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First (given) name	Last (family) name	Country of main scientific affiliation	Affiliation (institute or company, if any)	ORCID	Homepage: own lab, or lab of main affiliation, or company
Marie-Theres	Hauser	Austria	BOKU-University, Institute of Molecular Plant Biology	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8938-2460
Irene	Lichtscheidl	Austria	University of Vienna	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8351-0716	https://cius.univie.ac.at/
Judith Moses	Mkilanya	Austria	Institute of Bioanalytics and Agro-Metabolomics
Annette	Rompel	Austria	Universität Wien, Fakultät für Chemie, Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5919-0553	www.bpc.univie.ac.at
Tomas	Rypar	Austria	Institute of Bioanalytics and Agro-Metabolomics, Department of Agricultural Sciences, BOKU
Rainer	Schuhmacher	Austria	BOKU University, Institute of Bioanalytics and Afro-Metabolomics	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7520-4943
Maëva	Abadie-Lima	Belgium	University of Liège	https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1075-4980
Frédéric	Bouché	Belgium	University of Liège	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8017-0071	https://www.inbios.uliege.be/cms/c_11588893/en/inbios-translational-plant-biology
Marc	Hanikenne	Belgium	University of Liège	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8964-9601	https://www.inbios.uliege.be/cms/c_11588893/en/inbios-translational-plant-biology
Enrica May	Hedgecock	Belgium	University of Liège
Olivier	Jacquemin	Belgium	University of Liège
Chloé	Latour	Belgium	University of Liège
Santiago	Prochetto	Belgium	ULB and ULiège	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8591-149X
Manon	Sarthou	Belgium	University of Liège	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1367-8166
Nathalie	Verbruggen	Belgium	Université libre de Bruxelles	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2296-5404	https://www.ulb.be/ https://lpgmp.ulb.be/
Josip	Jurković	Bosnia and Herzegovina	University of Sarajevo	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3307-843X
Veselin	Petrov	Bulgaria	Center of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7191-4729	https://cpsbb.eu/
Qi	Tao	China	Sichuan Agriculatural University
Fang-Jie	Zhao	China	Nanjing Agricultural University	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0164-169X
Chidera	Anuforo	Czechia	Czech Academy of Sciences, Biology Centre, Insistute of Plant Molecular Biology, Department of Plant Biophysics and Biochemistry		https://webserver.umbr.cas.cz/~kupper/AG_Kuepper_Homepage.html
Syed Nadeem Hussain	Bokhari	Czechia	Czech Academy of Sciences, Biology Centre, Insistute of Plant Molecular Biology, Department of Plant Biophysics and Biochemistry	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7446-8867	https://webserver.umbr.cas.cz/~kupper/AG_Kuepper_Homepage.html
Anna	Čepelová	Czechia	Charles University
Robert	Dulfer	Czechia	Rozmberk Society p.b.c.	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5890-629X	https://www.rozmberk.org
Noelia	Jaime Pérez	Czechia	Czech Academy of Sciences, Biology Centre, Insistute of Plant Molecular Biology, Department of Plant Biophysics and Biochemistry	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6953-7453	https://webserver.umbr.cas.cz/~kupper/AG_Kuepper_Homepage.html
Hendrik	Küpper	Czechia	Czech Academy of Sciences, Biology Centre, Insistute of Plant Molecular Biology, Department of Plant Biophysics and Biochemistry	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0712-7023	https://webserver.umbr.cas.cz/~kupper/AG_Kuepper_Homepage.html
Petra	Mašková	Czechia		https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8072-0718	https://natur.cuni.cz/en/person?poid=1173624714697910
Atta	Mohi Ud Din	Czechia	Czech Academy of Sciences, Biology Centre, Insistute of Plant Molecular Biology, Department of Plant Biophysics and Biochemistry	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9609-7457	https://webserver.umbr.cas.cz/~kupper/AG_Kuepper_Homepage.html
Filis	Morina	Czechia	Czech Academy of Sciences, Biology Centre, Insistute of Plant Molecular Biology, Department of Plant Biophysics and Biochemistry	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1521-125X	https://webserver.umbr.cas.cz/~kupper/AG_Kuepper_Homepage.html
Himanshi	Sharma	Czechia	Czech Academy of Sciences, Biology Centre, Insistute of Plant Molecular Biology, Department of Plant Biophysics and Biochemistry	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2136-245X	https://webserver.umbr.cas.cz/~kupper/AG_Kuepper_Homepage.html
Milada	Vítová	Czechia	Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0552-3295	www.ibot.cas.cz
Astrid	Avellan	France	CNRS	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6081-4389
Valérie	Bert	France	Ineris	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6867-6790	www.ineris.fr
Damien	Blaudez	France	Université de Lorraine	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3287-3482	https://liec.univ-lorraine.fr/en/node/44
Jean-Yves	Cornu	France	INRAE	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3169-4298
Christian	Dubos	France	INRAE	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5486-3643	https://www1.montpellier.inra.fr/wp-inra/ipsim/en/
Marie-Pierre	Isaure	France	Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour
Abir	Israel	France	INRAE
Marie	Le Jean	France	Université de Lorraine	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5470-4749
