Michela Janni

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Janni Michela

michela.janni@pec.it

ORCHID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3414-1122

Research ID 15020714000

Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Ai7AOG0AAAAJ

H index (WOS) 15

Citazioni (WOS) 656

Average citation 17.73

Education

21 Marzo 2006 PhD in Vegetal Biotechnology Univ. Tuscia

27 Luglio 2001 Magna cum laude “Laurea” Agricolture Science and Technology Univ. Tuscia

Scientific and Research activities

Febbraio 2016 ongoing Researcher III level at IMEM-CNR Parma. Principal activity: development and application of OECT sensors

Ottobre 2011-ongoingResearcher III level at IMEM-IBBR Parma.

Agosto 2010-Settembre 2011Researcher (Tempo determinato) At University of Tuscia DAFNE

Maggio 2009-Luglio 2010 Research Fellow on Plant Physiology and Biotechnology Università degli Studi della Tuscia di Viterbo.

Maggio 2006-Aprile 2009 Research Fellow on Plant Physiology and Biotechnology Università degli Studi della Tuscia di Viterbo.

Gennaio-Marzo 2006 Research Fellow on Plant Physiology and Biotechnology Università degli Studi della Tuscia di Viterbo.

2003-2006 Doctoral fellow at University of Tuscia in Vegetal Biotechnology

Marzo-Ottobre 2002 Research Fellow at USDA-ARS-WRRC Albany California USA

Participation to research project

Head of Unit

2019- 2023- Project leader of the research contract ALSIA Metapontum Agrobios and IMEM for technology innovation in plant phenotyping.

2017-2019 Head of the research Unit IMEM-CNR project RGV-FAO 01/01/2017 - 31/12/2019 MIPAF Aimed at the use of invivo sensors for the characterization of genetic resources

2019-2021 Head of the research Unit IMEM-CNR Programma triennale 2020-2022 per la conservazione, caratterizzazione, uso e valorizzazione delle risorse genetiche vegetali per l’alimentazione e l’agricoltura. Aimed at the use of in vivo sensors for the characterization of genetic resources

2019 - ongoing Head of research contract in frame of the POSITIVE, POR FESR project EMILIA ROMAGNA 2014-2020.

2020-ongoin Head of the research project PSR 2014-2020 Op. 16.1.01 - GO PEI-Agri - Focus Area 4B Bando 2019: Project INPUT-ARB: Valutazione di tecniche di difesa e nutrizione sostenibili e innovative per la Riduzione degli INPUT chimici nelle colture ARBoree in produzione biologica e integrata (INPUT.ARB).

2002 FISR “Sistemi, metodologie e strategie per la caratterizzazione e valorizzazione della granella e degli alimenti derivati del frumento duro in ambienti marginali e/o vocazionali

Invited Speaker at Congress, Schools, Training activities and workshop

2019 Italian Society of Botany Summer school on Precision Agriculture: new technologies for plant phenotyping in the agroecosystem

2018 Training Course High-throughput wheat phenotyping held by Wheat Initiative, through the Expert Working Groups on (i) Durum Wheat Genomics and Breeding, (ii) Wheat Phenotyping and (iii) Adaptation of Wheat to Abiotic Stress

Participation to Expert Working groups

Expert of the WHEAT PHENOTYPING TO SUPPORT WHEAT IMPROVEMENT in frame of the Wheat Initiative (ANNEX 8)

Expert of the DURUM WHEAT GENOMICS AND BREEDING Expert working group in frame of the Wheat Initiative

Expert of the IMPROVING WHEAT QUALITY FOR PROCESSING AND HEALTH Expert Working group in frame of the Wheat Initiative

Reviewer Activity

Reviewer of 10 Peer Review journals including: PLOSE-ONE, Agronomy, The Science of Nature (Springer), Plant Cell Reports (Springer), African Journal of Food Science, Journal of Plant Pathology, Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, BMC Supplements, Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Member of Scientific Society

2005-ongoing Member of the Italian Society of Plant Genetics (SIGA)

2019-ongoing Councilor for the Italian Society of Plant Genetics (SIGA)

2009 al 2011 Member of the International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI)

Member of PhD Schools

Member of the Council of the PhD School of Biotechnology and Bioscience, University of Parma

