Nicolò M. Villa
Nicolò M. Villa
Currently looking for an industrial PhD or graduate program on closing the nutrient loop and/or plant biostimulants.
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Introduction
I combined my studies with university policy and jobs along the food supply chain, from breeding to catering. However, my studies focus remained on plant adaptation to biotic and abiotic stress. Although I still indulge in fundamental research, I prefer developing solutions with a social impact.I want to promote circularity into Agri-Food while bringing people closer to the food sources and improving life quality.
Additional affiliations
August 2022 - February 2023
Position
- Erasmus+ Intern
Description
- Microbial and biochemical characterisation of Black Soldier Fly and mealworm frass and their effectiveness as fertiliser
February 2022 - August 2022
Position
- Erasmus+ Thesis Student
May 2018 - October 2018
Position
- Erasmus+ Thesis Student
Description
- Analysis of the calcium sensors AtCML4 and AtCML5 with focus on tissue-specific expression in response to osmotic and oxidative stresses. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ute C. Vothknecht PhD
Education
February 2019 - May 2023
February 2019 - May 2023
February 2019 - May 2023
Publications
Publications (4)
Angiosperms are the most widespread and diversified group of plants on Earth. They achieved such success during the Cretaceous radiation partly thanks to pollination of their flowers by insects. While attracting pollinating insects, the plant must repel predators and parasites. Some of these are florivore, flower eaters, that appear to be the forme...
Plant mutualists can play a role in the production of defences against plant
antagonists. Similarly, plant antagonists can help each other by interfering
with plant defences and growth, in a way that increases the fitness of
antagonists. While most of the studies in different systems focus on this dual
interaction of plants with their mutualists an...
Calmodulins (CaMs) are important mediators of Ca2+ signals found ubiquitously in all eukaryotic organisms.
Plants alone contain a family of calmodulin-like proteins (CMLs) exhibiting wider sequence variance compared to canonical CaMs.
The proteins AtCML4 and AtCML5 are members of CML subfamily VII, whose characteristic double pair of EF-Hands they...
Questions
Questions (37)
Can anyone tell me the amount of NPK required per plant for sweet pepper to be grown in pot?
Can anyone tell me the amount of NPK required per plant for cucumber to be grown in pot?
Thanks in advance
Hej everyone,
I'm working with humic substances in soil amendments. Last year, I outsourced measurements for fulvic and humic acids to a lab. After months, I sent freshly made samples to a Chinese partner, who analyzed them again and the results were consistently and significantly lower than those of the lab.
I do not yet know which methods were used by the Chinese partner, because it was a Chinese standard whose translation I can't find. However, the lab used a colorimetric method (UV-Vis spectroscopy) that I think overestimated the concentration of fulvic acids at least.
Does anyone have experience with these methods and/or can suggest better ones to measure fulvic acids?
I need to determine the concentration of organic forms of nitrogen in a fertilizer and distinguish them from urea.
The fertilizer is composed by ammonium nitrate, urea, and these organic forms. I outsourced the analysis to a lab which measured the total nitrogen with Dumas method, and the ammonium and the nitrate with AAS. Finally, they subtracted the ammonium and nitrate concentrations from the total conc. and claimed that it is the organic fraction. As reliable as these methods can be, they do not distinguish between the urea and other organic forms of nitrogen. I asked the lab if they could measure the urea and they said they couldn't, which I found odd.
Can you suggest some cheap methods to measure urea in a liquid fertilizer?
Hi everyone,
I'm working on a novel topic that is mostly advanced by companies, that don't divulge much themselves, but need a public outlet and more resources than they can allocate for it.
I'm trying to convince them that it would be in their best interest to pool their resources to fund a PhD for me at a public university, where I work on this topic. I provided them free consultancy, involved them in publicly funded projects, and managed to involved five of them with which I am signing NDAs and MTAs, each slightly different.
However, it's time-consuming and difficult to handle all of them and secure all the funding for a PhD timely. I was thinking of applying for seed funding from a development-promoting entity to build a research and knowledge sharing platform where to pool the resources, but I'm not sure if it would really be helpful or detrimental.
Does anyone have experiences of this or suggestions?
