Guoping Zhang | Agronomy | Editorial Board Member

Prof. Guoping Zhang | Agronomy | Editorial Board Member

Professor at Zhejiang University | China

Prof. Guoping Zhang is a distinguished Professor in the Department of Agronomy at Zhejiang University, China, recognized internationally for his extensive contributions to crop stress physiology, barley germplasm improvement, and molecular mechanisms underlying plant responses to abiotic and heavy metal stresses. After obtaining his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Zhejiang Agricultural University and Zhejiang University, he advanced through academic positions from Assistant Lecturer to full Professor, establishing a strong research legacy in plant molecular physiology and genetic improvement. His primary research areas encompass the identification and development of barley germplasm tolerant to salinity, drought, and acid soils, alongside investigations into nutrient-use efficiency and the molecular and physiological determinants of heavy metal accumulation and phytoremediation in crops. Over his career, he has completed more than thirty competitive research projects, including multiple national natural science foundation grants, and has authored over three hundred sixty publications in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, Plant Physiology, Environmental and Experimental Botany, Advanced Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, accumulating over fifteen thousand citations and a highly influential h-index above sixty. He has contributed seminal findings on sodium transporters, microRNA regulation under salt stress, transcriptomic and alternative splicing responses during salinity adaptation, trypsin-family gene control of tillering and leaf morphology, negative regulatory roles of HKT and calmodulin-related genes in salt tolerance, and multi-omics insights into wild barley adaptation mechanisms. Beyond research, he has served in major international academic roles, including chairing the International Barley Genetics Symposium organizing committee and holding editorial responsibilities for key journals in agronomy, plant physiology, and integrated agricultural sciences, solidifying his standing as a global leader in stress biology and barley genetics.

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Featured Publications : 

An integrated analysis of transcriptome and metabolome reveals aerenchyma-mediated antioxidant defense and energy metabolism conferring high waterlogging tolerance in sea barley. (Open access). Plant Stress.

Interactions of arsenic and phosphorus in their uptake and transportation in plants: Advances and prospective research on the mechanisms and approaches for alleviating arsenic stress. (Review, Open access).

Plant secondary metabolites—Central regulators against abiotic and biotic stresses. (Review, Open access).

Utilization of antagonistic interactions between micronutrients and cadmium (Cd) to alleviate Cd toxicity and accumulation in crops. (Review, Open access).

A comprehensive analytical method ‘Regulatome’ revealed a novel pathway for aerenchyma formation under waterlogging in wheat. Physiologia Plantarum.

A barley pan-transcriptome reveals layers of genotype-dependent transcriptional complexity. Nature Genetics.

 

Jiquan Wang | Crop Science | Editorial Board Member

Prof. Dr. Jiquan Wang | Crop Science | Editorial Board Member

Professor at Northeast Agricultural University | China

Prof. Dr. Jiquan Wang is a distinguished professor at the College of Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, recognized for his extensive contributions to agricultural systems engineering, intelligent optimization algorithms, and data-driven decision-making in agriculture; he completed his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral studies in engineering at leading agricultural universities in China and began his professional career as a technician in an electronics company before transitioning into academia, where he progressed through roles including teaching assistant, lecturer, associate professor, visiting scholar, and professor; his research portfolio spans theoretical and applied studies in genetic algorithms, hybrid evolutionary algorithms, firefly algorithms, sine–cosine optimization, mayfly optimization, carnivorous plant algorithms, whale optimization, evolutionary game theory, agricultural production modeling, pork supply forecasting, crop planting structure optimization, multilevel thresholding image segmentation, food supply chain safety, and agricultural technological progress measurement; he has served as principal investigator for numerous competitive research grants supported by provincial, national, and public-welfare programs, covering subjects such as agricultural machinery system optimization, BP neural network applications, groundwater monitoring technologies, seasonal rural labor estimation, rice production integration, and supply-demand regulation models for agricultural products; he has supervised many postgraduate theses involving advanced optimization techniques, machine learning applications, routing algorithms, neural networks, production function analysis, supply chain coordination, and image-based crop identification; his scholarly output includes influential publications in top international journals such as Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Expert Systems with Applications, Applied Soft Computing, Applied Intelligence, IEEE Access, Mathematics, Sustainability, Knowledge-Based Systems, and Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, and he has served as associate editor of major academic textbooks including Agricultural Systems Engineering and Management Information System Analysis and Design, with his works widely cited for advancing modern agricultural engineering; his innovation record includes numerous authorized patents covering agricultural machinery, intelligent scheduling methods, crop production devices, soil and crop processing systems, optimization-based agricultural tools, and smart mechanization structures, reflecting his leadership in merging engineering innovation with computational intelligence for sustainable agricultural development.

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Featured Publications : 

Jinling, B., Wang, J., & Zhang, H. (in press). An optimization method for corn planting parameters based on mutation breeding sea horse optimization algorithm. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.

 Author, A., & Wang, J. (in press). A knowledge-driven smart system based on reinforcement learning for pork supply-demand regulation. Agriculture (Switzerland).

Author, A., Author, B., & Wang, J. (in press). Edge–Region collaborative segmentation of potato leaf disease images using Beluga Whale Optimization Algorithm with danger sensing mechanism. Agriculture (Switzerland).

Author, A., Author, B., Author, C., & Wang, J. (2024). Identifying rice lodging based on semantic segmentation architecture optimization with UAV remote sensing imaging. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, (vol/issue not provided).