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University-funded projects & equipment

2020

Proponent

Title

Project type

Altamura

Adventitious rooting vs xylary development: the integration of jasmonates and brassinosteroids into cell reprogramming in response to heavy metals and metalloids in the model plants Arabidopsis and rice.

Large

Manzi

Osteobiography of the servants in Roman times

Large

Celant

Uso del territorio in Italia centrale nelle ultime migliaia di anni: origine e DIffuSione della COltivazione di Vite e cEReali (DISCOVER)

Medium

Celesti

Plant invasions on small Italian islands: monitoring emerging species - Le invasioni di piante alloctone sulle piccole isole italiane: monitoraggio delle specie emergenti

Medium

Costantini

Animal-mediated nutrient cycling in Arctic lake ecosystems within a context of climate change

Medium

De Vita

Sviluppo di nuovi inibitori di origine vegetale di Mpro, proteasi principale di SARS-Cov-2

Medium

Manes

Mismatch di Servizi Ecosistemici di Regolazione e pianificazione urbana sostenibile: Ruolo delle Infrastrutture Verdi nei processi di rimozione di PM10 e di mitigazione del clima locale.

Medium

Porretta

Origine, diffusione e vantaggio evolutivo della resistenza agli insetticidi: uno studio longitudinale per il controllo del vettore Culex pipiens

Medium

Sadori

Unraveling a mistery: the plant and organic remains from the Tutankhamon funerary set

Medium

Simonetti

Activity against fungal biofilm and evaluation of chemical composition of purple carrot extracts from industrial processing wastes

Medium

Varone

Intraspecific variability of the biomass allocation patterns under stress conditions: implications for Mediterranean plant adaptative strategies

Medium

Masi

Eco-friendly phytochemical based products for the conservation of wooden cultural heritage

Small

Persiani

Glyphosate-eating fungi: potentiality of soil saprotrophic fungi to exploit glyphosate as a nutritional source and degrade it

Small

2019

Proponent

Title

Project type

Pasqua

Innovative approaches for controlling Botrytis cinerea, causal agent of the grey mold disease in tomato by using poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) nanoparticles for the controlled release of the antifungal fluopyram

Large

Calizza

Interacting effects of habitat degradation and biological invasion: fish stocks and food web stability in aquatic ecosystems, a novel approach based on quantitative food web description

Medium

Della Rovere

Plant root system plasticity: the developmental switching between rhizogenesis and xylogenesis

Medium

Masi

Vegetation changes vs. human resilience at Lake Volvi (Greece): paleoenvironmental reconstruction for the last 2000 years

Medium

Persiani

Fungi as bioresources: potential role of saprotrophic fungi for sustainable bioremediation of arsenic pollution

Medium

Porretta

Analisi delle dinamiche eco-evolutive della resistenza agli insetticidi per il controllo del vettore Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae)

Medium

Ricotta

Multiscale analysis of remotely sensed plant phenology

Medium

Ventura

Drones for grasslands: flying low for monitoring habitats of high conservation value

Medium

Vitale

Impact assessment of some air pollutants on biodiversity of the shrub and herbaceous communities of Italian forests

Medium

Destro Bisol

Arabi, Berberi e Nomadi: storia genetica della Tunisia attraverso l'analisi di genomi completi

Small

Magri

PAlynologycal investigations of REsinous materials from Archeological contexts (PAREA)

Small

Manzi

Virtual extraction of the cranium and comparative analysis of the Neanderthal skeleton from Altamura (Alta Murgia, Italy)

Small

 

 

Scientific equipment

Proponent

Title

Manes

Smart PHYTOTRON for simulations of global change environmental conditions to analyze and monitor in real time the morpho-functional effects of biotic and abiotic stress on natural and crop plant species