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Original research article
Published: 22 July 2020 in Frontiers in Plant Science
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Microclimatic and soil management studies emphasize that roofing above the canopy or soil mulching contributes to reduce water losses from horticultural cropping systems and, at the same time, to increase water use efficiency. The aim of this 2-year on-farm study, carried out on a late ripening peach (cv. California) orchard, was to investigate the combined effect of water supply (full or deficit irrigation, DI), incoming light (hail or shading net), and soil management (tilling or mulching) on: microclimate; fruit growth; yield; irrigation water use productivity (WPI); and soil water stress coefficient (Ks). Shading hail net reduced air temperature (−1°C), wind speed (−57%), solar radiation (−32%), while increased relative air humidity (+9.5%). Compared to the control treatment (hail net coverage, soil tillage, and full irrigation), the innovative management (DI + shading hail net + mulching) reduced seasonal volumes of irrigation water (−25%) and increased both final yield (+36%) and WPI (+53%). Saving water resources without losing yield is an achievable goal by peach orchards growing under the Mediterranean climate if the DI agro-technique is adopted conjointly with shading hail net and soil mulching.

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Pasquale Campi; Liliana Gaeta; Marcello Mastrorilli; Pasquale Losciale. Innovative Soil Management and Micro-Climate Modulation for Saving Water in Peach Orchards. Frontiers in Plant Science 2020, 11, 1052 .

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Pasquale Campi, Liliana Gaeta, Marcello Mastrorilli, Pasquale Losciale. Innovative Soil Management and Micro-Climate Modulation for Saving Water in Peach Orchards. Frontiers in Plant Science. 2020; 11 ():1052.

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Pasquale Campi; Liliana Gaeta; Marcello Mastrorilli; Pasquale Losciale. 2020. "Innovative Soil Management and Micro-Climate Modulation for Saving Water in Peach Orchards." Frontiers in Plant Science 11, no. : 1052.

Chapter
Published: 30 October 2019 in Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture
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In agronomy, using water in a sustainable way means producing without waste and without having a negative impact on the environment. A sustainability indicator is the crop water use efficiency. From an economic point of view sustainability is the ability to continue extracting net positive social returns from a resource for an indefinite period of time. This chapter describes the ways to measure efficiency of crops in using water for growing and producing, and discusses the cost of final yield in terms of water requirements. Water use efficiency of the cultivated species, the mechanisms that influence the water-use efficiency at the farm scale and strategies for improving water efficiency have also been discussed. Economic efficiency and sustainability, and the policy instruments to reach an efficient and sustainable water management have also been discussed in this chapter.

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Marcello Mastrorilli; Raffaella Zucaro. Sustainable Water Management. Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture 2019, 133 -166.

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Marcello Mastrorilli, Raffaella Zucaro. Sustainable Water Management. Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture. 2019; ():133-166.

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Marcello Mastrorilli; Raffaella Zucaro. 2019. "Sustainable Water Management." Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture , no. : 133-166.

Journal article
Published: 26 February 2018 in Water
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Land use affects eco-hydrological processes with consequences for floods and droughts. Changes in land use affect ecosystems and hydrological services. The objective of this study is the analysis of hydrological services through the quantification of water resources, pollutant loads, land retention capacity and soil erosion. On the basis of a quantitative evaluation, the economic values of the ecosystem services are estimated. By assigning an economic value to the natural resources and to the hydraulic system, the hydrological services can be computed at the scale of catchment ecosystem. The proposed methodology was applied to the basin “Bonis” (Calabria Region, Italy). The study analyses four land use scenarios: (i) forest cover with good vegetative status (baseline scenario); (ii) modification of the forest canopy; (iii) variation in forest and cultivated surfaces; (iv) insertion of impermeable areas. The simulations prove that the variations of the state of forest areas has considerable influence on the water balance, and then on the provided economic value. Small economic changes derive from reducing the impermeable areas. Increasing the agricultural area to 50% of the total, and reducing the forest surface, affects soil erosion, reduces the storage capacity of the water, and consequently the water harvesting. The suggested methodology can be considered a suitable tool for land planning.

