Rovigo Branch
Section
Via Amendola, 82 45100 - Rovigo, Italy
phone: +39 0425 360113 - fax: +39 0425 34681
e-mail: isciro@tecna.it
Tasks
Research on sugar beet and
other industrial crops.
Research area
and specialization
- Sugar beet breeding and
agronomy
- Biomedical applications
of hemp products
- Immunological tools for
breeding and diagnosis
Main research
lines
- Sugar beet breeding
and agronomy
- Breeding of sugar beet genotypes with improved production traits
- Release of new variety and breeding lines
- Study of sugar beet root system under field condition
- Effects of cercospora leaf spot attack on sugar beet leaf apparatus
- Pre-breeding for stress related traits
- Collection and conservation of sugar beet germplasm
- Biodiversity and gene flow
- Deep nitrogen testing
- Rhizomania epidemiology
- Sugar beet virus detection
- Biomedical
applications of hemp products
- Germplasm collection of Cannabis sativa L.
- Development of hemp monoecious varieties
- Rapid screening tests for cannabinoids
- Breeding of specific Cannabis chemotypes for medical uses
- Purification methods to obtain Cannabis products for food and therapeutic
purposes
- Immunological
tools for breeding and diagnosis
- Monoclonal and polyclonal production
- Immunological techniques development and application
Staff
