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Francesco Saccardo
Full professor |
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Courses taught |
Introduction to vegetable crops
Vegetable crops
Floriculture
Hydroponics for vegetable and flower crop production
Horticulture under greenhouse condition
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Contact details |
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Telephone: +39-0761-357 fax : +39-0761-357531 e-mail : saccardo@unitus.it |
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C.V.:
University Degree in Agricultural Sciences at Piacenza University (Italy). June 1961. Experimental graduation dissertation.
From 1963 to 1985 researcher on crop breeding at C.R.E. Casaccia ENEA, Roma (Italy).
From 1986 to 1991, full professor on plant breeding at University "Federico II" of Napoli (Italy).
From 1992 to present, full professor at the Department of Crop Production of the University of Viterbo (Italy).
From 1995 to 1997, president of Scientific Council of C.S. Vegetable Crop Breeding, C.N.R., Portici (Italy).
From 1995 to present, coordinator of Ph-D program on "Ortoflorofrutticoltura" at the Department of Crop Production of the University of Viterbo (Italy).
From 1998 to present, director of the Department of Crop Production of the University of Viterbo (Italy).
Member of the Italian Society of Horticulture (SOI), Italian Society of plant breeding (SIGA), Italian Association of Plant Protection (AIPP).
Research interests
Main publications
Crinò P, Lai A, Di Bonito R, Saccardo F., 1990. Tomato mutants induced by in vitro cultured cotyledons. Acta Horticulturae vol. 280: 435-438
Crinò P, Lai A, Di Bonito R, Saccardo F., 1994. Genetic variability in tomato plants regenerated from irradiated cotyledons. J. Genet. & Breed. 48: 253-261
Crinò P, Veronese P, Stamigna C, Chiaretti D, Lai A, Bitti ME, Saccardo F., 1995. Breeding for resistance to bacterial canker in Italian tomatoes adapted to fresh market. Acta Horticulturae 412: 539-545.
Di Vito M., Saccardo F, Zema V, Errico A, Zaccheo G., 1993. Genetics of resistance to root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne ssp.) in Capsicum chacoense, C. chinense and C. frutescens. J. Genet. & Breed., 47: 23-26.
Ficcadenti N, Veronese P, Sestili S, Crinò P, Lucretti S, Schiavi M., Saccardo F., 1995. Induction of muskmelon haploids in Italy. J. Genetics & Breeding 49: 355-360.
Mohan Jain S, Vitti D, Tucci M, Grassotti A, Rugini E, Saccardo F., 1998 Biotechnology and mutagenesis in Gerbera improvement. Adv. Hort. Sci. 12: 47-53.
Mosconi C, Crinò P, Saccardo F, Singh KB., 1996. Effect of culture filtrate of Ascochyta rabiei on chickpea genotypes. Petria 6 (2): 137-148.
Ocampo B, Venora G, Errico A, Singh KB, Saccardo F., 1992. Karyotype analysis in the genus Cicer. J. Genet. & Breed., 46: 229-240.
Saccardo F, Crinò P, Mosconi C, Coduti C, Porta-Puglia A, Infantino A, Venora G, Gallo G, Ocampo B, Singh KB., 1996. Sviluppo di germoplasma di cece resistente a stress nell'ambito di una collaborazione ICARDA-Istituti Italiani di ricerca. Agricoltura e Ricerca 161: 77-82.
Saccardo F, Errico A, Crinò P, Ocampo B, Venora G., 1993. Mutagenesis and chromosome manipulation for stress resistance in cool-season legumes. In: Breeding for Stress Tolerance in Cool-Season Legumes, K.B. Singh, M.C. Saxena (eds.), 1993 ICARDA, John Wiley & Sons-Sayce, Chichester, UK, pp. 343-358
Saccardo F, Marte M., 1993. Tobamovirus/pomodoro, peperone. In: Miglioramento genetico delle piante per resistenza a patogeni e parassiti. Crinò P, Sonnino A, Saccardo F, Buiatti M, Porta-Puglia A, Surico G. (curatori), EDAGRICOLE, Edizioni Agricole, Bologna, pp. 477-482.
