Students

Postgraduates

Milena Manzur has a PhD in Agricultural Sciences, and currently, during her Posdoctoral period (2012-2014) she is studying root oxigenation capacity of herbaceous species with different aerenchyma types. She collaborates actively in research lines that are running on the interespecific and intraspecific variation of Lotus species in front to flooding , and in the line evaluating the flooding tolerance of tropical grasses. She is also teaching assistant at the School of Plant Physiology (UBA). Milena's work is co-supervised by Dr. Agustín Grimoldi.

Graduates

J Augusto Imaz is pursuing a Magister Scientiae degree in Vegetal Production under my supervision. Augusto works on experiments attempting to reveal the ecophysiological basis of tolerance to flooding of increasing intensity (provoking partial and complete submergence) of two tropical grasses - Chloris gayana and Panicum coloratum - that are being introduced into temperate grasslands prone to soil flooding. Upon the knowledge generated by this research line will settle the basis for the use of these species in flooding areas of the Pampa grasslands. Augusto's work is co-supervised by Dr. Agustín Grimoldi.

Undergraduates

Javier Cifaldi is at the middle of the career for Agronomical Engineer. He is performing some experiments on Chloris gayana (rhodes grass) for analyzing the intraspecific variation of available cultivars of this species to complete submergence. The performance of tropical grass species, such as C. gayana, when are introduced in temperate environments suffering from periodical flooding is unknown. Javier's work is co-supervised by Dr. Agustín Grimoldi.

Xiaolin Kuang is an advanced student of the Bachelor degree in Environmental Sciences. She is investigating (i) the cost-benefit relationship of expressing the 'escape from water' strategy by Chloris gayana seedlings when dealing with submergence, and (ii) the consequences of different submergence regimes on the performance of C. gayana by alternating short submergences vs. a long submergence for a same total period. She also works as undergraduate teaching assistant at the School of Plant Physiology (UBA). Xiaolin's work is co-supervised by Ing. Agr. Cecilia Casas.

Rocío Ploschuk is at the middle of the career of Agronomical Engineer. She is going to investigate the flooding effects on the biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) of forage legumes inhabiting prone to flood environments. Rocío will start exploring the ability of Lotus tenuis in continuing with BNF when exposed to stagnant-deoxygenated nutrient solution with and without nitrogen. Like most legumes, L. tenuis has the ability to establish mutualistic symbiotic relationships with soil N-fixing bacteria, and also it is known because its ability to tolerate flooding events. However, there is no experimental evidence attempting to link both characteristics. So, the first purpose of this line is to assess the impact of anaerobiosis due to flooding on the nitrogen fixation of L. tenuis.

M Sol Rossi Lopardo is ending the Bachelor in Environmental Sciences. She investigates the ecophysiological responses of Spartina densiflora to the stress imposed by flooding of increasing salinity. The understanding of the functioning of Spartina, the dominant species in the salt marshes of San Borombon bay (declared a Ramsar site in 1997), is crucial to define practices with conservational purposes, as well as to define the zonation limit of this species. M Sol's thesis is co-supervised by Ing. Agr. Carla Di Bella.