Laboratory Manager: Georgios Salachas, Professor,
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Tel. 26310 58290
The aim of the Plant Physiology & Nutrition Laboratory is to teach students and familiarize them with basic and applied research that focuses both on the modern applications of conventional methods and state-of-the-art technologies in plant physiology and nutrition, as well as on the development and production of new knowledge in innovative plant cultivation systems (Aeroponics, Hydroponics, Aquaponics) and in the production of products of high nutritional value that characterize the Agriculture of the future.
The Laboratory has a rich laboratory and research activity and, in collaboration with other research institutions, a number of research programs are implemented in it in which postgraduate students, PhD candidates and post-doctoral researchers participate.
Research interests
The research interests of the Plant Physiology & Nutrition Laboratory are focused on the academic subjects:
- Secondary Plant Metabolism, “The Critical Zone Theory of Plant Metabolism.”
- Aeroponics, Aeroponic Plant Cultivation Systems Technologies.
- Hydroponic systems, Aquaponics.
- Hydroponic seedling production technologies.
- Plant Nutrition and Fertilization Technologies, Residues of nitrate ions and heavy metals in the environment.
- Carbon life cycle, Circular Economy, IOT.
- Preservation of Olive Oil, Long Life Extra Virgin Olive Oil (LL-EVOO).
- Organic Composting (vermicomposting – earthworm farms).
- Aromatic and Medicinal Plants, Industrial Hemp (immune propagation material, essential oils, bioactive substances).
Research group
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Giorgos Salachas, Professor
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Evangelos Gianakopoulos, Adjunct Professor
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Sofia-Anna Barla, Agronomist PhD candidate
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Lina Havalina, Agronomist PhD candidate
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Orestis Giannopoulos, Agricultural Graduate Student
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Ilias Dzanis, Agronomist Msc
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Eleni Psatha, member of ETEP
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Undergraduate students
Laboratory Spaces – Laboratory Equipment
It has laboratory benches with 22 seats for students to practice.
It also has at its disposal a modern and excellently equipped greenhouse – Aeroponic Farm (500 sq.m.) and uses the botanical garden and the organic field.
It has modern and excellent basic laboratory equipment that covers a wide range of research activities:
- Cooling Centrifuge
- Deionized and ultrapure water system
- Fire extinguisher
- HPLC with four detectors
- Individual absorption with a graphite furnace
- Freezer
- Stainless steel still
- pH meters
- Conductivity meters
- Libra
- Oximeter
- Spectrophotometer
- Spectrofluorimeter
- Ovens
- Portable instrument for measuring photosynthesis
- Portable chlorophyllometers
- Aeroponic Plant Cultivation Systems – Propagators
Current Research Programs
“Using Solar Concentrators for Increasing Production and Optimizing the Nutritional Value of Vegetables Grown in Greenhouses”.
(Application Of Solar Light Converters In Greenhouses To The Increase Of Production And Optimization Of Nutritional Value Of Cultivated Vegetables)., Measure 16. Special Service for the Implementation of the Agricultural Development Program 2014 – 2020, Cooperation and Innovation Unit
“NUTRI-COMP: Composting Technologies & Compost Products”
Development of Know-how
- Fully automated aeroponic plant cultivation system.
- Visitable Experimental Aeroponic Farm.
- Float system (F.S.) hydroponic seedling production method. The method is already applied by the ASKAFEFA Aromatic-Medicinal plants cooperative.
- The Long Life Extra Virgin Olive Oil (LL-EVOO).
- Organic Composting – Cultivation of Earthworms.