EpiResistenze

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Resistances to herbicides and epigenetic mechanisms: an innovative approach to an emerging phytosanitary problem.

Areas of intervention:

In the Lombard agricultural systems, the main problems regarding herbicide resistances occur in rice cultivation, a matter that DGR 3233/2015 has defined as a priority and in which, in an increasingly alarming way, herbicidal treatments have a low effectiveness on infestants for which the variation of the area of application of the active substance used does not change.

Goals:

To investigate the problem of herbicide resistances, an important phytosanitary emergency – specifically in paddy fields – by taking an innovative approach;
To identify the epigenetic mechanisms of the resistances, supporting more effective programmes of prevention and fighting against infestants;
To supply new perspectives on the knowledge of environmental stresses and their effects on the evolutions of the phenomena;
To supply useful tools for comprehension of the mechanisms of resistance to the herbicides known to this day.

Funding:

Project financed by Regione Lombardia General Direction Agriculture, Food and Forests. Grant for the financing of research projects in the agricultural and forest field.

Partnership:

Università di Pavia – Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Accademia dei Georgofili
Agricultural District of the Lomellina Paddy fields
Società agraria di Lombardia

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