AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
Department of
Crop Science

Georgia Ntatsi

Brief Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Georgia Ntatsi is an Associate Professor at the Laboratory of Vegetable Production, Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), and since 2024, the CEO of NUTRISENSE, an AUA spin-off company dedicated to advancing sustainable and economically viable fertilization practices in horticulture. Her research bridges cutting-edge science with practical agricultural applications, focusing on optimizing hydroponic and controlled-environment agriculture to enhance crop quality, yield, and resource efficiency, organic farming, intercropping, reduced tillage, and cover cropping (legume and non-legume) to improve soil health and biodiversity, field and controlled-environment studies on plant-soil interactions, nitrogen mineralization, and nitrate leaching to optimize fertilization strategies, innovative plant nutrition strategies, including nutrient uptake dynamics, fertilizer efficiency, and biofortification in vegetable production, genotype selection and vegetable grafting techniques to increase stress resilience(drought, salinity), crop yield, bioactive compounds, and sensory quality of vegetables, plant-based fertilizers, composting, and circular economy models to minimize waste and enhance nutrient cycling, innovative biostimulants for resilient crop systems, biofortification and phytohormone applications to improve nutritional value and stress adaptation in vegetables and  reducing environmental impacts through strategies such as minimizing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting biological nitrogen fixation in legumes to reduce synthetic fertilizer dependency. She has published more than 120 papers in refereed international scientific journals, more than 40 in congress proceedings (Acta Hort.), 4 as book chapters and more than 200 as abstracts in national and international conferences. She is an Associate Editor of Heliyon and Scientia Horticulturae (Elsevier), member of the Editorial Board of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Agronomy, Plants, Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers in Horticulture and Plant Stress. She is member of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) and Vice-President of the Greek Society for Horticultural Science (EEEO). In the last 5 years, she has been involved as researcher in six European research projects (LEGUME FUTURES, EUROLEGUME, ECONUTRI, TRUE, TOMRES and RADIANT) one PRIMA Proposal (VEGADAPT), in several national and private research projects on vegetable crops (ΒΙΟΠΡΟΣΑΡΜΟΓΗ, BIOSPRIM, V2FARM, MICROBOOS, NUTRISENSE, PlantUp), and was MC of two COST ACTION projects (FA1204 and CA11196).

Courses

Vegetable Production

Hours per week: 5
Credits: 5
After successfully completing the course, attendees will be able to: • have a sound […]

Soilless Culture

Hours per week: 5
Credits: 5
The objectives of the course “Soilless Culture” are the following: • To introduce the […]

Vegetable crop under cover

Hours per week: 5
Credits: 5
The subject of the "Vegetable Crops Under Cover" course is to provide knowledge to […]

General Vegetable Production

Hours per week: 5
Credits: 5
The subject of the 'General Vegetable Production' course is to acquaint students on a […]

Research Programs

V2FARM

01-11-2021 - 28-11-2023
Budget: 
Development and implementation of an automated, energy-autonomous vertical farming system: Assessment in urban and […]

TOMRES Horizon 2020

01-07-2017 - 30-11-2020
Budget: 
A novel and integrated approach to increase multiple and combined stress tolerance in plants […]

TRUE Horizon 2020

01-01-2017 - 30-04-2021
Budget: 
TRansition paths to sUstainable legume based systems in Europe. Multi-actor project aiming to increase […]

VEGADAPT

01-10-2018 - 30-06-2023
Budget: 
Adapting Mediterranean vegetable crops to climate change-induced multiple stress (PRIMA 2018). https://www.veg-adapt.unito.it/

PAA VIO-PROSARMOGI

01-12-2022 - 30-11-2024
Budget: 
Application and evaluation of innovative biostimulants that reduce plant water and fertilizer needs in […]

RADIANT Horizon H2020

01-09-2021 - 30-08-2025
Budget: 
Realising dynamic value chains for underutilised crops. RADIANT implements a suite of strategic and […]

PlantUP

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Budget: 
PlantUP program aims to develop cutting-edge infrastructures designed to exploit and maintain Greek biodiversity […]

Publications

Rootstock sub-optimal temperature tolerance determines transcriptomic responses after long-term root cooling in rootstocks and scions of grafted tomato plants

Ntatsi, G., Savvas, D., Papasotiropoulos, V., Katsileros, A., Zrenner, R.M., Hincha, D.K., Zuther, E., Schwarz, D. Rootstock sub-optimal temperature tolerance determines transcriptomic responses after long-term root cooling in rootstocks and scions of grafted tomato plants (2017) Frontiers in Plant Science

HTTP://WWW.DOI.ORG/10.3389/fpls.2017.00911

Comparative assessment of hydroponic lettuce production either under artificial lighting, or in a mediterranean greenhouse during wintertime

Voutsinos, O., Mastoraki, M., Ntatsi, G., Liakopoulos, G., Savvas, D. Comparative assessment of hydroponic lettuce production either under artificial lighting, or in a mediterranean greenhouse during wintertime (2021) Agriculture (Switzerland), 11 (6), art. no. 503.

http://www.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11060503

Georgia Ntatsi
ntatsi@aua.gr
2105294538
57189656256
0000-0002-9045-668X

NEWSLETTER

The Faculty of Crop Science of the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), was founded in June 1989 (Official Journal of the Hellenic Republic Νο. 166Α΄/16-6-1989) it is the first University Faculty of Crop Science founded in Greece
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