Dr. Paolo Boccacci at the Turin Headquarter, have been invited to become one of the guest editors of a Special Issue, titled “Biodiversity of Minor Fruit Species“, which will be published in the “Applied Sciences” of MDPI (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Minor_Fruit_Species). The increasing interest in alternative crop species throughout the world is attributed to the growing trend within agriculture to identify new old potential uses. This interest stems from various factors, contributing to agricultural diversification, better use of marginal land, and changing environments, besides their economic potential and the opportunities they provide for…
Read More3rd European Conference on Xylella Fastidiosa and XF-Actors Final Meeting
Building knowledge, protecting plant healthThe 3rd EFSA European Conference on Xylella fastidiosa and final meeting of the XF-ACTORS project will be held online between 26-30 April 2021. The meeting of XF-ACTORS, the EU Horizon 2020 research project devoted to this plant pathogenic bacterium, will precede the conference, which is organised by EFSA and XF-ACTORS with the active contribution of the major EU research initiatives tackling X. fastidiosa – BIOVEXO, CURE-XF, ERC MultiX, EUPHRESCO, EUROXANTH, and Life Resilience. The event will comprise the XF-ACTORS meeting, the European conference, and…
Read MoreSpecial Issue: “Evolutionary Genomics of Crops and Its Wild Relatives”
Dr. Paolo Boccacci, at the Turin Headquarter, is the guest editor of a Special Issue, titled “Evolutionary Genomics of Crops and Its Wild Relatives“, which will be published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms). “Wild relatives of crop plants are recognized as a fundamental resource for agricultural activity. Traditional landraces have been widely sampled and stored in germplasm collections over previous centuries, but collection programs for the respective wild plants have been planned only recently. Domesticated and wild forms have been influenced by human activity over thousands of…
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