Researcher
Phd in Science and Technology of agri-food productions
email: maria.riccardi[at]isafom.cnr.it;maria.riccardi[at]cnr.it
Phone: +39 06.4993 (int 27522)
skype: qupric
Laboratory activities:
- Specific skills in chemical analysis of water, soil and plant material
- Use of ICP-AES atomic emission spectrometer for water and plant material analysis
- Scientific and technical support to students and scholarship holders
Field activities:
- irrigation management and water restitution calculation
- determination of the vegetative development parameters (LAI, fresh and dry weights of the different parts of the plant) and of the main phenological phases
- production measurements (yield, 1000 seeds weight)
- physiological measurements (leaf and osmotic potentials, relative leaf water content, stomatal conductance, transpiration, chlorophyll content, ABA and proline determination)
Research activities:
Research activity focused on the response of crops grown in the open field to water and salt stress, with particular attention to protein crops such as quinoa, amaranth, grain legumes, herbaceous and arboreal crops such as: industrial tomato, stevia rebaudiana, spelled, rye, white mustard, melon and olive. This research activity was addressed to the study of:
- efficient use of water for sustainable agriculture
- water relations of the plant (leaf and osmotic potential, stomatal conductance, leaf water content)
- growth analysis through the determination of LA, SLA, NAR, RGR ratio
- use of salt water for irrigation purposes
- ionic content of different parts of the plant to identify the mechanisms that it can activate to adapt or to resist to stress conditions
- changes of the chemical-physical characteristics of the soil
- changes in the concentration of salts in groundwater
- comparison of cultivars and/or genotypes to evaluate the most promising ones in relation to environmental conditions
- study of new crops such as quinoa and amaranth interesting from a food point of view, (they have an added nutritional value, rich in essential amino acids) and suitable for feeding subjects with particular pathologies (celiac disease), and from an agronomic point of view, they are resistant to abiotic stress (water and salt)
- study of the response of different olive cultivars to water availability in order to assess the adaptability to the future climate changes
The research activity reported is documented by 110 research products (16 are published in ISI journals) and can be consulted at the following link https://intranet.cnr.it/servizi/people/persona/persone/
Research support activities
- organization of meetings and conferences:
- sole Manager of the proceeding for purchases below the threshold
- collaboration in project reporting