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Marcello Mastrorilli; Gianfranco Rana; Giuseppe Verdiani; Giuseppe Tedeschi; Antonio Fumai; Giovanni Russo. Economic Evaluation of Hydrological Ecosystem Services in Mediterranean River Basins Applied to a Case Study in Southern Italy. Water 2018, 10, 241 .

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Marcello Mastrorilli, Gianfranco Rana, Giuseppe Verdiani, Giuseppe Tedeschi, Antonio Fumai, Giovanni Russo. Economic Evaluation of Hydrological Ecosystem Services in Mediterranean River Basins Applied to a Case Study in Southern Italy. Water. 2018; 10 (3):241.

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Marcello Mastrorilli; Gianfranco Rana; Giuseppe Verdiani; Giuseppe Tedeschi; Antonio Fumai; Giovanni Russo. 2018. "Economic Evaluation of Hydrological Ecosystem Services in Mediterranean River Basins Applied to a Case Study in Southern Italy." Water 10, no. 3: 241.

Journal article
Published: 01 May 2016 in European Journal of Agronomy
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The sustainability of biomass sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) in the Mediterranean environments is linked to the potential to increasing the crop productivity using irrigation water of different qualities: fresh and wastewater. An experiment was conducted in Southern Italy during 2012 and 2013 growing seasons to determine the biomass production and to estimate the yielded energy from sorghum irrigated with fresh water and municipal wastewaters. Two stages of wastewater reclamation process were compared: tertiary and secondary treatments. During the growing seasons, the crop growth (biomass and LAI) was surveyed on sorghum crops irrigated with three water qualities. In order to determine the effects of the irrigation water qualities on the final energy yielded, on the harvested biomass, structural components (cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin contents for deriving the ethanol production) and high heating value were analyzed. The data obtained during two crop seasons showed that, sorghum irrigated with municipal wastewater plant produced more dry biomass (23.3 vs 20.3 t ha−1), energy yield (383 vs 335 GJ ha−1), and ethanol (6824 vs 6092 L ha−1) than sorghum biomass with fresh water. As a consequence, the water efficiency for producing bioenergy increased when the waste waters were supplied in substitution of fresh waters. Different indices were calculated for comparing the effect of the water quality on the water use efficiency (WUE) of biomass sorghum crops.

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Pasquale Campi; Alejandra Navarro; A. Domenico Palumbo; Francesca Modugno; Carolina Vitti; Marcello Mastrorilli. Energy of biomass sorghum irrigated with reclaimed wastewaters. European Journal of Agronomy 2016, 76, 176 -185.

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Pasquale Campi, Alejandra Navarro, A. Domenico Palumbo, Francesca Modugno, Carolina Vitti, Marcello Mastrorilli. Energy of biomass sorghum irrigated with reclaimed wastewaters. European Journal of Agronomy. 2016; 76 ():176-185.

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Pasquale Campi; Alejandra Navarro; A. Domenico Palumbo; Francesca Modugno; Carolina Vitti; Marcello Mastrorilli. 2016. "Energy of biomass sorghum irrigated with reclaimed wastewaters." European Journal of Agronomy 76, no. : 176-185.

Review
Published: 01 January 2016 in AIMS Agriculture and Food
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Water sustainability in agriculture is the main topic of this review. However, moving from studies carried out at worldwide level, the main focus of the paper is the Mediterranean farm which practices irrigated and/or rainfed cropping systems. On the basis of the state of the art on this matter, a lack of knowledge in some areas has come to light that calls for new policies and further research. Basically, the review provides feasible agro-technical solutions for using water in the most efficient and productive way. Alternative ways to use water resources rationally in growing crops are discussed. They are based mainly on progress due to agronomy (No-Till Conservation Agriculture), information technology (Decision Support System and Precision Irrigation) and genetics. Agronomic options are analysed taking into account recent European agricultural and environmental trends of policies which conjugate the issues related to sustainability and production intensification. In perspective, the review encourages discussion on how to relocate farming systems within natural cycles, specifically those of the water cycle, based on No-Till Conservation Agriculture principles and practices which apply to all land-based agro-ecologies in all continents where agriculture is practiced.

