College of Agriculture & Natural Resources Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences

Education

PhD., 2023, Science, Technologies and Biotechnologies for Sustainability, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy.

M.S., 2018, Biotechnology for Agriculture, Environment, and Health, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy.

Research Interests

Fungal pathogens affecting chestnut orchards in Michigan; detection, identification and management of nut rots. 

Publications

1. Bastianelli, G., Morales‐Rodriguez, C., Thomidis, T., & Vannini, A. (2024). Fungal community and toxigenic taxa in chestnut fruits in postharvest conditioning process and storage. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 104(14), 8953-8964.
2. Turco, S., Mazzaglia, A., Drais, M. I., Bastianelli, G., Gonthier, P., Vannini, A., & Morales-Rodríguez, C. (2023). Hybrid de novo genome assembly and comparative genomics of three different isolates of Gnomoniopsis castaneae. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 3356.
3. Bastianelli, G., Morales‐Rodriguez, C., Caccia, R., Turco S., Rossini L., Mazzaglia A., Thomidis T., & Vannini, A. (2022). Use of Phosphonate Salts to Control Chestnut ‘Brown Rot’ by Gnomoniopsis castaneae in Fruit Orchards of Castanea sativa. Agronomy, 12(10), 2434.
4. Morales‐Rodriguez, C., Bastianelli, G., Caccia, R., Bedini, G., Massantini, R., Moscetti, R., & Vannini, A. (2021). Impact of ‘brown rot’ caused by Gnomoniopsis castaneae on chestnut fruits during the post‐harvest process: critical phases and proposed solutions. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 102(2), 680-687.
5. Morales-Rodríguez, C., Bastianelli, G., Aleandri, M., Doğmuş-Lehtijärvi, H. T., Oskay, F., & Vannini, A. (2021). Revealing novel interactions between oak and Tubakia species: evidence of the efficacy of the sentinel arboreta strategy. Biological Invasions, 23(12), 3749-3765.
6. Turco, S., Bastianelli, G., Morales‐Rodrìguez, C., Vannini, A., & Mazzaglia, A. (2021). Development of a TaqMan qPCR assay for the detection and quantification of Gnomoniopsis castaneae in chestnut tissues. Forest Pathology, 51(4), 1-10.
7. Bedini, G., Chakravartula, S. S. N., Bastianelli, G., Caccia, R., Contarini, M., Morales-Rodríguez, C., Rossini L., Speranza S., Vannini A., Moscetti R. & Massantini, R. (2020). Feasibility of FT-NIR spectroscopy and Vis/NIR hyperspectral imaging for sorting unsound chestnuts. Italus Hortus, 27(1), 3-18.
8. Morales-Rodríguez, C., Bastianelli, G., Aleandri, M., Chilosi, G., & Vannini, A. (2018). Application of Trichoderma complex and biofumigation to control damping-off of Pinus radiata D. Don caused by Fusarium circinatum Nirenberg and O’Donnell. Forests, 9(7), 421.

Full list of publications on Google Scholar.

Awards

Erasmus scholarship, 2018. Biology Department CESAM, University of Aveiro (Portugal).

Erasmus scholarship, 2017. Campus La Yutera (Forestry Department), University of Valladolid (Spain).