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Rui Manuel de Almeida Machado

Assistant Professor (Department of Plant Science)

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Doctoral Degree: Doutorado/Ciências Agrárias (Universidade de Evora - 2002)
Department of Plant Science Assembly (Advisor)
Comissão de Curso da Pós-Graduação em Nutrição Vegetal, Fertilidade do Solo e Fertilização das Culturas (Deputy)
Pedagogical Council of School of Science and Technology (Advisor)
MED - Institute of Mediterranean Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (Integrated Member with doctorate)
Laboratório de Física de Solos (MED) (Head)
Horticultura - Técnicas culturais rega e fertirrega. Dinâmica de crescimento radical, Salinidade, Qualidade da água de rega, nitratos, Culturas sem solo.
Correcção de solos (acidificação)
Produção de pequenos frutos (mirtilos)
Produção orgânica de hortícolas
Economia circular
Membro do Editorial board da revista "Plants"
Membro do editorial board da revista "International Journal of Plant Biology"
Review editor da revista "Frontiers in Plant Science"

Soil, water and  climate


Horticultura

Gruda, N. S., Machado, R. M., & van Os, E. A. (2023). Is Soilless Culture a Sustainable Form of Agriculture?. Horticulturae, 9(11), 1190.
Machado, Rui M.A., Alves-Pereira Isabel, I Alves, and Ferreira, Rui (2023) Effect of reusing coir-based substrates with municipal compost and biochar on growth and phytochemical accumulation in lettuce. Book of Abstracts of the IX- South-Eastern Europe Symposium on Vegetables and Potatoes, 3-9 September 2023 Bocharest, Romania.
Martins, T.C.; Machado, R.M.A.; Alves-Pereira, I.; Ferreira, R.; Gruda, N.S. (2023) Coir-Based Growing Media with Municipal Compost and Biochar and Their Impacts on Growth and Some Quality Parameters in Lettuce Seedlings. Horticulturae, 9, 105.
Machado, R.M.A., Bryla, D.R. and Correia, M. (2023). Strategies to reduce supraoptimal temperatures in the root zone during field and containerized production of highbush blueberry in warm climates. Acta Hortic. 1357, 393-402 DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2023.1357.55
Machado, R.M.A.; Alves-Pereira, I.; Morais, C.; Alemão, A.; Ferreira, R. (2022 b) Effects of Coir-Based Growing Medium with Municipal Solid Waste Compost or Biochar on Plant Growth, Mineral Nutrition, and Accumulation of Phytochemicals in Spinach. Plants 2022, 11(14), 1893. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11141893
Machado, Rui - Soil, Water and Nitrates Management in Horticultural Production Rui Manuel Almeida Machado (Ed.), MDPI. Basel, Switzerland, 2022. ISBN 978-3-0365-4575-2
Machado, R.M.A.; Alves-Pereira, I.; Faty, Y.; Perdigão, S.; Ferreira, R. (2022 a) Influence of Nitrogen Sources Applied by Fertigation to an Enriched Soil with Organic Compost on Growth, Mineral Nutrition, and Phytochemicals Content of Coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) in Two Successive Harvests. Plants, 11, 22
Machado, R.M.A. Soil, Water and Nitrates Management in Horticultural Production. Horticulturae 2022, 8, 397. https://doi.org/10.3390/ horticulturae8050397
Machado, R.M.A.; Alves-Pereira, I.; Ferreira, Rui; Gruda, N.S. Coir (2021) An Alternative to Peat?Effects on Plant Growth, Phytochemical Accumulation, and Antioxidant Power of Spinach. Horticulturae 2021, 7, 127.
Machado, R. M. A., C. Malta, Alves-Pereira, I., Ferreira, R. M. A. (2021) Effects of nutrient solution concentration on plant growth and phytochemical accumulation in substrate-grown spinach. Acta Hortic. 1305, 493-500
Machado, Rui M.A., Alves-Pereira Isabel, Ferreira, Rui (2021) Effects of coir type on growth, phytochemical accumulation and antioxidant activity in spinach. Acta Hortic. 1305, 7-14.
Machado, Rui M. A., Alves-Pereira, Isabel, Miguel Robalo, Ferreira, Rui M. A. (2021) Effects of Municipal Solid Waste Compost Supplemented with Inorganic Nitrogen on Physicochemical Soil Characteristics, Plant Growth, Nitrate Content, and Antioxidant Activity in Spinach. Horticulturae 2021, 7, 53.
Machado, R. M. A., Alves-Pereira, I., Lourenço, D., Ferreira, R. M. A. (2020). Effect of organic compost and inorganic nitrogen fertigation on spinach growth, phytochemical accumulation and antioxidant activity. Heliyon 6 (2020) e05085. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05085
Machado, R. M. A., Alves-Pereira, I., Ferreira, R. M. A. (2019) Effects of plant density and the number of emitters on plant growth and nitrate concentration in spinach cultivated in substrate. Acta Hortic. 1242, 847- 854
de Jesus, S., Alves-Pereira, I., Santos, R.V., Machado, R.M.A. and Ferreira, R.M.A. (2019) Effects of nitrogen level on purslane antioxidant activity. Acta Hortic. 1242, 93-100

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