MONTANARO Giuseppe
University of Basilicata, Italy
- Giuseppe Montanaro is Associate Professor at the University of Basilicata, Italy. He holds a PhD in Crop Systems, Forestry and Environmental Sciences from the University of Basilicata.
- His expertise covers plant-environment interactions, including remedial techniques that increase ecosystem services via improving the structure and function of soil. He focused carbon budget calculation embracing C fluxes such as Rs NEP, NPP, GPP and the NECB framework to account anthropogenic lateral transport of carbon.
- His research also focuses on fruit quality, water relations, soil fertility remediation and photosystem II efficiency. Giuseppe is actively pursuing easy-to-use techniques at the orchard scale and new technologies to boost the accumulation of carbon in soil.
- He studied the external (e.g. light, VPD, wind) and internal (e.g. secondary metabolites, xylem hydraulic resistance) plant factors in determining water flow and accumulation of nutrients. He focused on plant water relations in fruit trees and grapevines under environmental constraints.
- He has approached plant phenotyping (e.g., RGB, NIR, 3D_RGB) to study response to the environment (e.g., drought, salinity). He also focused on the image-based phenotyping of some fruit quality traits as combined with artificial intelligence data analytics.
Recent publications:
- Montanaro et al., Management options influence seasonal CO2 soil emissions in Mediterranean olive ecosystems. European Journal of Agronomy, 2023, Vol. 146, 126815.
- Montanaro et al. A synthetic cytokinin primes photosynthetic and growth response in grapevine under ion-independent salinity stress. Journal of Plant Interactions, 2022; 17(1): 789-800.
- Petit G, et al, Susceptibility to Xylella fastidiosa and functional xylem anatomy in Olea europaea: revisiting a tale of plant-pathogen interaction. AoB Plants. 2021 May 21;13(4):plab027.
- Montanaro et al. Carbon Fluxes in Sustainable Tree Crops: Field, Ecosystem and Global Dimension. Sustainability 2021; 13(16): 8750.
- Montanaro G, et al. Carbon budget in a Mediterranean peach orchard under different management practices. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 2017; 238: 104-113.