Score: 8.70
#3275 - B4EST training course on Genetic Basis of Quantitative Traits and Multitrait Association
The training course is organised by the University of Uppsala, INRAE, University of OULU and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, in collaboration with EVOLTREE, and runs online from September 21-24, 2021.
Kind: news - Date: Aug 19, 2021
Score: 3.67
#1418 - Development and Characterization of Three Highly Informative EST-SSR Multiplexes for Pinus halepensis mill. and their Transferability to Other Mediterranean Pines
Leonarduzzi C, Spanu I, Labriola M, Gonzalez-Martinez SC, Piotti A, Vendramin GG
Kind: pub - Date: Apr 08, 2016
Score: 3.35
#899 - Tmt1: the first LTR-retrotransposon from a Tuber spp
Riccioni C, Rubini A, Belfiori B, Passeri V, Paolocci F, Arcioni S
Kind: pub - Date: Feb 09, 2015
Score: 3.06
#705 - Large-scale phylogeography of the disjunct Neotropical tree species Schizolobium parahyba (Fabaceae-Caesalpinioideae)
Turchetto-Zolet AC, Cruz F, Vendramin GG, Simon MF, Salgueiro F, Margis-Pinheiro M, Margis R
Kind: pub - Date: Jan 15, 2015
Score: 3.04
#1434 - Comparative genomics and population genetics provide new insights on the life cycle of the Black truffle of Périgord (Tuber melanosporum Vittad.)
Riccioni C, Murat C, H De La Varga, Todesco F, Rubini A, Belfiori B, Payen T, Le Tacon F, Robin C, Paolocci F, Martin F
Kind: pub - Date: Apr 08, 2016
Score: 2.99
#811 - Development of highly polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite markers in Austrocedrus chilensis
Arana MV, Buonamici A, Sebastiani F, Alia R, Gallo LA, Marchelli P, Moreno C, Vendramin GG
Kind: pub - Date: Jan 19, 2015
Score: 2.94
#154 - 2014 Training School of COST Action FP1202 MaP-FGR (7-11 July 2014, Jaca - Spain): call for applications
The topic of this 2014 TS will be ‘’Adaptation and evolution of Marginal-Peripheral populations of forest trees at the leading, altitudinal and rear edges of species distribution’’. The TS will focus on: Introduction of ‘’population’’, ‘’marginal-peripheral (MaP) population’’ concepts; Ecological aspects of forest species distributions; Forest population genetics and the key role of MaP populations; Conservation and adaptation of MaP populations (including adaptation, resilience and phenotypic plasticity in MaP populations); MaP at leading edges, Map at rear edges and MaP at altitudinal edges; Scientific methods on adaptive traits and strategies related to the conservation in situ and ex situ of MaP populations and related forest genetic resources; Management of MaP reproductive materials and related legislation (based on information available in National Reports prepared by European/Mediterranean partners in the context of the first State of the World Forest Genetic Resources). Presentation of most recent study cases on adaptation and evolution of MaP FGR at the edges of species distribution; Presentation of the trainees own researches on MaP population and FGR.
Kind: news - Date: Apr 15, 2014
Score: 2.73
#635 - In-situ genetic association for serotiny, a fire-related trait, in Mediterranean maritime pine (Pinus pinaster)
Budde KB, Heuertz M, Hernández-Serrano A, Pausas JG, Vendramin GG, Verdú M, González-Martínez SC
Kind: pub - Date: Jan 15, 2015
Score: 2.71
#2534 - High-density SNP assay development for genetic analysis in maritime pine (Pinus pinaster
Plomion C, Bartholome J, Lesur I, Boury C, Rodriguez-Quilon I, Lagraulet H, Ehrenmann F, Bouffier L, Gion JM, Grivet D, De Miguel M, De Maria N, Cervera MT, Bagnoli F, Isik F, Vendramin GG, Gonzalez-Martinez SC
Kind: pub - Date: Apr 06, 2020
Score: 2.65
#1366 - Machine Learning Based Classification of Microsatellite Variation: An Effective Approach for Phylogeographic Characterization of Olive Populations
Torkzaban B, Kayvanjoo AH, Ardalan A, Mousavi S, Mariotti R, Baldoni L, Ebrahimie E, Ebrahimi M, Hosseini-Mazinani M
Kind: pub - Date: Feb 10, 2016
Score: 2.62
#148 - TRADITOM - Traditional tomato varieties and cultural practices: a case for agricultural diversification with impact on food security and health of European population
Tomato is the second most consumed vegetable in the EU and a major dietary source of many nutrients, vitamins and antioxidants. Consumers’ complaints about the loss of flavour in modern tomatoes provide an opportunity for the valorisation of traditional tomato varieties, in order to protect them from genetic erosion and the replacement by higher-yielding, pest resistant modern cultivars. Genetic, epigenetic and phenotypic variability and knowledge from farms and in public repositories will be concentrated in a TRADITOM database and seed repository. The available genetic and phenotypic variability present in TRADITOM varieties, and the genetic and epigenetic differences from modern cultivars will be assessed. For varieties whose cultivation is not sustainable due to unacceptably low yield and/ or pathogen resistance, novel F1 hybrids will be generated, retaining the quality