A5081502244- Smart Agriculture and AI
- Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Plant Surface Properties and Treatments
- Soil Mechanics and Vehicle Dynamics
- Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
- Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
- Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases
- Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
- Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis
- Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Plant Disease Management Techniques
- Fermentation and Sensory Analysis
- Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization
- Food Supply Chain Traceability
- Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Cyclone Separators and Fluid Dynamics
- Effects of Vibration on Health
University of Milan
2015-2025
Centro di Ricerca per l’Orticoltura
2015
Istituto di Biologia e Biotecnologia Agraria
2011
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
2005
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2005
Argonne National Laboratory
2005
TU Wien
2005
Heidelberg University
2005
ETH Zurich
2005
Rothamsted Research
2003
Two-stage anaerobic digestion (AD) for integrated biohydrogen and biomethane production from organic materials has been reported to promise higher process efficiency energy recoveries as compared traditional one-stage AD. This work presents a comparison between two-stage (reactors R1 R2) (reactor R3) AD systems, fed with identical substrates loading rates, focusing the attention on chemical microbiological aspects. Contrary previous experiences, no significant differences in overall recovery...
Biostimulants are substances able to improve water and nutrient use efficiency counteract stress factors by enhancing primary secondary metabolism. Premise of the work was exploit raw extracts from leaves (LE) or flowers (FE) Borago officinalis L., enhance yield quality Lactuca sativa ‘Longifolia’, set up a protocol assess their effects. To this aim, an integrated study on agronomic, physiological biochemical aspects, including also phenomic approach, has been adopted. Extracts were diluted...
A technical–economic analysis was conducted on three different technological levels of spraying equipment for specialty crops, based the results precision technologies reported in scientific literature. The application scenarios referred to general protection protocols against fungal diseases adopted vineyards and apple orchards Central-Southern Europe. evaluated total costs treatments (equipment + pesticide costs), comparing use conventional air-blast sprayers (referred as L0), on–off...
Early diagnosis of subclinical ketosis is fundamental in the production management dairy cattle. Without evident clinical signs, this pathological condition causes important economic losses for farmer and significant health repercussions cattle that could develop an altered immune function. Laboratory techniques, although accurate, are expensive, invasive, cannot be used real-time monitoring entire herd. On contrary, analysis volatile organic compounds (VOCs) contained breath affected by...
Monitoring pest insect population is currently a key issue in crop protection. At farm level it routinely operated by repeated surveys human operator of adhesive traps, disseminated through the field, where insects remain stuck when attracted. This labor- and time-consuming activity, would be great advantage for farmers to have an affordable system doing this task automatically. paper illustrates based on distributed imaging device wireless sensor network that able automatically acquire...
Abstract Crop protection from diseases through applications of plant products is crucial to secure worldwide food production. Nevertheless, sustainable management an open challenge with a major role in the economic and environmental impact agricultural activities. A primary contribution expected come precision crop approaches, treatments tailored spatial time-specific needs crop, contrast current practice applying uniformly fields. In view this, image-based automatic detection early disease...
NIR spectroscopy has proven to be one of the most efficient and ready transfer tools monitor product's quality. Portable VIS/NIR instruments are particularly versatile suitable for field use ripening process or quality parameters. The aim this work is develop evaluate a new simplified optoelectronic system potential measurements on fruit vegetables directly in field. development, characterization validation an operative prototype discussed. LED technology was chosen design, spectral...
In the EU-funded CROPS project robots are developed for site-specific spraying and selective harvesting of fruit vegetables. The being designed to harvest crops, such as greenhouse vegetables, apples, grapes canopy in orchards precision target grape vines. Attention is paid detection obstacles autonomous navigation a safe way plantations forests. For different applications, platforms were built. Sensing systems vision algorithms have been developed. software Robot Operating System used. A 9...