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Lorenzo Rossi is an assistant professor of plant root biology in the department of horticultural sciences at the University of Florida.

Education and career
Rossi received his B.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences in 2009 and his M.Sc. in Crop Production and Management of the Agro-Ecosystem in 2010 from the University of Pisa. He then graduated Italy’s most prestigious scientific university, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, at the Biolabs, within the Institute of Life Sciences, in Pisa, Italy with a Ph.D. in Agrobiosciences (Plant Biology) in 2014. During his Ph.D. he spent almost one year as a visiting grad student in the Department of Plant Biology at the North Carolina State University. He completed three post doctorate positions: North Carolina State University, Texas A&M University, and Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Rossi joined the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Indian River Research and Education Center in January, 2018. He is the center’s first Horticultural Science Root Biologist. His appointment demonstrates the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Science’s commitment to leading the citrus industry in its management of citrus greening (HLB) while scientists continue their search for a cure for this devastating disease.

Rossi is known for his successful research experiments with fruit crop trees in Italy, North Carolina, and in Texas, where he evaluated genetic and environmental stresses on roots. Root stress experiments included topics such as drought, salinity, heavy metals, emerging pollutants, and climate change.