Email: bmsalazar1@sheffield.ac.uk

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I am a Filipino PhD student who started a postgraduate research programme at the University of Sheffield in 2019. Back in the Philippines, my research focus is the ecophysiology of perennial crop species like coffee, cocoa, mango, coconut, and banana among others.

Here in the United Kingdom, my PhD project aims to quantify the source and sink limitations to the productivity of apple. Using potted trees maintained in the controlled environment facility of the university and full-grown trees of a commercial organic fruitery, the project will develop a physiological model to elucidate how environmental factors, with focus on temperature, influence source-sink balance throughout a growing season via regulation of canopy photosynthesis and the development of sinks for fixed carbon.

• BM Salazar, DM Gunda, AJM Lagrimas, PJA Santos, EE del Rosario. 2019. Profiling and analysis of reproductive phenology of four coffee (Coffea spp.) species in the Philippines using the BBCH scale. Phil J Crop Sci 44(3): 10-19.

• Cabangbang RPM, MVO Espaldon, HD Mendoza, JAM Lacson, RJC Ducusin, DF Eslava, MA Dorado, VG Ballaran, Jr., MD Ebeunga, CL Khan, BM Salazar, CM Protacio, EA Aguilar, VA Bato, Jr. 2019. Paving the pathway for climate smart agriculture among small scale farmers in the Philippines. In: Climate Smart Agriculture for the Small-Scale Farmers in the Asian and Pacific Region (Y Shirato, A Hasebe, eds.). FFTC-NARO, Taiwan. pp. 227-239.