Agricultural Genetics and Genetic Biotechnologies

eaching staff:

Emidio Albertini, Full Professor \Scholar \Scopus

Silvia Lorenzetti, Researcher

Gianpiero Marconi, Associate Prof. \Scholar \Scopus

Lorenzo Raggi Associate Prof. \Scholar \Scopus

Daniele Rosellini, Associate Prof. \Scopus\ Scholar

Luigi Russi, Associate Prof. \Scholar \Scopus 

Basic research:

i) Reproductive systems in plants of agricultural importance;

ii) control of gene expression in plants;

iii) cytogenetics, plant evolution and biodiversity;

iv) plant epigenetics and epigenomics;

v) genetic structure of plant populations;

vi) genetic engineering and development of molecular markers in plants.

Applied research:

i) management of the plant gene bank of the Department;

ii) DNA analysis and sequencing;

iii) making available the Working database of the Italian vascular flora, of the Italian Crop Wild Relative Check Lists, of the Italian Prioritized Inventories of Crop Wild Relatives and of the First inventory of In Situ Maintained Landraces of Italy;

iv) breeding new plant varieties for sustainable agriculture.

Facilities:

Cytogenetics laboratory;

Genetic biotechnology laboratory;

Plant gene bank;

Library;

Greenhouse, 300 m²;

Experimental field, San Martino in Campo (PG), 9 ha.

Technical and administrative staff 

Gianluca Magurno

Sabrina Martinetti

Loredana Sassinelli

Francesco Vecchietti

Stefano Vergoni

Marika Bocchini - post Doc

Giacomo Bongiorno - Research fellow

Lorenzo Salvatore Frisullo - PhD student

Flavio Gabrieli - PhD student

Alessandro Mariani - Research fellow

Eliane Sayde - Research fellow

Flavio Grotto - PhD student

Adele Tironi - PhD student

Coordinator: Prof. Emidio Albertini