Dr. Agnieszka Synowiec
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Biography
Agnieszka Synowiec is presently an associate professor at the University of Agriculture in Krakow in the Department of Agroecology and Crop Production. She earned her Ph.D. at the Agricultural University in 2004, based on the dissertation "Studies on herbicide resistance of botanical varieties of Avena fatua (L) to the selected herbicides." In this work, she proved an intraspecific variability in the sensitivity/resistance to ACC-ase herbicides among nine botanical varieties of this species localized in Poland. In the years 2009-2010, she worked as a visiting lecturer in the lab of Prof. Mahesh Upadhyaya at the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. During that time, she was working on (1) the effect of isoxaflutole on mycorrhizal symbiosis in corn and (2) the phytotoxic effect of the main compounds of clove essential oil against broccoli. In 2018-2019, she was awarded the MSC/LeStudium Fellowship at the University of Orleans in France, where she was working on the herbicidal potential of microencapsulated peppermint oil. In the years 2017-2020, she was the main investigator in the national grant aimed at the identification and management of herbicide-resistant weeds in Poland. Her research interests are focused on (1) the allelopathic and phytotoxic potential of essential oils of temperate climate origin and (2) the ecological significance of herbicide-resistant weeds.
Affiliations
University of Agriculture in Krakow
Kraków, Małopolskie, Poland
Honors and Awards
LE STUDIUM / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow
LE STUDIUM Loire Valley Institute for Advanced Studies
Sept 2018- Sept 2019. Chemical intensification of agricultural production has led to significant pollution of soils and groundwaters. It is also a cause of a significant decrease in biodiversity in agriculture. There is an urgent need to find new solutions for pest management in agriculture, which are environmentally friendly and socially acceptable. This project aims at studying biological effects of essential oils, acquired from selected herbal plants, for fungal/bacterial-pest.
Dekaban scholarship
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Jan-Jul 2009. Working in a lab of Prof. M. Upadhyaya on a project "The effect of isoxaflutole on mycorrhizal symbiosis in corn", which was published: Stokłosa, A., Nandanavanam, R., Puczel, U. and Upadhyaya, M. K. 2011. Influence of isoxaflutole on colonization of corn (Zea mays L.) roots with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices. Can. J. Plant Sci. 91: 143–145.
NAWA scholarship
Ministry oif Science and Higher Education of Republic of Poland
Sept 2020. Encapsulation of the essential oils of peppermint (Mentha x piperita L.) and caraway (Carum carvi L.) in biodegradable poly(lactic acid) or polyhydroxybutyrate for further application as soil-applied herbicides.
Monthly internship at the University of Coimbra in Portugal
University of Agriculture in Krakow, grant FERS.01.05-IP.08-0130/23-00
Thirty-day (18 Nov-18 Dec 2024) didactic internship at the CENTRE FOR FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY - Science for People & the Planet TERRA - Associate Laboratory for Sustainable Land Use and Ecosystem Services Departamento de Ciências da Vida-FCTUC, Universidade de Coimbra, under the supervision of Paula Lorenzo, PhD.
Top 1000 Reviewers
MDPI, Basel, Switzerland
Outstanding Reviewer Award
MDPI
Awarded by Agronomy in 2019