AIMS Agriculture and Food

Moshe Rosenberg (Editor in Chief)	Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California Davis, Davis, USA Dairy science, technology & engineering; food science, technology & engineering; microencapsulation and delivery of nutrients; food hydrocolloids; food microstructure; food functionality; food forensics; food authentication
Cheng Bi (Managing Editor)	Managing and Operation(Journal)

Editorial Board

Festus Akinnifesi	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy Agroforestry, agronomy, soil fertility, horticulture, sustainable agriculture
Lithourgidis Anastasios	Department of Agronomy, Aristotle University Farm of Thessaloniki, Thermi, Greece Breeding for diseases resistant, agronomy and evaluation of varieties of major
Muhuddin Anwar	NSW Department of Primary industries, Graham Centre, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia Mixed-farming systems modelling, management of climate risks including efficiencies in agricultural production systems, climate change adaptation
Nirit Bernstein	Institute of Soil Water and Environmental Sciences, Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion, Israel Medical cannabis, plant stress physiology, plant nutrition, water footprint of Israel's agriculture
Antonio Bevilacqua	Department of the Science of Agriculture, Food and Environment (SAFE), University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy Antifungal activity, antimicrobial activity, biomass production, central composite design, fatty acid, heat treatment, kinetics, lactic acid bacteria, modified atmosphere, organic acid, response surface methodology, shelf life, storage temperature, total coliform, lactobacillus plantarum
Simone Blanc	Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Turin, Largo Braccini, Grugliasco (TO), Italy Agricultural economics, sustainability, rural development, life cycle costing, life cycle assessment, sustainable consumption and production, value chain, marketing, innovation
Flavio Boccia	Department of Economic and Legal Studies, “Parthenope” University of Naples, Naples, Italy Corporate social responsibility, international marketing, consumer behaviour, food, genetically modified organisms
Valeria Borsellino	Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy Economics and policy of Mediterranean agricultural production (olive growing, citrus growing, viticulture, fruit growing, horticulture and nursery gardening), the economics and policy of the fisheries sector, the sustainable development of the wine sector, and rural development policies, land market, ICT and logistics of agro-food production, web marketing, business innovations and strategies
Bertram Brenig	Institute of Veterinary Medicine, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Structural and functional analysis of mammalian genes and genomes, the cause of different important genetic traits and defects in domestic animals
Pawel Bryla	Department of International Marketing and Retailing, University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland Consumer behavior, food marketing, organic food, regional food, country-of-origin effect, consumer ethnocentrism, health claims, nutrition claims
Jose de Sousa Camara	Centro de Química da Madeira (CQM), Universidade da Madeira, Campus da Penteada, Funchal, Portugal Mass spectrometry, food bioactives, metabolomics, cancer, biomarkers
Maurizio Canavari	Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Eeconomics, marketing, value chain, consumer, innovation, quality management
Sergio Capareda	Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA Bioenergy and biofuels conversion, pyrolysis and gasification, machine design and waste management, environmental air quality, renewable energy
Gaetano Chinnici	Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, Catania, Italy wine, olive oil and food marketing, consumer behaviour and consumers' willingness to pay
Carlos Manuel Correia	Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB), University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal Integrated monitoring of climate and environmental impacts, sustainability in agri-food and forestry ecosystems, innovative technologies and processes, valorisation of bio-based products and and co-products
Dario Donno	Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy Phytochemicals, HPLC, food chemistry, medicinal plants, herbal preparations, chromatography, antioxidants, analytical strategies, biodiversity, sustainability
Vincent Duffy	School of Industrial Engineering, Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA Digital human modeling, safety engineering, work methods and measurement, ergonomics
Edward Durner	Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences – Foran Hall, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA Agricultural plant science, horticulture, floral biology
Antonio Elia	Department of the Science of Agriculture, Food and Environment (SAFE), University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy Horticulture and floriculture
Vittorio Farina	Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy Fruit quality physiology, postharvest physiology, fruit tree varietal renewal and tree physiology
Mohammed Gagaoua	PEGASE, INRAE, Institut Agro, 35590 Saint-Gilles, France OMICs, proteomics, muscle and meat biochemistry, biomarkers of meat quality, meat tenderization, rearing practices and meat quality
