Diversity and Valorization of Crop Plants

Researches are focalized toward the protection, management and conservation of the local agro-biodiversity, mainly through genetic traceability, proteomic analysis and chemical characterization of food and nutraceutical resources.

The specific activities of this research sector are:

• Development and validation of molecular tools for authenticity control and traceability applied to brand products;
• genetic and proteomic characterization for the protection of plant germplasm and development of molecular databases;
• Characterization of substances with nutraceutical properties in fresh and processed plant-derived foods;
• Analysis of environmental stresses related to the productivity of plants.
• Analysis and database recording of ancient plants