Vincenzo D’Amelia

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Vincenzo D'Amelia
institute of biosciences and bioresources
Research

Nutrheff Thematic
Biomolecular technologies (enzymatic, biochemical, molecular biology)

Research Interest and expertise in the field of nutraceuticals and functional food
1. Exploitation of natural biodiversity by using genomic tools to enhance the production of bioactive compounds and crop quality traits. 2. Use of innovative biotechnological approaches for enhancing the production of bioactive compounds and peptides.

Keywords: anthocyanins, phenylpropanoids, biotechnology, food crops, orphans crops, genomic, gene editing, genetic transformations, potato, tomato, carotenoids

Nutraceuticals and foods of interest
Nutraceuticals: folates, anthocyanins, phenylpropanoids, carotenoids, tannins, ellagic acids Food of interest: potato, tomato, carrot

Fields of application
Biofortification of foods by means of innovative genomic and Biotechnology methods.

Facilities and equipments
Plant growth chamber, in vitro cell cultures equipments, transformation vectors, wide potato germoplasm, general metabolite extraction equipment and analyses (e.g. freeze dryer, spectrophotometer), microscopy.