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People
Gerardo Puopolo
Position
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Post Doc |
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 |
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Phone |
+39 0461 615 502 |
Mobile phone |
+39 338 6434052 |
Degree, Msc, or PhD; when; where; on what subject; title of the thesis |
PhD in Plant Pathology; 2006; University of Naples “Federico II”; Selection of new bacterial biocontrol agents and characterization of new factors that interact with the Quorum Sensing phenomenon in the biocontrol bacterium P. aureofaciens strain 30-84. “Regulation of phenazine biosynthesis in a fluorescent pseudomonad: P. aureofaciens 30-84” |
Expertise |
Microbiology, molecular biology, biological control and environmental microbiology |
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Research experience, training, professional stages |
April 2011-present: Post-doc in biological control and molecular plant-microbes interaction at Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige; advisor: Ilaria Pertot.
2007-2010: Post-doc at the Plant Pathology Division of University of Naples “Federico II”
2006: PhD in Plant Pathology at the University of Naples “Federico II”
May, 2004–October, 2005: Visiting scholar at the Microbiology Laboratory directed by Prof. Leland S. Pierson III at the Plant Pathology Division of University of Arizona, Tucson (AZ) USA. |
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Current research area |
Biological control of phytopathogenic fungi, Induced Systemic Resistance in plants |
Publication List (last five years):
Puopolo G., Raio A., Zoina A. (2007) Early detection of Agrobacterium tumefaciens in sympotmless artificially inoculated chrysanthemum and peach plants using PCR. Journal of Plant Pathology, 89(2):185-190 (0.974).
Raio A., Peluso R., Puopolo G., Zoina A. (2009) Evidence of pAgK84 transfer from Agrobacterium rhizogenes K84 to natural pathogenic Agrobacterium spp. in an Italian peach nursery. Plant Pathology 58: 745-753. (2.368)
Puopolo G., Raio A., Zoina A. (2010) Identification and characterization of Lysobacter capsici strain PG4: a new plant health promoting rhizobacterium. Journal of Plant Pathology 92 (1): 159-166
Bonanomi G., D’Ascoli R., Antignani V., Capodilupo M., Cozzolino L., Marzaioli R., Puopolo G., Rutigliano F.A., Scelza R., Scotti R., Rao M.A., Zoina A. (2011) Assessing soil quality under intensive cultivation and tree orchards in Southern Italy. Applied Soil Ecology 47:184–194
Puopolo, A. Raio, L.S. Pierson III and A. Zoina (2011) Selection of a new Pseudomonas chlororaphis strain for the biological control of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. radicis-lycopersici. Phytopathologia Mediterranea 50 (3)
Raio, G. Puopolo, A. Cimmino, R. Danti, G. Della Rocca; A. Evidente (2011) Biocontrol of cypress canker by the phenazine producer Pseudomonas chlororaphis subsp. aureofaciens strain M71. Biological Control x:xxx-xxx
G. Puopolo, M. Masi, A. Raio, A. Andolfi, A. Zoina, A. Motta, A. Evidente (2011) Phenazines, Antimicrobial Phenazanthracenes Produced by Pseudomonas chlororaphis subsp. aureofaciens strain M71: a Structure-Activity Relationships Study. Journal of Chemical Ecology (submitted).
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