Benedetta Margiotta
Role: Senior Researcher
Section: Researchers and Technologists
Division: Bari
Tel: (39) 0805583400-219
E-mail: benedetta.margiotta@ibbr.cnr.it
CV BENEDETTA MARGIOTTA
CNR Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126, Bari
benedetta.margiotta@ibbr.cnr.it
Present Position
•Senior researcher
Education and training
•Senior researcher at the CNR- IBBR (former Institute of Plant Genetics), Bari, Italy (2001)
•Researcher at the Germplasm Institute, CNR-IdG, Bari, Italy (1986);
•Professional qualification in Biology (1984);
•Training in Biology (physiology seed germination, seed ageing) at the Germplasm Institute,
CNR-IdG, Bari (1982-1986);
•University Degree in Biology (University of Bari).
Work Experiences (from 2020 back to 1986)
•Scientific leader of research unit in 27 national and international projects sponsored by private/public Institutions and collaborator in 12 national research projects
•Scientific leader of joint projects: CNR-CSIRO Australia, CNR-CAS China
•Invited speaker and chairman at national and international meetings.
•Reviewer for 20 scientific journals.
•Reviewer of research projects on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) and of Higher Formation projects for the Regional Agency for Technology and Innovation of Puglia (ARTI), Italy.
•Supervisor of graduate student, PhD students, Post Doc, foreigner visitors.
•Tutor and scientific leader of training fellowships granted by National and International Institutions.
•Teaching activity at University of Basilicata, Faculty of Science (2008-2009).
•Visiting scientist at CSIRO Plant Industry GQRL in Canberra and Sydney and Tamworth Agricultural Institute, Calala Lane, Australia (2000; 2002).
•Delegate on behalf of the CNR Bari Research Area at the Assindustria of Bari and Foggia.
•Member and Secretary of the Scientific Board of CNR Germplasm Institute, CNR-IdG, Bari (1997-
2001).
•Member of Scientific Societies and of scientific board of National and International Congress.
•Member on behalf of the CNR IBBR in the ECPGR European Evaluation Network (EVA) for Wheat and Barley Genetic Resources (2018-2020).
Research Projects (from 2020 back to 2006)
•leader of the Cereal Section in the project “Recupero, caratterizzazione, salvaguardia e valorizzazione di leguminose e cereali da granella e foraggio in Puglia”- SaVeGraINPuglia - Programmi di Sviluppo Rurale, P.S.R. Puglia 2014-2020, Misura 10, Art. 28 Reg. UE n. 1305/2013 Sottomisura 10.2. (2016-2018).
•leader of the Cereal Section in the project “Recupero, caratterizzazione, salvaguardia e valorizzazione di leguminose e cereali da granella e foraggio in Puglia”- SaVeGraINPuglia - Programma sviluppo rurale 2007-2013 Reg. CE 1698/2005 asse II Misura 214, Azione 4, sub azione a) Progetti integrati per la Biodiversità (2013-2015).
•leader of the research unit within the project “Sviluppo di un modello per l’innovazione e la sostenibilità della filiera del frumento duro biologico della Capitanata”, GRANOBIO (OIGA DM 18829/7818, D.M. 1871) (2011-2012).
•leader of the research unit within the project, Public-private laboratory of “GENomica per caratteri di importanza AGROnomica in frumento duro: identificazione di geni utili, analisi funzionale e selezione assistita con marcatori molecolari per lo sviluppo della filiera sementiera nazionale” AGROGEN - Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) DM 18092 (2007-2010).
•leader of the joint research projects, CNR-IBBR (former CNR-IGV-Bari) and CSIRO Plant Industry (Canberra, Au) (2006).
Author/co-author of about 150 short papers, extended abstracts peer-reviewed and published in the conference proceedings, full papers published on International Journal with IF, four book chapters, editor of two books.
Fields of interest
Genetic resources
•Evaluation, utilization and protection of genetic resources (wild and cultivated grass);
•genetic variation and characterization of kernel proteins (seed storage proteins and waxy proteins) in wheat and related species by biochemical, molecular, proteomic approaches;
•genetic diversity analysis in natural populations of grass family from coastal environments (coastal and inland saline vegetation).
Quality
•Relationships among composition, structure and qualitative aspects of kernel proteins;
•Qualitative/quantitative evaluation of technological properties of flour/semolina in bread and durum wheat;
Genetics and breeding
• variety identification, wheat genetics, genetic improvement of cultivated wheat;
• genetic relationships in Triticum and closely related genera (Poaceae family);
• analysis of segregating populations and production of wheat breeding and pre-breeding lines.
