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Taha Hosni
Position
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Researcher |
Current site of work |
Fondazione Edmund Mach |
Street, number |
via Mach, 1 |
City |
S. Michele all'Adige TN |
Postal code |
38010 |
Country |
Italy |
E-mail |
taha.hosni@iasma.it |
Phone |
+39 0461 615511 |
Mobile phone |
+39 3896970909 |
Degree, Msc, or PhD; when; where; on what subject; title of the thesis |
PhD, 2010; University of Perugia, Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Ambientali, Sez.: Arboricoltura e Protezione delle Piante; "Interactions between Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi, the causal agent of olive knot, and the endophytic microflora associated with the knot". MSc in Integrated Pest Management, Engineer Degree in Plant Protection. |
Expertise |
Plant pathology, microbial ecology, plant-microbe interaction. |
Professional societies |
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Research experience, training, professional stages |
March – August 2009: Research fellow in intercellular communication (quorum sensing) in the olive knot bacterial community, at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Italy.
January - December 2007; April - September 2008; August - November 2009: Plant pathologist, field survey and laboratory diagnosis for Plant quarantine virus and virus-like diseases, at the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute, Bari, Italy.
October05– November06: Research assistant in biochemistry and molecular genetics of host range determinants in Pseudomonas syringae pv. Lachrymans at the Department of Plant Pathology, Agronomic and Veterinary Institute Hassan II, Agadir, Morocco. |
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Current research area |
Plant-microbe interactions, biological control. |
Publication List (last five years):
Moretti C, Ferrante P, Hosni T, Valentini F, D’Onghia A, Fatmi M, Buonaurio R 2008. Characterization of pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi strains collected in different countries from olive trees. Pseudomonas syringae Pathovars and Related Pathogens-Identification, Epidemiology and Genomics. Eds. Fatmi M’Barek, Springer, 321-329.
Fatmi M, Bougsiba M, Hosni T 2008. Angular leaf spot of cucurbits: A bacterial disease in expansion in Morocco. Pseudomonas syringae Pathovars and Related Pathogens-Pathogenesis, Taxonomy and New Emerging Pathogens. Eds. Fatmi M’Barek, Springer, 381-390.
Ahmad AA, Moretti C, Valentini F, Hosni T, Farag NS, Galal AA, Buonaurio R 2009. Olive knot caused by pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi in Egypt. Journal of Plant Pathology 91 (1): 231-240.
Moretti C, Valentini F, Ahmad AA, Hosni T, Alabdalla N, Farag NS, Galal AA, Fatmi M, Abu-Ghora M, and Buonaurio R 2009. Genetic variability of Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi. 10th Arab Congress of Plant Protection- Beirut 26-30 October, 2009, Beirut, Lebanon (Book of Abstract).
Hosni T, Devescovi G,Venturi V 2009. Olive-knot disease; bacterial inter-species community and communication. XIV ICGEB Annual Symposium.
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