A5064478678- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Fermentation and Sensory Analysis
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Wine Industry and Tourism
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Nuts composition and effects
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
- Historical and Environmental Studies
- Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases
- Plant Gene Expression Analysis
- Agriculture and Biological Studies
- Archaeological and Historical Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Plant Growth Enhancement Techniques
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Urban Planning and Valuation
Forestry Research Centre
2019-2024
Cereal Research Centre
2016-2024
National Archaeological Museum
2023
University of Bologna
2015-2020
Centro di Ricerca per l’Orticoltura
2015-2019
Sapienza University of Rome
2016-2019
Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria
2018
University of Florence
2015
Istituto Sperimentale per la Frutticoltura
1991-2008
Precision viticulture (PV) aims to optimize vineyard management, reducing the use of resources, environmental impact and maximizing yield quality production. New technologies as UAVs, satellites, proximal sensors variable rate machines (VRT) are being developed used more frequently in recent years thanks also informatics systems able read, analyze process a huge number data order give winegrowers decision support system (DSS) for making better decisions at right place time. This review...
In precision viticulture, the intra-field spatial variability characterization is a crucial step to efficiently use natural resources by lowering environmental impact. recent years, technologies such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Mobile Laser Scanners (MLS), multispectral sensors, Apps (MA) and Structure from Motion (SfM) techniques enabled possibility characterize this with low efforts. The study aims evaluate, compare cross-validate potentiality limits of several tools (UAV, MA, MLS)...
Abstract Viticultural activity is intrinsically interlocked with climatic fluctuations and awful subjected to soil management. Increasing temperatures reduced precipitation originate several alterations in the metabolic plant pathway a depletion grapes quality. The main aspiration of management keep retain microenvironment that considers all vine requirements upgrade balance between vegetative growth cluster quality intensifying its resilience towards abiotic stress. Aiming establish match...
SUMMARY Climate represents one of the main inputs necessary for plants to complete their vegetative–productive cycle, having a direct effect on onset and duration phenological stages development crops. Equally important are its indirect effects, affecting field operations such as application fertilizer, pruning crop protection, finally determining yield. In present study, Sangiovese grapevine production Nobile di Montepulciano wine were analysed related historical series meteorological...
Soil management in vineyards is of fundamental importance not only for the productivity and quality grapes, both biological conventional management, but also greater sustainability production. Conservative soil techniques play an important role, compared to tillage, order preserve biodiversity, save fertility, keep vegetative-productive balance. Thus, it necessary evaluate long-term adaptation strategies create a balance between vine surrounding environment. This work sought assess effects...
Conservation, characterization and exploitation of agrobiodiversity are key factors to guarantee food security face future challenges such as climate changes. These issues the subject a series international agreements, Convention Biological Diversity, with its Nagoya Protocol, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food Agriculture (ITPGRFA) adopted in 2001 entered into force 2004. Italy ratified 2004 instituted long-lasting program, RGV-FAO, implement it. CREA is one three...
Abstract Varietal identification plays a pivotal role in viticulture for several purposes. Nowadays, such is accomplished using ampelography and molecular markers, techniques requiring specific expertise equipment. Deep learning, on the other hand, appears to be viable cost-effective alternative, as recent studies claim that computer vision models can identify different vine varieties with high accuracy. Such works, however, limit their scope handful of selected do not provide accurate...
Vineyard is one of the most complex and vulnerable agroecosystems, ongoing climate change makes it necessary to identify effective management adaptation practices. For this reason, a water balance model tailored for viticulture was developed be implemented within Decision Support System (DSS) aimed at supporting winemakers both in vineyard’s planning phase. Starting from simple monthly balance, based on Thornthwaite–Mather method, returns stress risk class through connection soil database;...
Abstract Background In viticulture, rootstock genotype plays a critical role to improve scion physiology, berry quality and adapt grapevine ( Vitis vinifera L.) different environmental conditions. This study aimed at investigating the effect of two rootstocks (1103 Paulsen - P Mgt 101–14 M) in comparison with not grafted plants NGC on transcriptome (RNA-seq small RNA-seq) chemical composition skin Pinot noir , exploring influence rootstock-scion interaction grape quality. Berry samples,...
In viticulture, knowledge of vineyard vigour represents a useful tool for management. Over large areas, the grapevine is mapped by remote sensing usually with vegetation indices like NDVI. To achieve good correlations between NDVI and other vine parameters rows must be previously identified. This paper presents an unsupervised classification method identification rows. Only red channel RGB aerial image considered as input data. The first masked preserving only then pre-processed high pass...
Plant water resource management is one of the main future challenges to fight recent climatic changes. The knowledge plant content could be indispensable for saving strategies. Terahertz spectroscopic techniques are particularly promising as a non-invasive tool measuring leaf content, thanks high predominance contribution total absorption. quantum cascade lasers (THz QCL) most successful sources THz radiation. Here we present new method which improves precision by combining transmission...
Crop protection strategies based on cupric products and mainly adopted in organic viticulture produce a consistent environmental impact due to the persistence of copper soils its negative effects edaphic biodiversity. In this work, trials were carried out during crop years 2018–2020 vineyard with an management by low-copper strategy conventional IPM reduced use fungicides. Phytosanitary treatments have been strictly planned according forecasting models, fungicides partially substituted...
Vitis vinifera includes a large number of cultivars that are further distinguished in biotypes and clones, it is actually hard to differentiate them, even through complex molecular techniques. In this work, the plant materials 56 putative Sangiovese 14 Montepulciano biotypes, two most widespread black-berried Italian cultivars, were collected different wine-growing areas Italy distributed 13 regions, from north south. Firstly, samples analyzed using SSR markers have proper varietal...
This work aimed at setting up a multivariate and geostatistical methodology to map viticultural terroirs the province scale (1:125,000). The is based upon creation of GIS storing all oenological legacy data experimental vineyards (1989–2009), long-term climate data, digital elevation model, soilscapes (land systems) soil profiles.Environmental parameters related viticulture, selected by an explorative PCA, were: elevation, mean annual temperature, precipitation, clay, sand gravel content...
Despite phenotypic plasticity that allows the adaptation to harsh environments, when vines experience severe abiotic stresses, they can suffer from metabolic damages affecting grape production and quality. Grafting is an affordable strategy mitigate these negative consequences since rootstock increase drought tolerance in scion. This work explored effects of pre-veraison water deficit on grafted different rootstocks (Mgt 101-14 1103 Paulsen) obtain physiological, biochemical, molecular...
Summary The effect of temperature and storage time on the phenolic composition antioxidant activity grape ( Vitis vinifera L.) juices made using a red (Sangiovese, SG) white (Muscat Alexandria, MA) variety was studied. Total phenolics, flavonoids, flavan‐3‐ols hydroxycinnamoyl‐tartrates (HCT) were determined extracts (GE) juices. anthocyanins measured GE. assessed by means two different in vitro tests: scavenging stable 2,2‐diphenyl‐1‐picrylhydrazyl radical inhibition tyrosine nitration...
Water availability is a major limiting factor in plant productivity and plays key role species distribution over given area. New technologies, such as terahertz quantum cascade lasers (THz-QCLs) have proven to be non-invasive, effective, accurate tools for measuring monitoring leaf water content. This study explores the feasibility of using an advanced THz-QCL device absolute content Corylus avellana L., Laurus nobilis Ostryacarpinifolia Scop., Quercus ilex suber Vitis vinifera L. (cv....