Selected paper (from 2020 back to 2006)
•Margiotta B., Colaprico G., Urbano M., Veronico G., Tommasi F. and Tomaselli V. (2020) Halophile wheatgrass Thinopyrum elongatum (Host) D.R. Dewey (Poaceae) in three Apulian coastal wetlands: vegetation survey and genetic diversity. Plant Biosystems, 1-15.
•Camerlengo F., Sestili F., Silvestri M., Colaprico G., Margiotta B., Ruggeri R., Lupi R., Masci S., Lafiandra D.(2017) Production and molecular characterization of bread wheat lines with reduced amount of α-type gliadins. BMC Plant Biol 17: 248-258.
•Mangini, G., Nigro, D., Margiotta, B., De Vita, P., Gadaleta, A., Simeone, R., Blanco, A. (2018) Exploring SNP Diversity in Wheat Landraces Germ plasm and Setting of a Molecular Barcode for Fingerprinting. Cereal Res. Commun., 46, 3: 377-387.
•Feng Bo, sestili F., Masci S., Margiotta B., Xu Zhibin, Yang Zujun, Xiang Chao, Zhou Chunhong, Lafiandra D., Wang Tao (2016) The Chinese bread wheat cultivar Xiaoyanmai 7 harbours genes encoding a pair of novel high molecular weight glutenin subunits inherited from cereal rye. Crop & Pasture Science 67: 29-36.
•Sissons M., Pleming D., Margiotta B., D’Egidio M.G., D.Lafiandra (2014) Effect of the introduction of D-genome related wheat proteins on durum wheat pasta and bread making quality. Crop and Pasture Science 65, 1: 27-37.
•Margiotta B., Colaprico G., M. Urbano (2014) Polymorphism of high M r glutenin subunits in wild emmer Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccoides: chromatographic, electrophoretic separations and PCR analysis of their encoding genes. Genet. Resour. Crop. Evol., 61:331-343.
•Margiotta B., Colaprico G., Urbano M., Tomaselli V. (2013) 22nd European Vegetation Survey - International Workshop, (2013), April 9-11, ISBN: 978-88-908391-0-8.
•Margiotta B., Colaprico G., Urbano M., Tommasi F., Tomaselli V. (2013) 2nd FIP International Conference, April 11, ISBN 978-88-908391-1-5.
•Jonnala R.S.1, MacRitchie F., Herald T.J., Lafiandra D., Margiotta B., M. Tilley (2010). Protein and Quality Characterization of Triticale Translocation Lines in Bread Making. Cereal Chem. 87, 6, 546-552.
•Muccilli V., Cunsolo V., Saletti R., Foti S., Margiotta B., Scossa F., Masci S. and D. Lafiandra. (2010). Characterisation of a specific class of typical low molecular weight glutenin subunits of durum wheat by a proteomic approach J. Cereal Sci., 51, 1, 134-139.
•Margiotta B., Urbano M., Colaprico G. and D. Lafiandra. (2009). Identification and characterization of HMW-GSs present in a Chinese bread wheat variety. In Proceedings of Xth International Gluten Workshop Clermont Ferrand, FRANCE 7th, 8th and 9th of September 2009, pp.210-212. ISBN2738012817.
•Pirozi M.R., Margiotta B., Lafiandra D. and F. MacRitchie. (2008). Composition of polymeric proteins and bread-making quality of wheat lines with allelic HMW-GS differing in number of cysteines. J. Cereal Sci. , vol. 48 (1): 117-122.
•Lafiandra D., Ceoloni C., Carozza R., Margiotta B., Urbano M., Colaprico G. and M. G. D’Egidio. (2007). Introduction Of D-Genome Related Gluten Proteins Into Durum Wheat. In: Wheat Production in Stressed Environments, published by Springer, Eds. H. T. Buck, J. E. Nisi and N. Salomón, v.12, pp.449- 454.
•Monari A. M., Simeone M. C., Urbano M., Margiotta B., Lafiandra D. (2005). Molecular characterization of new waxy mutants identified in bread and durum wheat. Theor appl. Genet.110: 1481-1489.