characteristics of traditional varieties and incorporating yield and disease resistance traits. Finally, traditional varieties and the impact of traditional cultivation methods will be valorised through a thorough characterization of their composition in term of flavour- and health-related compounds, the identification of consumer preferences, the evaluation of socio-economic factors limiting their market diffusion, and the protection of the most significant case studies through PDO or PGI denominations. TRADITOM is a multidisciplinary translational, multi-actor research project bringing together scientists working in academia, local farmers communities, consumer experts and small seed companies that have preserved the local germplasm, in order to bring to fruition and apply to traditional tomato varieties the enormous knowledge generated on tomato genetics, genomics and metabolomics. This will help the conservation of traditional tomato varieties and enhance the competitive advantage of rural communities based on their production
Kind: project - Date: Feb 25, 2015
Score: 2.52
#2619 - Effects of copper on larvae of the marbled crab Pachygrapsus marmoratus (Decapoda, Grapsidae): Toxicity test and biochemical marker responses
Oliva M, De Marchi L, Cuccaro A, Casu V, Tardelli F, Monni G, Freitas R, Caliani I, Fossi M, Fratini S, Baratti M, Pretti C
Kind: pub - Date: Apr 30, 2020
Score: 2.46
#805 - Molecular Population genetics and Dynamics of Chestnut (Castanea sativa) in Europe: Inferences for gene conservation and tree improvement
Aravanoupoulus FA, Bucci G, Akkak A, Blanco Silva R, Botta R, Buck E, Cherubini M, Drouzas AD, Fernandez-Lopez J, Mattioni C, Marinoni D, Papadima A, Russell K, Zas R, Villani F
Kind: pub - Date: Jan 19, 2015
Score: 2.39
#2542 - Comparative mapping in the Fagaceae and beyond with EST-SSRs
Bodenes C, Chancerel E, Gailing O, Vendramin GG, Bagnoli F, Durand J, Goicoechea PG, Soliani C, Villani F, Mattioni C, Koelewijn HP, Murat F, Salse J, Roussel G, Boury C, Alberto F, Kremer A, Plomion C
Kind: pub - Date: Apr 06, 2020
Score: 2.38
#2537 - First insights into the transcriptome and development of new genomic tools of a widespread circum-Mediterranean tree species, Pinus halepensis Mill
Pinosio S, Gonzalez-Martinez SC Bagnoli F, Cattonaro F, Grivet D, Marroni F, Lorenzo Z, Pausas JG, Verdu M, Vendramin GG
Kind: pub - Date: Apr 06, 2020
Score: 2.29
#690 - A landscape genetics approach reveals ecological-based differentiation in populations of holm oak (Quercus ilex L.) at the northern limit of its range
Vernesi C, Rocchini D, Pecchioli E, Neteler M, Vendramin GG, Paffetti D
Kind: pub - Date: Jan 15, 2015
Score: 2.29
#703 - Genomics of Fagaceae
Kremer A, Abbott AG, Carlson JE, Manos PS, Plomion C, Sisco P, Staton ME, Ueno S, Vendramin GG
Kind: pub - Date: Jan 15, 2015
Score: 2.16
#36 - IBBR webinars / Population genetics meets dendrochronology: joint approaches to explore growth and reproductive dynamics in forest tree species
IBBR webinars (Apr 28, 2021) Camilla Avanzi, IBBR/UOS Sesto Fiorentino - Reproductive dynamics have a major role for the maintenance, demography and adaptation of forest tree populations. Understanding which individuals have a higher reproductive success, and why, is therefore crucial to predict the evolutionary trajectory of tree populations, especially in fragmented landscapes and/or in stressful environmental conditions. The development of parentage analysis methods and polymorphic genetic markers has allowed plant biologists to get reliable estimates of lifetime reproductive success. Nonetheless, the determinants of reproductive success, as well as their interactions, are still largely under-documented. In particular, the relationship between growth and reproduction has been rarely assessed, except for using rough measures of diameter to be regressed against reproductive success. Such relationship is a promising aspect to be investigated more in details, mainly because of the tight trade-offs existing between growth and reproduction, and the major consequences they both have on evolutionary dynamics. In this seminar, I will illustrate how we proposed to distil the myriad of information embedded in tree-ring data into a set of tree-ring based phenotypic traits to be investigated as potential drivers of reproductive success in forest trees. By using a cross-disciplinary approach that combines parentage analysis and a thorough dendrophenotypic characterisation of putative parents, we assessed sex-specific relationships between such dendrophenotypic traits (i.e., age, growth rate and parameters describing sensitivity to climate and to extreme climatic events) and reproductive success in Norway spruce (Picea abies), one of the most relevant European conifer. We reconstructed parent-offspring relationships between 604 seedlings and 518 adult trees sampled within five populations from southern and central Europe. We found that individual female and male reproductive success was positively associated with tree growth rate and age. Female reproductive success was also positively influenced by the correlation between growth and the mean temperature of the previous vegetative season. Overall, our results showed that Norway spruce individuals with the highest fitness are those who are able to keep high-growth rates despite potential growth limitations caused by reproductive costs and climatic limiting conditions. Identifying such functional links between individual ecophysiological behaviours and their evolutionary gain would increase our understanding on how natural selection shapes the genetic composition of forest tree populations over time
