Senior Researcher Agronomist
CurrentDr. Angelo Petrozza is an Agronomist responsible for the Agronomic Unit in Metapontum Agrobios. He has carried out research activities on several projects concerning nutrition and the defense of different crops. In the ItaLyco Project he coordinated the preparation of an M3 tomato populations from TILLING (www.agrobios.it/tilling). Furthermore he is responsible for the development of new tomato genotypes, their management and new cultivation techniques for the ItaLyco project.He has worked as the Director of Study to assess the effectiveness of new phytosanitary products for the Italian Ministry of Agriculture (Mi.P.A.F).Currently he is involved with the high throughput analysis of plant phenotypes by image analysis. Current work involves the evaluation of phenotypic responses of plants to abiotic stresses and new nutritional formulae. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPsxHxtOjg0).