Research activities

Paulo Mazzafera graduated in Agronomy (1982) and obtained his Ph.D. at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp, Brazil), where he holds a Full Professorship position in Plant Physiology. Crop productivity and secondary metabolism are the focus of his research, mainly on coffee, sugarcane, and eucalyptus. He also investigates the responses of plants to low P and how plants positively respond to biostimulant molecules, with a particular interest in root growth and P acquisition. Mazzafera has published over 200 papers and has been the editor of several journals. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Science of São Paulo Academy of Sciences.

Selected Publications

Polo, Carla; Pereira, Luciano; mazzafera Paulo; Flores, Denisele; Mayer, Juliana Lischka S.; Guizar-sicairos, Manuel; Holler, Mirko; Westfahl, Harry; Meneau, F.; Correlations between lignin content and structural robustness in plants revealed by X-ray ptychography. Scientific Reports, v.10, p. 6023-, 2020 [ doi:10.1038/s41598-020-63093-6 ]

Feltrim, D.; Gupta, B.; Gundimeda, S.; Kiyota, Eduardo; Domingues Jr, A.P.; Cintra, L. C.; mazzafera, Paulo; Exposure of Eucalyptus to varied temperature and CO2 has a profound effect on the physiology and expression of genes related to cell wall formation and remodeling. Tree Genetics & Genomes, v.18, p. 1-23, 2022 [ doi:10.1007/s11295-022-01537-y ]