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Amanda Cardoso is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at North Carolina State University, affiliated with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her research focuses on crop physiology, particularly plant responses to environmental stresses such as drought, waterlogging, and salinity. She employs advanced techniques like leaf gas exchange measurements, hydraulic profiling, and anatomical assessments to study plant-water relations, photosynthesis, and xylem embolism. Her lab investigates how physiological and anatomical traits influence crop resilience under climate change conditions.
Key research areas include drought resistance mechanisms in herbaceous and woody crops, the role of abscisic acid (ABA) in stomatal regulation, and the interplay between soil, plant, and atmospheric factors. Collaborations with plant breeders and soil scientists aim to translate findings into practical agricultural solutions. Her work has been published in journals like Plant Physiology and New Phytologist, with recent studies on hydraulic impairments under waterlogging and salt stress tolerance in barley.
Dr. Cardoso teaches CS 714: Crop Physiology: Plant Response to Environment and maintains an active lab website (https://amandaavilacardoso.wixsite.com/ecophyslab). Her research spans experimental setups in greenhouse and field conditions, emphasizing translational applications for sustainable agriculture.
