Alberto Santini Email and Phone Number

- Invasive forest fungal pathogens, diffusion, distribution and features of invasiveness and invasibility.- Early detection of invasive forest pathogens• Conservation of genetic resources of endangered species, mainly focussed on elm. Studies on adaptative characters connected with resistance to pathogens. Genetic studies on trees marginal endangered populations. • Host-pathogen-environment interaction. Genetic variability of disease resistance, Mechanisms of resistance to pathogens, mechanisms of disease escape, pathogen population genetics by physio-morphological and molecular markers.• Breeding for resistance to pathogens. Selection of trees resistant to pathogens by controlled crossing and artificial inoculations. Adaptative trials.• Genetics of pathogens populations.