Environmental modeling, ecohydrology, soil degradation, desertification

Ruminants Nutrition and Lactation Physiology

Prevention of diabetes by dietary fibers and functional foods.

Skeletal Development Through Endochondral Ossification

Plant response to environmental stress, novel plant hormones and growth regulators

Ecological and evolutionary genetics, insect-plant and insect-environment interactions

Plant signal transduction, regulation of plant membrane transport, plant ion channels, bundle sheath.

Mechanisms controlling water-use efficiency, water-potential homeostasis and productivity under normal and abiotic stress

Reproductive Endocrinology

Gut Bacteriology

environmental chemistry, interactions at the surface of soil particles,  development of new organic-mineral materials

Conservation, biodiversity, ecosystem functions and land-use change, insect pollinators and pollination.

Neuroepigenetics and Molecular Neuroscience