19.07.2024 International event: experts from around the world in Pisa to discuss recent advances on plant senescence, a complex, genetically programmed phenomenon that affects plant longevity, yield and crop quality in agricultural systems
12.07.2024 The Institute of Plant Production of the Sant'Anna School participates in the fifth EPI-CATCH conference of COST ACTION, in Bordeaux, to share new knowledge on epigenetic mechanisms that regulate crop response to climate change
02.07.2024 More sustainable Italian nurseries: new Australian and South African ornamental species identified for the Mediterranean market by professors at the Sant'Anna School Institute of Plant Production. More drought resistance and new added value
20.06.2024 Level I University Master's Degree "Italian Wines and World Markets": ended the classroom teaching of the 9th edition with more than 50 lecturers including academics & professionals, committed to train future experts in the viticulture-enology sector
06.06.2024 Fruit and vegetables: how to reduce fertilizer consumption without compromising vegetable quality during storage. Study by Antonio Ferrante, full professor at Sant'Anna School, being presented at the 5th conference on “Fresh-cut Produce”
04.06.2024 Institutional appointments: Pietro Tonutti, full professor of General Arboriculture and Tree Crops, has been elected director of the Institute of Crop Science of the Sant'Anna School; he will serve until June 3, 2027
24.04.2024 Mantua Food & Science Festival 2024, the nationally and internationally prominent science popularization event on the science of food production and consumption. The contribution of the Institute of Crop Science of the Sant'Anna School
14.12.2023 Awards: Livia Pappalettere, PhD student at Agrobiosciences, received a special mention for the Young Researcher Award at the Biostimulant World Congress in Milan for her study on the use of bacteria to improve olive rooting
01.12.2023 Innovative Organic Fertilisers: Sant'Anna School presents at the Biostimulant World Congress the research on the application of fungi that coexist with plants and can improve wheat productivity and the quality of processed products
30.11.2023 Climate change and crop production: microscopic fungus, isolated in the Thar Desert (India), improves tomato resistance to water stress. Possible strong impact on other crops as well
02.11.2023 Protection and valorisation of the regional heritage of local varieties: in the technical-scientific commissions appointed by the Region of Tuscany there are three professors from the Crop Science Research Center
30.10.2023 The Seasonal School WAT-CHANGE has concluded: students from around the world in Pisa for intensive course on combating climate change with nature-based solutions