Bita Naseri

Dr. Naseri developed two sainfoin varieties tolerant to powdery mildew, with high forage yielding, protein content and digestive quality. She integrated late-spring and shallow planting, avoiding urea, weekly irrigations, rotation with cereals, improving soil OM and symbiosis to manage bean root rots. She developed predicting models for wheat yellow rust and chickpea Ascochyta blight epidemics. She is working for 30 years on epidemiology and sustainable management of over 50 plant diseases. She is honored by Khwarizmi International Award, Top 2% highly cited scientist at Elsevier in 2022, and Best Researcher of Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection in 2023.