Biography:
Dr. Siegfried Zerche did his PhD in Agricultural Sciences at the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Berlin in the Institute of Fertilization Research, Leipzig, Germany. Before that he graduated in Agronomy from the Russian State Agricultural University, formerly Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy after five-years of studies as a German student abroad. He is member of the International Society for Horticultural Science, the German Society of Plant Nutrition and the German Society for Horticultural Science. He has research experience in plant physiology and molecular functions of plant nutrients, plant nutrition, nitrogen and carbohydrate metabolism, generative and vegetative reproduction, floriculture industry, horticulture, fertilization systems in agricultural and horticultural crop cultivation.
Title : Facilitation of adventitious root formation by nitrogen remobilization on reversible dark-induced carbohydrate depletion and potential application in horticulture