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Stefanini Marco

Degree in Agricultural Science at the University of Milan. Agronomical and enological license.
Employee of the “Istituto Agrario” since 1985 and since 1995 researcher first band at the Operational Unit of Viticulture.
He is responsible as 2nd band technologist at the Platform of Genetic Improvement of grapevine.

More than 10 varieties are listed in the National Register of Variety of Italian wine.
He has conducted research in the field of genetic improvement with the practice of breeding and clonal selection with the study of resistance to biotic and abiotic factors, evaluating genotype environment interactions of different varieties and their clones. Deals with multiplication of planting material with traditional and innovative methods and problems of the system of the vineyard.

He has been the project coordinator of varietal improvement of viticulture and enology in Agrigento (Sicily) under the agreement between the Regional Institute of Vine and Wine (Sicily) and the “Istituto Agrario”; he participated in the activity of the Sensory Analysis Group that operates at the Institute evaluating the results of viticultural and oenological trials.

Scientific head of the Unit of San Michele in European projects GENRES CRAFT;
Scientific consultant of two projects in the field of vine nursery funded by the Provincia Autonoma di Trento in Brazil.

He collaborated on the project "Advanced Biology applied to grapevine, apple and salmonids".
He taught "Viticulture" at the “Istituto Agrario” and has been a visiting lecturer at the "Fachhochschule Wiesbaden" to play the courses "Ampelografia", "Variety and rootstock" respectively for the subjects "Fundamentals in Viticulture" and "Growing" for obtaining the title of Winemaker and Diplom-Ingenieur (FH) für Weinbau und Önologie activated at the Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige.

He is currently a visiting lecturer from the Faculty of Engineering of Trento to play the course "Introduzione alla viticoltura".
Thesis advisor and researcher support of doctoral theses.
He is the author of 300 scientific articles in national and international journals

Image: Stefanini Marco

Research interest

Grapevine Breeding
Grapevine Germplasm Collection
Phenotyping

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ASSAM - Varietà resistenti con le varietà marchigiane

(ASSAM) Il progetto prevede la realizzazione di varietà resistenti a peronospora e oidio con l'incrocio con le varietà marchigiane Verdicchio, Pecorino e Montepulciano.

Attività FEM: Incrocio tra i genotipi di vitis vinifera Verdicchio, Pecorino e Montepulciano con i nostri genotipi piramidizzati con resistenze a oidio e peronospora.

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x SPiwi - Sustainable production of innovative sparkling wine

(ERANET CORE Organic Cofund) The SPiwi project aims to investigate and optimize strategies for a future oriented production of organic sparkling wines in 2 classical European vine producing regions (Northern Italy and Southern Germany) and a more northern region (Belgium), in which the area of vinegrapes is currently small but yet increasing with approximately 15-20% per year. Sustainability is addressed from multiple angles: (i) in the field phase the emphasis is on the selection of suitable resistant cultivars and on the development of guidelines for organic crop protection, (ii) a chemical-free vinification process is developed and will form the knowledge base for organic wine production with resistant cultivars and (iii) a consumer survey for the acceptability of those novel type of wines is executed. Moreover, the waste streams of the vinification process are qualified and quantified and the presence of bioactive compounds herein is described. The potential for the creation of added value products based on these bioactive compounds in pharmaceutical, cosmetical and food industries is assessed by presenting the results to those industries and by exploring their needs and interests in further product development. Besides guidance on the selection of disease resistant vinegrape varieties for planting, the management practices of the organic vineyard will be demonstrated and an economical feasibility study will be communicated to farmers. Regional differences at the location of the consortium members will address local farmers needs and give insights on the best choice in view of upcoming climatological challenges.

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