Associate Professor
Universitas Padjadjaran
Indonesia
Syariful Mubarok, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Laboratory of Horticulture, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia. He graduated from the Doctoral Program of Bioresource Science and Technology, at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He has expertise in the Physiology of Horticulture Crops by experimenting regarding the improving plant productivity and postharvest quality with an approach to the hormonal or plant growth regulator system, such as generating new ethylene insensitive tomato mutant, NIL-Sletr1-2, and developing a new strategy to maintaining fruit shelf life and postharvest quality of horticulture crops by using non-toxic chemical compound, 1- Methylcyclopropene with the combination with other compounds such as ascorbic acid and edible coating. Moreover, several experiments have been conducted on other crops, such as leavy ornamental plants, orchids, potatoes, and strawberries. Besides the experiment, he is teaching and supervising bachelor, master, and doctoral students and also doing community services in West Java, Indonesia.