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Marcello Mastrorilli; Via Ulpiani 5 1 Crea-Aa; Raffaella Zucaro. Towards sustainable use of water in rainfed and irrigated cropping systems: review of some technical and policy issues. AIMS Agriculture and Food 2016, 1, 294 -314.

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Marcello Mastrorilli, Via Ulpiani 5 1 Crea-Aa, Raffaella Zucaro. Towards sustainable use of water in rainfed and irrigated cropping systems: review of some technical and policy issues. AIMS Agriculture and Food. 2016; 1 (3):294-314.

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Marcello Mastrorilli; Via Ulpiani 5 1 Crea-Aa; Raffaella Zucaro. 2016. "Towards sustainable use of water in rainfed and irrigated cropping systems: review of some technical and policy issues." AIMS Agriculture and Food 1, no. 3: 294-314.

Journal article
Published: 02 November 2015 in Italian Journal of Agronomy
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Brassicaceae are promising oil feedstock for cultivation in centralsouthern Italy. Therefore, a two-year investigation on Brassica carinata A. Braun (cv. CT 204) was carried out in three sites of Apulia region [Site 1, Alberobello - Murgia foreland; Site 2, Troia (Foggia) - Daunian sub-Apennines; Site 3, Monteroni (Lecce) - Area of Salento], and in one site of Basilicata region (Site 4, Hill of Matera). The aim was to identify site-specific management practices [by comparing minimum vs conventional tillage, low sowing density vs high sowing density; different levels of nitrogen (N) supply and organic fertilisers] in the four different marginal areas, to achieve optimum yield performance for biodiesel prospective production. The crop showed a good adaptability in the study sites, and the highest N level positively influenced the yield performance in Sites 1, 2 and 3. Moreover, the reduction of mechanical operations (minimum tillage) did not negatively influence crop production and seed oil content. The highest density of sowing tested determined the best crop performance in Site 3, particularly showing the maximum seed oil content with the lowest N supply. Finally, in Site 4 the compost mixed with mineral N fertiliser as well as the sewage sludge from urban wastewater determined productive results comparable to those obtained with mineral fertiliser, evidencing that organic fertilisers could (partially or completely) substitute the mineral one for this crop in the study site. On the whole, seed yield and oil content showed a potential for biodiesel production of Brassica carinata cultivated with site-specific agronomic techniques in four different marginal areas of Southern Italy, suggesting it can be likely achieved the crop environmental adaptation.

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Francesco Montemurro; Mariangela Diacono; Marcello Scarcella; Laura D'Andrea; Francesca Boari; Angelo Santino; Marcello Mastrorilli. Agronomic performance for biodiesel production potential of Brassica carinata A. Braun in Mediterranean marginal areas. Italian Journal of Agronomy 2015, 10, 57 -64.

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Francesco Montemurro, Mariangela Diacono, Marcello Scarcella, Laura D'Andrea, Francesca Boari, Angelo Santino, Marcello Mastrorilli. Agronomic performance for biodiesel production potential of Brassica carinata A. Braun in Mediterranean marginal areas. Italian Journal of Agronomy. 2015; 10 (1):57-64.

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Francesco Montemurro; Mariangela Diacono; Marcello Scarcella; Laura D'Andrea; Francesca Boari; Angelo Santino; Marcello Mastrorilli. 2015. "Agronomic performance for biodiesel production potential of Brassica carinata A. Braun in Mediterranean marginal areas." Italian Journal of Agronomy 10, no. 1: 57-64.

