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75
Citations
20753
World Ranking
1901
National Ranking
66

Overview

Riccardo Velasco is affiliated with The Canadian Real Estate Association in Canada and has a research focus predominantly in agricultural and biological sciences, alongside biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including plant science, molecular biology, food science, insect science, and cell biology.

Their research addresses several main topics with an emphasis on horticultural and viticultural research, fermentation and sensory analysis, plant pathogens and fungal diseases, CRISPR and genetic engineering, plant physiology and cultivation studies, powdery mildew fungal diseases, and plant tissue culture and regeneration.

Riccardo Velasco has published in a variety of scientific journals, with frequent venues being Frontiers in Plant Science, Scientific Reports, Plants, The Plant Journal, and Horticulturae. Their recent papers include:

  • Novel and emerging biotechnological crop protection approaches (2021, Plant Biotechnology Journal)
  • The hidden world within plants: metatranscriptomics unveils the complexity of wood microbiomes (2022, Journal of Experimental Botany)
  • NoPv1: a synthetic antimicrobial peptide aptamer targeting the causal agents of grapevine downy mildew and potato late blight (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Rpv Mediated Defense Responses in Grapevine Offspring Resistant to Plasmopara viticola (2020, Plants)
  • Construction of a high-density genetic map and detection of a major QTL of resistance to powdery mildew (Erysiphe necator Sch.) in Caucasian grapes (Vitis vinifera L.) (2021, BMC Plant Biology)

Velasco has collaborated frequently with researchers including Daniele Migliaro, Maria Francesca Cardone, Carlo Bergamini, Tyrone Possamai, and Lucia Rosaria Forleo. These collaborations reflect a network focused on topics related to their primary fields of study and publication themes.

Best Publications

  • The genome of the domesticated apple ( Malus × domestica Borkh.)

    Riccardo Velasco;Andrey Zharkikh;Jason Affourtit;Amit Dhingra

  • The genome of woodland strawberry ( Fragaria vesca )

    Vladimir Shulaev;Daniel J. Sargent;Ross N. Crowhurst;Todd C. Mockler

  • A High Quality Draft Consensus Sequence of the Genome of a Heterozygous Grapevine Variety

    Riccardo Velasco;Andrey Zharkikh;Michela Troggio;Dustin A. Cartwright

  • High-quality de novo assembly of the apple genome and methylome dynamics of early fruit development

    Nicolas Daccord;Jean-Marc Celton;Gareth Linsmith;Claude Becker

  • Metabolite Profiling of Grape: Flavonols and Anthocyanins

    Fulvio Mattivi;Raffaele Guzzon;Urska Vrhovsek;Marco Stefanini

  • DNA-Free Genetically Edited Grapevine and Apple Protoplast Using CRISPR/Cas9 Ribonucleoproteins

    Mickael Malnoy;Roberto Viola;Min-Hee Jung;Ok-Jae Koo

  • Development and mapping of SSR markers for maize

    Natalya Sharopova;Michael D. McMullen;Michael D. McMullen;Linda Schultz;Steve Schroeder

  • An Ancient Duplication of Apple MYB Transcription Factors Is Responsible for Novel Red Fruit-Flesh Phenotypes

    David Chagné;Kui Lin-Wang;Richard V. Espley;Richard K. Volz

  • Genome-wide SNP detection, validation, and development of an 8K SNP array for apple.

    David Chagné;Ross N. Crowhurst;Michela Troggio;Mark W. Davey

  • The Draft Genome Sequence of European Pear (Pyrus communis L. ‘Bartlett’)

    David Chagné;Ross N. Crowhurst;Massimo Pindo;Amali Thrimawithana

  • Mitochondrial DNA of Vitis vinifera and the Issue of Rampant Horizontal Gene Transfer

    Vadim V. Goremykin;Francesco Salamini;Riccardo Velasco;Roberto Viola

  • Development and validation of a 20K Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) whole genome genotyping array for apple (Malus × domestica Borkh)

    Luca Bianco;Alessandro Cestaro;Daniel James Sargent;Elisa Banchi

  • Signaling Pathways Mediating the Induction of Apple Fruitlet Abscission

    Alessandro Botton;Giulia Eccher;Claudio Forcato;Alberto Ferrarini

  • Ripening and genotype control stilbene accumulation in healthy grapes.

    Pamela Gatto;Urska Vrhovsek;Jost Muth;Cinzia Segala

  • Genome-wide transcriptional analysis of grapevine berry ripening reveals a set of genes similarly modulated during three seasons and the occurrence of an oxidative burst at vèraison

    Stefania Pilati;Michele Perazzolli;Andrea Malossini;Alessandro Cestaro

  • Development and validation of the Axiom(®) Apple480K SNP genotyping array.

    Luca Bianco;Alessandro Cestaro;Gareth Linsmith;Helene Muranty

  • Saturated linkage map construction in Rubus idaeus using genotyping by sequencing and genome-independent imputation

    Judson A Ward;Jasbir Bhangoo;Felicidad Fernández-Fernández;Patrick Moore

  • The 1-deoxy-d-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase gene co-localizes with a major QTL affecting monoterpene content in grapevine

    Juri Battilana;Laura Costantini;Francesco Emanuelli;Federica Sevini

  • A dense single-nucleotide polymorphism-based genetic linkage map of grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) anchoring Pinot Noir bacterial artificial chromosome contigs.

    Michela Troggio;Giulia Malacarne;Giuseppina Coppola;Cinzia Segala

  • A draft genome sequence of European pear (Pyrus communis L. ‘Bartlett’)

    S.E. Gardiner;R.N. Crowhurst;M. Pindo;A. Thrimawithana

Frequent Co-Authors

Michela Troggio
Michela Troggio Fondazione Edmund Mach
Mickael Malnoy
Mickael Malnoy Fondazione Edmund Mach
Roberto Viola
Roberto Viola James Hutton Institute
Michele Perazzolli
Michele Perazzolli University of Trento
Francesco Salamini
Francesco Salamini Parco Tecnologico Padano
Urska Vrhovsek
Urska Vrhovsek Fondazione Edmund Mach
Charles-Eric Durel
Charles-Eric Durel University of Angers
Silvio Salvi
Silvio Salvi University of Bologna
David Chagné
David Chagné Plant & Food Research
Susan E. Gardiner
Susan E. Gardiner Plant & Food Research

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