Meet the editor

Cristiano Bellé is a researcher in the field of plant nematology and biological control at Phytus Institute, Brazil. He is also a researcher at the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa (UNSA), Peru. He obtained a master's degree in Agronomy from the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, in 2014, a doctorate degree in Crop Protection from the Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil, in 2018, and a post-doctorate degree in Soil

Biology and Microbiology from the Federal University of Santa Maria in 2019. He has experience in the field of agronomy with an emphasis on plant pathology and plant nematology. His work is related to the etiology and diagnosis of plant diseases caused by nematodes and fungi, pathogenicity and host-parasite relationships of plant-parasitic nematode diseases, the interaction between plant-parasitic nematodes and soilborne fungi in plants, and biological, cultural, and chemical control of plant-parasitic nematodes.
