Franca Tommasi is Associate Professor of Plant Physiology at the Department of Biology, University of Bari Aldo Moro. Her research work mainly concerns biochemistry and physiology of plants of ecological and agricultural interest. She is carrying on scientific collaborations with Italian and foreign research groups, participated to numerous national and international meetings giving contributions and relations. She is author and co-author of more than 100 publications and is peer-reviewer for several international journals.