Benefits of Silicon in the Nutrition of Plants

Renato de Mello Prado has a PhD in Agronomy from the São Paulo State University (Unesp) Campus of Jaboticabal, Brazil and did postdocs at the University of Cordoba and the Public University of Navarra, Spain. He is a professor of Plant Nutrition at Unesp since 2003 and coordinates a research group (Genplant) focused on the nutrition of tropical plants. He has published over 500 articles in peer-review journals and 30 academic books.

Renato de Mello Prado 擁有巴西聖保羅州立大學（Unesp）哈博提卡巴爾校區的農學博士學位，並在西班牙科爾多瓦大學和納瓦拉公立大學進行了博士後研究。他自2003年以來一直擔任 Unesp 的植物營養教授，並負責一個專注於熱帶植物營養的研究團隊（Genplant）。他在同行評審期刊上發表了超過500篇文章和30本學術著作。