The research activities are focused on the following subject species:

Species

• Tomato
• Wheat
• Arabidopsis
• Soybean

Growth conditions and stresses

• drought resistance
• germplasm characterization
• nutrients deprivation

Plant organs

• Shoots
• Whole plant
• Spikes (wheat)

Some examples of the phenotyping studies already performed and aimed to:

• Investigate how the interaction with beneficial soil microorganisms (i.e. Trichoderma spp.) influences plant growth, architecture and morphology at the shoot and root level.
• Measure photosynthetic performance under control and stress conditions ( Species: Solanum lycopersicum L.).
• Quantify differences in physiological performances under drought and salt stress conditions of mutants and traditional landraces. (Species:Solanum lycopersicum L.).
• Evaluate growth, geometry profile and physiological status of mutants for epigenetic regulators during development. (Species:Solanum lycopersicum L.).
• Phenotype screening by image analysis of a mutant tomato compared with the isogenic line (Species:Solanum lycopersicum L.).
• Characterization of wheat genotypes in the Single seed descent (SSD) collection subjected to water stress, with high-yield methods (Species: Triticum durum Desf.).