Istituto per la Protezione delle Piante
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The Istituto per la Protezione delle Piante (IPP), or 'Institute of Plant Protection', is part of the Food Department of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
(CNR; "Italian National Research Council"), an Italian
government organization with the aim of supporting scientific and technological research
. IPP has four bases in Italy: Turin
, Florence
, Portici
, and Bari
.
The mission of IPP is the study of stress factors in plants, to identify resistance mechanisms and methods of defence against biotic and abiotic stress protection in order to improve the quality and quantity of agricultural food production in a sustainable and environmentally friendly manner. The activities of IPP are divided into five orders:
The IPP station in Florence is renowned for raising elm
cultivars resistant to Dutch elm disease
, several of which are now in commerce in western Europe.
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
The Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche or National Research Council, is an Italian public organization set up to support scientific and technological research. Its headquarters are in Rome.-History:The institution was founded in 1923...
(CNR; "Italian National Research Council"), an Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
government organization with the aim of supporting scientific and technological research
Research
Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...
. IPP has four bases in Italy: Turin
Turin
Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
, Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
, Portici
Portici
Portici is a town and comune of the Province of Naples in the Campania region of southern Italy. It is the site of the Portici Royal Palace.-Geography:...
, and Bari
Bari
Bari is the capital city of the province of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, in Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy after Naples, and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas...
.
The mission of IPP is the study of stress factors in plants, to identify resistance mechanisms and methods of defence against biotic and abiotic stress protection in order to improve the quality and quantity of agricultural food production in a sustainable and environmentally friendly manner. The activities of IPP are divided into five orders:
- Biodiversity of hosts, pathogens, vectors, pests and symbiotic fungi in the rhizosphere.
- Host-organism-environment interaction: biology, epidemiology and functional genomics.
- Research and development of innovative strategies to fight for protection of plants.
- Economic impact and environmental stress factors on plants and ecosystems agroforestry production.
- Structure and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems.
The IPP station in Florence is renowned for raising elm
Elm
Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus in the plant family Ulmaceae. The dozens of species are found in temperate and tropical-montane regions of North America and Eurasia, ranging southward into Indonesia. Elms are components of many kinds of natural forests...
cultivars resistant to Dutch elm disease
Dutch elm disease
Dutch elm disease is a disease caused by a member of the sac fungi category, affecting elm trees which is spread by the elm bark beetle. Although believed to be originally native to Asia, the disease has been accidentally introduced into America and Europe, where it has devastated native...
, several of which are now in commerce in western Europe.
External links
- http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.ipp.cnr.it/&ei=ICP1S5-sO5j8sQbjj42nBg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CA0Q7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Distituto%2Bper%2Bla%2Bprotezione%2Bdelle%2Bpiante%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG, homepage of the IPP website.
- www.cnr.it, homepage of the CNR website.