Kind: video - Date: Apr 28, 2021
Score: 1.98
#19 - Landscape genomics approaches for an adaptive silviculture applied to beech stand
Genetic variation is crucial for the fitness and survival of individuals and the ability of species to adapt to environmental change. Within each population, genetic changes, plasticity and evolvability result from the combination of random and selectively oriented processes. Silviculture displays a direct impact on the evolution drivers by acting on environmental conditions: competition dynamics and other abiotic and biotic factors. Some types of silvicultural management can lead to selections that influence the spatial grouping of reproductive individuals and therefore the gene flow level. Forest practice should simultaneously accelerate genetic adaptation by promoting the response of forest populations to known environmental changes and preserve genetic diversity as a reservoir of future options for responding to unknown changes. In this context, landscape genomics, a research approach that combines population genetics, landscape ecology, and spatial analytical techniques, has emerged as a flexible analytical framework for understanding the interactions between environmental heterogeneity and adaptive genetic variation. The main goal of this project is to use Landscape genomics approach to evaluate the effects of silvicultural treatments on forest genetic resources (FGR) in Fagus sylvatica L. (Fs) forests through an adaptive approach. This approach will permit to determine if the silvicultural treatment applied is able to maintain or increase the genetic variability of Fagus sylvatica stands. Therefore, beech stands subjected to different silvicultural regimes will be analysed in order to assess the genetic structure and correlate it to environmental variables, and to develop adaptive silviculture strategies. The landscape genomics approaches that will be used involve the analysis of different types of data in order to define, through the use of spatial analytical techniques, any statistical correlations, so as to test the landscape-genetic relationships explicitly and quantitatively. The analyses conducted in this project will allow us to precisely investigate how environmental characteristics influence the micro-evolutionary processes of gene flow and drift, and consequently the spatial genetic structure of forest stands. Specifically, the analyses will allow us to identify many allelic variants associated with adaptation to environmental stresses; obtain correlation of adaptive diversity data with environmental variables; and provide data on the status and trends in adaptive capacity of forest stands. This information will be used to guide future silvicultural interventions toward maintaining and, if possible, increasing genetic variability
Kind: webinars - Date: Dec 15, 2021
Score: 1.58
#777 - Genetic resources of beech in Italy
Giannini R, Capretti P, Emiliani G, Fioravanti M, Nocentini S, Vettori C
Kind: pub - Date: Jan 19, 2015
Score: 1.54
#15 - Population genetics meets dendrochronology: joint approaches to explore growth and reproductive dynamics in forest tree species
Reproductive dynamics have a major role for the maintenance, demography and adaptation of forest tree populations. Understanding which individuals have a higher reproductive success, and why, is therefore crucial to predict the evolutionary trajectory of tree populations, especially in fragmented landscapes and/or in stressful environmental conditions. The development of parentage analysis methods and polymorphic genetic markers has allowed plant biologists to get reliable estimates of lifetime reproductive success. Nonetheless, the determinants of reproductive success, as well as their interactions, are still largely under-documented. In particular, the relationship between growth and reproduction has been rarely assessed, except for using rough measures of diameter to be regressed against reproductive success. Such relationship is a promising aspect to be investigated more in details, mainly because of the tight trade-offs existing between growth and reproduction, and the major consequences they both have on evolutionary dynamics. In this seminar, I will illustrate how we proposed to distil the myriad of information embedded in tree-ring