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Gianpiero Vigani is full professor in Plant Physiology and Deputy Director for the Third Mission at Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology of the University of Turin (Italy). His research interests are mainly focused on i) the characterization of the plant's responses to abiotic stresses (nutrient deficiencies, water deficiency and salt stress), ii) the interaction among nutrients in plants and iii) the impact of multiple nutrient stresses on plant growth and metabolism. He has authored 66 publications in leading journals in the field of plant sciences. Principal investigator of national and international research programs supported by public and private Institutions 

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Massimo Blandino is associated professor in Agronomy and Field Crops, at Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Science of the University of Turin (Italy). His research activity mainly concerns the study of the agronomic techniques and their effects on yield, environmental sustainability, technological, nutritional quality, and safety of arable crops for food and feed and industrial applications, according to a supply chain approach, from field to the first transformation (milling). The research, carried out in close collaboration with national and international research institutes, but also with private operators and industries, is aimed at the development of management systems for specific or emerging end-use, in order to development of Crop Management Systems for specific productive orientations, considering with particular attention the cereal and legumes supply chains.

He has authored 113 publications in leading journals in the field of agronomy and crop science. Moreover, he has published over 150 papers on technical journal for extension purposes.

Daniel Said Pullicino is an Associate Professor in Soil Science at the Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences of the University of Torino (Italy), and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the international soil science journal Geoderma (Elsevier). As a soil scientist, his research interests mainly develop around the biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nutrient elements in soil across different scales. His has been devoted to advancing our understanding of soil organic matter composition, stabilization and turnover, and elucidating under-studied mechanisms that drive the interactions between C, N and Fe cycling in agro-ecosystems, often through the use of stable isotope tracing approaches. He is particularly interested in how microbial processes that drive these interactions are influence by both edaphic properties and agricultural practices. The outcomes of his research are mainly focused at improving the sustainability of cereal cropping systems in terms of nutrient use efficiency, soil organic C stabilization and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. Personal Scopus page: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=15766133200; Research group:https://en.disafa.unito.it/do/home.pl/View?doc=/research/research_lines/groups/soil_resource/soil_biogeochemistry_and_fertility.html 

Emanuela Gobbi is a long-standing mycologist with a special emphasis on the development of biorefinery based on fungal Solid State fermentation of wastes.

She started developing molecular markers and diagnostic methods applied to plant pathogen fungi, mycotoxins and bacteria. In this context, she focused her researches on fungal mitochondrial DNA polymorphism and fungal mitochondrial plasmids associated to senescent phenotypes. She developed several Electronic nose and Real Time PCR diagnostic protocols for microbial and mycotoxins diagnosis in human and agri-food fields. 

The main topics of her research are now the production and safety of beneficial microorganisms and their secondary metabolites, and the promotion of the economic sustainability of agri-food systems with circular economy processes for fungal waste valorization in order to obtain high added value products.

She has been visiting professor at Utah State University, Logan, at Texas A&M University, College Station, and at University of California, Davis. She is associate professor of Plant–pathogen Applied biotechnology and Plant Pathology. 

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Dr. Victor Flors (orcid.org/0000-0003-3974-9652) has a degree in Chemistry with a specialization in Biochemistry at the Universitat of Valencia and got a Dr degree in Chemistry at the University Jaume I. Prof Flors got postdoctoral experience at the Scottish Agricultural College in Uk and at the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland) . Currently, he is Full Professor in the Biology, Biochemistry and Natural Sciences Department. Prof Flors develops his research tasks in the Plant Immunity and Biochemistry Group (PIB; www.nitropriming.wordpress.com). He has experience in participation and management of more than 20 national and international public projects and research founded by private enterprises mainly focused on plant immune system and induced-resistance mechanisms against diseases and pests. He has actively participated in the implication of hormonal signalling in priming mechanisms as well as in the development of new chemicals as plant protectants that ended up in four patents exploited by two enterprises and the UJI itself. His group has currently an associated research unit with the Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC, Granada, Spain) with the focus in the Mycorrhiza-Induced Resistance against insects and fungal diseases. He is author or co-author of 115 high raking scientific articles (SCI) with an H index of 46 and more than 11000 cites. He is in the Advisory Editors Board of Journal Experimental Botany a and the expert panels of  AEI (Agencia Estatal de Investigación). He is currently part of the Steering Committee IOBC-WPRS working group of Induced Resistance Against Insects and Diseases. His technical focus is based in hormonal and metabolomic analysis of secondary and primary metabolites participating in immune responses. In Addition, he also is involved in the development of new chromatographic techniques applied to plant-pathogen and plant-insect metabolome. He is in the list of Highly Cited authors since 2016. In the current project he’ll develop studies focused in the wheat immune response against fungal diseases profiling the metabolomic and trasncriptional responses of drought resistant durum cultivars.

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Houda Boureghda is doctor of phytopathology, graduated in biological science from the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene -Algiers – Algeria. Then she obtained a magister's degree and a doctorate in phytopathology at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Agronomie - (ENSA)-El Harrach-Algiers.  Her PhD thesis was about biological control of Fusarium wilt of chickpea using isolates of Trichoderma spp. when jointly she has done short scientific visit stay at the laboratory of biological control of the University Federico II, Napoli, Italy and also at the Univeristé Catholique de Louvain – Louvain La Neuve- Belgium. After her PhD she has done a short visit stay at the university Federico II, Napoli, Italy to learn techniques’ of study of secondary metabolites of Trichoderma and another one  at INRA Bordeaux France on toxigenous Fusarium molecular identification. Her main research focuses on the biological control of fungal plants diseases by the use of Trichoderma including also isolation and characterization of Trichoderma from Algerian soil. She is also concerned by Fungal disease associated with Fusarium mainly Fusarium head blight and crown rot of wheat in Algeria, and on other field crops as potato. She has been involved in national and international research project and currently she is conducting a national project entitled Investigation of antagonistic agents against some crop pests: Characterization and evaluation of their effectiveness.  She is also the head of the Research Laboratory Phytopathology and Molecular Biology at ENSA since September 2021. Currently she divides her work time between teaching scientific research and supervising master and Phd thesis.