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Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento (São Paulo - Estado). Agência Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegócios (APTA). Instituto Agronômico (IAC) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Luis Felipe V. Purquerio has a degree in Agronomic Engineering and a Master's degree from FCAV/UNESP/Jaboticabal (1999 and 2002) and a PhD in Agronomy from FCA/UNESP/Botucatu (2005). He is currently a scientific researcher VI at the Agronomic Institute/Horticulture Center and a lecturer in the postgraduate program in Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture in the area of Management Systems and Environmental Quality, teaching the subject of Horticulture. He works in olericulture, phytotechnics, plant nutrition, indoor cultivation, soilless cultivation and the physiology of cultivated plants. He is the coordinator of IAC Vertical Indoor Cultivation Laboratory and organizer of the Urban Farming Workshop. DT/CNPQ scholarship holder 2009-2021. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Low zinc intake causes severe health problems. An estimated 800,000 child deaths per year is related to zinc deficiency. A simple and quick strategy to combat this problem would be agronomic biofortification with zinc in the edible parts of plants. Lettuce is today, among leafy vegetables, the most produced and consumed in Brazil and has the potential to absorb large amounts of zinc. Thus…
With great increasing potential in market, baby leaf can stimulate vegetable consumption by Brazilian population, mainly children, helping to increase consumption numbers that are low in the country and reduce obesity. In the same way of market, production systems for baby leaf are beginning in Brazil needing to be studied. In the project FAPESP 2008/52305-1, recently finished, it were st…
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