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Slafer Lago, Gustavo A.
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ICREA Research Professor at UdL (Universitat de Lleida). Life & Medical Sciences
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Dr. Gustavo A. Slafer (PhD, University of Melbourne) is Research Professor of ICREA at the University of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain), where he is also Associate Professor of the Department of Crop & Forest Sciences. He is currently also (i) Honorary Professor of the School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham, UK; (ii) Associate Editor of Crop Science and Euphytica; and (iii) member of the Editorial Boards of Field Crops Research and European Journal of Agronomy. Until Jan. 2012 he has co-edited 6 scientific books, by publishers in USA and UK and published 168 scientific articles (35 books chapters and 133 papers in SCI-indexed journals). His H-index at Jan 2012 was 32 (WebOfScience). He has been several times invited to deliver talks on different aspects of crop physiology in international conferences.
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Research Interests
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I study the mechanisms, at the crop level of organization, underlying the responses of grain crops to environmental and genetic factors. The environmental factors include management practices such us irrigation or fertilization (among other less manageable environmental factors including radiation, photoperiod and temperature). Genetic factors include from general breeding strategies to the action of particular genes or groups of genes. The general aim is identifying alternative to traditional farming and breeding practises to enhance the efficiency of resource use, as an avenue to increase simultaneously both crop productivity and agricultural sustainability
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KeyWords
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Crop physiology, Cereals, Wheat, Barley, Maize, Nitrogen, Fertilization, Phenology, Photoperiod, Vernalization, Temperature
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