Prof. Youssef Rouphael​

 

Is a Professor in vegetable crops and floriculture at the Department of Agricultural Sciences (DIA), University of Naples Federico II, Portici (NA), Italy. Member of the Ph.D Board in Food Science at the Department DIA, University of Naples Federico II. Visiting scientists at at the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops Großbeeren /Erfurt (Germany).

 

Main research areas: biostimulants, plant nutrition, stress tolerance, hydroponics, specialty crops and modulation of vegetables quality through pre-harvest factors. He is Editor-in-Chief of Agronomy MDPI and Open Life Sciences and has been a Guest Editor on plant biostimulants in several International Journals (Scientia Horticulturae, Frontiers in Plant Science and Agronomy MDPI).

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He is a member of the scientific committee of Biostimulant.com. He is internationally known for his research in horticultural science, plant nutrition and microbial and non-microbial plant biostimulants. He is the editor of the first international book on biostimulants: Rouphael, Y., du Jardin, P., Brown, P., De Pascale, S., Colla, G. (ed.), Biostimulants for sustainable agriculture, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2020, (ISBN: 978 1 78676 336 5; www. Bdpublishing.com) (https://shop.bdspublishing.com/store/bds/detail/workgroup/3-190-84222).

 

Principal investigator in many research projects on vegetable crops and floriculture funded by Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, Italian Ministry of Education, Private Companies, etc. Author or co-author of more than 500 publications on national and international journals.