Pedro Dinis Gaspar	Department of Electromechanical Engineering, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal Refrigeration, energy efficiency, robotics, artificial intelligence, ICT, traceability
Luciano Gutierrez	Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy Price analysis, panel econometrics, agricultural productivity, regional integration
David Hannaway	Department of Crop and Soil Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA Forage, sustainable agriculture, plant physiology, crop production, soil fertility, climate change
Alejandro Hernández	Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Recursos Agrarios (INURA), Animal production and Food Science, University of Extremadura, Spain Food microbiology, postharvest, food quality (primarily paprika), food fraud and adulteration, molecular identification of microbes - Food fraud and adulteration
Klein Ileleji	Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA Bioenergy, energy crops, food process engineering
Marzia Ingrassia	Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy Agriculture economics and marketing, economic aspects of food products chain, consumer acceptance of fresh fruit and fresh-cuts
Bin Jiang	Department of Chemistry, Northeast Agricultural University, China
Edward Kick	Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA Environment, social change, wastewater treatment, water analysis
Yuji Kishima	Laboratory of Plant Breeding, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University Sapporo, Japan Plant breeding, rice, cold response, anther culture, interspecific hybrid, polyploidy, Antirrhinum, transposon
Phoebe Koundouri	Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens, Greece Environmental and resource economics, applied micro-econometrics, microeconomic modelling: optimal control and game theory, agricultural economics, public economics
Guanghui Li	Institute of Crop Germplasm Resources, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Kangshun Li	Professor of School of Mathematics and Informatics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China Machine learning, artificial intelligence, image recognition, software engineering, network communication, evolutionary computation，big data modeling and neural network
Yinghui Li	Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China Soybean, germplasms, gene discovery
Lena Lidfors	Department of Animal Environment and Health, Section of Anthrozoology and Applied Ethology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Skara, Sweden Dairy science, cattle, the behaviour of laboratory animals
Fernando Lidon	Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal Food technology, food storage, plant biochemistry, photosynthesis
Ilaria Marotti	Department of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Medicinal and aromatic plants, food crops, resilient crops, agrobiodiversity, sustainable cropping systems, organic farming, natural products, phytochemicals, nutraceuticals, essential oils, bioactivity assays, bioactive compounds
Joe Mari Maja	Edisto Research and Education Center, Clemson University, Blackville, USA Agriculture, robotics, automation, UAV, spectral, machine learning/AI
Paolo Merante	Department of Crop Science – DNPW, Division of Tropical Plant Production and AgriculturalSystems Modelling (TROPAGS), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Crop modelling, soil carbon storage and soil organic matter, conservation agriculture
Valentina Maria Merlino	Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Forestali e Alimentari (DISAFA), Italy Marketing of agri-food products
Paul Mitchell	Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA Production economics, risk management, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), resistance management, sustainability
Eiji Nawata	Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan Ecophysiology of tropical crops, Farming system analysis, Crop evolution, Agricultural environment
Brendan Niemira	Food Safety & Intervention Technologies Research Unit, USDA-ARS Eastern Regional Research Center, Wyndmoor, USA Microbial food safety, innovative nonthermal food processing
Delia Julieta Valles-Rosales	Department of Industrial Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA Manufacturing and sustainable systems, systems modeling for waste and energy minimization, additive manufacturing
Francielo Vendruscolo	College of Agronomy, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil Bioprocess, state solid fermentation, food engineering, alcoholic beverages
Steven Van Passel	Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Engineering Management, University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium Agricultural economics, environmental economics, ecological economics, climate change economics
José Alberto Cardoso Pereira	Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO), School of Agriculture, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (ESA-IPB), Campus Sta Apolónia, Bragança, Portugal Olive, bioactive properties, quality of products with vegetal origin, crop protection system
Antonio M. Peres	Centro de Investigação de Montanha (CIMO), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Campus de Santa Apolónia, Bragança, Portugal Electronic tongues, electronic noses, aptasensors, chemometrics, bioactive compounds, olive oil
Michele Pisante	Faculty of Bioscience and Technology for Agriculture Food and Environment, University of Teramo, Italy Conservation agriculture, digital agriculture, ecosystem services, plant stress, precision farming, sustainable crop production intensification
