Research projects currently active at the Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection:
Unità di coordinamento e potenziamento delle attività di sorveglianza, ricerca, sperimentazione, monitoraggio e formazione in campo fitosanitario (URCoFi)
Globalization is a phenomenon that shows its effects also in the phytosanitary field, favoring the introduction and diffusion of new organisms harmful to the plants. To give rapid technical-scientific answers to the growing phytosanitary problems deriving from globalization, especially for regulated and newly introduced harmful organisms, it was considered useful ...
Vertical Farming: Development of a prototype to produce high value horticultural crops enriched by bioactive molecules (VertiGrow)
VertiGROW is aimed i) to apply high-efficiency light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to drive production of secondary metabolites (SM) in plants by manipulating light spectral composition and ii) to produce a laboratory prototype of LED powered by beyond-silicon innovative photon-to-electron conversion devices to stimulate crop growth and drive SM production. The activities ...
Virome NGS analysis of pests and pathogens for plant protection (VIROPLANT)
The aim of VIROPLANT is to apply NGS technology and empirical biological experiments to develop new environmentally friendly virus-based control strategies to manage bacterial, fungal and insect vector-transmitted diseases (phytoplasmas and viruses) as well as insect pests. VIROPLANT will create a database of new viruses (and virus derived biotechnological products) ...
Virus-free fruit nurseries (Vir-Free)
VirFree joins the expertise of academia and private companies to: (i) identify new viral and viroid strains or species affecting fruit trees and grapevine; (ii) optimise existing and develop novel virus detection methods; (iii) improve propagation and sanitation methods for producing high quality plants for planting of fruit trees and ...