Vincenzo D’Amelia
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Vincenzo
D'Amelia
institute of biosciences and bioresources Research Nutrheff Thematic Biomolecular technologies (enzymatic, biochemical, molecular biology)
Research Interest and expertise in the field of nutraceuticals
and functional food
Keywords: anthocyanins, phenylpropanoids, biotechnology, food crops, orphans crops, genomic, gene editing, genetic transformations, potato, tomato, carotenoids
Nutraceuticals and foods of interest1. Exploitation of natural biodiversity by using genomic tools to enhance the production of bioactive compounds and crop quality traits. 2. Use of innovative biotechnological approaches for enhancing the production of bioactive compounds and peptides. Nutraceuticals: folates, anthocyanins, phenylpropanoids, carotenoids, tannins, ellagic acids Food of interest: potato, tomato, carrot Fields of application Biofortification of foods by means of innovative genomic and Biotechnology methods. Facilities and equipments Plant growth chamber, in vitro cell cultures equipments, transformation vectors, wide potato germoplasm, general metabolite extraction equipment and analyses (e.g. freeze dryer, spectrophotometer), microscopy. |
