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Andrea Nardini

Andrea Nardini

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Plant Science and Agronomy
Italy
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
72
Citations
17733
World Ranking
635
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Italy Leader Award

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Botany
  • Ecology
  • Horticulture

Andrea Nardini focuses on Botany, Xylem, Hydraulic conductivity, Horticulture and Hydraulic conductance. Her research in the fields of Shoot and Stomatal conductance overlaps with other disciplines such as Laurus nobilis, Cavitation and Conductance. Her Xylem research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Biophysics, Phloem and Transpiration.

Her research integrates issues of Agronomy, Endodermis, Exodermis, Woody plant and Olea oleaster in her study of Hydraulic conductivity. Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Evergreen and Water content. She combines subjects such as Sunflower, Stomatal aperture and Membrane with her study of Hydraulic conductance.

Her most cited work include:

  • Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought (1256 citations)
  • Refilling of embolized vessels in young stems of laurel. Do We need a new paradigm (286 citations)
  • Limitation of stomatal conductance by hydraulic traits: sensing or preventing xylem cavitation? (280 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Her main research concerns Botany, Xylem, Horticulture, Hydraulic conductivity and Water transport. She works mostly in the field of Botany, limiting it down to topics relating to Dehydration and, in certain cases, Sunflower and Helianthus annuus, as a part of the same area of interest. Her Xylem research integrates issues from Ecology, Agronomy and Transpiration.

Her Agronomy study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Arid, Soil water and Fraxinus ornus. Her work on Prunus laurocerasus as part of general Horticulture study is frequently linked to Hydraulics, therefore connecting diverse disciplines of science. Her Hydraulic conductivity research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Membrane and Woody plant.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Botany (51.76%)
  • Xylem (48.82%)
  • Horticulture (31.76%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2018-2021)?

  • Xylem (48.82%)
  • Water transport (20.00%)
  • Ecology (18.24%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Andrea Nardini mainly focuses on Xylem, Water transport, Ecology, Horticulture and Embolism. To a larger extent, Andrea Nardini studies Botany with the aim of understanding Xylem. Her study in the field of Gymnosperm and Plant strategies is also linked to topics like Frost and Close relationship.

Her research investigates the link between Ecology and topics such as Drought tolerance that cross with problems in Biological system and Turgor pressure. The various areas that Andrea Nardini examines in her Horticulture study include Photosynthesis, Stomatal conductance and Bark. Her study in Hydraulic conductivity is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Climate change, Pith, Tracheid and Osmosis.

Between 2018 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • Insights from in vivo micro‐CT analysis: testing the hydraulic vulnerability segmentation in Acer pseudoplatanus and Fagus sylvatica seedlings (26 citations)
  • The Possible Role of Non-Structural Carbohydrates in the Regulation of Tree Hydraulics. (20 citations)
  • Close to the edge: effects of repeated severe drought on stem hydraulics and non-structural carbohydrates in European beech saplings. (19 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Botany
  • Ecology
  • Horticulture

Her scientific interests lie mostly in Xylem, Water transport, Horticulture, Hydraulics and Ecology. Her studies deal with areas such as Phloem, Bark and Parenchyma as well as Xylem. Andrea Nardini has included themes like Hydraulic conductivity, Pith and Osmosis in her Parenchyma study.

Her work carried out in the field of Horticulture brings together such families of science as Photosynthesis, Water-use efficiency and Acclimatization. The study incorporates disciplines such as Ailanthus altissima and Phenotypic plasticity in addition to Agronomy. The Resistance study combines topics in areas such as Fraxinus ornus and Transpiration.

Best Publications

  • Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought

    Brendan Choat;Steven Jansen;Tim J. Brodribb;Hervé Cochard;Hervé Cochard

  • Weak tradeoff between xylem safety and xylem-specific hydraulic efficiency across the world's woody plant species

    Sean M. Gleason;Sean M. Gleason;Mark Westoby;Steven Jansen;Brendan Choat

  • Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit

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  • Refilling of embolized vessels in young stems of laurel. Do We need a new paradigm

    Melvin Thomas Tyree;Sebastiano Salleo;Andrea Nardini;Maria Assunta Lo Gullo

  • Refilling embolized xylem conduits: is it a matter of phloem unloading?

