Topics

Area	Professor	Topics
DI.PRO.VE.S - Agronomy and Plant biotechnologies Sustainable Crop and Food Protection	prof. Adriano Marocco	Genetic studies of the resistance to biotic and abiotic stress in plants Agronomic investigations on crops for biomass and energy Physiological and botanical researches on plant development and reproduction
DI.PRO.VE.S. - Fruit Culture and Viticulture	prof. Stefano Poni	Effects of late winter pruning on grapevine annual cycle and whole-canopy gas exchange Water use efficiency of Cv. Sangiovese grafted on roostocks having different tolerance to drought Grape composition and metabolomics of Nebbiolo grapes as affected by different canopy management techniques Response of cv. Barbera grapevine to variable rate nitrogen fertilization Effects of apical to the cluster late season leaf removal on the ripening of Chardonnay vines
Zootechnics	prof. Paolo Ajmone Marsan	Livestock genetic diversity from genomic data Investigation of livestock epigenome Nutrigenomic investigations in model animal species Milk metabolome and milk cheesemaking properties Diet and management strategies to improve the innate immune system functions, animal welfare and performances in the transition period of dairy cows Precision livestock: systems to assess dairy cows health, welfare and performance (e.g. rumination, activities, temperature) Immune measurements of rumen fluid to assess the dairy cows health and performance Dietary strategies to mitigate methane emission from dairy cows Indirect indices of methane emissions and rumen microbiome Corn silage for livestock nutrition and for biogas production: is a win-win approach feasible?
Enology and Agro-Food Engineering	prof. Dante Marco de Faveri	Process study for developing innovative freeze-dried products for confectionery and related industries Colloidal stability of wines: role of adjuvants and process variables Valorization of agri-food by-products for the recovery of high-added value compounds for the food sector Development of natural biocides for coatings and paintings for indoor food-processing buildings
DI.PRO.VE.S. - Agronomy and Plant Biotechnologies Sustainable Crop and Food Protection	prof. Vittorio Rossi	Physical and biological methods for sanitation treatments against Plasmopara viticola overwintering inoculum Application of molecular methods to assess fungicides resistance in Italian vineyards Plant-pathogen interactions: the case study of downy mildew resistant varieties of grapevine Competition of mycotoxin producing fungi in different ecological conditions Electronic nose and rapid detection of mycotoxins in wheat and maize Fate of mycotoxins and their producing fungi when contaminated maize is used for anaerobic digestion and biogas production

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