Federico Trucco

Federico Trucco
Born	(1977-05-27) May 27, 1977 Rosario, Santa Fe. Argentina
🏳️ Nationality	Argentinian
🏫 Education	B.S. in biochemistry from Louisiana State University (1998) M.S. in weeds and plant pathology from Colorado State University (2002) Ph.D. in crop science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2005) Minor in Business Administration (C.B.A.) (2003)
💼 Occupation
Title	Biochemist

Federico Trucco is an Argentinian scientist and Chief Executive Officer, Bioceres S.A, and Boardmember in Bioceres S.A and Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp. Born in Rosario, Argentina, on May 27, 1977, is son of Víctor Trucco, a founding agricultural entrepreneur and first president of Bioceres, and María Cristina Fossaroli, both first-generation university graduates descended from Italian immigrants who settled as farmers in the south-central region of the Province of Santa Fe.

Education

He attended college in the United States, earning a B.S. in biochemistry from Louisiana State University (1998); an M.S. in weeds and plant pathology from Colorado State University (2002); and a doctorate (Ph.D.) in crop science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2005), where he also obtained a minor in business administration (C.B.A.) (2003).

During the course of his master's studies, Federico's father founded the Bioceres company together with partners such as Gustavo Grobocopatel, Rogelio Fogante among other associates as a project management firm in the agro-biotechnological space.

Career

Upon finishing his higher studies, Federico Trucco began working at Bioceres as a research leader for one of its research and development projects. At the end of 2005, he joined the Rosario Agrobiotechnology Institute (INDEAR), where he has held positions associated with research and development activities, until assuming the General Management position in 2009.

In 2011, he assumed the position of CEO of the Bioceres group, the controlling group of INDEAR, leading the launch of new biotech companies such as Verdeca and Trigall Genetics, among others.

In 2013 Bioceres , through INDEAR, started INMET SA, a biotechnology company dedicated to synthetic biology and the optimization of microorganisms with a focus on the biotransformation of agro-industrial waste into high-value molecules.

In 2015, also under his leadership, HB4 soybean was approved in Argentina, then in Brazil (May 2019), the United States (August 2019), Paraguay (2019), Canada (2021) and the People's Republic of China (2022)​ ​, transgenic variety tolerant to drought, developed by the company Bioceres in conjunction with CONICETand the Universidad Nacional del Litoral  (UNL).

In 2016, it announced the purchase of 50% of Rizobacter Argentina SA, a seed inoculant and biological fertilizer company. In that same year, Héritas, a precision medicine company, was started through an agreement between INDEAR and CIBIC Laboratory. Since 2019 he has been president of the Argentine Chamber of Biotechnology. That same year, the business unit Bioceres Crop Solutions (BIOX), a fully integrated provider of crop productivity technologies designed to enable the transition from agriculture to carbon neutrality and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker $BIOX.

Publications

• "Successful field performance in warm and dry environments of soybean expressing the sunflower transcription factor HB4". Ribichich, K. F., Chiozza, M., Ávalos-Britez, S., Cabello, J. V., Arce, A. L., Watson, G., & Chan, R. L. (2020). Journal of Experimental Botany, 71(10), 3142-3156.
• "In Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources" Trucco, F., & Tranel, P. J. (2011). (pp. 11–21). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
• "Out of the swamp: unidirectional hybridization with weedy species may explain the prevalence of Amaranthus tuberculatus as a weed". Trucco, F., Tatum, T., Rayburn, A. L., & Tranel, P. J. (2009). New Phytologist, 184(4), 819-827.
• "Promiscuity in weedy amaranths: high frequency of female tall waterhemp (Amaranthus tuberculatus)× smooth pigweed (A. hybridus) hybridization under field conditions". Trucco, F., Jeschke, M. R., Rayburn, A. L., & Tranel, P. J. (2005). Weed Science, 53(1), 46-54.
• "21st-century weed science: a call for Amaranthus genomics". Tranel, P. J., & Trucco, F. (2009). Weedy and invasive plant genomics, 53, 81.
• "An interdisciplinary approach to study the performance of second-generation genetically modified crops in field trials: a case study with soybean and wheat carrying the sunflower HaHB4 transcription factor". González, Fernanda GabrielaI; Rigalli, Nicolas FranciscoI; Miranda, Patricia VivianI; Romagnoli, MartínI; Ribichich, Karina Fabiana; Trucco, Federico; Portapila, Margarita Isabel; Otegui, Maria Elena; Chan, Raquel Lia. (2020)Frontiers in plant science, 178.
• "Why are second-generation transgenic crops not yet available in the market?. Chan, R. L., Trucco, F., & Otegui, M. E. (2020). Journal of Experimental Botany, 71(22), 6876-6880.

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