Borbala Biro (born 1957, in

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) is a Hungarian soil biologist and lecturer at the Szent-István-University in Gödöllö. She participates in research into the use of

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s with the

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. Biro attended vocational college in

Kisvárda Kisvárda (; , ) is a town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary near the border of Slovakia and Ukraine. It is the 3rd largest town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg after Nyíregyháza and Mátészalka ...

; the Natural Science Faculty of the University of Kossuth Lajos specialising in terrestrial ecology; obtained

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for Plant Cultivation and Horticulture at the West Hungarian University in Mosonmagyaróvár, and a doctorate of the Hungarian Academy of Science. She was a

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research fellow at

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