Journal article
Published: 02 November 2015 in Italian Journal of Agronomy
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The development of energy crops can provide environmental benefits and may represent an opportunity to improve agriculture in areas considered at low productivity. In this work, we studied the energy potential of two species (Brassica carinata A. Braun and Cynara cardunculus L.) and their seed oil productivity under different growth conditions. Furthermore, the biodiesel from the oil extracted from the seeds of these species was produced and analysed in term of utilisation as fuels in compression ignition engines. In particular, the spray penetration and shape ratio were measured in a constant-volume chamber and compared with the results obtained with a standard diesel fuel. These results were obtained using a standard common rail injection system at different injection pressure, injection duration, and constant-volume chamber pressure.

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Stefania De Domenico; Luciano Strafella; Leone D’Amico; Marcello Mastrorilli; Antonio Ficarella; Paolo Carlucci; Angelo Santino. Biodiesel production from Cynara cardunculus L. and Brassica carinata A. Braun seeds and their suitability as fuels in compression ignition engines. Italian Journal of Agronomy 2015, 10, 47 -56.

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Stefania De Domenico, Luciano Strafella, Leone D’Amico, Marcello Mastrorilli, Antonio Ficarella, Paolo Carlucci, Angelo Santino. Biodiesel production from Cynara cardunculus L. and Brassica carinata A. Braun seeds and their suitability as fuels in compression ignition engines. Italian Journal of Agronomy. 2015; 10 (1):47-56.

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Stefania De Domenico; Luciano Strafella; Leone D’Amico; Marcello Mastrorilli; Antonio Ficarella; Paolo Carlucci; Angelo Santino. 2015. "Biodiesel production from Cynara cardunculus L. and Brassica carinata A. Braun seeds and their suitability as fuels in compression ignition engines." Italian Journal of Agronomy 10, no. 1: 47-56.

Journal article
Published: 02 October 2015 in BioEnergy Research
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The suitability of poplar (Populus × canadensis Moench.—genotype ‘Neva’), black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.), and eucalyptus (Eucalyptus bridgesiana R. Baker) growing in short rotation coppice (SRC) system in a Mediterranean area (southern Italy), and under two management regimes, was evaluated in terms of survival, biomass yield, biomass quality, and soil fertility. The high management regime (H treatment) consisted of high plant density (6667 trees ha−1) and a 2-year harvesting cycle; the low management regime (L treatment) consisted of low plant density (1667 trees ha−1) and a 4-year harvesting cycle. The dry biomass production was 36, 13, and 9 t dry matter (dm) ha−1 in the H treatment and 25, 14, and 7 t dm ha−1 in the L treatment for eucalyptus, black locust, and poplar, respectively. The analysis of the biomass showed a superior quality for the black locust feedstock because of its low moisture and ash percentages, high heating value (HHV), and low alkali metal concentrations, although, from an environmental point of view, the high N (12.3 g kg−1) and S (0.7 g kg−1) biomass concentrations would increase the pollutant emissions generated by combustion. Eucalyptus showed a high HHV, especially for the H treatment (18.70 MJ kg−1). Its high concentrations of K (4 g kg−1) and Mg (0.8 g kg−1) could provoke slagging and fouling in combustion equipment, and the high concentrations of S and N, if leaves are considered in the harvested biomass, indicate the low quality of its feedstock. No specific poplar feedstock stood out, although it had a good HHV (19.02 MJ kg−1). The soil fertility was not affected negatively after the 4-year SRC cycle, while S content in soil showed a tendency to increase in the case of black locust cultivation.

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Alejandra Navarro; Anna Maria Stellacci; Pasquale Campi; Carolina Vitti; Francesca Modugno; Marcello Mastrorilli. Feasibility of SRC Species for Growing in Mediterranean Conditions. BioEnergy Research 2015, 9, 208 -223.

