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CLAUDIO BONGHI

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Position

Professore Associato

Structure

Dipartimento di Agronomia Animali Alimenti Risorse Naturali e Ambiente - DAFNAE

Address

VIALE DELL'UNIVERSITA', 16 - LEGNARO PD

Telephone

0498272844

E-mail

claudio.bonghi@unipd.it

Short CV.
Claudio Bonghi is Associate professor in Fruit tree production at the Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment, DAFNAE, of the University of Padova. In 1988 he graduated in in Agricultural Science, University of Padova and in 1992 he received his PhD in in Crop Physiology. In 1997 he spent six months at at Department of Horticultural Science, College of Agriculture and Life Science, Texas A & M University, Texas-USA, where was working for six months on mRNA differential display technique with J.J Giovannoni. In 2001 and 2004 he was visiting scientist at Plant, Soil & Nutrition Laboratory of Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), where he was working with J.J Giovannoni on identification of genes involved ripening of tomato, peach, apple and grape by means microarray technique. The scientific activity is mainly focused on fruit development and ripening in many species. At the beginning, he worked on determination of auxin and ethylene content, using different approaches as spectrofluorimetric assay and ELISA, during peach fruit growth and development. After PhD he was starting in molecular investigations focused on biochemical and molecular aspects of growth, ripening and postharvest of different fruit (peach, kiwi, apple, grape). Recently, he included in his research activity the study of the epigenetic control of the whole reproductive cycle starting from bud development to fruit ripening. He is member of ESTRee consortium, an Italian network that produces tools for genetic and genomic studies on Rosaceae species. For this consortium he developed, with other colleagues, the first microarray for peach and other stone fruits. He has published over 140 papers, including original papers on scientific journals (59), lectures, communications and posters presented at congresses (79), and book chapters (7).

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Publications

A selection of publications (1992-2021):
1. BONGHI C., Rascio N., Ramina A., Casadoro G. (1992). Cellulase and polygalacturonase involvement in the abscission of leaf and fruit explants of peach. Plant Molecular Biology 20: 5, 839-848.
10. BONGHI C., Tonutti P., Ramina A. (2000) Biochemical and molecular aspects of fruitlet abscission. Plant Growth Regulation 31: 35-42
15. Rasori A., Ruperti B., BONGHI C., Tonutti P., Ramina A (2002). Characterisation of two putative ethylene receptor genes expressed during peach fruit development and abscission. Journal of Experimental Botany 53: 2333-2339
18. Trainotti L., BONGHI C., Ziliotto F., Zanin D., Rasori A., Casadoro G., Ramina A., Tonutti P. (2006). The use of microarray µPEACH1.0 to investigate transcriptome changes during transition from pre-climacteric to climacteric phase in peach fruit. Plant Science 170: 606-613
24. Ziliotto F., Begheldo M., Rasori A., BONGHI C., Tonutti P. (2008). Transcriptome profiling of ripening nectarine fruit treated with the inhibitor of ethylene action 1-Methylcyclopropene. Journal of Experimental Botany, 59:2781-2791
26. Rizzini F. M., BONGHI C., Tonutti P. (2009). Postharvest water loss induces marked changes in transcript profiling in skins of wine grape berries. Postharvest Biology Technolology 52: 247-253
31. BONGHI C., Trainotti L., Botton A., Tadiello A., Rasori A., Ziliotto F., Zaffalon V., Casadoro G., Ramina A. (2011). A microarray approach to identify genes involved in seed-pericarp cross-talk and development in peach. BMC Plant Biology 11: 107. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-11-107
33. Ziliotto F., Corso M., Rizzini F. M., Rasori A., Botton A., BONGHI C. (2012). Grape berry ripening delay induced by a pre-veraison NAA treatment is paralleled by a shift in the expression pattern of auxin- and ethylene-related genes. BMC Plant Biology 12:185
45. Corso M., Vannozzi A., Maza E., Vitulo N., Meggio F., Pitacco A., Telatin A., D’Angelo M., Feltrin E., Negri A. S., Prinsi B., Valle G., Ramina A., Bouzayen M., BONGHI C., Lucchin M. (2015). Comprehensive transcript profiling of two grapevine rootstock genotypes contrasting in drought susceptibility links the phenylpropanoid pathway to enhanced tolerance. Journal of Experimental Botany 66: 5739-5752, doi:10.1093/jxb/erv274
47. Botton A., Rasori A., Ziliotto F., Moing A., Maucourt M., Bernillon S., Deborde C., Petterle A., Varotto S., BONGHI C*. (2016). The peach HECATE3-like gene FLESHY plays a double role during fruit development. Plant Molecular Biology. 91: 97-114, DOI: 10.1007/s11103-016-0445-z
49. Farinati, S., Rasori, A., Varotto, S., BONGHI C*. (2017) Rosaceae fruit development, ripening and post-harvest: An epigenetic perspective. Frontiers in Plant Science 8: 1247.
54. Canton, M., Drincovich, M.F., Lara, M.V., Vizzotto, G., Walker, R.P., Famiani, F., BONGHI, C.* (2020). Metabolism of Stone Fruits: Reciprocal Contribution Between Primary Metabolism and Cell Wall. Frontiers in Plant Science 11:1054.doi: 10.3389/fpls.2020.01054
55. Canton, M., Forestan, C., BONGHI, C., Varotto, S. (2021). Meta-analysis of RNA-Seq studies reveals genes with dominant functions during flower bud endo- to eco-dormancy transition in Prunus species. Scientific Reports11:13173. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-92600-6
56. Farinati, S., Forestan, C., Canton, M., Galla, G., BONGHI, C.*, Varotto, S. (2021). Regulation of Fruit Growth in a Peach Slow Ripening Phenotype. Genes 12: 482. doi:10.3390/genes12040482

Research Area

Research activities have been focused on:
1)Physiological and molecular basis of peach fruit thinning;
2) Biochemical and molecular aspects of ethylene biosynthesis and action mode during peach fruit development and ripening;
3) Omics approaches for studying climacteric and no climacteric fruit ripening
4) Postharvest physiology and qualitative traits of horticultural products
5) Identification of genes related to abiotic stress resistances in grapevine
6) Epigenetic regulation of reproductive cycle (from bud to fruit) in fruit trees belonging to Rosaceae genus.