Saccardo F, Rossi V, Zoina A, Ceoloni C, Crinò P, Falavigna A., 1995. Miglioramento genetico di specie di interesse agrario per resistenza a patogeni mediante ibridazione interspecifica e/o selezione in vitro. Agricoltura e Ricerca 158: 103-112.
Saccardo F., 1993. Metodi di miglioramento genetico per resistenza a stress biotici. In: Miglioramento genetico delle piante per resistenza a patogeni e parassiti. Crinò P., Sonnino A., Saccardo F., Buiatti M., Porta-Puglia A., Surico G. (curatori), EDAGRICOLE, Edizioni Agricole, Bologna, pp. 135-157.
Santangelo E, Mosconi C, Crinò P, Soressi GP, Saccardo F., 1997. In vitro culture methods for genetic manipulation of chickpea. In: New Perspectives for an Ancient Species: the Chickpea in the Economy and Diet of Mediterranean Peoples", Proceed. of the Conference, University 'La Sapienza', 5 December 1995, Rome, Italy. INTAGRES and ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria, pp. 73-83.
Tucci M, Leone A, Coduti C, Saccardo F., 1995. Evaluation and breeding of chickpea for cold tolerance. In: New Perspectives for an Ancient Species: the Chickpea in the Economy and Diet of Mediterranean Peoples", Proceed. of the Conference, University 'La Sapienza', 5 December 1995, Rome, Italy. INTAGRES and ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria, pp. 73-83.
Veronese P, Tucci M, Crinò P, Hasegawa MP, Bressan R, Saccardo F., 1997. Over-expression of multiple genes encoding pathogenesis related proteins in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum). Atti XLI Convegno Annuale SIGA, Abbadia di Fiastra, Tolentino (MC) 24-27 settembre 1997. Abst. nr. 142.
Conicella C, Errico A, Frusciante L, Saccardo F, Monti L.M., 1998. Peas. In: Italian contribution to plant genetics and breeding, G.T. Scarascia Mugnozza e M.A. Pagnotta (Eds.). Tipolitografia Quatrini A. & F. snc – Viterbo, Italia. pp. 407-414.
Saccardo F, Crinò P., 1998. Chickpea. In: Italian contribution to plant genetics and breeding, G.T. Scarascia Mugnozza e M.A. Pagnotta (Eds.) Tipolitografia Quatrini A. & F. snc – Viterbo, Italia 415-424.
Colla G, Temperini O, Tucci M, Saccardo F., 1998. Caratterizzazione morfo-istologica di un mutante maschiosterile di finocchio (Foeniculum vulgare var. Azoricum). Italus Hortus (5)4: 9-13
Veronese P., Crinò P., Tucci M., Colucci F., Yun D.J., Hasegawa M.P., Bressan R.A., Saccardo F., 1999. Pathogenesis-related proteins for the control of fungal diseases of tomato. In: Genetics and Breeding for Crop Quality and Resistance. G.T. Scarascia Mugnozza, E. Porceddu & M.A. Pagnotta (eds.) pag. 15-24. Klwer Academic Publishers.
Colla G., Casa R., Lo Cascio B, Saccardo F, Leoni C.,Temperini O.,1999. Responses of processing tomato to water regime and fertilization in central Italy. Acta Hort 487, ISHS, pag. 531-535.
Colla G, JP Mitchell, DD Poudel e Saccardo F, 2000. Impacts of farming systems and soil characteristics on processing tomato fruit quality. VII Symposium on the processing tomato (ISHS), p. 36, June 10-13, 2000 Sacramento (CA) USA
Saccardo F., Colla G., Temperini O., Graifenberg A., 2000. Impact of conventional and low input farming systems on productive traits of globe artichoke. IV International Congress on Artichoke (ISHS) Bari, 17-21 october 2000.
Stamigna C, Pandozy G, Ancora G, Temperini O, Crinò P, Saccardo F. (2000) In vitro mutagenesis of globe artichoke IV International Congress on Artichoke (ISHS) Bari, 17-21 october 2000.
Temperini O, Colla G, Saccardo F, 2000. Artichoke: a new in vivo agamic propagation tecnique IV International Congress on Artichoke (ISHS) Bari, 17-21 october 2000.
Last updated 27/02/01