Beneditct C. Posadas	Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University, Starkville, USA Horticulture economics and marketing, seafood economics and marketing, economic impacts of marine debris, softshell blue crab pond growout, producing surimi from catfish by-products
Giuseppe Pulighe	CREA Research Centre for Agricultural Policies and Bioeconomy, Rome, Italy Bioenergy, marginal lands, geoinformation, sustainable cropping systems, eco-hydrological modelling
Wenping Qiu	Center for Grapevine Biotechnology, William H. Darr School of Agriculture, Missouri State University at Mountain Grove, Mountain Grove, USA Genetic and molecular mechanism of grapevine’s defense against pathogens, characterization of new grapevine viruses
Morten Rye	Akvaforsk Genetics Center AS, Sunndalsøra, Norway Animal science (fish research), aquaculture, genetic analysis, animal breeding, animal genetics, quantitative genetics, marker assisted selection, aquaculture genetics
Gabriele Scozzafava	Dipartimento di Gestione dei Sistemi Agrari, Ambientali e Forestali, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Piazzale delle Cascine, Firenze, Italy Agricultural economics, organic foods, willingness to pay, farmers' markets, wine tourism
Alessandro Scuderi	Department of Agricultural Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, Catania, Italy Agri-food safety economics, marketing management, consumer Economics
Tatsuhiko Shiraiwa	Laboratory of Crop Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Plant breeding, abiotic stress tolerance, crop physiology, crop improvement, photosynthesis, drought, stress physiology, rice
Jorge da Silva	Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA Sugarcane breeding and genetics
Shavannor M. Smith	Department of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA Plant-pathogen interactions with a focus on the structure and evolution of disease resistance loci, understanding the biological processes for disease resistance and the genetic improvement of crop plants for disease resistance
Christos Soukoulis	Environmental Research and Innovation (ERIN) Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg Food biopolymers, functional foods, food colloids, encapsulation, food bioactives
Per Stålnacke	NIBIO – Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Ås, Norway Environmental science, irrigation and water management, water science, hydrology
Vita Di Stefano	Department of Biological, Chemical, and Pharmaceutical Science and Technology (STEBICEF), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy Phenolic compounds analysis, agro-food by-product utilization, fortified food, LC-MS analysis, olive oil composition, nutraceuticals
Alfredo Teixeira	Departamento Ciência Animal, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal Animal production, dairy science, meat science and technology, meat quality
Paula Teixeira	Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal Biotechnology, food chemistry, food processing, Food microbiology and safety, food microbiology, food biotechnology
Giuseppe Timpanaro	Department of Agriculture Food and Environment (Di3A), University of Catania, Catania, Italy Agricultural economics and evaluation, EU agri-food policies, rural development policies, quality production, food security and sustainability, evaluation of local agri-food systems, agri-food marketing and consumption analysis
Tullia Gallina Toschi	Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences (DISTAL), University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Sensory and instrumental methods for verifying food authenticity, quality and preferences; vegetable oils and fats (olive oil); food innovation, re-use of by-products, industrial symbiosis
Moreno Toselli	Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Fruit trees, mineral nutrition, organic fertilizers, sustainable horticulture, fruit quality, nitrogen root uptake, organic farming
Yari Vecchio	Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Italy
Alan K. Watson	Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Montréal, Canada Non chemical means to control weeds
Justus Wesseler	Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group (AEP), Department of Social Science, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherland Bioeconomy economics and policies, EU agriculture policy, economics of regulation, decision making under uncertainty and irreversibility, real option theory
Cornelia Witthöft	Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden Food and nutrition
Joan Wu	Department of Biological Systems Engineering and Puyallup Research and Extension Center, Washington State University, Pullman, USA Hydrology, modeling, GIS application
Attila Yazar	Department of Agricultural Structures and Irrigation, Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey Irrigation and water management, environmental impact assessment, climate change, plant physiology, crop production, soil and water conservation
Longxi Yu	USDA-ARS, Plant Germplasm Introduction and Testing Research, Prosser, USA Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of resistance to soil-borne diseases and stem nematode in alfalfa using genotyping by sequencing (GBS); drought and salt tolerance, and enhanced water use efficiency are also investigated in his group using forward reverse genetics; marker-assisted breeding to develop improved forage varieties with resistance to disease and abiotic stresses

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