| 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
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| 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
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| 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?
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| 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
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| 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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