Selected Publications
(full list available at CNR People)
Cereali e leguminose pugliesi: due esempi Savegrainpuglia
Margiotta B, Piergiovanni AR
Year: 2021
On farm survival of Apulian legume and cereal landraces in relation to land cover/land use changes. A case study
Piergiovanni AR, Margiotta B
Year: 2021
Halophile wheatgrass Thinopyrum elongatum (Host) D.R. Dewey ( Poaceae ) in three Apulian coastal wetlands: vegetation survey and genetic diversity
Margiotta B, Colaprico G, Urbano M, Veronico G, Tommasi F, Tomaselli V
Year: 2020
A cross between bread wheat and a 2D(2R) disomic substitution Triticale line leads to the formation of a novel disomic addition line and provides information of the role of rye secalins on breadmaking characteristics
Sestili F, Margiotta B, Vaccino P, Moscaritolo S, Giorgi D, Lucretti S, Palombieri S, Masci S, Lafiandra D
Year: 2020
Le antiche varietà di cereali dell’area sud della Basilicata
Cerbino D, Carriero F, Lacertosa G, Sassone N, Zienna P, Gallo S, Margiotta B, Urbano M, Laghetti G, Iannucci A, Codianni P
Year: 2019
Presentazione dei risultati dei progetti integrati per la biodiversità. Progetto Savegrain
Margiotta B, Laghetti G, Piergiovanni AR
Year: 2019
Partecipazione alla "Settimana della Biodiversità Pugliese" Bari 20-24 maggio 2019
Margiotta B, Piergiovanni AR, Urbano M, Finetti-Sialer MM, Tomaselli V, Stimolo L, Campanella G, Rapanà N, De Paola D, Fornarelli N
Year: 2019
Exploring SNP Diversity in Wheat Landraces Germ plasm and Setting of a Molecular Barcode for Fingerprinting
Mangini G, Nigro D, Margiotta B, De Vita P, Gadaleta A, Simeone R, Blanco, A
Year: 2018
Leguminose, cereali e foraggere: un catalogo della biodiversità pugliese
Margiotta B, Laghetti G, Piergiovanni AR
Year: 2018
CNR-IBBR Attività di coordinamento ed organigramma del capofila
Margiotta B, Lioi L, Finetti Sialer M, Urbano M, Tomaselli V, Bisignano V, Polignano GB, Colaprico G, Cataldo P, Scarascia M, Campanella G, Stimolo L, Cifarelli S, Losavio FP, Rapanà N, Veronico G, Tricarico A, Livorti M, Fortunato R, Fornarelli N, Piergiovanni AR, Laghetti G
Year: 2018
Partecipazione alla "Settimana della Biodiversità Pugliese" Bari 20-26 maggio 2018
Margiotta B, Piergiovanni AR, Urbano M, Laghetti G, Stimolo L, Campanella G, Scarascia M, Cataldo P, Fornarelli N
Year: 2018
Grano buono di Rutigliano: caratterizzazione, tutela e valorizzazione
Mastrorilli M, Palumbo AD, Sanitate N, De Mastro G, Verdini L, Margiotta B, Urbano M, Piergiovanni AR
Year: 2018
Savegrainpuglia: un bilancio delle attività svolte
Piergiovanni AR, Margiotta B
Year: 2018
Rilevazione e identificazione dei virus presenti nelle varietà locali di cereali
Rapanà N, Colaprico G, Urbano M, Margiotta B, Finetti-Sialer M
Year: 2018
Production and molecular characterization of bread wheat lines with reduced amount of α-type gliadins
Camerlengo F, Sestili F, Silvestri M, Colaprico G, Margiotta B, Ruggeri R, Lupi R, Masci S, Lafiandra D
Year: 2017
SaVeGraINPuglia for safeguarding legume, cereal and forage landraces from Apulia region (Italy)
Laghetti G, Piergiovanni AR, Margiotta B
Year: 2017
Genetic diversity and phenetic analysis in wheat (Triticum turgidum subsp. durum and Triticum aestivum subsp. aestivum) landraces based on SNP markers
Mangini G, Margiotta B, Marcotuli I, Signorile MA, Gadaleta A, Blanco A
Year: 2017
Presentazione progetto SaVeGraINPuglia
Margiotta B
Year: 2017
Presentazione risultati SaVeGraINPuglia
Margiotta B
Year: 2017
Partecipazione alla "Settimana della biodiversità pugliese di interesse agricolo e alimentare" Bari 18-26 maggio 2017
Margiotta B, Laghetti G, Piergiovanni AR, Lioi L, Urbano M, Stimolo L, Campanella G, Scarascia M, Cataldo P, Cifarelli S
Year: 2017
In Puglia la valorizzazione di leguminose, cereali e foraggere
Margiotta B, Laghetti G, Piergiovanni AR, Lioi L, Urbano M, Tomaselli V, Finetti Sialer M, Bisignano V, Polignano G, Mita G, Santino A, Leonetti P, Pantaleo A, De Vita P, Pecorella S, De Mastro G, Ruta C, Cazzato E, Blanco A, Mangini G, Simeone R, Ricciardi L, Accogli R, Mattia C, Creanza G, Guida D, Abrusci V, Abrusci G, Lotti C, Capurso A, Drago S, Spoto G, Raffa A, Stasolla F, Dalfino G, Magnatta M, Razionale V, Papa MR, Ferrarese MC, Zema M, Belliggiano A, Panarese F, Racano E, Intini M
Year: 2017
Leguminose, cereali, foraggere di Puglia. Fonti storiche
Piergiovanni AR, Laghetti G, Margiotta B
Year: 2017
World Bank 2017. Enabling the Business of Agriculture 2017
World Bank Group
Year: 2017
The Chinese bread wheat cultivar Xiaoyanmai 7 harbours genes encoding a pair of novel high molecular weight glutenin subunits inherited from cereal rye
Feng Bo, Sestili F, Masci S, Margiotta B, Xu Zhibin, Yang Zujun, Xiang Chao, Zhou Chunhong, Lafiandra D, Wang Tao
Year: 2016
Banca dati SaVeGraINPuglia
Margiotta B, Laghetti G, Piergiovanni AR, Spoto G, Drago S
Year: 2016
Caratterizzazione, tutela e valorizzazione del "Grano buono di Rutigliano".
