Grassi Fabrizio
Associate Professor of Plant Biology
room 4013, building U4, tel.: +39 02 6448 3328
lab 4047, building U4
Keywords
Plant diversity, phylogenetics, phylogeography, domestication, crop wild relatives
Research interest
- Origin and domestication of crops and genetic relationships between crops and their wild relative resources.
- Evolutionary processes such as natural selection, gene flow, hybridization and introgression.
- Phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylogenomics methods to reconstruct the origin and diffusion of taxa.
- Molecular methods to explore the plant biodiversity.
Selected articles
- Panzeri, D., Guidi Nissim, W., Labra, M., Grassi, F. (2022). Revisiting the domestication process of African Vigna species (Fabaceae): background, perspectives and challenges. PLANTS, 11(4). DOI: 10.3390/plants11040532
- Zecca, G., Panzeri, D., Grassi, F. (2022). Detecting signals of adaptive evolution in grape plastomes with a focus on the Cretaceous-Palaeogene (K/Pg) transition. ANNALS OF BOTANY, 130(7), 965-980. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcac128
- Grassi, F., De Lorenzis, G. (2021). Back to the origins: Background and perspectives of grapevine domestication. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES, 22(9). DOI: 10.3390/ijms22094518
- Zecca, G., Labra, M., Grassi, F. (2020). Untangling the evolution of American wild grapes: Admixed species and how to find them. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, 10(7). DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.01814
International and national collaborations
- Prof. Sean Myles. Associate Professor, University Research Chair, Agriculture Genetic Diversity, Department of Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University, USA.
- Prof. Sun Weibang, Professor of botany. Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming. China.
- Prof. Bao Rong Lu, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Ecological Engineering, Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
- Dr. Wei Chen, Senior Research Scientist, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China.
- Dr. Rosa Arroyo Garcia, Senior Research Scientist, INIA-CBGP, Spain.
Grassi's Lab – #GrassiLab_BtBs
last update: May 2023