Physiological and molecular study of mechanisms involved in iron and nitrogen nutrition in crops.

Supervisors: Prof. Roberto Pinton, Prof. Nicola Tomasi

Mineral nutrition has an essential role in crop production due to their crucial roles in numerous aspects of plant metabolism, growth and development. Their imbalance can affect plants in many ways such as impaired responses to biotic and abiotic stresses, altered crop yields and quality, for these reasons, it is important to study their responses to nutritional stresses.

Given these premises the PhD project can be divided in two research lines as follows:

 The first line of the project is focused on nitrogen, as it is involved in innumerable physiological processes in living organisms. Especially this line plans to examine nitrate acquisition dynamic in crops, held in different experimental conditions, and the putative beneficial effects of biostimulants on this process.  

 The second line is focused on the severe problem of Iron-induced deficiency chlorosis in grapevine, in particular when grown in lime-rich soil condition. The main aim of this research line is to evaluate the stress responses of different grapevine rootstocks and to advance our knowledge of iron deficiency response in grapevine.

Biography and Contacts

Arianna Lodovici was born in Bergamo, Italy on 01/03/1994. In 2017 she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Viticulture and Enology at the University of Milan (UniMi). In October 2019 she obtained her master’s degree in Viticulture, Enology and wine marketing with the specialization in research and development in viticulture with a final grade of 108/110 at the University of Udine.

Shortly after, in November 2019 she started the doctoral course at the PhD school of “Agriculture Science and Biotechnology” at the University of Udine.

Institutional e-mail:  lodovici.arianna@spes.uniud.it