P Poltronieri

Palmiro Poltronieri is a biologist and researcher at the Department of Food, Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology, the Italian National Research Council. In 2002 he set up Biotecgen a service company involved in European projects (i.e., FP VI STREP Novel roles for non-coding RNAs - RIBOREG- 2003-2007), developing Ribochips, DNA arrays, and protein chips. He is Associate Editor to BMC Research Notes since 2010. He holds a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Verona University, 1995, and from 1996 to 1997 was 'Japanese Society for Promotion of Science' post-doctoral fellow at Tsukuba University. Since 1999 as a researcher for the National Research Council -Italy, he has been studying plant protease inhibitors, and their applications. Current interest is on the water stress response in roots of tolerant and sensitive chickpea varieties, and the jasmonic acid synthesis pathway. He authored more than 60 articles, and 5 books: "Applied Plant Genomics and Biotechnology", "From Plant Genomics to Plant Biotechnology", "Applied Plant Genomics for improving resistance to biotic stress", "Bio-transformation of agricultural waste and by-products. The Food, Feed, Fibre, Fuel (4F) economy", and "Microbiology in dairy processing:challenges and opportunities".