National Research Council of Italy

Institute of Biosciences and BioResources

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Francesca Taranto

Role: Researcher
Section: Researchers and Technologists
Division: Bari
Tel: (39) 39-5583400
E-mail: francesca.taranto@ibbr.cnr.it
URL: https://ibbr.cnr.it//ibbr/info/people/francesca-taranto/?lang=it

Curriculum vitae

Education and Training

2009 Master’s Degree in Food and Vegetable Biotechnologies, University of Bari Aldo Moro, IT
2013 PhD in "Plant breeding and pathology of agricultural and forestry plants", Plant breeding Department, University
of Bari Aldo Moro, IT

- 2018-2019 Post doc position CREA-CI (Foggia)
- 2016-2017 Post doc position University of Bari “Aldo Moro” (Bari)
- 2014-2015 Post doc position CREA-OF (Pontecagnano Faiano)

Since 28/11/2019 she is a Researcher at National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources (CNR-IBBR), Bari (area: Biology, Biotechnology and BioResource - Scientific-disciplinary sector: AGR/07).

Scientific activities

Her research activity is focused on marker assisted breeding and genetics of olive, wheat, legumes and other cultivated trees (almond and grapevine). Genetics, molecular biology, genomics and bioinformatics are used to investigate population genetics, biodiversity and gene flow, and identify key genes involved in the expression of important agronomic traits.

She is author of 47 scientific papers on international journals with IF (number of documents: 47; total citations: 1.244; H index: 19; Scopus database queried on July 30th 2024) and of chapters in international books.

She is reviewer for several international scientific journals. Since January 2018 she is Review Editor in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, part of the journal(s) Frontiers in Genetics, Plant Science and Bioengineering and Biotechnology. Since July 2018 she is Review Editor for Plant Breeding, a specialty of Frontiers in Plant Science.

Since 2017 she is a member of the Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics.

Since 1/09/2020 she is Editor of the Special Issue "Genetics and Genomics of Olives" of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472).

AWARDS
2021 Awarded ““Premio UNASA 2021 Michele Stanca”, academic year 2021 UNASA, IT

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
2022 Supervisor of 1 PhD student at the DISSPA Department, UNIBA
2020-2022 Supervisor of 2 students at the Department of Agricultural Sciences - Division of plant genetics and
biotechnology, UNINA
2020 Supervisor of a Visiting Student from National Gene Bank, Tunisia
2018-2019 Supervisor of 1 student at the Faculty of Agriculture, UniFG
2013-2018 Supervisor of 4 students at the DISSPA Department, UNIBA
2014-2015 Supervisor of 1 student at the Faculty of Biology, UNISA


TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2021 International teaching activity for students during the WEB-Training course on
Advanced genotyping (DAFNE, Viterbo).
2019 International teaching activity for students in cooperation program between National Gene Bank of Tunisia and
DISSPA department of UNIBA. Course: "Classical and advanced genetic improvement strategies".
2011/2012 and 2016-2018 Supporting didactic activity for Bachelors, Masters and PhD courses: ‘Plant Biotechnology
and Plant Breeding’, ‘Biotechnology for genetics for vegetable food production’ at UNIBA.

NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC QUALIFICATION
In 2020 I obtained the national scientific qualification for the functions of second-level professor in the 07/E1
competition sector. https://asn18.cineca.it/pubblico/miur/esito/07%2FE1/2/5

Research projects

She is scientific responsible of:

- Bilateral agreement (2021-2022)- HCST/NCRD - The Higher Council for Science and Technology /National Centre for Research and Development. Title of project: Assessment of Genetic Diversity among Indigenous Populations of Ancient Olive (Olea europaea L.) Trees from Jordan.

- “Approcci integrati per il miglioramento genetico, la selezione e l’ottenimento di materiali vegetali resistenti a Xylella fastidiosa" - RIGENERA. (2023-2026).

- “Promoting a Plant Genetic Resource Community for Europe” - PRO-GRACE -, HORIZON-INFRA-2022-DEV-01-01, TOPIC: Research infrastructure concept development.

- PRIN 2022SFMSW3 dal titolo “LENTIGO: Fostering LENtil sustainable production in the Mediterranean area Through Integrated Global -Omics”. 10.10.2023 - 29.11.2025. Substitute Principal Investigator and associated investigators for CNR-IBBR.

- PRIN PNRR P20223EJXC dal titolo “ A gene expression atlas on the role of polyphenol oxidases in Triticum adaptation to environmental change (NEXTPLORA)”. 30.11.2023 - 29.11.2025 . Principal Investigator

Skills and Expertise

Plant breeding, Population genetics, Evolution, Biodiversity, Genetic resources conservation, Crop domestication, Genomics, Gene flow, Adaptation, Linkage mapping, Genome-wide association mapping.

Nucleic acid extraction and PCR; Office, Statistics (R), SNP data analysis and Association Mapping (Plink, Vcftools, GAPIT, SNP and Variation Suite, TASSEL), population genetics (STRUCTURE, Admixture, GenAlex, Arlequin, Mega, Darwin, Cervus, Bayescan, Pcadapt), Genetic Mapping (JoinMap, MapQTL), Plant functional annotation and classification (Mapman, Mercator 4.0), Gene families and genomic homology (Plaza).

47 Publications; 1.244 Citations; 19 h-index

ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7849-9038

Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=3634505210

 

Selected Publications

(full list available at CNR People)

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