Staff

Education

• Agricultural Engineer. Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1986.
• PhD in Agricultural Sciences. Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1997.
• Post-doctorate: Plant Nutrition Laboratory. Penn State University. 1997-2001.

Current positions

• Director Institute of Research in Agricultural and Environmental Biosciences (INBA - CONICET UBA).
• Principal Researcher, CONICET.
• Full Professor, Cát. Fertility and Fertilizers, Faculty of Agronomy - UBA.

Research interests

• Soil-plant relationship.
• Soil fertility.
• Plant mineral nutrition.

Publications in refereed journals (last 5 years)

• Barbosa Pimentel E.N., Botelho Jerônimo L., Tavares de Paula M., Lencinas M.V., Martínez Pastur G., Rubio G. (2025). Relationship Between Forest Structure and Soil Characteristics with Flooded and Non-Flooded Rainforests of Northern Amazonia (Brazil). Forests 16:793.
• Madias A, Simon CG, Stahringer N, Borras L, Rubio G, Gambin B. (2025). On-farm insights in the South American Gran Chaco reveal the importance of soil organic matter and crop management decisions for boosting maize yields. European Journal of Agronomy 168-127612
• Gaset G; G Rubio, M Ferrari, P Cavigliasso, V Nishinakamasu; A F Puebla, V Faggioli. (2025). Nitrogen enhances arbuscular mycorrhizal diversity while phosphorus drives community composition in maize rhizosphere after 19 years of fertilisation. Accepted in Plant and Soil
• Kehoe, E, Rubio G, Salvagiotti. (2024). Biological nitrogen fixation in field pea and vetch: contribution from above and belowground structures to the partial nitrogen balance.  Field Crops Research 316: 109514.
• Porcelli CA, Rubio G, Gutiérrez Boem FH, Lavado RS (2024). The effect of water and salt stress on Paspalum dilatatum, a constituent of Pampas natural grasslands. Phyton 93:2009-2018.
• Russi D, Gutierrez Boem F, Rubio G. (2024). Note on the unparallel vertical distribution of nitrate and sulfate in Mollisols. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 88: 942-948
• Santa-María GE, Lavres J, Rubio G. (2023). The concept of mineral plant nutrient in the light of evolution. Plant Science 334: 111747.
• Manenti, L., Garcia, F.O., Rubio, G. (2023). Resilience of maize, wheat and soybean cropping systems as affected by fertilization: analysis of a long-term field network. Agronomy Journal 115: 2017–2029.
• Kehoe, E., Rubio, G., Salvagiotti, F. (2022). Contribution of different sources and origins of nitrogen in above- and below-ground structures to the partial nitrogen balance in soybean. Plant and Soil 477: 405-422.
• Casali, L, Herrera JM, Rubio G. (2022). Resilient soybean and maize production under a varying climate in the semi-arid and sub-humid Chaco. European Journal of Agronomy 135, 126463.
• Correndo A., Rubio G, Garcia FO. Ciampitti, IA. (2021). Subsoil-potassium depletion accounts for the nutrient budget in high-potassium agricultural soils. Scientific Reports 11:1-10.
• Pinto, P., Rubio, G., Gutiérrez, F., Sawchik J., Arana S., Piñeiro G. (2021). Variable root: shoot ratios and plant nitrogen concentrations discourage using just aboveground biomass to select legume service crops. Plant Soil 463: 347-358 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-021-04916-x.
• Casali, L, Herrera JM, Rubio G. (2021). Modelling maize and soybean responses to climatic change and soil degradation in a region of South America. Agronomy Journal 113:1381–1393.
• Peralta, G, Taboada, M., Kantolic, A., Rubio G. (2020). Topsoil hardening: effects on soybean root architecture and water extraction patterns. J Soil Sci Pl Nutr 20: 2182-2194.
• Caffaro MM, KB Balestrasse, G Rubio. (2020). Adsorption to soils and biochemical characterization of commercial phytases. Soil 6:153-162.
• Vega Jara, L, FH Gutierrez Boem, FO Garcia. M Boxler, G Rubio. (2020). Long-term fertilization does not affect soil C:N:S or the proportion between labile/non-labile fractions in Mollisols. Soil Science Society of America Journal 84: 798-810.

Grad students

• Total number of doctoral or master degrees: 6 as director, 5 as co-director.
• Number of doctoral theses or master's theses that you currently manage: 4.

Management of research projects (last 5 years)

• Proyecto PIP CONICET 11220210100772CO El rol de la fertilización en la resiliencia de la producción agrícola y en el impacto ambiental en la Región Pampeana Norte.

Postgraduate courses

Escuela para Graduados Alberto Soriano (FAUBA)

• Relación suelo-planta (director).

Carrera de Doctorado Ciencias Agrarias UNR

• Bases de las relaciones entre el suelo y las plantas (director).
• Ciclo de los nutrientes, diagnóstico y recomendación de la fertilización para los cultivos (directores GR y F Salvagiotti)