Plant and Soil research
From Interactions to Feedback Mechanisms
Elisa Pellegrini PhD
Environmental Soil Functionality Group (ESF)
Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine (Italy)
https://plant-and-soil.com
https://plantsoil.it
My expertises
I work with plant-soil interactions in flooded systems. From root-soil relationships at the microscale, I move up to plant communities their dynamics along abiotic stress gradients. Currently, my interest focuses on salinity stress, the role of humic substances as biostimulants under abiotic stress and bacterial strains interacting with plant responses to saline soils.
Have a look
to the current research topics and get inspired for your thesis or internship. Some tentative titles for thesis's projects are provided within each research topic. Student ideas are
highly welcome!
Research in keywords
- Flooding
- Soil sulfides
- Soil anoxia
- Iron plaques
- Salinity
- Rhizosphere
- Wetland soils
- Organic matter
- Abiotic stresses
Working experiences in our lab and in connection to private companies
In collaboration with the University of Neuchâtel (CH)
The team of
Environmental Soil Functionality
DI4A Department, Udine University (IT)
more at ESF website (in Italian)
Our group works in the field of agricultural chemistry. The group is actively involved in monitoring soil functionality and development and, more recently, in testing the performance of soil biostimulants. Facilities at our section range from basic lab spaces and instruments up to advanced techniques like ICP-OES or -MS. The lab is one of the few in the world providing high-level standards of humic substances, which are marketed on a global scale.
Maria De Nobili
Ordinary professor
Team leader.
Expert in soil activity and humic substances
Marco Contin
Associate professor
Expert in metal toxicity, mercury and plant uptake
Aldo Bertoni
Tecnician
Working with soil chemistry and biochemistry
Andrea Cudini
Tecnician
Working with soil chemistry and biochemistry
Elisa Pellegrini
Post Doc
Working with plant-soil interactions in anoxic soils
Ali Khakbaz
Post Doc
Working with seawage sludges and humic acids
Sadat Mazhar
PhD student
Working with salinity effect on toxic metal mobility
Daniel Moro
PhD student
Working on iron plaque formation in saline soils
Paolo Bomben
MSc
Working with biostimulants (coordinated by SICIT Group)
Stefano Tomat
MSc
Working with Hg mobility in saline soils