data into a set of tree-ring based phenotypic traits to be investigated as potential drivers of reproductive success in forest trees. By using a cross-disciplinary approach that combines parentage analysis and a thorough dendrophenotypic characterisation of putative parents, we assessed sex-specific relationships between such dendrophenotypic traits (i.e., age, growth rate and parameters describing sensitivity to climate and to extreme climatic events) and reproductive success in Norway spruce (Picea abies), one of the most relevant European conifer. We reconstructed parent-offspring relationships between 604 seedlings and 518 adult trees sampled within five populations from southern and central Europe. We found that individual female and male reproductive success was positively associated with tree growth rate and age. Female reproductive success was also positively influenced by the correlation between growth and the mean temperature of the previous vegetative season. Overall, our results showed that Norway spruce individuals with the highest fitness are those who are able to keep high-growth rates despite potential growth limitations caused by reproductive costs and climatic limiting conditions. Identifying such functional links between individual ecophysiological behaviours and their evolutionary gain would increase our understanding on how natural selection shapes the genetic composition of forest tree populations over time
Kind: webinars - Date: Apr 28, 2021
Score: 1.42
#818 - Aspetti genetici del faggio in Italia
Bucci G, Raddi S, Vendramin GG, Leonardi S, Giannini R, Menozzi P
Kind: pub - Date: Jan 19, 2015
Score: 1.25
#2406 - Francesca Taranto(personal page)
Francesca Taranto research activity is focused on marker assisted breeding and genetics of wheat, legumes and other cultivated trees (olive, almond and grapevine). Genetics, molecular biology, genomics and bioinformatics are used to investigate population genetics, biodiversity and gene flow, and identify key genes involved in the expression of important agronomic traits. Her main research interest are polyphenol oxidase enzyme and their role during the evolutionary history of domesticated tetraploid wheat. Skills and Expertise: plant breeding, population genetics, genetic resources conservation, crop domestication, genomics, gene flow, adaptation, QTL mapping, genome-wide association mapping, linkage disequilibrium, phylogenetic analysis. Nucleic acid extraction and PCR; capillary electrophoresis applied to DNA, statistics (R), SNP data analysis, plant functional annotation and classification, gene families and genomic homology, PPO activity assay.
Kind: personal - Date: Jan 29, 2020
Score: 1.17
#394 - Francesca Bagnoli(personal page)
Positions Present: researcher at CNR IBBR Firenze, Italy since October 2014 Previous: researcher at CNR IPSP Firenze, Italy November 2011- September 2014 2002 - Ph.D. in Agricultural and Forest Genetics at the University of Florence, discussing a thesis:...
Kind: personal - Date: Oct 17, 2014
Score: 1.13
#3531 - Camilla Avanzi(personal page)
Italian, she/her, born 1989 Research interests: forest genetics, reproductive dynamics, gene flow, dendrogenetics, marginal and peripheral populations Professional address: Istituto di Bioscienze e BioRisorse, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via Madonna...
Kind: personal - Date: Nov 18, 2022
Score: 1.04
#340 - Silvana Grandillo(personal page)
Main Scientific Interests Development of mapped genetic resources in tomato, with special emphasis given to populations of marker-defined introgression lines (ILs) originating from interspecific crosses, for a more efficient exploitation of the natural biodiversity stored in unadapted germplasm. Current applications of these genetic resources include QTL analyses for fruit quality traits and integrative systems biology and genomic approaches to gain further insights into the networks regulating key fruit metabolic pathways underlying tomato flavour and nutritional quality. Identification and functional characterization of key genes involved in nutritional and merceological quality in pepper. Metabolic engineering of secondary metabolite pathways for the production of health-related compounds.
Kind: personal - Date: Oct 03, 2014
Score: .99
#2035 - Linking dendroecology and association genetics in natural populations: Stress responses archived in tree rings associate with SNP genotypes in silver fir ( Abies alba Mill.)
Heer K, Behringer D, Piermattei A, Bässler C, Brandl R, Fady B, Jehl H, Liepelt S, Lorch S, Piotti A, Vendramin G, Weller M, Ziegenhagen B, Büntgen U, Opgenoorth L
Kind: pub - Date: Apr 21, 2018
Score: .89
#32 - IBBR - Division of Florence
The main research focus is on forest tree species, in particular on their genetic, taxonomic, biological, ecological, population and evolutionary characteristics, with the aim of developing optimized strategies for the sustainable management of their genetic resources.
