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- Heike Bücking: Beneficial plant-microbe interactions
- Pengyin Chen: Soybean breeding and germplasm enhancement
- Felix Fritschi: Crop physiology and genetics
- Walter Gassmann: Host-pathogen interactions and plant disease resistance
- Blake Meyers: Small RNAs evolution in plants and their role in stress responses
- Henry Nguyen: Abiotic stress adaptation and tolerance in soybeans
- Soyon Park: Tracking mobile RNAs/DNAs/proteins in plant-plant interactions
- Andrew Scaboo: Soybean breeding for abiotic and biotic stress resistance
- Qisheng Song: Insect physiology and molecular biology
- Gary Stacey: Molecular biology of symbiotic nitrogen-fixation, soybean genomics and biotechnology, plant pathology
- Minviluz (Bing) Stacey: Molecular mechanisms and gene editing of plant architecture and seed development
- Bing Yang: Molecular biology of disease susceptibility in plants and genome editing technologies for crop improvement
- Jianfeng Zhou: Unmanned aerial system (drone) and unmanned ground vehicle (robotic) technologies in precision farming and high throughput phenotyping