WANT A PROFILE LIKE THIS?
Create my FREE Plan Or learn about other options
Paolo Costantino
500 Points

Contributions by role

Editor 500

Contributions by subject area

Biodiversity
Genetics
Plant Science
Forestry
Agricultural Science
Molecular Biology
Bioinformatics
Biotechnology

Paolo Costantino


Summary

Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biology, University La Sapienza, Rome; member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization); fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei; founder and past president of the National University Consortium for Plant Molecular Biology); Member of the Board of EPSO (European Plant Science Organization); Vice President and Member of the Board of the Pasteur Institute in Rome; Italian Delegate in the Programme Committee for Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology in the EU Framework Programme 7.

Current research interests are the genetics and molecular biology of plant development (root, reproductive organs, seed germination, proline signaling, signalosome, anatomical variation); plant genomics; plant biotechnology (phytoremediation); nutrigenomics; plant oncogenes.

Cell Biology Developmental Biology Genetics Genomics Molecular Biology Plant Science

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Roma "La Sapienza"

Work details

Professor Emeritus

University of Roma "La Sapienza"
November 1986
Biologia e Biotecnologie
As Professor Emeritus I continue the collaboration with the associate and assistant professors that were part of my research group on plant development

Member of the Research Committee

Accademia dei Lincei
October 2007
Section 5: Biology
Science policies and planning; prize and fellowship awarding

Websites

  • Google Scholar

PeerJ Contributions

  • Edited 4

Academic Editor on

June 3, 2021
iTRAQ-based quantitative proteomic analysis of heat stress-induced mechanisms in pepper seedlings
Jing Wang, Chengliang Liang, Sha Yang, Jingshuang Song, Xuefeng Li, Xiongze Dai, Fei Wang, Niran Juntawong, Fangjun Tan, Xilu Zhang, Chunhai Jiao, Xuexiao Zou, Wenchao Chen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11509 PubMed 34141478
April 27, 2021
Methyl jasmonate enhances ursolic, oleanolic and rosmarinic acid production and sucrose induced biomass accumulation, in hairy roots of Lepechinia caulescens
Victor M. Vergara-Martínez, Samuel E. Estrada-Soto, Susana Valencia-Díaz, Karlina Garcia-Sosa, Luis Manuel Peña-Rodríguez, José de Jesús Arellano-García, Irene Perea-Arango
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11279 PubMed 33986996
April 14, 2021
Unraveling the genetic diversity and structure of Quercus liaotungensis population through analysis of microsatellite markers
Bin Guo, Xiangchun Hao, Lijun Han, Yu Zhai, Shuai Zhou, Si Chen, Da Ren, Xinmin An
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10922 PubMed 33954024
April 2, 2021
Overexpression of a Rosa rugosa Thunb. NUDX gene enhances biosynthesis of scent volatiles in petunia
Lixia Sheng, Shu Zang, Jianwen Wang, Tiantian Wei, Yong Xu, Liguo Feng
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11098 PubMed 33859875