    Andrea Nardini;Maria A. Lo Gullo;Sebastiano Salleo

  • Stomatal closure is induced by hydraulic signals and maintained by ABA in drought-stressed grapevine

    Sergio Tombesi;Andrea Nardini;Tommaso Frioni;Marta Soccolini

  • Limitation of stomatal conductance by hydraulic traits: sensing or preventing xylem cavitation?

    Andrea Nardini;Sebastiano Salleo

  • Xylem cavitation and hydraulic control of stomatal conductance in Laurel (Laurus nobilis L.)

    Sebastiano Salleo;Andrea Nardini;Franco Pitt;Maria A. Lo Gullo

  • New evidence for a role of vessel‐associated cells and phloem in the rapid xylem refilling of cavitated stems of Laurus nobilis L.

    S. Salleo;M. A. Lo Gullo;P. Trifilò;A. Nardini

  • Xylem cavitation in the leaf of Prunus laurocerasus and its impact on leaf hydraulics

    Andrea Nardini;Melvin T. Tyree;Sebastiano Salleo

  • Shoot desiccation and hydraulic failure in temperate woody angiosperms during an extreme summer drought.

    Andrea Nardini;Marta Battistuzzo;Tadeja Savi

  • Trade-offs between leaf hydraulic capacity and drought vulnerability: morpho-anatomical bases, carbon costs and ecological consequences

    Andrea Nardini;Giulia Pedà;Nicoletta La Rocca

  • Hydraulic architecture of leaf blades: where is the main resistance?

    Hervé Cochard;A. Nardini;L. Coll

  • Starch-to-sugar conversion in wood parenchyma of field-growing Laurus nobilis plants: a component of the signal pathway for embolism repair?

    Sebastiano Salleo;Patrizia Trifilò;Sara Esposito;Andrea Nardini

  • Leaf hydraulic capacity and drought vulnerability: possible trade‐offs and correlations with climate across three major biomes

    Andrea Nardini;Jessica Luglio

  • Rooting depth, water relations and non-structural carbohydrate dynamics in three woody angiosperms differentially affected by an extreme summer drought.

    Andrea Nardini;Valentino Casolo;Anna Dal Borgo;Tadeja Savi

  • Xylem embolism refilling and resilience against drought-induced mortality in woody plants: processes and trade-offs

    Tamir Klein;Melanie J. B. Zeppel;William R. L. Anderegg;Jasper Bloemen

  • Drought‐induced xylem cavitation and hydraulic deterioration: risk factors for urban trees under climate change?

    Tadeja Savi;Stefano Bertuzzi;Salvatore Branca;Mauro Tretiach

  • More than just a vulnerable pipeline: xylem physiology in the light of ion-mediated regulation of plant water transport

    Andrea Nardini;Sebastiano Salleo;Steven Jansen

  • Changes in root hydraulic conductance (KR) of Olea oleaster seedlings following drought stress and irrigation

    Maria A. Lo Gullo;Andrea Nardini;Sebastiano Salleo;Melvin T. Tyree

  • The challenge of the Mediterranean climate to plant hydraulics: Responses and adaptations

    Andrea Nardini;Maria A. Lo Gullo;Patrizia Trifilò;Sebastiano Salleo

  • Competitive strategies for water availability in two Mediterranean Quercus species

    A. Nardini;M. A. Lo Gullo;S. Salleo

Frequent Co-Authors

Sebastiano Salleo
Sebastiano Salleo University of Trieste
Patrizia Trifilò
Patrizia Trifilò University of Messina
Stefan Mayr
Stefan Mayr University of Innsbruck
Hervé Cochard
Hervé Cochard INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Steven Jansen
Steven Jansen University of Ulm
M. A. Lo Gullo
M. A. Lo Gullo University of Messina
Sean M. Gleason
Sean M. Gleason Agricultural Research Service
Timothy J. Brodribb
Timothy J. Brodribb University of Tasmania
Frederic Lens
Frederic Lens Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Melvin T. Tyree
Melvin T. Tyree Zhejiang Normal University

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