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Alejandra Navarro, Anna Maria Stellacci, Pasquale Campi, Carolina Vitti, Francesca Modugno, Marcello Mastrorilli. Feasibility of SRC Species for Growing in Mediterranean Conditions. BioEnergy Research. 2015; 9 (1):208-223.

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Alejandra Navarro; Anna Maria Stellacci; Pasquale Campi; Carolina Vitti; Francesca Modugno; Marcello Mastrorilli. 2015. "Feasibility of SRC Species for Growing in Mediterranean Conditions." BioEnergy Research 9, no. 1: 208-223.

Journal article
Published: 18 September 2015 in Italian Journal of Agronomy
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The use of treated wastewater to irrigate the sugar beet (Beta Vulgaris L. var. saccharifera) for bioethanol could play a strategic role to contrast the use of natural water resources and increase the productivity of the crop. The 2-year experiment (2013-2014) was performed on sugar beet irrigated with fresh water and wastewater at different steps of the reclamation process (secondary and tertiary treatments). The data obtained showed that the root sugar beet yield and ethanol production under fresh water treatment (52.2 Mg ha–1 and 5446 L ha–1) were lower respect to that obtained from the secondary and tertiary wastewater treatments (66.7 Mg ha–1 and 6785 L ha–1, and 58.7 Mg h–1 and 6164 L ha–1, respectively), with the same irrigation volumes. These results can depend on the higher quantity of nutrient uptake when wastewater is used for irrigation. In particular, the average N applied (as nitrate and ammonium) with irrigation during the growing seasons (2013 and 2014) was corresponding to the supply of 4, 28 and 20 kg ha–1, for the fresh water, secondary, and tertiary wastewater treatments, respectively.

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Pasquale Campi; Alejandra Navarro; A. Domenico Palumbo; Marcello Mastrangelo; Antonio Lonigro; Marcello Mastrorilli. Bioenergy productivity of sugar beet irrigated with reclaimed wastewaters. Italian Journal of Agronomy 2015, 10, 155 .

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Pasquale Campi, Alejandra Navarro, A. Domenico Palumbo, Marcello Mastrangelo, Antonio Lonigro, Marcello Mastrorilli. Bioenergy productivity of sugar beet irrigated with reclaimed wastewaters. Italian Journal of Agronomy. 2015; 10 (3):155.

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Pasquale Campi; Alejandra Navarro; A. Domenico Palumbo; Marcello Mastrangelo; Antonio Lonigro; Marcello Mastrorilli. 2015. "Bioenergy productivity of sugar beet irrigated with reclaimed wastewaters." Italian Journal of Agronomy 10, no. 3: 155.

Journal article
Published: 09 June 2015 in Italian Journal of Agronomy
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The performance of a water balance model is also based on the ability to correctly perform simulations in heterogeneous soils. The objective of this paper is to test CRITERIA and AquaCrop models in order to evaluate their suitability in estimating evapotranspiration at the field scale in two types of soil in the Mediterranean region: non-stony and stony soil. The first step of the work was to calibrate both models under the non-stony conditions. The models were calibrated by using observations on wheat crop (leaf area index or canopy cover, and phenological stages as a function of degree days) and pedo-climatic measurements. The second step consisted in the analysing the impact of the soil type on the models performances by comparing simulated and measured values. The outputs retained in the analysis were soil water content (at the daily scale) and crop evapotranspiration (at two time scales: daily and crop season). The model performances were evaluated through four statistical tests: normalised difference (D%) at the seasonal time scale; and relative root mean square error (RRMSE), efficiency index (EF), coefficient of determination (r2) at the daily scale. At the seasonal scale, values of D% were less than 15% in stony and on-stony soils, indicating a good performance attained by both models. At the daily scale, the RRMSE values (2) indicate the inadequacy of AquaCrop to simulate correctly daily evapotranspiration. The higher performance of CRITERIA model to simulate daily evapotranspiration in stony soils, is due to the soil submodel, which requires the percentage skeleton as an input, while AquaCrop model takes into account the presence of skeleton by reducing the soil volume.

