Education

• Agriculture Engineer (1996) Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Magister Scientiae (M.Sc.) (Natural Resources) (2001) Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Ph.D. (Plant Science) (2005) School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, Australia.

Positions

• Research Fellow, National Research Council (CONICET), Argentina.
• Lecturer in General Ecology, Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Current Research Interests

• Weed Ecology and Physiology.
• Herbicide Resistance Evolution.
• Agriculture Sustainability.

Publications (last 5 years)

• Vila-Aiub MM, Vidal RA, Balbi MC, Gundel PE, F Trucco & Ghersa CM (2008). Glyphosate-resistant weeds of South American cropping systems: an overview. Pest Management Science 64:366–371.
• Vidal Ribas A; Muzzel Trezzi M; De Prado R; Pedro Ruiz-Santaella J; Vila-Aiub M. (2007). Glyphosate resistant biotypes of wild poinsettia (Euphorbia heterophylla L.) and its risk analysis on glyphosate-tolerant soybeans. Journal of Food Agriculture and Environment 5:265-269
• Vila-Aiub MM; Balbi MC; Gundel PE; Ghersa CM; Powles SB. (2007). Evolution of glyphosate-resistant johnsongrass (Sorgum halepense) in glyphosate-resistant soybean. Weed Science 55:566-571
• Gundel PE, Maseda PH, Vila-Aiub MM , Ghersa CM & Benech-Arnold R (2006). Effects of Neotyphodium fungi on Lolium multiflorum seed germination in relation to water availability. Annals of Botany 97:571-577.
• Vila-Aiub MM , Neve P & Powles SB (2005). Fitness Costs of Evolved Herbicide Resistance. Encyclopedia of Pest Management (D. Pimentel editor), Marcel Dekker, New York, Taylor and Francis. Pages 1-3, 903 pages, ISBN: 0-8247-0632-3 (paper) 0-8247-0517-3 (electronic)
• Vila-Aiub MM , Neve P & Powles SB (2005). Resistance cost of a cytochrome P450 herbicide metabolism resistance mechanism but not an ACCase target site mutation in a multiple resistant Lolium rigidum population. New Phytologist 167:787-796.
• Vila-Aiub MM , Neve P, Steadman KS & Powles SB, (2005). Ecological fitness of a multiple herbicide resistant Lolium rigidum population: Dynamics of seed germination and seedling emergence of resistant and susceptible phenotypes. Journal of Applied Ecology 42:288-298.
• Vila-Aiub MM , Gundel PE & Ghersa CM, (2005). Fungal endophyte infection changes growth attributes in Lolium multiflorum Lam. Austral Ecology 30:49-57.
• Vila-Aiub MM & Ghersa CM, (2005). Building up resistance by recurrently exposing target plants to sub-lethal doses of herbicide. European Journal of Agronomy 22:195-207.
• Martinez-Ghersa MA, Vila-Aiub MM , Ghersa CM, Gundel PE & Satorre EH. (2004). Herbicide selection of Italian ryegrass under different levels of UVB radiation. Journal of Environmental Quality 33:1376-1386.
• Vila-Aiub MM , Ghersa CM & Carceller M, (2003). Effect of herbicide diclofop-methyl on proton extrusion from Lolium multiflorum seedlings differing in resistance and in fungal endophyte (Neotyphodium sp) infection. Physiologia Plantarum 119:429-439.
• Vila-Aiub MM , Martinez-Ghersa MA & Ghersa CM, (2003). Evolution of herbicide resistance in weeds: vertically transmitted fungal endophytes as genetic entities. Evolutionary Ecology 17:441-456.

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