Dr. Cesar Mariano Cossani Rial
Position: Senior Research Agronomist / Associate Senior Lecturer
Department: Crop Sciences – Climate Applications
University/Institute/Company: SARDI – South Australian Research and Development Institute / The University of Adelaide
About
I am a Senior Research Agronomist with SARDI, working on crop ecophysiology and abiotic stress adaptation. I’ve an Agronomy Engineer degree from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), and a Masters and a Ph. D. by the University of Lleida (Spain). My research experience encompasses aspects of resource capture and resource use efficiency of cereals, and adaptation of crops to the climate change effects, such as heat stress and drought. I’ve developed methods based on empirical field data to assess the co-limitation of resources in wheat systems of Mediterranean environments that proved to be useful on other crops as canola and maize. I’ve been working during five years for CIMMYT of the CGIAR System Organization, where I developed conceptual models for adapting wheat to hot environments through the use of physiological traits, phenotyping and strategic crossing. I’ve done several oral presentations in diverse scientific meetings hold in countries of the five continents of the world.
Disciplines: Agricultural Science
- Agricultural Science: Agricultural Plant Science, Agronomy, Irrigation and Water Management, Plant Fertilization, Animal and Human Nutrition, Theoretical Production Ecology, Water Science
