Gustavo A. Slafer (PhD University of Melbourne) is Research Professor of ICREA at AGROTECNIO-CERCA Center, and the University of Lleida (Catalonia-Spain). His research has focused on studying the mechanisms underlying the responses of grain crops (mainly but not only wheat and barley) to environmental and genetic factors, with lines of research focused on understanding traits determining yield physiology and their plasticity. He published more than 200 papers, more than 40 chapters and 7 books by International Publishers. His h-index is 67 (Web of Science, Core Collection) or 90 (Google Scholar). He is Honorary Professor of the Universities of Nottingham (UK, since 2005) and Buenos Aires (Argentina, since 2018); Editor/Associate Editor of several journals; and “Fellow” of the Crop Science Society of America

My research is focused on Crop Physiology: a relatively novel branch of science linking more fundamental physiological knowledge with realistic crop-breeding and crop-management developments through a genuine translational research approach. In this context, I study the mechanisms underlying the responses of field crops to environmental and genetic factors at the crop level of organisation. The environmental factors include management practices (e.g. irrigation or fertilization) and less manageable environmental factors (e.g. radiation, photoperiod and temperature). Genetic factors include from diverse genotypes through specific populations to particular genes (NILs). I study in this context the physiology of yield; carbon and nitrogen relationships and crop developmental processes with the aim of identifying alternatives to traditional farming and breeding practises to enhance the efficiency of resource use.