Instituto de Investigaciones
en Biociencias Agrícolas y Ambientales
integrantes

Education

  • Agricultural Engineer, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), 1968.
  • Diploma University of Granada, Spain, 1971.

Current positions

  • Distinguished Professor UBA.
  • Scientific researcher of the Argentinean Research Council (CONICET).

Research interests

  • Nutrient dynamics in agricultural systems; contamination of soil, water and plants and the effect of different fungi; Remediation; saline and alkaline soils.

Publications in refereed journals (last 5 years)

  • Pescie, M.A., M. Montecchia, R.S. Lavado and V.M. Chiocchio. (2023). Inoculation with Oidiodendron maius BP Improves Nitrogen Absorption from Fertilizer and Growth of Vaccinium corymbosum during the Early Nursery Stage. Plants 12(4):792. DOI: 10.3390/plants12040792.
  • Lavado, R.S.; Chiocchio, V.M. (2023) Symbiosis of Plants with Mycorrhizal and Endophytic Fungi. Plants, 12, 1688. https:// doi.org/10.3390/plants12081688.
  • Barbosa O.A., Álvarez-Rogel J. and Raúl S. Lavado. (2023). Forage offer from a saline wetland of central Argentina (San Luis province), Wetlands Ecology and Management. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-023-09945-0.
  • Barbosa, O.A., J. Álvarez-Rogel, R. S. Lavado y D. A. Riscosa. (2022). Variaciones estacionales de salinidad y humedad y su influencia en la génesis de los suelos de un humedal salino del centro de San Luis. Ciencia de Suelo, 40 (1): 237-256.
  • Taboada, M.A, R.S. Lavado. (2022). Forage production on halomorphic soils of the Flooding Pampa. FAO. Halt soil salinization, boost soil productivity – Proceedings of the Global Symposium on Salt-affected Soils. 20–22 October 2021. Rome. Pp 299-300. https://doi.org/10.4060/cb9565en.
  • Taboada, M.A., F. Damiano, R.S. Lavado. (2022). Soils, groundwater movements and floods in Argentina lowlands. FAO. Halt soil salinization, boost soil productivity – Proceedings of the Global Symposium on Salt-affected Soils. 20–22 October 2021. Rome. Pp 301-302. https://doi.org/10.4060/cb9565en.
  • Barresi, O. Lavado, R.S., Chiocchio, V.M. (2022). Can dark septate endophytic fungi (DSE) solubilize selectively inorganic soil phosphorus thereby promoting sorghum growth? RAM. doi.org/10.1016/j.ram.2022.02.003.
  • Spagnoletti F.N, M. Carmona, K. Balestrasse, V. Chiocchio, R. Giacometti, R.S. Lavado. (2021). Arbuscular mycorrhiza Rhizophagus intraradices can reduce root rot caused by Fusarium pseudograminearum in wheat. Rhizosphere. 19: doi.org/10.1016/j.rhisph.2021.100369.
  • Rimski-Korsakov, H y Lavado, R. S. (2021) ¿Los flujos de nitrógeno en maíz fertilizado seguido por un cultivo de cobertura ante diferentes condiciones hídricas? Agronomía y Ambiente 41: 138-148.
  • Giubergia, J.P., A. Salinas, I. Severina, M. Boccardo, F. Aimar y R.S. Lavado. (2021). Efecto del riego suplementario sobre el suelo y el rendimiento del maíz (Zea mays L.) en el centro norte de la provincia de Córdoba. Agronomía y Ambiente 41:71-82.
  • Hopmans, J.W., A. S. Qureshi, I. Kisekka, R. Munns, S.R. Grattan, P. Rengasamy, A. Ben-Gal, S. Assouline, M. Javaux, P.S. Minhas, P.A.C. Raats, T. Skaggs, G. Wang, Q. De Jong van Lier, H. Jiao, R.S. Lavado, N. Lazarovitch, B. Li, and E. Taleisnik. (2021). Critical Knowledge Gaps and Research Priorities in Global Soil Salinity. Advances in Agronomy. 161: 1-191. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.agron.2021.03.001.
  • Frusso, E.A., R.S. Lavado. (2021). The condition of the pecan in Argentina. Acta Horticulturae 1318: 59-65.
  • Frusso, E.A., R.S. Lavado, P. Insausti, P.A. Cipriotti, F.M. Cavo. (2021). Effect of nitrogen, phosphorus and zinc fertilization on pecan yield in Argentina. Acta Horticulturae 1318: 215-220.
  • Pescie, M.A., M. Fradkin, R.S. Lavado and V.M. Chiocchio. (2021). Endophytic fungi in blueberry varieties, in three production areas of Argentina. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology. 115 101662 doi.org/10.1016/j.pmpp.2021.101662.
  • Ureta Suelgaray, F.J., D.M. Aguilar Beltramo, R.S. Lavado, V.M. Chiocchio. (2021). Dark Septate Endophytes (DSE): potential promoters of bioremediation of oil derivatives. International J. of Phytoremediation. 24: 255-262. DOI: 10.1080/15226514.2021.1932733.
  • Spagnoletti, F.N., Cornero, M., Chiocchio, V., Lavado, R.S., Roberts, I.N. (2020). Arbuscular mycorrhiza protects soybean plants against Macrophomina phaseolina even under nitrogen fertilization. European J. Plant Pathology 156 (3): 839–849. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-020-01934-w ISSN: 0929-1873.
  • Lavado, R.S. The contamination state in Pampas soil: a review. (2019). Proceedings of the Global Symposium on Soil Pollution. FAO, Rome. Pp 80-84. ISBN 978-92-5-130863-9-9.
  • Porcelli C.A., G. Rubio, F.H. Gutiérrez Boem y R.S. Lavado. (2019). Efecto del fósforo sobre Paspalum dilatatum, una forrajera constituyente de pastizales naturales, bajo estrés hídrico y salino. Conferencias, trabajos y resúmenes VI RAS. Pp 229-234.

Grad Students

  • MSci and PhD adviser 16 and 4 as co adviser.
  • Advising now: 3.

Management of research projects (last 5 years)

  • UBACyT 707/2018; PICT 2020 A-035 17; Project nro. 101082089. UE. 2023.

Postgraduate courses taught at the Alberto Soriano Graduate School (FAUBA)

  • Agricultural recovery of waste: biosolids, manure, household waste and agro-industrial waste (2020 and 2023).
  • Physical soil degradation processes 2022.
  • Flows and management of contaminants in agro systems (2021).