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Pasquale Campi; Francesca Modugno; Alejandra Navarro; Fausto Tomei; Giulia Villani; Marcello Mastrorilli. Evapotranspiration simulated by CRITERIA and AquaCrop models in stony soils. Italian Journal of Agronomy 2015, 10, 67 -73.

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Pasquale Campi, Francesca Modugno, Alejandra Navarro, Fausto Tomei, Giulia Villani, Marcello Mastrorilli. Evapotranspiration simulated by CRITERIA and AquaCrop models in stony soils. Italian Journal of Agronomy. 2015; 10 (2):67-73.

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Pasquale Campi; Francesca Modugno; Alejandra Navarro; Fausto Tomei; Giulia Villani; Marcello Mastrorilli. 2015. "Evapotranspiration simulated by CRITERIA and AquaCrop models in stony soils." Italian Journal of Agronomy 10, no. 2: 67-73.

Conference paper
Published: 01 January 2015 in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems
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The action aims at reintroducing and re-thinking hemp cultivation, with the purpose of sustainable recovery of highly polluted agricultural land surrounding ILVA, the huge steel plant in Taranto (Italy). Hemp (Cannabis sativa) can be used to reclaim the soils using an innovative, eco-friendly and low-cost technique called phytoremediation. Phytoremediation is the direct use of plants, and their associated microorganisms, to stabilize or reduce contamination in soils, sludges, sediments, surface water, or ground water. Hemp is suitable to be used to recover soils, since it easily grows under different pedo-climatic conditions, hemp can be re-introduced in current cropping systems. Hemp produces high exploitable biomass for the non-food sector. For this reason several experiments have started in order to test industrial hemp and the real ability to recover soils. The experimental data actually encourage to use hemp to reclaim soils contaminated with heavy metals, dioxins, PCBs. It would be necessary to extend the test for collecting definitive data on its effective use to remediate contaminated soils with inorganic and/or organic pollutants.

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Marcello Colao; Marcello Mastrorilli; Vincenzo Fornaro; Claudio Natile; Elvira Tarsitano. C.A.N.A.P.A. - Coltiviamo Azioni per Nutrire, Abitare, Pulire l'Aria (Cropping up Actions for Feeding, for Living and for Cleaning Air). Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems 2015, 364 -369.

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Marcello Colao, Marcello Mastrorilli, Vincenzo Fornaro, Claudio Natile, Elvira Tarsitano. C.A.N.A.P.A. - Coltiviamo Azioni per Nutrire, Abitare, Pulire l'Aria (Cropping up Actions for Feeding, for Living and for Cleaning Air). Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems. 2015; ():364-369.

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Marcello Colao; Marcello Mastrorilli; Vincenzo Fornaro; Claudio Natile; Elvira Tarsitano. 2015. "C.A.N.A.P.A. - Coltiviamo Azioni per Nutrire, Abitare, Pulire l'Aria (Cropping up Actions for Feeding, for Living and for Cleaning Air)." Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems , no. : 364-369.

Journal article
Published: 03 December 2014 in Agronomy for Sustainable Development
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International audienceThere is a need for sustainable fertilizers because common mineral fertilizers are increasingly costly and often induce water and air pollution. For instance, seagrass compost could be used as fertilizer in the coastal areas of the Mediterranean, thus also solving the issue of beached residues. Here, we studied organic fertilization by application of seagrass-based compost in a tomato and lettuce crop succession. Composts were made of posidonia and yard wastes at 1/4 w/w fresh weight ratio. Compost was applied at two concentrations: 10 and 20 Mg ha−1 fresh weight. Fresh leaves of posidonia were also tested directly as organic mulch in plots treated with conventional fertilizers. A control treatment involved mineral fertilization without mulching soil. Herbicide applications were performed in non-mulched plots immediately before transplanting of tomato and lettuce for controlling the weeds, while mulched treatments did not receive any herbicide application. Results show that 20 Mg ha−1 of posidonia-based compost is equivalent to the inorganic fertilization because the nutritional status and yield of tomato and lettuce were statistically similar. No phytotoxicity symptoms were observed in any of the tomato and lettuce plants mulched with posidonia. The same growth rate was observed for tomato and lettuce growing under conventional management practices: mineral fertilizer and herbicide applications. Overall, our findings show that seagrass-based compost is a promising, sustainable fertilizer for tomato and lettuce

