Michela Janni
Role: Researcher
Section: Researchers and Technologists
Division: Bari
Tel: (39) 080-5583400-209
E-mail: michela.janni@ibbr.cnr.it
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).
April 2018 March 2019 Head of the research contract funded by MUTTI SpA ”Applicazione del bioristor per il monitoraggio in vivo del pomodoro da industria”. Participant of a research Unit 2017-ongoing Participant in the CNR RU (DiSBA) European Project EMPHASIS - PREP (European Infrastructure for multi-scale Plant Phenomics and Simulation for food security in a changing climate), grant no. 739514. 2016- 2018 Participant in the CNR DiSBA Progetto: L’Hortus dell’Innovazione: dal Campo alla Rete. Ruolo svolto nel progetto: attività di FORMAZIONE . 2014-2018 Project bandiera INTEROMICS Sviluppo di una piattaforma integrata per l’applicazione delle scienze “omiche” alla definizione dei biomarcatori e profili diagnostici, predittivi, e teranostici. Sottoprogetto: Tecnologie omiche per la valorizzazione del germoplasma di frumento duro 2008 AGROGEN project “Laboratorio di 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”. 2007 PRIN “Potenziali bersagli molecolari dell’ospite e del patogeno per ottenere piante coltivate resistenti alle malattie” 2005 PROTEO-STRESS” funded by MIPAF con D.M. 311/7303/05 del 12/10/2005 |
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