Rita Milvia De Miccolis Angelini

Prof. Dr. Nataša Štajner

Rita Milvia De Miccolis Angelini, PhD, is an associate professor for the scientific area AGRI-05/B - Plant Pathology at the Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, University of Bari 'Aldo Moro', Bari, Italy. Since 1997, she is interested in research regarding integrated and biological crop protection, diagnosis of fungal diseases, mycotoxigenic fungi and classical and molecular genetics of filamentous fungi, especially pathogens of grapevine, stone fruits and horticultural crops. She focused her attention to problems due to acquired resistance to fungicides and genetic characterization of mycoviruses. She is also skilled on transcriptome analysis applied to studies on plant-pathogen interaction, regulatory mechanisms of biological processes in phytopathogenic fungi and resistance induction in plants.

List of representative bibliography

Bilen, C, Laera, S, Rotondo, PR, Dimaglie, M, Vaccaro, L, Marashi, M, Mascia, T, Lopedota, AA, Spanò, R, Pollastro, S, Faretra, F, El Chami, D, De Miccolis Angelini R.M. Antimicrobial Activity and Activation of Defense Genes in Plants by Natural Extracts: Toward Sustainable Plant Health Management Agronomy 15, no. 10: 2342 (2025).

 

Barnaba, Natascia Filomena, Lorenza Vaccaro, De Miccolis Angelini R.M., Roberta Spanò, Franco Nigro, and Tiziana Mascia. 2025. "Tracking of Tobacco Mosaic Virus in Taxonomically Different Plant Fungi" Journal of Fungi 11, no. 9: 619.  

 

Fekrikohan S., Sharifnabi B., Javan-Nikkhah M., Pollastro S., Faretra F., De Miccolis Angelini R.M. Genetic and Phenotypic Characterization of Botrytis Populations from Economic and Wild Host Plants in Iran. J. Fungi, 10:11, 764 (2024) (DOI:10.3390/jof10110764).

 

Mastrochirico M., Spanò R., De Miccolis Angelini R.M., Mascia T. Molecular Characterization of a recombinant isolate of Tomato Leaf Curl New Delhi Virus associated with severe outbreaks in Zucchini Squash in Southern Italy. Plants, 12, 2399 (2023) (DOI:10.3390/plants12132399).

 

De Miccolis Angelini R.M., Raguseo C., Rotolo C., Gerin D., Faretra F., Pollastro S. The mycovirome in a worldwide collection of the Brown Rot Fungus Monilinia fructicola. J. Fungi, 8, 481 (2022) (DOI: 10.3390/jof8050481).

 

De Miccolis Angelini R.M., Landi L., Raguseo C., Pollastro S., Faretra F., Romanazzi G.. Tracking of diversity and evolution in the Brown Rot Fungi Monilinia fructicola, Monilinia fructigena, and Monilinia laxa. Front Microbiol., 13, 854852 (2022) (DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.854852).

 

Raguseo C., Gerin D., Pollastro S., Rotolo C., Rotondo P.R., Faretra F., De Miccolis Angelini R.M.. A duplex-droplet digital PCR assay for simultaneous quantitative detection of Monilinia fructicola and Monilinia laxa on stone fruits. Front Microbiol., 12, 747560 (2021) (DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.747560).

 

De Miccolis Angelini R.M., Romanazzi G., Pollastro S., Rotolo C., Faretra F., Landi L. New high-quality draft genome of the brown rot fungal pathogen Monilinia fructicola. Genome Biol Evol., 11 (10) 2850–2855 (2019) (DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evz207).

 

De Miccolis Angelini R.M., Rotolo C., Gerin D., Abate D., Pollastro S., Faretra F. Global transcriptome analysis and differentially expressed genes in grapevine after application of the yeast-derived defense inducer cerevisane. Pest Manag Sci. 75: 2020-2033 (2019) (DOI: 10.1002/ps.5317).

 

De Miccolis Angelini R.M., Pollastro S., Rotondo P.R., Laguardia C., Abate D., Rotolo C., Faretra F. Transcriptome sequence resource for the cucurbit powdery mildew pathogen Podosphaera xanthii. Sci Data 6: 95 (2019) (DOI: 10.1038/s41597-019-0107-5)

Full publication list available on:

Rita Milvia De Miccolis Angelini (0000-0002-5130-0076) - ORCID

Relevant Research/Industry Projects

  • Ministry of Economy and Finance-funded project, “Research actions for reducing the impact on agricultural and natural ecosystems of the harmful plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa” (ReachXY).
  • Ministerial project “Integrated Approaches for GENETIC Improvement, Selection and Obtainment of Plant Materials Resistant to Xylella fastidiosa (RIGENERA).”
  • Agritech National Research Center, spoke 1, “Plant, animal and microbial genetic resources and adaptation to climatic changes”
  • PRIN-Bando 2022 PNRR project, “New Therapeutic Approaches to Reinforce the natural Grapevine microbiome against Grapevine Trunk Diseases (TARGET_GTDs)”.
  • “Cold plasma: innovative technology for improving the quality of post-harvest fruit and vegetable products,” funded by the Puglia Region.