About the Editors-in-Chief
Dr Sergio G. Atienza has been involved in plant breeding research in wheat, tritordeum, faba bean and olive for 25 years.
Sergio is currently leading research projects on carotenoid biofortification in wheat and adaptation to climate change with a special focus on short heat waves, while maintaining his collaboration with legume and olive researchers for plant breeding.
He applies a multidisciplinary approach to plant breeding, including genetics, genomics, interspecific hybridisation and the use of plant genetic resources, and develops pre-breeding programmes to transfer neglected and underutilised diversity into breeding.
Sergio has extensive experience in peer review of papers and project proposals, journal editing, and written and oral communication. He has published 75 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and has edited books and journal special issues. Sergio is currently a member of the Editorial Board of BMC Plant Biology..
Editor-in-Chief
Dr Sergio G. Atienza
Crop & Pasture Science
Departamento de Mejora Genética
Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Apdo. 4084, E-14080 Córdoba
Spain
Telephone +34 9 5749 9260
Fax +34 9 5749 9252
Email sgatienza@ias.csic.es
Winthrop Professor Zed Rengel has been involved in research in plant sciences, including crop and pasture science, for 29 years. He has established extensive scientific networks in Australia and overseas and has been involved in many collaborative projects worldwide. Zed has extensive experience in reviewing papers, editing journals and books, and communicating orally and in the written form.
Zed is currently the Program Leader in Institute of Agriculture, University of Western Australia. He has been the recipient of 7 research prizes, 16 fellowships (e.g. Humboldt, OECD, Japanese STA, French Government), 4 Honorary Professorships (Nanjing Agricultural University, Zhejiang University, HuaZhong Agricultural University and Lanzhou University) and 6 Visiting Professorships (including Cornell-USA, Okayama-Japan, KVL-Denmark and Gissen-Germany). He was bestowed an Honorary Doctorate (Dr Honoris Causa) by the University of Zagreb and was elected Foreign Fellow of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He was elected to some of the most important international discipline committees and councils [e.g. International Plant Nutrition Council, International Committee for Phosphorus Cycling in the Environment, International Committee on Phytoremediation & Ecosystem Health]. Zed gave 43 invited keynote addresses at international Conferences. He also gave 205 invited seminars at 51 Universities and Institutes in 23 countries.
Zed is the author/co-author of 310+ publications in peer-refereed international journals (including 2 invited Tansley reviews in New Phytologist) and 39 invited book chapters. He has edited 6 books and 7 Journal Special Issues. Zed is currently serving as an editor for 2 journals (J Plant Nutr-USA, J Bot-India), associate editor for Crop Sci-USA and as a member of the Advisory Editorial Board of 8 journals (including J Exp Bot-UK, Crop Research-India, J Soil Sci Plant Nutr-Germany, Tree Physiol-Canada).
Zed publishes in most of the highly-ranked journals in plant sciences, analytical chemistry and agriculture and soil science. The papers have been cited more than 5000 times [excluding self-citations; his h-index is 41 (ISI, September 2013).
Editor-in-Chief
Winthrop Professor Zed Rengel, FCAAS
Crop & Pasture Science
School of Earth and Environment
University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway, M087
Crawley WA 6009
Australia
Telephone +61 8 6488 2557
Fax +61 8 6488 1050
Email zed.rengel@uwa.edu.au
