The Italian Society of Agricultural Chemistry (https://www.chimicagraria.it)

The Italian Society of Agricultural Chemistry (SICA) was founded in Padova on 24 July 1981, to establish a scientific platform for researchers, scholars and scientists working in the wide field of chemistry and biochemistry related to the agriculture. Thus, the common denominator of the SICA members is not the “object” of the study (i.e., soil vs. plant), but the approach, that is, the chemical and biological mechanisms governing the soil (or plant) functioning as well as the agricultural crop production. The current research lines characterizing the SICA are the chemical, biochemical, physiological and ecological aspects of the soil–water–plant–atmosphere system and the corresponding interactions, the biogeochemistry of carbon and other elements, the processes governing the accumulation, mobilization and uptake of chemical species, under both optimal and stress conditions. The SICA represented and still represents a scientific platform which goes beyond the traditional frontiers of soil-related disciplines, cross-linking individuals of very different background and expertise and contributing to raise the next generation of soil-system-scientists.