Mastrorilli M, Palumbo AD, Sanitate N, De Mastro G, Verdini L, Tedone L, Margiotta B, Urbano M, Piergiovanni AR, Colaprico G
Year: 2016
Indagini storico-bibliografiche e raccolta di leguminose e cereali tipiche della regione Puglia.
Direnzo P, Lucarelli R, Veronico G, Margiotta B, Piergiovanni AR, Laghetti G
Year: 2015
Identificazione di virus presenti nelle landraces di cereali in Italia meridionale
Finetti-Sialer MM, Ratti C, Urbano M, Margiotta B
Year: 2015
SaVeGraINPuglia: a project to safeguard legume, cereal and forage landraces of Apulia region
Laghetti G, Bisignano B, Campanella G, Casini G, Cataldo P, Cifarelli S, Colaprico G, De Virgilio M, Direnzo P, Finetti Sialer M, Lioi L, Losavio F, Polignano GB, Scarascia M, Stimolo L, Tomaselli V, Urbano M, Veronico G, Piergiovanni AR, Margiotta B
Year: 2015
CNR-IBBR Attività di coordinamento e organigramma del capofila
Laghetti G, Bisignano B, Campanella G, Casini G, Cataldo P, Cifarelli S, Colaprico G, DE Virgilio M, Direnzo P, Finetti Sialer M, Lioi L, Losavio FP, Polignano GB, Scarascia M, Stimolo L, Tomaselli V, Urbano M, Veronico G, Piergiovanni AR, Margiotta B
Year: 2015
Recupero, caratterizzazione, salvaguardia e valorizzazione di leguminose, cereali da granella e foraggio in Puglia: progetto SaVeGraINPuglia
Piergiovanni AR, Laghetti G, Margiotta B
Year: 2015
Indagini territoriali per il reperimento di germoplasma (cereali e leguminose) in alcune aree naturali protette della Puglia
Tomaselli V, Veronico G, Piergiovanni AR, Urbano M, Margiotta B
Year: 2015
SaVeGRAINPuglia: recupero, caratterizzazione, salvaguardia e valorizzazione di leguminose e cereali da granella e foraggio in Puglia
Laghetti G, Bisignano V, De Virgilio M, Finetti Sialer M, Lioi L, Maruca G, Tomaselli V, Urbano M, Piergiovanni AR, Margiotta B
Year: 2014
Multidisciplinary approach for characterisation and Valorisation of legume and cereal genetic resources
Piergiovanni AR, Lioi L, Bisignano V, Urbano M, Margiotta B
Year: 2014
Effect of the introduction of D-genome related gluten proteins on durum wheat pasta and bread making quality
Sissons M, Pleming D, Margiotta B, D’Egidio MG, Lafiandra D
Year: 2014
Studio preliminare su due alofite perenni in alcune aree umide costiere pugliesi
Margiotta B, Colaprico G, Urbano M, Tommasi F, Tomaselli V
Year: 2012
Quality of partial waxy and complete waxy tetraploid lines from the durum wheat cultivar Svevo
Carcea M, Narducci V, Mellara F, Turfani V, Colaprico G, Urbano M, Margiotta B
Year: 2010
Protein and quality characterization of Triticale translocation lines in breadmaking
Jonnala RS, Macritchie F, Herald TJ, Lafiandra D, Margiotta B, Tilley M
Year: 2010
Characterisation of a specific class of typical low molecular weight glutenin subunits of durum wheat by a proteomic approach
Muccilli V, Cunsolo V, Saletti R, Foti S, Margiotta B, Scossa F, Masci S, Lafiandra D
Year: 2010
Composition of polymeric proteins and bread-making quality of wheat lines with allelic HMW-GS differing in number of cysteines
Pirozi MR, Margiotta B, Lafiandra D, F MacRitchie
Year: 2008
Introduction of D-genome related gluten proteins into durum wheat
Lafiandra D, Ceoloni C, Carozza R, Margiotta B, Urbano M, Colaprico G, D’Egidio MG
Year: 2007
