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Scientific Article

WP1 City plant systems as an open lab to evaluate urban quality and stress conditions

 

• Fusaro L., Salvatori E., Mereu S., Silli V., Bernardini A., Tinelli A., Manes F.,  (in press). Researches in Castelporziano test site: ecophysiological studies on Mediterranean vegetation in a changing environment.
• Luvisi A., Lorenzini G., 2014. RFID-plants in the smart city: Applications and outlook for urban green management. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 13: 630-637.
• Manes F., Silli V., Salvatori E., Incerti G., Galante G., Fusaro L., Perrino C., 2014. Urban Ecosystem Services: tree diversity and stability of PM10 removal in the Metropolitan Area of Rome. Annali di Botanica 4: 19-26.
• Lorenzini G., Nali C., 2014. A challenging job: Plant pathology in the urban environment. Agrochimica, Vol. 58: 206-221.
• Pellegrini E., Bertuzzi S., Candotto Carniel F., Lorenzini G., Nali C., Tretiach M., 2014. Ozone tolerance in lichens: a possible explanation from biochemical to physiological level using Flavoparmelia caperata as test organism. Plant Physiologist, 171: 1514-1523.
• Savi T., Bertuzzi S., Branca S., Tretiach M., Nardini A., 2014. Drought-induced xylem cavitation and hydraulic deterioration: risk factors for urban trees under climate change? New Phytologist. DOI: 10.1111/nph.13112.

 

WP2 Contribution of city plant ecosystems to quality of life

 

• Fares S., Savi F., Muller J., Matteucci G., Paoletti E., 2014. Simultaneous measurements of above and below the canopy ozone fluxes help partitioning ozone deposition between its various sinks in a Mediterranean Oak Forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 198-199: 181-191.

 

 

WP3 Combined stress induction in controlled environments to simulate a 2050 scenario

 

• Brunetti C., Ferrini F., Fini A., Tattini M., 2014. New evidence for the functional roles of volatile and non-volatile isoprenoids in stressed plants. Agrochimica, Vol. LVIII: 61-76.
• Fini A., Guidi L., Giordano C., Baratto M.C., Ferrini F., Brunetti C., Calamai L., Tattini M., 2014. Salinity stress constrains photosynthesis in Fraxinus ornus more when growing in partial shading than in full sunlight: consequences for the antioxidant defence system. Annals of Botany. DOI:10.1093/aob/mcu130.
• Fusaro L., Mereu S., Brunetti C., Di Ferdinando M., Ferrini F., Manes F., Salvatori E., Marzuoli R., Gerosa G., Tattini M., 2014. Photosynthetic performance and biochemical adjustments in two co-occurring Mediterranean evergreens, Quercus ilex and Arbutus unedo, differing in salt-exclusion ability. Functional Plant Biology, 41: 391-400.
• Lorenzini G., Nali C., Pellegrini E., 2014. Summer heat waves, agriculture, forestry and related issues: an introduction (Editorial). Agrochimica, Vol. LVIII – Special Issue: 3-19.
• Lorenzini G., Pellegrini E., Campanella A., Nali C., 2014. It’s not just the heat and the drought: the role of ozone air pollution in the 2012 heat wave. Agrochimica, Vol. LVIII – Special Issue: 40-52.
• Pellegrini E., 2014. PSII photochemistry is the primary target of oxidative stress imposed by ozone in Tilia americana. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 13: 94-102.
• Torre S., Tattini M., Brunetti C., Fineschi S., Fini A., Ferrini F., Sebastiani F., 2014. RNA-Seq Analysis of Quercus pubescens Leaves: De Novo Transcriptome Assembly, Annotation and Functional Markers Development. OLoS ONE 9(11): e112487. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112487.
• Tattini M., Loreto F., Fini A., Guidi L., Brunetti C., Velikova V., Gori A., Ferrini F. 2015. Isoprenoids and phenylpropanoids are part of the antioxidant defense orchestrated daily by drought-stressed Platanus × acerifolia plants during Mediterranean summers. New Phytologist. DOI: 10.1111/nph.13380.