A5082973924- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- GABA and Rice Research
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Plant responses to water stress
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
- Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
- Phosphorus and nutrient management
- Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
- Neural Networks and Applications
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Phytase and its Applications
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Mollusks and Parasites Studies
- Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
- Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
University of Milan
2015-2025
Rice is one of the most salt sensitive crops at seedling, early vegetative and reproductive stages. Varieties with salinity tolerance seedling stage promote an efficient growth stages in affected soils, leading to healthy that protects crop yield. Saltol major QTL confers capacity young rice plants growing under condition by maintaining a low Na+/K+ molar ratio shoots.Marker-assisted backcross (MABC) procedure was adopted transfer locus conferring from donor indica IR64-Saltol two temperate...
Rice is the most salt sensitive cereal crop and its cultivation particularly threatened by stress, which currently worsened due to climate change. This study reports development of tolerant introgression lines (ILs) derived from crosses between indica rice variety FL478, harbors Saltol quantitative trait loci (QTL), salt-sensitive japonica elite cultivar OLESA. Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) Kompetitive allele specific PCR (KASPar) genotyping, in combination with step-wise phenotypic...
The ability of plants to release chemicals that affect the growth other offers potential benefits for weed management and sustainable agriculture. This review explores use Camelina sativa as a promising cover crop with control potential. sativa, known its high oil content adaptability diverse climatic conditions, exhibits allelopathic by releasing chemical compounds inhibit growth. crop’s vigorous canopy architecture contribute effective suppression, reducing prevalence spread associated...
This pilot study investigates the chemical profiling and antioxidant potential of six blueberry genotypes: three tetraploids from highbush species hexaploids rabbiteye species. The goal was to characterise biochemical composition these genotypes, grown under identical pedoclimatic conditions, evaluate variation in bioactive compounds associated with activity. Metabolomic ionomic analyses were employed identify relatively quantify compounds. Multivariate clustered genotypes based on...
Water-limiting conditions can severely affect rice yield. Therefore, increasing plant tolerance to water stress is a priority for many breeding programs. However, improving this abiotic comes with several complications related the seeding practices, adopted management system and growth stage where occurs. For reason, it challenging outline single ideotypes showing traits suitable overcoming drought at different times during life cycle of in diverse cropping ecosystems. The current knowledge...
Hypoxic conditions often arise from waterlogging and flooding, affecting several aspects of plant metabolism, including the uptake nutrients. We identified a member CALCINEURIN β-LIKE INTERACTING PROTEIN KINASE (CIPK) family in Arabidopsis, CIPK25, which is induced root endodermis under low-oxygen conditions. A cipk25 mutant exhibited higher sensitivity to anoxia potassium limitation, suggesting that this kinase involved regulation uptake. Interestingly, we found CIPK25 interacts with AKT1,...
Drought is a major challenge for the cultivation of durum wheat, crucial crop global food security. Plants respond to drought by adjusting their mineral nutrient profiles cope with water scarcity, showing importance plasticity plant acclimation and adaptation diverse environments. Therefore, it essential understand genetic basis profile in wheat under stress select drought-tolerant varieties. The research study investigated responses different genotypes severe at seedling stage. employed an...
Climate changes impose adoption of water-saving techniques to improve the sustainability irrigated rice systems. This study was aimed, by a two-years side-by-side comparison, at verifying hypothesis whether “Alternate Wetting and Drying” (AWD) affects concentrations health-related compounds minerals in brown grains three japonica (Oryza sativa L.) cvs (‘Baldo’, ‘Gladio’, ‘Loto’) usually grown temperate areas continuous flooding (CF). Due rotational turns water distribution imposed local...
The bidirectional fluxes of cadmium and calcium across the plasma membrane were assessed compared in subapical maize root segments. This homogeneous material provides a simplified system for investigating ion whole organs. kinetic profile influx was characterized by combination saturable rectangular hyperbola (Km = 30.15) straight line (k 0.0013 L h−1 g−1 fresh weight), indicating presence multiple transport systems. In contrast, described simple Michaelis–Menten function 26.57 µM). addition...
Conventional agriculture relies on non-renewable rock phosphate as a source of phosphorus. The demand for food has led to increased phosphorus inputs, with negative impact freshwater biodiversity and security. importation fertilizers makes most systems vulnerable supply risks. geopolitical instability generated by the pandemic current Russia–Ukraine conflict, which 400% increase in commodity prices, offers international community institutions an opportunity embrace global challenge move...
Phytic acid (PA) is an anti-nutritional factor for monogastrics and contributes to phosphorus pollution. The low phytic (lpa) trait can provide several benefits the nutritional quality of foods/feeds environmental sustainability. In maize, four lpa1 mutants have been isolated, lpa1-1 most promising. Nevertheless, these mutations are frequently accompanied by many negative pleiotropic effects affecting plant performance. One a greater susceptibility drought stress, probably caused alteration...
Durum wheat cultivation is a pressing concern due to its crucial role in global food security and increasing environmental stressors like drought. Plants respond drought by activating various mechanisms, including modulating their mineral nutrient profile adapt limited water availability. The plasticity of nutrients uptake distribution within the plant one key features that allows plants acclimation adaptation wide range conditions. Understanding genetic basis durum under conditions...