Boron Expert

Fabiano Silvestrin

fabiano.silvestrin@riotinto.com

Fabiano has more than 20 years of experience in the fertilizers market. He currently serves as U.S. Borax’s global market development manager for agriculture. Previous to this role, he was the regional sales manager for South America. He has extensive technical knowledge in soil science, plant nutrition, and several crops working on the development of refined borates market.

He is fluent in Portuguese, English, and Italian. Fabiano has a Bachelors Degree in Agronomic Engineering and an Master’s Degree in the Science of Soil from the Universidade Federal do Paraná in Brazil, and he also holds an MBA from FAE Business School, in Brazil in partnership with Baldwin-Wallace College (USA).

• Learn more about Fabiano's background
• Read Fabiano's co-written article on LinkedIn, "Boron deficiency in oil palm"
• Read Fabiano's article about soil health
• Learn more about different types of borate ore

Translated bios

• Em português
• En español

Published research

• Lenir Fátima Gotz, F. Silvestrin, A. C. V. Motta & V. Pauletti (2021) Response to Application and Tissue Diagnosis of Boron Deficiency and Toxicity in Maize, Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis.
• F. Silvestrin (2011) Master's Degree Thesis: Boron: Mineral Nutrition of Plants, Federal University of Parana State, Division of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Engineering