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Paolo Cortesi is full professor of plant pathology at the University of Milan, Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences (DeFENS) since 2005; before he served at the same university as associate professor (2002-2005) and as researcher (1998-2002). He is a member of the board and of the steering committee of the PhD School in “Food Systems” of the University of Milan (2013-now) and he was member of the board of the PhD School in “Chemistry, Biochemistry and Ecology of Pesticides” (2007-2013). Cortesi teaches plant pathology and disease management courses, and he has tutored about 50 undergraduate students. He has tutored 4 PhD students, 7 postdoctoral researchers in Italy and co-tutored 3 in the USA.
He contributed to the foundation of Dipartimento di Protezione dei Sistemi Agroalimentare e Urbano e Valorizzazione delle Biodiversità (DiPSA) (2008-2012), in which he served as vice-director (2008-2010) and as director (2011-2012). As director of DiPSA he contributed to the foundation of DeFENS (2013).
Paolo Cortesi served as elected Member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Milan (2003-2005) and as Member of the Patent Board of the University of Milan (2006-2012). He was elected President of the Faculty Board of the undergraduate Course in “Plant Protection” (2005-2008).
He acts as coordinator elected of the DeFENS section “Agro-environmental Sciences” (2013-now) and as member elected of the DeFENS Steering Board (2013-now).
He was eligible in the committee for the ASN.
He is one of the members of the Technical and Scientific Committee of ERSAF – Regione Lombardia (2014-now).
Research interest
Paolo Cortesi is an expert in population biology of phytopathogenic fungi, disease epidemiology and disease management with fungicides and biological control agents.
He studied extensively Cryphonectria parasitica population genetic structure and vegetative incompatibility. During his studies he successfully identified the main vic alleles, which regulate vegetative incompatibility in individuals of the fungus populations in Europe and the USA. Reference strains with known vic alleles were characterized and used world-wide by the scientific community both for genotyping the populations and to study or predict the migration of viruses conferring hypovirulence to C. parasitica.
He also studied extensively Erysiphe necator biology and population genetic structure in the USA and Italy. Since his first study on sexual reproduction of the fungus in the USA and the effect of inoculum distribution on grapevines and its efficiency on primary infections in early nineties, he was able to show that in most Italian vineyards the fungus was overwintering as chasmothecia and ascospores and a considerable amount of sexual inoculum was produced steadily. These early findings contributed to the development of molecular markers to identify and determine mating type distribution in fungus populations and to study population genetic diversity in the USA and in Europe. This knowledge was used to set new disease management strategies, for which different molecules and biological control were evaluated to improve grapevine powdery mildew epidemics management to lower overwintering inoculum. Recently, he found evidence of E. necator field resistance to metraphenone, and, for the first time worldwide, he documented the survival of resistant strains in the field in absence of selection and confirmed absence of cross-resistance with other fungicide families.
Among other grapevine diseases can be cited his PhD studies on Plasmopara viticola oospore dynamics of germination to predict primary infection and two papers on reproductive biology of Eutypa lata and a pioneer work on identification and spread of Fomitiporia punctata.
Another topic of interest within Cortesi’s research activities of the last few years concerned rice diseases, both of fungal and bacterial origin. He attributed rice panicle sterility and rice kernel discoloration to Acidovorax avenae f.sp. avenae. Important was his work on rice blast, evaluating the impact of epidemics on crop productivity, as well as studying fungicide biological activities against Pyricularia oryzae to improve rice blast management strategy with fungicides on varieties with different level of disease tolerance. His research work was included in a book chapter on rice blast, in a book chapter on fungicide mode of action and in recent research papers on fungicides biological activity, the baseline response of P. oryzae Italian populations to tricyclazole and azoxystrobin, their use for rice blast management and the effect of tricyclazole on aquatic invertebrates.
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Insectsno. 727 (2023): 727-727
L. Ridolfi,A. Delmonte,F. De Rosa,I. Azzali,G. Gentili,M. Petrini,E. Pancisi, A.M. Granato,J. Bulgarelli, C. Doglioni,M.A. Burgio, M. Ragonesi,
Immuno-Oncology and Technology (2023): 100524
Immuno-Oncology and Technology (2022): 100153-100153
Frontiers in Fungal Biology (2022): 802511-802511
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Sociability: 5
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