Alberto Gianinetti

After my graduation in Agricultural Sciences at the University of Piacenza (1991), I worked for a few years at the Dept. of Botany & Plant Genetics of that university. In August 1996, I started my career as a researcher of the Experimental Institute for Cereal Research (Italy) at the Section of Vercelli (rice research). In 2000, I moved to the Section of Fiorenzuola d’Arda (barley research). In 2007, the Institute was merged into the Agricultural Research Council, and the Section of Fiorenzuola d’Arda was renamed Genomics Research Centre. In 2015, the institution was renamed as Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria - CREA) and the name of the Centre was subsequently changed to Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics. I have worked on the breeding of rice and barley and developed studies on their quality. In addition, starting from 1999, when I spent 9½ months in Baton Rouge (LA, USA) working with Dr. M.A. Cohn on the dormancy of red rice seeds, I have been studying the biology of seed dormancy, using red rice as a model species.