ISCI
Research Institute for Industrial Crops
The Research Institute for Industrial Crops (ISCI) is part of the Agriculture Research Council (CRA), the research network of Italian Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
The research activity of the Institute is aimed to increase yield stability, quality, and processing potential of the main industrial crops, such as sugar beet, potato, tomato, rapeseed, sunflower, soybean but also hemp, flax, crambe, cruciferous biocidal plants and some leguminous species.
The main research areas are:
Yield quality and stability
Breeding for resistence to biotic and abiotic stress
Non-food crops
Agrometerology and agricultural modelling
Molecules with dietic effects
Biochemistry of myrosinase and glucoinolates
Processing and enzyme technologies
Molecular markers for the selection and analysis of genetic polymorphism
Dr. Sandro Palmieri is the Director of Staff at the Institute.
Contact Details:
ISCI
Via di Corticella, 133
40128 Bologna
Italy
Tel: ++390516316811
Fax: ++39051374857
Email: direzione@isci.it
Web: http://www.isci.it/
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