Congress Organization

2021 Organizer of the SEB Conference Session Plant Phenotyping

2021 Organizer of the SIGA congress

2018 Organizer of the Phen-Italy Workshop Matera

2017 Member for the scientific organization of the NANODAY Parma

Selected Publications

(full list available at CNR People)

Contribution of genetic resources to grain storage protein composition and wheat quality

Branlard G, Giraldo P, He Z, Igrejas G, Ikeda TM, Janni M, Labuschagne MT, Wang D, Wentzel B, Zhang K

Year: 2020

Shaping durum wheat for the future: gene expression analyses and metabolites profiling support the contribution of BCAT genes to drought stress response

Buffagni V, Vurro F, Janni M, Gullì M, Keller AA, Marmiroli N

Year: 2020

Molecular and genetic bases of heat stress responses in crop plants and breeding for increased resilience and productivity

Janni M, Gullì M, Maestri E, Marmiroli M, Valliyodan B, Nguyen HT, Marmiroli N

Year: 2020

Introducing state variables in organic electrochemical transistors with application to biophysical systems

Coppede N, Vurro F, Manfredi R, Janni M, Zappettini A, Gentile F

Year: 2019

Can High Throughput Phenotyping Help Food Security in the Mediterranean Area

Danzi D Briglia N Petrozza A Summeres S Povero G Stivaletta A Cellini F Pignone D De Paola D Janni M

Year: 2019

In vivo phenotyping for the early detection of drought stress in tomato

Janni M, Coppede N, Bettelli M, Briglia N, Petrozza A, Summerer S, Vurro F, Danzi D, Cellini F, Marmiroli N, Pignone D, Iannotta S, Zappettini A

Year: 2019

Development of an In Vivo Sensor to Monitor the Effects of Vapour Pressure Deficit (VPD) Changes to Improve Water Productivity in Agriculture

Vurro F, Janni M, Coppedè N, Gentile F, Manfredi R, Bettelli M, Zappettini A

Year: 2019

Heat in Wheat: Exploit Reverse Genetic Techniques to Discover New Alleles Within the Triticum durum sHsp26 Family

Comastri A, Janni M, Simmonds J, Uauy C, Pignone D, Nguyen HT, Marmiroli N

Year: 2018

First production of wild hemmer (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides) transgenic plants

Janni M, Bozzini T, Di Giovanni M, Moscetti I, Lupi R, Gennaro A, Volpi C, Masci S, D’Ovidio R

Year: 2018

Gene-ecology of durum wheat HMW glutenin reflects their diffusion from the center of origin

Janni M, Cadonici S, Bonas U, Grasso A, Dahab AA, Visioli G, Pignone D, Ceriotti A, Marmiroli N

Year: 2018

An in vivo biosensing, biomimetic electrochemical transistor with applications in plant science and precision farming

Coppedè N, Janni M, Bettelli M, Maida CL, Gentile F, Villani M, Ruotolo R, Iannotta S, Marmiroli N, Marmiroli M, Zappettini A

Year: 2017

Transcriptomic response of durum wheat to nitrogen starvation

Curci PL, Aiese Cigliano R, Zuluaga DL, Janni M, Sanseverino W, Sonnante G

Year: 2017

Survey and new insights in the application of PCR-based molecular markers for identification of HMW-GS at the Glu-B1 locus in durum and bread wheat

Janni M, Cadonici S, Pignone D, Marmiroli N

Year: 2017

Durum wheat miRNAs in response to nitrogen starvation at the grain filling stage

Zuluaga DL, De Paola D, Janni M, Curci PL, Sonnante G

Year: 2017

Capturing wild relative and landrace diversity for crop improvement using a new selection tool to exploit genetic resources in durum wheat

Pignone D, De Paola D, Rapanà N, Janni M

Year: 2016

Involvement of Fungal Pectin Methylesterase Activity in the Interaction Between Fusarium graminearum and Wheat

Sella L, Castiglioni C, Paccanaro MC, Janni M, Schäfer W, D’ovidio R, Favaron F

Year: 2016

The down-regulation of the genes encoding Isoamylase 1 alters the starch composition of the durum wheat grain

Sestili F, Sparla F, Botticella E, Janni M, D’ovidio R, Falini G, Marri L, Cuesta-Seijo JA, Moscatello S, Battistelli A, Trost P, Lafiandra D

Year: 2016

PvPGIP2 accumulation in specific floral tissues but not in the endosperm limits Fusarium graminearum infection in wheat

