CROP
SCIENCE
volume 56 , no . 3
CROP SCIENCE EDITORIAL BOARD
may – june 2016
C. Wayne Smith
Editor-In-Chief
Texas A&M Univ.
cwsmith@tamu.edu
Shawn Kaeppler
Editor
Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
Madison, WI 53706
smkaeppl@wisc.edu
Crop Ecology, Management, & Quality (C-3)
Elizabeth Gebhardt
Managing Editor
egebhardt@sciencesocieties.org
 Gustavo Slafer
Bill Cook
Univ. de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
slafer@pvcf.edl.es
Director of Publications
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Ellen G.M. Bergfeld
 Chief Executive Officer
Book Review Editor
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Michael Mulvaney
UF/IFAS West Florida Res. and
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Eric Ober
Rothamsted Research Stn.,
Bury St. Edmunds, UK
Jeffrey A. Coulter
Hans-Werner Olfs
John Foulkes
Hochschule Osnabrück
Osnabrück, Germany
Univ. of Nottingham,
Loughborough, UK
Roxanna Savin
Yantai Gan
You-Cai Xiong
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,
Swift Current, SK, Canada
Joseph Lauer
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Lucas Borras
Glen Ritchie
Univ. Nacional de Rosario
Provincia de Santa Fe, Argentina
lborras@unr.edu.ar
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX
glen.ritchie@ttu.edu
Univ. de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
Lanzhou Univ., Lanzhou, China
Duli Zhao
USDA-ARS, Canal Point, FL
Forage & Grazinglands (C-6)
 Sabry Elias
María Otegui
Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR
Univ. of Buenos Aires-UBA Buenos
Aires, Argentina
A. Susana Goggi
Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA
Michael A. Gore
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
Yiwei Jiang
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
Emily Merewitz
P.V. Vara Prasad
Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS
Associate Editors
Joao Vendramini
Univ. Nacional de Rosario, Zavalla,
Santa Fe, Argentina
Jessica Torrion
Jamie Foster
Univ. de Sao Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil
Maria Lucia A. Silveira
Univ. of Florida, Ona, FL
Univ. of Florida, Ona, FL
Zdenko Rengel
Univ. of Western Australia,
Crawley, WA, Australia
Texas AgriLife Research, Beeville, TX
Northwestern Agric. Res. Ctr.,
Kalispell, MT
Genomics, Molecular Genetics, & Biotechnology (C-7)
 Technical Editor
Tom Clemente
Patrick McCullough
Dale Bremer
Univ. of Georgia, Griffin, GA
Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS
bremer@ksu.edu
Yaling Qian
Stacy Bonos
Mike Richardson
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA
Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
Carlos Pedreira
Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada,
Lacombe, AB, Canada
Technical Editor
James H. Baird
Adam Heuberger
Dep. of Plant & Soil Sciences
Mississippi State Univ.
Raymond, MS
bmacoon@ra.msstate.edu
Vern Baron
Turfgrass Science (C-5)
Associate Editors
 José L. Rotundo
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI
Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ
bonos@aesop.rutgers.edu
Technical Editor
Bisoondat Macoon
Associate Editors
Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO
 Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
Technical Editors
Felix B. Fritschi
 Jeff Melkonian
Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS
Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
Crop Physiology & Metabolism (C-2); and Seed
­Physiology, Production, & Technology (C-4)
 Associate Editors
Ignacio Ciampitti
Manjit S. Kang
 Technical Editor
Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
Dep. of Agronomy & Horticulture,
Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
tclemente1@unl.edu
 Associate Editors
Phil Bregitzer
Univ. of Arkasas, Fayetteville, AR
USDA-ARS, Aberdeen, ID
Douglas J. Soldat
Steven Clough
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL
Benjamin G. Wherley
Randy D. Dinkins
Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
Ambika Chandra
Texas A&M Univ. System, Dallas, TX
Tejinder Kumar Mall
Dow AgroSciences,
West Lafayette, IN
Rongda Qu
North Carolina State Univ.
Raleigh, NC
Scott Sattler
Univ. of Nebraska–Lincoln, NE
Christian M. Tobias
USDA-ARS, Albany, CA
Zeng-Yu Wang
USDA-ARS, Lexington, KY
The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
Ardmore, OK
Jiarui Li
Liuling Yan
Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS
Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK
J. Scott Ebdon
Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Karen Harris Schultz
USDA-ARS, Tifton, GA
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Biomedical, Health-Beneficial,
and Nutritionally Enhanced Plants (C-9)
Crop Breeding & Genetics (C-1);
and Plant Genetic Resources (C-8)
 Technical Editors
 Jim Anderson
Manjit S. Kang
Dep. of Agronomy and Plant
Genetics, Univ. of Minnesota,
St. Paul, MN
ander319@umn.edu
Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS
Manjit5264@yahoo.com
Clarice J. Coyne
Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA
clarice.coyne@ars.usda.gov
Irwin Goldman
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
ilgoldma@wisc.edu
George Graef
Univ. of Nebraska–Lincoln
ggraef1@unl.edu
Jean-Luc Jannink
USDA, Ithaca, NY
jeanluc.work@gmail.com
Gerald O. Myers
Lousiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA
gmyers@agcenter.lsu.edu
Technical Editors
M. Paul Scott
Owen Hoekenga
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
USDA-ARS, Ames, IA
pscott@iastate.edu
 Associate Editors
Michael A. Grusak
USDA-ARS, Houston, TX
Shannon Pinson
Dale Bumpers National Rice
Res. Ctr., Stuttgart, AR
shannon.pinson@ars.usda.gov
Donald R. Viands
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
drv3@cornell.edu
Marilyn Warburton
USDA-ARS, Mississippi State, MS
Marilyn.Warburton@ars.usda.gov
Linghe Zeng
USDA-ARS, Stoneville, MS
linghe.zeng@ars.usda.gov
 Associate Editors
Hussein Abdel-Haleem
Eric Olson
U.S. Arid Land Agric. Res. Ctr.,
Maricopa, AZ
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI
Hem S. Bhandari
Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Natalia de Leon
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Walter S. De Jong
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
Jode Edwards
USDA-ARS, Ames, IA
Jeff Endelman
Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison
Shui-Zhang Fei
Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA
Zhigang Guo
Syngenta, Clinton, IL
Candice Hirsch
Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
Stella Kantartzi
Southern Illinois Univ.,
Carbondale, IL
Vasu Kuraparthy
North Carolina State Univ.,
Raleigh, NC
Steve R. Larson
USDA-ARS, Logan, UT
Zenglu Li
Heathcliffe Riday
USDA-ARS, Madison, WI
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USDA-ARS, Logan, UT
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Dow AgroSciences, York, NE
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