Pawan K. Kasera Department of Botany, University of Jodhpur, Jodhpur, India
Evangelos Demosthenes Leonardos Division of Horticulture, Department of Plant Agriculture, Uni-
versity of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Lanfang He Levine Dynamac Corporation, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Antoaneta Ljubenova* Department of Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology, University of Plov-
div, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Francesco Loreto Institute of Plant Biochemistry and Ecophysiology, National Research Council of
Italy, Rome, Italy
Monica A. Madore Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Cal-
ifornia
Kenneth B. Marcum† Department of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Angelo Massacci Institute of Plant Biochemistry and Ecophysiology, National Research Council of
Italy, Rome, Italy
V. Wallace McCarlie Department of Botany and Range Science, Brigham Young University, Provo,
Utah
Adam Miller Department of Biology, Division of Science and Math, Lorain County Community Col-
lege, Elyria, Ohio
Ivan N. Minkov Department of Plant Physiology and Molecular Biology, University of Plovdiv, Plov-
div, Bulgaria
Edmund R. Miranda Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside,
California
Sher Mohammed Department of Botany, Government Lohia (PG) College, Churu, India
Nava Moran Department of Agricultural Botany, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Is-
rael
Joaquín Moreno Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Valencia, Bur-
jassot, Valencia, Spain
Syed Shamshad Mehdi Naqvi Nuclear Institute of Agriculture, Tando Jam, Pakistan
Soek Ying Neo Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, The National University of Singapore, Singa-
pore, Republic of Singapore
James W. O’Leary Department of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
David J. Oliver Department of Botany, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Wattana Pattanagul Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside,
California
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*Current affiliation:University of the North, Sovenga, South Africa
†Current affiliation:Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Hawaii at Mano’a, Honolulu, Hawaii