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Luis F. Garcia del Moral

Name Luis F. Garcia del Moral
University University of Granada
Country Spain
Position Editorial board member

Biography

Luis F. Garcia del Moral is a Full Professor of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology at the Faculty of Sciences in the University of Granada (Spain). Senior Principal Scientific is the head of a research group on Crop Physiology. His research efforts are dedicated to the understanding of yield determination and quality of cereal crops under different management and environmental conditions, with emphasis on water and high temperature stresses in the Mediterranean area, as well as in the use of physiological and molecular markers as tools for breeding in dry environments. Author of 69 scientific articles cited in Web of Science (WOS) and 14 book chapters, his h index in WOS is 24 and 33 in Google Scholar. Director of more than 17 research projects and 13 doctoral theses on crop physiology, he has been commissioned by the Rector of the University of Granada for scientific and academic relations with Morocco and has served as an adviser and evaluator for various agencies of the Spanish Government.

Research of Interest: Crop physiology, abiotic stress, plant growth analysis, crop phenology, ecophysiological and molecular approaches in plant breeding.