Tundo S, Janni M, Moscetti I, Mandalà G, Savatin D, Blechl A, Favaron F, D’Ovidio R

Year: 2016

Pyramiding PvPGIP2 and TAXI-III But Not PvPGIP2 and PMEI Enhances Resistance Against Fusarium graminearum

Tundo S, Kalunke R, Janni M, Volpi C, Lionetti V, Bellincampi D, Favaron F, D’ovidio R

Year: 2016

MicroRNAOME expression in durum wheat: role in plant development and nitrogen metabolism

De Paola D, Zuluaga DL, Danzi D, Janni M, Sonnante G

Year: 2015

Analysis of quality-related parameters in mature kernels of Polygalacturonase Inhibiting Protein (PGIP) transgenic bread wheat infected with Fusarium graminearum

Masci S, Laino P, Janni M, Botticella E, Di Carli M, Benvenuto E, Danieli PP, Lilley KS, Lafiandra D, D’Ovidio R

Year: 2015

Single seed descent: a tool to exploit durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) genetic resources

Pignone D, De Paola D, Rapanà N, Janni M

Year: 2015

Novel and conserved miRNAs involved in plant development and nitrogen metabolism in durum wheat

Zuluaga DL, De Paola D, Danzi D, Janni M, Sonnante G

Year: 2015

An asparagine residue at the N-terminus affects the maturation process of low molecular weight glutenin subunits of wheat endosperm

Egidi E, Sestili F, Janni M, D’Ovidio R, Lafiandra D, Ceriotti A, Vensel WH, Kasarda DD, Masci S

Year: 2014

Biochemical and molecular characterization of Avena indolines and their role in kernel texture

Gazza L, Taddei F, Conti S, Gazzelloni G, Muccilli V, Janni M, D’Ovidio R, Alfieri M, Redaelli R, Pogna NE

Year: 2014

A new selection tool to exploit genetic resources in durum wheat

Pignone D, De Paola D, Rapanà N, Janni M

Year: 2014

Functional characterisation of wheat Pgip genes reveals their involvement in the local response to wounding

Janni M, Bozzini T, Moscetti I, Volpi C, D’Ovidio R

Year: 2013

Using biolistics and genetic crossing to combine multiple glycosidase inhibitor transgenes in wheat.

Kalunke R, Janni M, Benedettelli S, D’Ovidio R

Year: 2013

Constitutive Expression of the Xylanase Inhibitor TAXI-III Delays Fusarium Head Blight Symptoms in Durum Wheat Transgenic Plants

Moscetti I, Tundo S, Janni M, Sella L, Gazzetti K, Tauzin A, Giardina T, Masci S, Favaron F, D’Ovidio R

Year: 2013

Claviceps purpurea expressing polygalacturonases escaping PGIP inhibition fully infects PvPGIP2 wheat transgenic plants but its infection is delayed in wheat transgenic plants with increased level of pectin methyl esterification

Volpi C, Raiola A, Janni M, Gordon A, O’Sullivan DM, Favaron F, D’Ovidio R

Year: 2013

Transgenic expression of Polygalacturonase-Inhibiting Proteins in Arabidopsis and wheat increases resistance to the flower pathogen Fusarium graminearum

Ferrari S, Sella L, Janni M, Delorenzo G, Favaron F, D’ovidio R

Year: 2012

Intron retention regulates the expression of pectin methylesterase inhibitor (Pmei) genes during wheat growth and development.

Rocchi V, Janni M, Bellincampi D, Giardina T, D’ovidio R

Year: 2012

Amylose content is not affected by overexpression of the Wx-B1 gene in durum wheat

Sestili F, Botticella E, Proietti G, Janni M, D’Ovidio R, Lafiandra D

Year: 2012

Transcript analysis of the bean polygalacturonase inhibitinh protein gene family reveals that PVPGIP2 is expressed in the whole plant and is strongly induced by pathogen infection

Kalunke RM, Janni M, Sella L, David P, Geffroy V, Favaron F, D’Ovidio, R

Year: 2011

The Ectopic Expression of a Pectin Methyl Esterase Inhibitor Increases Pectin Methyl Esterification and Limits Fungal Diseases in Wheat

Volpi C, Janni M, Lionetti V, Bellincampi D, Favaron F, D’Ovidio R

Year: 2011