People

Ilaria Pertot

Position	Scientific coordinator of the project
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	ilaria.pertot@iasma.it
Phone	+39 0461 615515
Mobile phone	+39 335 8359204
Degree, Msc, or PhD; when; where; on what subject; title of the thesis	PhD, 1993; University of Udine, Dipartimento di biologia applicata alla difesa delle piante, on plant protection; "Apple proliferation: diagnosis and epidemiology of a phytoplasma disease of apple"
Expertise	Plant pathology, viticulture and horticulture, plant-environment interaction, biocontrol
Professional societies	Convenor of IOBC WG "Integrated control of plant pathogens"; member of SIPaV and MPU
Research experience, training, professional stages	20-year experience in plant pathology: 1994-1998, Dipartimento di biologia applicata alla difesa delle piante, University of Udine, Italy, on projects on the epidemiology of BYDV (virus of cereals), on the advanced methods of diagnosis of plant pathogens and on the epidemiology and control of Botrytis cinerea on kiwifruit; from 1998, permanent position as Research Scientist at Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige and leads projects on biology, epidemiology and control of Plasmopara viticola and Armillaria mellea, biocontrol agents (BCAs) of plant pathogens, risk assessment of BCAs; from 2003 to 2007, deputy director of the SafeCrop Centre, responsible of the scientific secretariat; from 2004 to 2007, scientific coordinator of Risk assessment and molecular tools of SafeCrop. Currently coordinator of the program plant-environment interaction at the Fondazione Edmund Mach
Website	http://www.iasma.it/sperimentazione_context.jsp?ID_LINK=3281&area=6
Current research area	Biocontrol, BCA-risk monitoring, epidemiology of grapevine, apple and strawberry diseases, plant-pathogen interaction

Publication List (last five years):

Savazzini F, Longa CMO, Pertot I, Gessler C 2008. Real-time PCR for detection and quantification of the biocontrol agent Trichoderma atroviride strain SC1 in soil. Journal of Microbiological Methods 73: 185–194.

Pertot I, Gobbin d,De Luca F, Prodorutti D 2008. Methods of assessing the incidence of Armillaria root rot across viticultural areas and the pathogen’s genetic diversity and spatial–temporal pattern in northern Italy. Crop Protection 27: 1061–1070.

Kuflik T, Pertot I, Moskovitch R, Zasso R, Pellegrini E, Gessler C 2008. Optimization of Fire blight scouting with a decision support system based on infection risk. Computers and electronics in agriculture 62: 118–127.

Pertot I, Zasso R, Amsalem L, Baldessari M, Angeli G, Elad Y 2008. Integrating biocontrol agents in strawberry powdery mildew control strategies in high tunnel growing systems. Crop Protection. 27(3/5): 622-631.

Musetti R, Polizzotto R, Vecchione A, Borselli S, Zulini L, D'Ambrosio M, Di Toppi L-S, Pertot I 2007. Antifungal activity of diketopiperazines extracted from Alternaria alternata against Plasmopara viticola: an ultrastructural study. Micron, 38(6): 643-650.

Pertot I, Fiamingo F, Amsalem L, Maymon M, Freeman S, Gobbin D, Elad Y 2007. Sensitivity of two Podosphaera aphanis populations to disease control agents. Journal of Plant Pathology, 89(1): 85-96.

Musetti R, Vecchione A, Stringher L, Borselli S, Zulini L, Marzani C, D'Ambrosio M, Di Toppi LS, Pertot I 2006. Inhibition of sporulation and ultrastructural alterations of grapevine downy mildew by the endophytic fungus Alternaria alternata. Phytopathology, 96(7): 689-698.

Prodorutti D, Palmieri L, Gobbin D, Pertot I 2006. First report of Armillaria gallica on highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) in Italy. Plant-Pathology, 55(4): 583.

Amsalem L, Freeman S. Rav-David D, Nitzani Y, Sztejnberg A, Pertot I, Elad Y 2006 Effect of climatic factors on powdery mildew caused by Sphaerotheca macularis f. sp. fragariae on strawberry. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 114(3): 283-292.

Gobbin D, Jermini M, Loskill B, Pertot I, Raynal M, Gessler C 2005 Importance of secondary inoculum of Plasmopara viticola to epidemics of grapevine downy mildew. Plant-Pathology, 54(4): 522-534.

Valsesia G, Gobbin D, Patocchi A, Vecchione A, Pertot I, Gessler C 2005 Development of a high-throughput method for quantification of Plasmopara viticola DNA in grapevine leaves by means of quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction. Phytopathology, 95(6): 672-678.

Musetti R, Stringher L Borselli S, Vecchione A, Zulini L, Pertot I 2005 Ultrastructural analysis of Vitis vinifera leaf tissues showing atypical symptoms of Plasmopara viticola. Micron, 36(1): 73-80.

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