Jose Tonatiuh Sanchez-Palacios (Tona)
Murdoch University-CSIRO Innovation Research Fellow
Lecturer
My background
I am a research scientist with a background in plant physiology. I have a broad interest in the innovation and testing of novel stimulants that improve plant productivity, in combination with conventional fertilisers.
Projects
- SMART SPRAYS (current)
- Cold Plasma to Optimise Crop Productivity (current)
- Predicting Nitrogen Cycling and Losses in Australian Cropping Systems (current)
- Australian Industrial Hemp Program of Research (AIHPR) (current)
- Overcoming Constraints to the Profitability of Cropping Systems on Ironstone Gravel Soils Within the Southern Cropping Region of Australia – Phase II (completed)
- Synchrotron Postdoctoral Fellow No. 4: Plants – Novel Foliar Fertilisers and Nutrition Trait Diversity of Grains (completed)
Key expertise
Crop physiology, crop mineral nutrition, metal tolerance mechanism in plants, use of stimulants for crop production and grain nutrition, synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence microscopy, zinc isotope tracing techniques, foliar fertilisers
Qualifications
The MU-CSIRO Innovation Research Fellowship at the Food Futures Institute, Murdoch University, is a position focused on producing high-yield, nutrient-rich crops.
With over seven years’ experience in crop nutrition, my research involves developing and testing novel bio-stimulants to enhance crop performance.
I have held a post-doctoral position at The University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia), The Institute of Applied Ecology (Canberra, Australia), Food Futures Institute and the Australian Synchrotron (Perth-Melbourne, Australia).
I was born in Mexico and I have a PhD in plant science from The University of Melbourne, a bachelor’s degree in biology from the Autonomous University of Mexico, with honours from The Centre for Scientific Research and Higher Education of The National Council for Science and Technology of Mexico.