Sylvain	Merlot	France	LRSV, CNRS	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9352-1184	https://lrsv.cnrs.fr/
Christophe	Nguyen	France	INRAE	http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0917-6398
Yohan	Pillon	France	IRD	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1760-329X	http://diade.ird.fr/
Jonathan	Przybyla-Toscano	France	INRAE	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8053-6037	https://www.lpcv.fr/en/Pages/MetalStress/Presentation.aspx
Manon	Quillerou Moreau	France	UGA		https://www.lpcv.fr/en/Pages/MetalStress/Presentation.aspx
Stephane	Ravanel	France	INRAE	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9475-4222	https://www.lpcv.fr/en/Pages/MetalStress/Presentation.aspx
Geraldine	Sarret	France	CNRS
Gabriel	Sgarbiero Montanha	France	European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1375-2351
Jessie	Shadbolt	France	Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, INRAE PACA	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1387-0091
Sébastien	Thomine	France	Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0045-1701	https://www.i2bc.paris-saclay.fr/equipe-integrated-approaches-to-ion-transport/
Yingying	Wang	France	INRAE Ispa
Gerald	Falkenberg	Germany	Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2229-1027
Ute	Krämer	Germany	Ruhr University Bochum	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7870-4508	https://mgpp.rub.de
Bastian	Meier	Germany	Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3270-5825	https://www.landw.uni-halle.de/professuren_arbeitsgruppen/pflanzenernaehrung/lab_members/bastian_meier/
Marie	Muehe	Germany	Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research		https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=47228
Edgar	Peiter	Germany	Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9104-3238	www.landw.uni-halle.de/pe
Filip	Pošćić	Germany		https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6642-1532
Matthias	Wiggenhauser	Germany	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0707-4411	https://www.agrar.hu-berlin.de/en/institut-en/departments/dntw-en/pflern/standardseite
Gen	Yang	Germany
Christos	Kikis	Greece	University of Thessaly	https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0210-0838
Christos	Noulas	Greece	Hellenic Agricultural Organization (ELGO-DIMITRA), Institute of Industrial & Forage Crops (IIFC)	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1087-2203	https://ipsw.gr/en/staff/researchers/item/582-christos-noulas-assistant-researcher-en
Thomas	Sotiropoulos	Greece	Department of deciduous fruit trees - Institute of plant breeding and genetic resources
Michel	Francis	Hungary	Eötvös Loránd University	https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5547-2776
Ádám	Solti	Hungary	Eötvös Loránd University	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1479-5492	http://sadambio.web.elte.hu
Erika	Bellini	Italy	University of Pisa	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6542-3897
Marco	Dainelli	Italy
Giovanni	DalCorso	Italy	Dept. Biotechnology - University of Verona	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0594-5930	https://www.dbt.univr.it/?ent=persona&id=4805&lang=en
Maria	De Benedictis	Italy	CNR-ISPA
Elisa	Fasani	Italy	Dept. of Biotechnology, University of Verona		https://www.dbt.univr.it/?ent=persona&id=8277
Cristina	Gonnelli	Italy	University of Florence
Antonio	Masi	Italy	University of Padova	http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-5984	https://www.dafnae.unipd.it/en/
Giancarlo	Renella	Italy	University of Padua	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4367-4702	https://www.dafnae.unipd.it/category/ruoli/personale-docente?key=75BD62C780EBAC61E2A53F9C9D178AC6
Luigi	Sanita' di Toppi	Italy	Department of Biology, University of Pisa	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8731-4904
Giovanna	Visioli	Italy	University of Parma	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9712-3223	https://personale.unipr.it/en/ugovdocenti/person/18024
Yoichiro	Fukao	Japan	Ritsumeikan University	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0760-570X
Bekim	Gashi	Kosovo	University of Prishtina		https://uni-pr.edu/
Mirsade	Osmani	Kosovo	University Isa Boletini in Mitrovica		www.uimb.net
Edita	Baltrėnaitė-Gedienė	Lithuania	Vilnius Gediminas Technical University	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8758-136X	https://vilniustech.lt/contacts/main-contacts/kontaktai/research-institute-of-environmental-protection/6160?dip=348
Dalila	Castillo	Mexico	Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3957-9457
Mark	Aarts	Netherlands	Wageningen University	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5257-0740
Muhammad	Imran	Netherlands	Nouryon		https://www.nouryon.com/products/micronutrients
Mirko	Salinitro	Netherlands	Wageningen University and Research	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7829-4350
Joanna	Augustynowicz	Poland	University of Agriculture in Krakow	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7826-7205
Anna	Barabasz	Poland	University of Warsaw, Faculty of Biology, Institute of Experimental Plant Biology and Biotechnology		https://www.biol.uw.edu.pl/en/science-and-didactics/institute-of-experimental-plant-biology-and-biotechnology/department-of-plant-metal-homeostasis/
Jagna	Chmielowska-Bąk	Poland	Department of Plant Ecophysiology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0619-2739	https://ibe.amu.edu.pl/en/zer-en/
