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Cristiane Pilon


Associate Professor – Row Crop Physiology

  • Crop & Soil Sciences
  • National Environmentally Sound Production Agriculture Laboratory (NESPAL)
Cristiane Pilon
Cristiane Pilon
Areas of expertiseEducationAwards and honorsCoursesScholarly works

Areas of expertise

Crop and Pasture ProductionPlant BiologyHorticultural ProductionSoil SciencesFood SciencesAgricultural Biotechnology

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Soil Science and Agronomy, General

University of Arkansas, AR, United States (2015)

Master of Science, Agronomy and Crop Science

Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio MSQ, Brazil (2011)

Bachelor of Science, Agronomy and Crop Science

Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio MSQ, Brazil (2008)

Awards and Honors

  • Nomination for the Bailey Award (2025)
  • 1st Place on Graduate Student Oral Competition – Kelvin Jimmy Awori (2024)
  • 3rd Place on Graduate Student Poster Competition – Luke Sykes (2024)
  • UGA graduate School Travel Grant and UGA CRSS Departmental Travel Grant to attend the Tri society (CSA, CSSA, SSSA) Conference – Kelvin Jimmy Awori (2024)
  • 2024 CAES World Food Prize Travel Award – Kelvin Jimmy Awori (2024)
  • 2nd Place on PhD Student Oral Competition – Kelvin Jimmy Awori (2024)
  • 1st Place on Master’s Student Poster Competition – Morgan Sysskind (2024)
  • 3rd Place on Undergraduate Student Poster Competition – Gabrielle Comitre (2024)
  • Bailey Award (2024)
  • Crop Science Outstanding Associate Editor (2024)
  • Early Career Award in Education (2024)
  • Bailey Award Nomination. Physiology and Seed Technology Session (2024)
  • 2nd Place on Graduate Student Oral Competition – Kelvin Jimmy Awori (2023)
  • 2nd Place on PhD Student Poster Competition – Kelvin Jimmy Awori (2023)
  • 1st Place on MS Student Poster Competition – Morgan Sysskind (2023)
  • Scholarship to attend the 2023 American Community Gardening Association Bi-National Conference on Celebrating the Diversity of Growing (2023)
  • Third Place, Chiara Rossi – American Peanut Research and Education Society Joe Sugg Ph.D. Graduate Student Oral Competition (2022)
  • Scholarship to attend Conference – Kelvin Jimmy Awori (2022)
  • 2022 UGA Graduate School Master’s Fellowship Award – Morgan Nicole Sysskind (2022)
  • 2022 UGA Graduate School Doctoral Fellowship Award – Raphael A. de Castro e Melo (2022)
  • Bailey Award Nomination (2022)
  • Junior Research Scientist Award Recipient (2022)
  • Second Place, Chiara Rossi – Southern Branch American Society of Agronomy, Ph.D. Oral (2021)
  • First place, Chiara Rossi – Southern Branch American Society of Agronomy, Ph.D. Poster Competition (2021)
  • First place, Hayden Godwin – Southern Branch American Society of Agronomy, M.S. Poster Competition (2021)
  • First Place, Caleb Weaver. Master’s Student Oral Competition (2020)
  • 3rd Place Master's Student Poster Competition (2019)
  • 1st Place. Master’s Student Oral Competition (2019)
  • 2nd Place. Master’s Student Poster Competition (2019)
  • 2nd Place. PhD Poster Competition. Student Poster Symposium and Competition (2019)
  • 2nd Place. Joe Sugg Graduate Student Oral Competition. (2019)
  • First Place, Caleb Weaver – Crop Science Society of America C-3 Division Graduate Student Poster Competition (2019)
  • Second Place, Caleb Weaver – American Peanut Research and Education Society Joe Sugg Graduate Student Oral Competition (2019)
  • Matt Stuart — 2nd Place in 2019 MS Oral student Competition (2019)

Courses

  • CRSS 7300: Master's Thesis (Fall 2025)
  • CRSS 9300: Doctoral Dissertation (Fall 2025)
  • CRSS 7000: Master's Research (Fall 2025)
  • CRSS 9000: Doctoral Research (Fall 2025)
  • CRSS 7300: Master's Thesis (Spring 2026)
  • CRSS 7000: Master's Research (Spring 2026)
  • CRSS 7300: Master's Thesis (Summer 2026)
  • CRSS 7000: Master's Research (Summer 2026)
  • CRSS 8210: Special Problems in Crop and Soil Sciences (Fall 2026)
  • CRSS 9000: Doctoral Research (Fall 2026)
  • CRSS 7000: Master's Research (Fall 2026)

Scholarly Works

  • Quantifying the effects of irrigation, nitrogen application rate, and plant growth management on seed characteristics and seed component yields in cotton, CROP SCIENCE, (2026).
    Bredu ES, Snider JL, Parkash V, Lee J, Lawson RB … 6 more
  • Photosynthetic drivers of heat resilience in peanut, ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY, (2026).
    Awori KJ, Snider JL, Leal-Bertioli S, Bertioli D, Trevisan VS … 3 more
  • Peanut yield and grade prediction in Georgia, USA: integrating management, climate, and remote sensing data with explainable AI, COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE, (2026).
    Scarpin GJ, Studstill SB, Monfort WS, Tubbs RS, Pilon C … 4 more
  • Peanut yield and grade prediction in Georgia, USA: integrating management, climate, and remote sensing data with explainable AI, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, (2025).
    Scarpin G, Studstill SB, Monfort WS, Tubbs S, Pilon C … 4 more
  • Impacto da epoca de semeadura na estimative da maturacao de vagens de amendoim usando indices de vegetacao (Impact of planting date on peanut pod maturity prediction using vegetation indices), (2025).
    Fernandez G, Moreno L, Rossi C, Pilon C, Vellidis G … 1 more

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Contact

cpilon@uga.edu 229-386-7274

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