Respect for your privacy is our priority

The cookie is a small information file stored in your browser each time you visit our web page.

Cookies are useful because they record the history of your activity on our web page. Thus, when you return to the page, it identifies you and configures its content based on your browsing habits, your identity and your preferences.

You may accept cookies or refuse, block or delete cookies, at your convenience. To do this, you can choose from one of the options available on this window or even and if necessary, by configuring your browser.

If you refuse cookies, we can not guarantee the proper functioning of the various features of our web page.

For more information, please read the COOKIES INFORMATION section on our web page.

Refuse

News

Young Mind Award: Jose Maria Vadillo

09/05/2022 - Sophie Colvine - 2022 WPTC congress

José María Vadillo Hurtado won the ISHS Young Minds Award for the best oral presentation at the XVI International Symposium on Processing Tomato, which was held virtually in Argentina in March 2022. His paper was entitled: "Development of a methodology to characterize the nitrogen nutritional status of open field processing tomato by means of fast indicators".

Jose Maria received his BS degree in Agricultural Engineering at the University of Extremadura in 2017. After graduation, he began his double master’s studies in Agronomic Engineering and Agri-food Chain Management Engineering at the University of Cordoba until 2020. He is currently a student of the Food Science PhD programme at the Centro de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas de Extremadura (CICYTEX).

His research focuses on the evaluation of the response of processing tomato to nitrogen fertilisation under the supervision of Dr. Henar Prieto and Dr. Carmen Giménez. The region where he works (Vegas del Guadiana) is one of the most important processing tomato production areas in Spain. This area is immersed in the Nitrate Vulnerable Zones according to european regulations. It is very difficult to find a balance between production and environmental conservation. It is therefore important that researchers generate information and tools that enable farmers to produce in an environmentally friendly way without harming their yields.

At the World Processing Tomato Congress, Jose Maria presented some of his research on the relationships between rapid measurements of chlorophyll and nitrate content in sap versus the reference indicator Nutritional Nitrogen Index (NNI). The final aim is to know the threshold values of these quick measurements to help technicians and producers to monitor the nutritional status of their crops in an easier, faster and safer way. This will help to reduce production costs for farmers and reduce groundwater contamination by nitrate leaching. Jose María presented these relationships by identifying these thresholds for each phenological moment of the crop.

The full paper of his research will be published alongside the other research work presented during the symposium in a special edition of Acta horticulturae.

Related events

14th World Processing Tomato Congress & 16th ISHS Symposium on the Processing Tomato

20/03/2022 to 01/04/2022

After carefully monitoring the ongoing public health situation and increasing number of Covid-19 cases globally, together with current travel...

See details

Related companies

CICYTEX

Research organisation See details

Related researchers

Mr José Maria Vadillo Hurtado

Spain

See details

Back

________________________________________

Editor : TOMATO NEWS SAS - MAISON DE L'AGRICULTURE - TSA 48449 - 84912 AVIGNON Cedex 9 - FRANCE
contact@tomatonews.com
www.tomatonews.co m

Supporting partners