Professor Victor Sadras
Biography
Victor Sadras, a Fellow of the Australian Society of Agronomy, leads the Crop Ecophysiology team at the South Australian R&D Institute. He currently holds affiliate positions with the University of Adelaide, Flinders University, and the University of Tasmania, worked as FAO leading consultant on yield gap and water use efficiency, and held positions with CSIRO, University of Buenos Aires, and University of Cordoba (Spain).
Sadras scientific interest is the adaptation of crops to environmental stresses, including water deficit, extreme temperatures, nutrient deficit, soil physical and chemical constraints, plant pathogens, and arthropod herbivores. He has developed theory, measured, and modelled aspects of the water, carbon, and nitrogen economies of annual (wheat, barley, pulses, canola, maize, sunflower, soybean, cotton) and perennial crops (grapevine, olive) in rainfed and irrigated systems of Australia, Argentina, Spain, and China.
He is the senior editor of Crop physiology: applications for breeding and agronomy (Academic Press) and published 289 papers in peer-reviewed journals returning 23,168 citations and h = 89 (Google Scholar, July 2024).
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Melbourne
- M. Sc.; Ingeniero Agronomo, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Research affiliations
- Affiliate Professor, Flinders University
- Affiliate Professor, The University of Adelaide
