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Roberto Paolini

Associate professor

Courses taught

Weed Control I

Weed Control II

Weed Control III (with complements of protected crops)


Contact details 
Telephone : +39-0761-357561
fax :   +39-0761-357558
e-mail : rpaolini@unitus.it

 

C.V.:

  • 1978: honour degree al the Faculty of Agricultural Sceinces of Pisa University in 1978.

  • 1978-85: various fellowships. Participation to various research projects handled by the Istituto di Agronomia Generale e Coltivazioni Erbacee of Pisa University, mainly in the field of oil crops husbandry.

  • 1985-2000: lecturer and afterwards associate professor of Range Science (from 1987) and Weed Control (from 1995) at Tuscai University. Research and coordination responsibility in various MURST, MIPAF, CNR (national and international) research projects, mainly aimed to study the management of intercrop/intercrop or crop/weed competitive effects, and consequent possibilities of reducing agrochemical inputs to cropping systems.

  • 1987: 12 months research stage at the Department of Agricultural Botany of Reading University (UK) to learn the methodology of study of competitive interactions among herbage plants.

  • Member of the Italian Society of Agronomy (SIA), of the Italian Weed Research Society (SIRFI), and of the European Weed Research Society (EWRS).

  • Secretary of the Council of Degree Course in Scienze e Tecnologie Agrarie and account auditor of the SIRFI.

Research interests

  • Crop/weeds competitive interactions: quantitative determination and study metodology of competition effects

  • Factors enhancing crop competitive ability against weeds

  • Chemical integrated and non-chemical weed control, with particular emphasis to the application of cultural means (crop husbandry choices which can enhance crop competitive ability)

  • Organic farming, with particular emphasis to weed control.

Main publications

  • Caporali F., Paolini R. e Campiglia E., 1987. La consociazione fra piante erbacee. Nota I. Basi biologiche e vantaggi produttivi. Rivista di Agronomia 21, 3 - 17.

  • Paolini R., Caporali F. e Campiglia E., 1988. La consociazione fra piante erbacee. Nota II. Modificazioni dell'ambiente colturale. Rivista di Agronomia 22, 243-258.

  • Caporali F., Paolini R. e Campiglia E., 1989. Importanza della complementarità ecologica per il successo dei sistemi di consociazione. Rivista di Agronomia 23, 447- 452.

  • Paolini R., 1991. Determinazione dell'effetto competitivo fra piante erbacee. 1. Aspetti metodologici. Rivista di Agronomia 25, 473-480.

  • Paolini R., Caporali F. e Campiglia E., 1991. Suitability of intercropping sunflower and chickpea in a mediterranean environment. Agricoltura Mediterranea 121, 297-304.

  • Paolini R., 1992. Determinazione dell'effetto competitivo fra piante erbacee. 2. Importanza applicativa. Rivista di Agronomia 26, 12-18.

  • Paolini R., Caporali F. and Campiglia E., 1993. Yield response, complementarity and competitive ability of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and pea (Pisum sativum L.) in mixture. Agricoltura Mediterranea 123, 114-121.

  • Tofinga M.P., Paolini R. and Snaydon R.W., 1993. A study of root and shoot interactions between cereals and peas in mixtures. Journal of Agricultural Science 120, 13-24.

  • Paolini R., 1996. Agronomic choices as a way to lower weed competitive ability. Perspectives for integrated weed control. In Proceedings Xéme Colloque International sur la Biologie des Mauvaises Herbes, ANPP, INRA, EWRS, Dijon, France, settembre 1996, 99-105.

  • Caporali F., Campiglia E., Paolini R. e Mancinelli R., 1998. The effect of crop species, nitrogen fertilization and weeds on cereal/pea intercropping. Italian Journal of Agronomy 2, 1-9.

  • Paolini R., Del Puglia S., Principi M., Barcellona O. e Riccardi E., 1998. Competition between safflower and weeds as influenced by crop genotype and sowing time. Weed Research 38, 247-255.

  • Paolini R., Principi M., Froud-Williams R.J., Del Puglia S. e Biancardi E., 1999. Competition between sugarbeet and Sinapis arvensis and Chenopodium album as affected by timing of nitrogen fertilisation. Weed Research 39, 425-440.

  • Paolini R., 2000. L'evoluzione del diserbo: il contributo delle pratiche agronomiche. In Atti XII Convegno SIRFI su "Il Controllo della flora infestante: un esempio di ottimizzazione a vantaggio dell'ambiente e della produzione", Milano, 5-6 Dicembre 2000, 19-54.

Last updated  14/03/01