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Giuseppe Parrella
Summary
Dr. Giuseppe Parrella is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection of CNR, Italy.
Dr. Parrella's primary areas of expertise include plant virology, specifically with particular reference to bio-molecular characterization, diagnostics and epidemiology. He also considers Phytoplasmas and viroids among his study interests.
Dr. Parrella's current research topics include the study of the biological-molecular variability of the main viruses of horticultural, ornamental and aromatic crops; the development and validation of sensitive and highly specific diagnostic methods for the rapid diagnosis of viruses, with particular reference to emerging or recently introduced viruses and spread throughout the national territory (RT-PCR, cold probes, LAMP, real time RT-PCR, etc. .). Other interests of Dr. Parrella concern the research and characterization of sources of resistance to viruses in wild or cultivated germplasm; the use of beneficial microorganisms and their metabolites in the control of viroses; the identification and characterization of mitochondrial variants of Bemisia tabaci and of the associated geminiviruses and endosymbionts; the study of the impact of phytoviruses on human health.