Professor Mariano Cossani
Biography
Associate Prof. C. Mariano Cossani joined SARDI in 2016. Mariano has work and life experience in four countries (Argentina, Spain, Mexico and Australia). His research experience encompasses aspects of resource capture, resource use efficiency and adaptation of crops to abiotic stress.
He has experience working on cereals, pulses, oilseeds, and viticulture. He has extensive experience developing low cost and high throughput methods for assessing plant stress, and resources limitation under field conditions.
His methods proved to be useful on cereal and pulse crops, canola and maize. In the past, he developed conceptual models for adapting wheat to heat stress by using physiological traits, phenotyping and strategic crossing.
He is also interested in the use of different Ag-Tech, proximal and remote sensing, and crop modelling applied to crop management and plant breeding. In the past, he was Scientist of the Global Wheat Program of CIMMYT, INT from CGIAR.
Research interests
- Grain yield determination and abiotic stress (heat, drought, frost) adaptation in annual and perennial crops
- Resources and nutrient competition, capture, and limitations
- Genetic gains in crops, pre-breeding and phenotyping methodologies
- Cropping systems analysis, remote sensing, crop modelling, and Ag-Tech
Qualifications
- PhD. “Cum Laude”, 2010, Universitat de Lleida, Cataluña, Spain
- Master in Sciences. Agrifood systems by research, 2009,
- Universitat de Lleida, Cataluña, Spain
- Agronomy Engineer (Agr. Eng.) 2004. School of Agronomy. University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Professional affiliations
- Senior Lecturer, School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, University of Adelaide
- Associate Professor, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University
- Chair Scientific Coordinator of the “Network of Argentinean Scientists in Australia”. RAICES Network of Argentine Researchers, Scientists and Technologists Abroad Program, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Argentina
- Editorial Advisor Board Member, Field Crops Research, Elsevier Editorial, and Review Editor in Frontiers in Plant Sciences
- Member from International Experts Working Groups on Wheat from Wheat Initiative
