AGUSTÍN A. GRIMOLDI

grimoldi@ifeva.edu.ar

Education

• Doctor, Agronomy. 2006. Chair of Grassland Science, Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan, Alemania.
• Magister Scientiae, Natural Resources. 2000. Escuela para Graduados “Alberto Soriano”, Facultad de Agronomía, UBA.
• BSc, Agronomy. 1994. Facultad de Agronomía, UBA.

Positions

• Research Scientist. IFEVA-CONICET.
• Senior Demonstrator. Cátedra de Forrajicultura, Facultad de Agronomía, UBA.

Research interests

• Ecophysiology of forage plants.
• Plant-mycorrhiza interactions.
• Plant responses to flooding.
• Dynamics and functioning of natural grasslands.

Teaching

Postgraduate courses at Escuela para Graduados Alberto Soriano (FAUBA)

• Physiology of forage plants.
• Symbiosis between plants and microorganisms

Undergraduate course. Facultad de Agronomía. UBA

• Forage production and management

Students

• Undergraduate thesis: 2.
• Master Thesis: 2.
• Doctoral Thesis: 2.

Publications (last 5 years)

1. Striker GG, Insausti P, Grimoldi AA. (2008). Flooding effects on plants recovering from defoliation in Paspalum dilatatum and Lotus tenuis. Annals of Botany 102: 247-254.
2. Striker GG; Insausti P; Grimoldi AA; Vega AS. (2007). Trade-off between root porosity and mechanical strength in species with different types of aerenchyma. Plant Cell & Environment 30:580-589
3. Striker GG, Insausti P, Grimoldi AA, Vega AS. (2007). Trade-off between root porosity and mechanical strength in species with different types of aerenchyma. Plant, Cell & Environment 30: 580-589.
4. Grimoldi AA, Kavanová M, Lattanzi FA, Schäufele R, Schnyder H. (2006). Arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization on carbon economy in perennial ryegrass: quantification by 13CO2/12CO2 steady-state labelling and gas exchange. New Phytologist 172: 533-544.
5. Kavanová M, Lattanzi FA, Grimoldi AA, Schnyder H. (2006). Phosphorus deficiency decreases cell division and elongation in grass leaves. Plant Physiology 141: 766-775.
6. Insausti P, Grimoldi AA. (2006). Gap disturbance triggers the recolonization of the clonal plant Ambrosia tenuifolia in a flooding grassland of Argentina. Austral Ecology 31: 828-836.
7. Striker GG, Insausti P, Grimoldi AA, León RJC. (2006). Root strength and trampling tolerance in the grass Paspalum dilatatum and the dicot Lotus glaber in flooded soil. Functional Ecology 20: 4-10.
8. Kavanová M, Grimoldi AA, Lattanzi FA, Schnyder H. (2006). Phosphorus nutrition and mycorrhiza effects on grass leaf growth. P status- and size-mediated effects on growth zone kinematics. Plant, Cell and Environment 29: 511-520.
9. Grimoldi AA, Kavanová M, Lattanzi FA, Schnyder H. (2005). Phosphorus nutrition mediated effects of arbuscular mycorrhiza on leaf morphology and carbon allocation in perennial ryegrass. New Phytologist 168: 435-444.
10. Striker GG, Insausti P, Grimoldi AA, Ploschuk EL, Vasellati V. (2005). Physiological and anatomical basis of differential tolerance to soil flooding of Lotus corniculatus L. and Lotus glaber L. Plant and Soil 276: 301-311.
11. Grimoldi AA, Insausti P, Vasellati V, Striker GG. (2005). Constitutive and plastic root traits and their role in differential tolerance to soil flooding among co-existing species of a lowland grassland. International Journal of Plant Sciences 166: 805-813.

Current research areas at IFEVA

• Stress Physiology and Biotic Interactions
• Ecophysiology of crop species and of potential interest for cropping
• Ecology of grasslands and savannas