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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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

Okayama 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

 

Editor-in-Chief
Takuji Sasaki, NODAI Research Institute, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan

Managing Editor
Baltazar A Antonio, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Japan

Advisory Board
Gynheung An, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
Antonio Costa de Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
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
David J Mackill, University of California Davis, United States of America
Susan R McCouch, Cornell University, United States of America
Blake Meyers, Donald Danforth Center, 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
Shunsuke Adachi, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology,  Tokyo, Japan
Siwaret Arikit, Kasetsart University Kamphaeng Saen Campus, Thailand
Motoyuki Ashikari, Nagoya University, Japan
Dai-Yin Chao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Chengcai Chu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Concha Domingo, Valencian Institute for Agricultural Research, Spain
Georgia C. Eizenga, Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, United States of America
Masaki Endo, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan
Shuichi Fukuoka, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Tsukuba, Japan
Jitender Giri, National Institute of Plant Genome Research, India
Cécile Grenier, CIRAD, France
Amelia Henry, International Rice Research Institute  (IRRI), Los Baños, Philippines
Sigrid Heuer, NIAB Group, United Kingdom
Kiyosumi Hori, NARO, Japan
Takeshi Itoh, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
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
Cheng-Ruei Lee, National Taiwan University , Taiwan 
Mathias Lorieux, IRD, France and CIAT, Colombia
Jian Feng Ma, Okayama University, Japan
Amane Makino, Tohoku University, Japan
Gloria Mosquera, International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Colombia
Keisuke Nagai, Bioscience and Biotechnology Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Atsushi J.Nagano, Ryukoku University, Japan
Yuki Nakamura, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Kenneth Olsen, Washington University, United States of America
Yidan Ouyang, Huazhong Agricultural University, China 
Jai Rohila, USDA-ARS, Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, United States of America
Nelson Saibo, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Blanca San Segundo, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Spain
Yutaka Sato, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Lianguang Shang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Jian Sun, Shenyang Agricultural University, China
Didier Tharreau, CIRAD, France
Michael J. Thomson, Texas A&M University, United States of America
Hiroyuki Tsuji, Yokohama City University, Japan
Chih-Wei Tung, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Akhilesh K Tyagi, University of New Delhi South Campus, India
Yusaku Uga, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan
Guo-Liang Wang, Ohio State University, United States of America
Yoshiyuki Yamagata, Kyushu University, Japan
Shinjiro Yamaguchi, Kyoto University, Japan
Toshio Yamamoto, Institute of Plant Science and Resources, Okayama University, Kurashiki, Japan
Bing Yang, University of Missouri, United States of America
Masahiro Yano, NARO Institute of Crop Science, Japan
Fang-Jie Zhaou, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Xiaoming Zheng, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Dao-Xiu Zhou, Université Paris-Sud, France
Chengzhi Liang, 
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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