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Dr. Campostrini is a Professor of Physiology/Ecophysiology of Tropical and Subtropical Crops at the State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro, in Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil. In recent years, he has collaborated with EMBRAPA, INCAPER/ES, TKI/NovaSource (USA), the Federal University of Espírito Santo, the University of Almería (Spain), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy), the Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training (IFAPA, Spain), the University of Lisbon (PlantStress Biodiversity Lab, Linking Landscape, Environment, Agriculture and Food Unit), the Canary Institute of Agricultural Research (ICIA, Canary Islands, Spain), the Tropical Research and Education Center (University of Florida), and Columbia University (USA). He is currently the author or co-author of 162 publications in international peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Eliemar and his collaborators have been working on the Environmental Physiology of Tropical and Subtropical Crops, with emphasis on papaya, maize, coffee, pineapple, hop, and grapevine. Their main objective is to achieve a deeper understanding of the effects of environmental factors (water, air temperature, light, and mineral nutrients) on physiological processes [gas exchange (photosynthesis, respiration, and transpiration), sap flow, photosynthetic pigments, and photochemical efficiency] in papaya, coffee, hop, maize, pineapple, and grapevine plants. Understanding the effects of environmental factors on physiological processes is crucial to minimize the deleterious impacts of supra-optimal and sub-optimal environmental conditions and to manage crops in ways that increase productivity. Current projects: Project 1: Suspension of processed kaolin particle film as a mitigator of UV radiation, high leaf temperature, and water stress in coffee plants and Atlantic Forest species; Project 2: Partial root-zone drying: dark and light respiration, photosynthesis, photochemical efficiency, and water relations in hop and coffee genotypes; Project 3: Physiological traits and growth of elite papaya seedling genotypes under LED light supplementation; Project 4: ; Project 5: Large-scale bioreactor application in pineapple, hop, and papaya: photoautotrophic and photomixotrophic micropropagation; Project 6: Potential use of chlorophyll fluorescence, near-infrared (NIR), and IR thermal imaging to identify sex in papaya plants; Project 7: Supra-optimal temperature and UV radiation in papaya, hop, and coffee: effects on photosynthetic capacity and growth; Project 8: Popcorn breeding for water-limited environments: physiological traits and yield; Project 9: Soil drying and rewetting in Coffea canephora Pierre ex A. Froehner: leaf- and canopy-level ecophysiological traits associated with drought stress memory, gene expression, photosynthetic capacity, and growth. Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6703563341959731 E-mail: campostrini@uenf.br |
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