Our research group is interested in understanding how plants perceive and respond to nutrient deficiencies and toxicities. We particularly focus on the responses to such nutrient imbalances in the presence of additional biotic and abiotic stresses, to understand how plants “decide” which of the often antagonistic pathways to trigger in order to cope with various environmental challenges.

The PITROS group does research on changing rice-based production systems, on element fluxes in tropical wetlands, on the stress physiology of rice and on invasive plant species.