Molecular characterization of new waxy mutans identified in bread and durum wheat
Monari AM, Simeone MC, Urbano M, Margiotta B, Lafiandra D
Year: 2005
Agricultural sustainability and underutilized crop species in southern Italy. Plant Genetic Resources: Characterization and Utilization
Polignano GB, Laghetti G, Margiotta B, Perrino P
Year: 2004
Polymorphism of High Mr Glutenin Subunits in Triticum tauschii: characterisation by chromatography and electrophoretic methods
Gianibelli MC, Gupta RB, Lafiandra D Margiotta B MacRitchie F
Year: 2001
Characterization of high and low-molecular weight glutenin subunits associated to the D genome of Aegilops tauschii in a collection of synthetic hexaploid wheats
Pfluger LA, D’Ovidio R, Margiotta B, Pena R, Mujeeb-kazi A, Lafiandra D
Year: 2001
The genetics of wheat gluten proteins: An overview
Lafiandra D, Masci R, D’Ovidio D, Margiotta B
Year: 2000
PCR analysis of x- and y-type genes present at the complex Glu-A1 locus in durum and bread wheat
Lafiandra D, Tucci GF, Pavoni A, Turchetta T, Margiotta B
Year: 1997
Proteine di riserva in Triticum ed Aegilops: variabilità ed aspetti biochimici, genetici e molecolari
Margiotta B
Year: 1996
Detection of y-type Subunit at the Glu-A1 Locus in Some Swedish Bread Wheat Lines
Margiotta B, Urbano M, Colaprico G, Johansson E, Buonocore F, DOvidio R, Lafiandra D
Year: 1996
Effect of high temperatures during grain filling on the amount of insoluble proteins in durum wheat
Ciaffi M, Margiotta B, Colaprico G, De Stefanis E, Sgrulletta D, Lafiandra D
Year: 1995
STUDIES OF HIGH-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT GLUTENIN SUBUNITS AND THEIR ENCODING GENES
Lafiandra D, Dovidio R, Margiotta B
Year: 1994
RECOMBINATION WITHIN THE GLI-B1 LOCUS IN DURUM-WHEAT
Margiotta B, Colaprico G, Urbano M, Lafiandra D
Year: 1994
New Data Supporting High Mr Glutenin Subunit 5 as the Determinant of Quality Differences among the Pairs 5 10 vs. 2 1
Lafiandra D, D’Ovidio R, Porceddu E, Margiotta B, Colaprico G
Year: 1993
EFFECTS OF THE LACK OF PROTEINS CONTROLLED BY GENES AT THE GLI-D1/GLU-D3 LOCI ON THE BREADMAKING QUALITY OF WHEAT
Benedettelli S, Margiotta B, Porceddu E, Ciaffi M, Lafiandra D
Year: 1992
LACK OF EXPRESSION OF THE GAMMA-45 GLIADIN GENE IN A DURUM-WHEAT GENOTYPE
D’Ovidio R, Margiotta B, Porceddu E, Lafiandra D
Year: 1992
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE D-GENOME OF HEXAPLOID WHEATS (AABBDD) AND AE-SQUARROSA AS DEDUCED BY SEED STORAGE PROTEINS AND MOLECULAR MARKER ANALYSES
Lafiandra D, Masci S, D’Ovidio R, Tanzarella OA, Porceddu E, Margiotta B
Year: 1992
Combined reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) and electrophoretical techniques in genetics and breeding of wheat storage proteins
Lafiandra D, Porceddu E, Colaprico G, Margiotta B
Year: 1992
Chromosomal location of gliadin coding genes in T. aestivum ssp. spelta and evidence on the lack of components controlled by Gli-2 loci in wheat aneuploids
Lafiandra D, Benedettelli S, Margiotta B, Porceddu, E
Year: 1989
A Possible Association Between Heading Time and the GM-A2 Locus in Bread Wheat
Lafiandra D, Margiotta B, Porceddu E
Year: 1987
DNA synthesis and mitotic activity in germinating wheat seeds aged under various conditions
Dell’Aquila A, Margiotta B
Year: 1986