Weronika	Jozwiak	Poland	PPC ADOB Sp. z o.o.		https://adob.com.pl/en/
Katarzyna	Kińska	Poland	University of Warsaw, Faculty of Chemistry	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1666-8430
Julia	Maksymiuk	Poland	Department of Plant Metal Homeostasis, Institute of Experimental Plant Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw	https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5409-3451
Adam	Nawrocki	Poland	Hynfra P.S.A.		https://www.hynfra.com/
Magdalena	Pypka	Poland	University of Warsaw	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8487-9395
Anna	Rogacz	Poland
Oskar	Siemianowski	Poland	University of Warsaw	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7842-8977
Ewa	Sitek	Poland	Department of Botany, Physiology and Plant Protection Faculty of Biotechnology and Horticulture University of Agriculture in Krakow	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2497-1974
Sylwester	Smoleń	Poland	University of Agriculture in Krakow, Faculty of Biotechnology and Horticulture;	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8093-3801	https://lsm.urk.edu.pl/o-laboratorium; https://wbio.urk.edu.pl/wydzial
Alina	Wiszniewska	Poland	University of Agriculture in Kraków	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7737-819X
Ana	Assunção	Portugal	CIBIO, University of Porto	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5562-6807	www.cibio.up.pt
Mihaela	Gălean	Romania	Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania	https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6817-2227
Ramona	Huzum	Romania	CERNESIM Center, Institute of Interdisciplinary research, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8853-3212	https://ici.uaic.ro/cs-dr-ramona-nastuta-huzum/
Dorina	Podar	Romania	Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0955-7425	https://www.ubbcluj.ro/en/
Ksenija	Jakovljević	Serbia	Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", University of Belgrade	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1457-6807
Ivana	Maksimović	Serbia	University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture	http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4316-9645	http://polj.uns.ac.rs/sr/node/365
Marina	Putnik-Delić	Serbia	University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2997-4581
Anastasija	Vujović	Serbia	University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Field and Vegetable Crops	https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7803-7812
Jana	Kohanová	Slovakia	Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Plant Physiology		https://fns.uniba.sk/kfr/
Alexander	Lux	Slovakia	Comenius University in Bratislava; Fac.Nat.Sci. of Natural Sciences; Dept. Plant Physiology	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8651-8166 (will be updated)
Marek	Vaculik	Slovakia	Institute of Botany, Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre, SAS & Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4125-2074	https://ibot.sav.sk/en/our-research/employees/?user_no=10223
Miroslava	Vaculiková	Slovakia	Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre of SAS
Marjana	Regvar	Slovenia	University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Dept. of Biology
Manuel	Gonzalez-Guerrero	Spain	Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Centro de Biotecnologia y Genomica de Plantas	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7334-5286
Paco	Romero	Spain	IATA-CSIC	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7811-0897	https://www.iata.csic.es/es/personal/francisco-romero-gascon
Robert	Frost	Sweden	Uppsala University		https://www.uu.se/
Aishee	Ghosh	Sweden		https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2940-0273	https://www.uu.se/en/contact-and-organisation/staff.html?query=N24-1143
Eva	Freisinger	Switzerland	University of Zurich, Department of Chemistry	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3102-6329	https://www.chem.uzh.ch/en/research/groups/freisinger.html
Fernando Antonio	Gomes Brito	Switzerland	ETH Zürich		https://plantnutrition.ethz.ch/
Kévin	Robe	Switzerland	University of Geneva	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7825-2142	https://www.unige.ch/barberonlab/
Emre	Aksoy	Türkiye	Middle East Technical University	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9410-2715	http://aksoyemre.weebly.com/
Seckin	Eroglu	Türkiye	Middle East Technical University		https://erogluseckin.wixsite.com/mpnlab
Kumbirai Deon	Mandebere	Türkiye	Middle East Technical University	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8234-1444
Enise	Sukuşu	Türkiye	Siirt University/Faculty of Agriculture/Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6892-124X	https://tbbbb.siirt.edu.tr/personel/akademik/739614.html
Janneke	Balk	UK	John Innes Centre	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4738-1990	https://www.jic.ac.uk/directory/janneke-balk/
Kelly	Houston	UK	The James Hutton Institute	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2136-245X	https://www.hutton.ac.uk/people/kelly-houston/
Aria	Duncan	USA	Whitworth University	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6047-6607	https://ariaduncan.com/
Olena	Vatamaniuk	USA	Cornell University	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2713-3797	https://blogs.cornell.edu/ovatamaniuk/

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