Concentration Area: Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition

• Correctives, fertilizers and reuse of waste
• Nutrient dynamics and availability in the soil-plant system
• Nutrition, metabolism and nutritional diagnosis of plants
• Carbon in the soil-plant system

Concentration Area: Biology, Microbiology and Soil Biological Processes

• Plant-microorganisms associations: mycorrhizae and biological fixation of atmospheric nitrogen
• Soil microorganisms and biochemical processes
• Soil biology

Concentration Area: Environmental Resources and Land Use

• Pedology and land use
• Chemistry, Mineralogy, soil pollution and degradation
• Management and conservation of soil and water
• Soil Physics and Mechanics