Projects

Title: Tomato genetic diversity for enhancing Resilience of Agro-systems in Mediterranean environment Acronym: TomResAMed IPSP Project Leader: Vincenzo Montesano National Project (PRIN PNRR) Start: November 2023 End: November 2025 Abstract: Soil salinity is one of the major abiotic factors threatening food security worldwide by limiting the land use and significantly reducing crop yields. The sustainable management of salt-affected areas demands integrated strategies including the exploitation of salt-tolerant crops and breeding of new cultivars. Tomato is a worldwide cultivated food crop and its global yield has increased over the past decade.…

The project ‘MICOTI – Fungal microorganisms for the biocontrol of Scaphoideus titanus‘ addresses the problem of managing the leafhopper Scaphoideus titanus, the main vector of the phytoplasma associated with Flavescenza dorata (FD) of grapevine. Due to the epidemic nature of this disease and the severity of the damage caused in vineyards, it is necessary to uproot and destroy compromised plants and periodically apply insecticide treatments to contain the population of the insect vector. However, insecticide treatments have a considerable economic impact on viticulture, as well as harmful consequences for human…

SUS-MIRRI.IT aims at strengthening the research infrastructure MIRRI.IT, the Italian network of microbial culture collections, through the increase of the bioresources stored in the various collections, enhancing their characterization and optimizing their management, thus unlocking their genomic, metabolic and economic potential. The project is coordinated by the University of Turin and involves 15 Institutions with 24 Operating Units, which host collections of different microbial resources, including bacteria, filamentous fungi, yeasts, microalgae and virus, which can be exploited in the health, agro-food and environmental areas. Microbiological laboratories of the MIRRI.IT network…

The project Plantìa is the winner of the selection “From soil to the field – Multidisciplinary approach to improve the crop adaptation to the climate changes” promoted by the Consortium Ager-Agroalimentare and research. CREA-OF (Pontecagnano (SA), IPSP-CNR (Sesto Fiorentino, FI) and the University of Naples Federico II – Agriculture Department are the project participants. Nine-hundred thousand euros are available for the project realization for developing innovative methodologies to prevent the soil fertility loss and to reduce the impact of climate changes on production chain of grapevine, chickpea and pea crops.…

IPSP is working on behalf of the University of Turin on bee virus diagnosis in the Melior’api project, funded by ALCOTRA 2021-2027. The project consists of 8 points: The goal of the Melior’api project is to enable beekeepers to improve the results of their operations by selecting queens that show the best performance during the season in terms of production, population dynamism, Varroa resistance, and winter survival. The Melior’api project uses a multicriteria indicator (operator) to rank colonies in an apiary dedicated to this selection operation. This indicator (operator) ranks…