From Argentina to Spain to model Crop-Weed Interactions
- Irene Balducci
- Jun 11
- 1 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
As part of our Horizon Europe-funded NeutraWeed project, Lucas Royo Simonella from the Faculty of Agronomy at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) completed a two-month research stay at Instituto Nacional de de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria - INIA-CSIC (Spain) during April and May 2025.
During his visit, he worked on the ecological and physiological interactions between neutral and detrimental weed communities and crops.
Lucas collaborated on experimental work under two complementary projects:
CEREDIV: studying how crop diversification using wheat (Triticum aestivum) and chickpea (Cicer arietinum) influences weed community abundance and functional diversity.
BAMh: collecting emergence data for 6 aggressive summer weed species to validate and adapt predictive models for the Iberian Peninsula.
His research supports NeutraWeed's mission to advance sustainable, site-specific weed management.
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