A5047970694- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
- Potato Plant Research
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Plant and soil sciences
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Polymer-Based Agricultural Enhancements
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Plant Genetic and Mutation Studies
- Plant tissue culture and regeneration
- Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
- Urban Planning and Landscape Design
- Composting and Vermicomposting Techniques
Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops
2020-2024
Centro Agricoltura Ambiente (Italy)
2019
Centro di Ricerca per l’Orticoltura
2009-2017
Istituto Sperimentale per la Frutticoltura
2008-2010
Increasing the ability to investigate plant functions and structure through non-invasive methods with high accuracy has become a major target in breeding precision agriculture. Emerging approaches phenotyping play key role unraveling quantitative traits responsible for growth, production, quality, resistance various stresses. Beyond fully automatic systems, several promising technologies can help accurately characterize wide range of at affordable costs high-throughput. In this review, we...
Summary A model has been developed which assesses the economic and environmental performance of crop rotations, in both conventional organic cropping, for over 70 arable horticultural crops, a wide range growing conditions Europe. The model, though originally based on N_ABLE completely rewritten contains new routines to simulate root development, mineralisation release nitrogen (N) from soil matter residues, water dynamics soil. New have added estimate effects sub-optimal rates N spacing...
To assess spatial variability at the very fine scale required by Precision Agriculture, different proximal and remote sensors have been used. They provide large amounts types of data which need to be combined. An integrated approach, using multivariate geostatistical data-fusion techniques multi-source geophysical sensor determine simple summary scale-dependent indices, is described here. These indices can used delineate management zones submitted differential management. Such a fusion...
Despite intense research towards the understanding of abiotic stress adaptation in tomato, physiological adjustments and transcriptome modulation induced by combined salt low nitrate (low N) conditions remain largely unknown. Here, three traditional tomato genotypes were grown under long-term single stresses throughout a complete growth cycle. Physiological, molecular, measurements showed extensive morphophysiological modifications compared to control, conditions, resulting highest penalty...
SUMMARY The EU-Rotate_N model was developed as a tool to estimate the growth and nitrogen (N) uptake of vegetable crop rotations across wide range European climatic conditions assess economic environmental consequences alternative management strategies. has been evaluated under field in Germany Norway greenhouse China. present work using Italian data evaluate its performance warm dry environment. Data were collected from four 2-year rotations, which included lettuce ( Lactuca sativa L.),...
The PlantEye multispectral scanner is an optoelectrical sensor automatically applied to a mechatronic platform that allows the non-destructive, accurate, and high-throughput detection of morphological physiological plant parameters. In this study, we describe how advanced phenotyping precisely assesses changes in architecture growth parameters wild rocket salad (Diplotaxis tenuifolia L. [DC.]) under drought stress conditions. Four different irrigation supply levels from moderate severe,...
Salt stress is one of the most impactful abiotic stresses that plants must cope with. Plants' ability to tolerate salt relies on multiple mechanisms, which are associated with biomass and yield reductions. Sweet pepper a salt-sensitive crop in Mediterranean regions can be exposed build-up root zone due irrigation. Understanding physiological mechanisms activate adapt soil salinization essential develop breeding programs agricultural practices counteract this phenomenon ultimately minimize...
The occurrence of agricultural catchments covered by plastic greenhouses is growing worldwide. Horticultural greenhouse production allows for saving irrigation water at the farm scale, but also alters natural hydrological cycle. Currently, these alterations are not accounted in physics-based models. In this study, we aim to couple climate model KASPRO1, estimate indoor crop transpiration from outdoor meteorological variables, with integrated surface-subsurface CATchment HYdrology (CATHY2)...
ISHS IV International Symposium on Ecologically Sound Fertilization Strategies for Field Vegetable Production THE DEVELOPMENT OF EU-ROTATE N MODEL AND ITS USE TO TEST STRATEGIES FOR NITROGEN ACROSS EUROPE
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The replacement of synthetic chemical herbicides and traditional plastic sheets is a major challenge modern horticulture in view sustainable weed management. In the first step this research, we tested control efficacy two biodegradable polymers, chitosan galactomannan, applied to soil surface as spray mulching, with or without addition charcoal light masking agent, five essential oils recognized herbicide properties. results showed ability reducing number biomass annual plants, regardless...