Agricultural Chemistry Research Area

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The Agricultural Chemistry research teams aim to enhance and protect the agro-biodiversity as well as to promote sustainable rural practices. The soil-water-plant-atmosphere system is evaluated in its chemical, biochemical, physiological, genetic, molecular, biotechnological, pedological, and ecological aspects.

Main research topics include:

• Improvement, and restoration of soil fertility
• Use and recycling of biomass
• Accumulation, mobilization, and absorption of endogenous and exogenous chemical species
• Structure, function, expression, and regulation of genes and genomes
• Plant adaptation to abiotic stress at the molecular level
• Heredity in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms of agricultural interest
• Genetic improvement of species of agricultural and forestry interest
• Biostimulants for agriculture