Kind: static - Date: Nov 15, 2013
Score: .89
#28 - IBBR - DIvision of Perugia
Initially, the research activity carried out by IBBR/PG concerned forage and legume crops breeding, including cytological and cytogenetic topics, while in the last decade it has been directed mainly on the utilization of plant biotechnology for both basic and applied research.
Kind: static - Date: Nov 15, 2013
Score: .81
#410 - Fulvio Pupilli(personal page)
Actual Research sectors Analysis of plant reproductive system through molecular approaches. Actually Dr.Pupilli is studying apomixis, that is a clonal plant reproduction by seeds. The overall objective of the research is the isolation of the genetic determinants of apomixis in a wild apomictic species Paspalum simplex with the perspective to develop an apomixis system for crops. Main achievements are: i) characterization and mapping of the apomixis locus, ii) establishing synteny relationships with rice genome, iii) isolation of candidate genes through partial sequencing of apomixis-linked BAC and comparative transcriptomic analysis. Recent Scientific Activities. A) Induction of new variability by somatic hybridization B) Molecular markers of the analysis of natural and inducted genetic A) During the first phase of his career Dr. Pupilli obtained and characterized several somatic hybrid plants combining the genome of alfalfa with those of M.coerulea (S+C), M.arborea (S+A) and M.falcata (S+F). B) After a stage at the MPI of Cologne, Dr. Pupilli used molecular markers to study the genome composition of somatic hybrids and the genetic variability in forage and turf plant populations. Page in preparation)
Kind: personal - Date: Oct 21, 2014
Score: .76
#2672 - Alessandra Ruggiero(personal page)
Principali competenze: Manipolazione di DNA ed RNA: Tecniche del DNA ricombinante, clonaggi; purificazione di DNA ed RNA (da cellule e tessuti, animali e vegetali); PCR, RT-PCR, qPCR; Mutagenesi sito specifica, Sequenziamento ed analisi di sequenze di DNA ed RNA; Clonaggio molecolare da lieviti, roditori, batteri e piante; Trasformazione genetica stabile e transiente di specie vegetali; Southern e northern blotting; • Espressione, purificazione ed analisi di proteine: Sistemi di espressione proteica in lievito, batteri, piante (piante intere e colture cellulari), Yeast 2-hybrid assay, elettroforesi di proteine e Western blotting; • Approcci di Forward Genetics: Generazione di mutanti TDNA ed EMS; Screening di fenotipi mutanti; Isolamento di mutazioni attraverso TAIL PCR; Complementazione di mutanti; Trasformazione di pianta mediate da Agrobacterium; • Approcci di Reverse Genetics: Analisi In silico di espressione genica e proteica, knockdown mediante RNAi; • Colture in vitro: Esperienza in colture cellulari (animali e vegetali); trasfezione di linee cellulari; tecniche di immunoistochimica e immunocitochimica; Tecniche di lavoro e propagazione in ambiente sterile. • Colture in vivo: Allevamento di specie vegetali in pieno campo ed in serra, in condizioni controllo ed in condizioni di stress idrico e/o salino; • Tecniche di fisiologia vegetale: Misurazioni fisiologiche di stress ossidativo e deficit idrico; Misurazione parametri biochimici (valutazione ABA e prolina) su tessuti differenti in diverse specie vegetali. Esperienza nell’uso di strumenti per la fluorescenza e fotosintesi, porometri. • Studi in vivo con animali di piccola taglia: Gestione delle colonie di topi (accoppiamenti e svezzamenti anche di transgenici); Genotipizzazione, dissezione e analisi di tessuti. In ambito informatico: Ottima conoscenza dei sistemi operativi Microsoft Windows e MacOsX; del pacchetto completo Microsoft Office; dei programmi di visualizzazione grafica (Adobe PhotoShop). Ottima capacità di utilizzo di motori di ricerca (PubMed, Medline) della rete internet e di banche dati (PDB, sequenze genomiche). In ambito bioinformatico: Analisi avanzata di sequenze di DNA e di proteine mediante l’uso di pacchetti software disponibili in rete (Blast, Prosite, pFAM e altri) e nell’utilizzo di banche dati di interesse biologico. Buona conoscenza delle tecnologie genomiche avanzate e bioinformatiche applicate al miglioramento genetico di specie vegetali, in particolare per l’assemblaggio delle sequenze; mappaggio delle reads lungo un genoma di riferimento; annotazione di sequenze genomiche; consultazione ed utilizzo di sequenze genomiche annotate; analisi di dati RNA-Seq di campioni di RNA vegetale: assemblaggio ed annotazione de novo di trascrittomi e digital gene expression profiling utilizzando i principali software disponibili in rete.
Kind: personal - Date: May 01, 2020