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Francesco Grassi; Marcello Mastrorilli; Carlo Mininni; Angelo Parente; Angelo Santino; Marcello Scarcella; Pietro Santamaria. Posidonia residues can be used as organic mulch and soil amendment for lettuce and tomato production. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 2014, 35, 679 -689.

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Francesco Grassi, Marcello Mastrorilli, Carlo Mininni, Angelo Parente, Angelo Santino, Marcello Scarcella, Pietro Santamaria. Posidonia residues can be used as organic mulch and soil amendment for lettuce and tomato production. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. 2014; 35 (2):679-689.

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Francesco Grassi; Marcello Mastrorilli; Carlo Mininni; Angelo Parente; Angelo Santino; Marcello Scarcella; Pietro Santamaria. 2014. "Posidonia residues can be used as organic mulch and soil amendment for lettuce and tomato production." Agronomy for Sustainable Development 35, no. 2: 679-689.

Journal article
Published: 21 August 2014 in Italian Journal of Agronomy
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The sustainability of biomass sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench.) in the Mediterranean environment is linked to the possibility of increasing crop productivity by using conventional clean water and wastewater irrigation. An experimental setup was arranged in Southern Italy during 2012 and 2013 seasons to determine the potential productivity of biomass sorghum irrigated with conventional water at different irrigation regimes (100 and 50% of calculated evapotranspiration) and different types of municipal wastewater. During the sorghum growing season, the crop development (biomass and leaf are index) and the soil water content were monitored for all irrigation treatments. The data obtained showed that the dry biomass of sorghum irrigated with the deficit treatment (17 t ha–1) was lower compared with conventionally irrigated sorghum. For both seasons and under full irrigated conditions, sorghum irrigated with wastewater produced on average more dry biomass (23 t ha–1) than the crop irrigated with conventional water (20.5 t ha–1), using the same irrigation volumes.

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Pasquale Campi; Alejandra Navarro; A. Domenico Palumbo; Michele Solimando; Antonio Lonigro; Marcello Mastrorilli. Productivity of energy sorghum irrigated with reclaimed wastewaters. Italian Journal of Agronomy 2014, 9, 115 .

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Pasquale Campi, Alejandra Navarro, A. Domenico Palumbo, Michele Solimando, Antonio Lonigro, Marcello Mastrorilli. Productivity of energy sorghum irrigated with reclaimed wastewaters. Italian Journal of Agronomy. 2014; 9 (3):115.

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Pasquale Campi; Alejandra Navarro; A. Domenico Palumbo; Michele Solimando; Antonio Lonigro; Marcello Mastrorilli. 2014. "Productivity of energy sorghum irrigated with reclaimed wastewaters." Italian Journal of Agronomy 9, no. 3: 115.

Journal article
Published: 16 April 2014 in Italian Journal of Agronomy
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Pasquale Campi; Francesca Modugno; Marcello Mastrorilli; Fausto Tomei; Giulia Villani; Vittorio Marletto. Evapotranspiration of tomato simulated with the CRITERIA model. Italian Journal of Agronomy 2014, 9, 93 .

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Pasquale Campi, Francesca Modugno, Marcello Mastrorilli, Fausto Tomei, Giulia Villani, Vittorio Marletto. Evapotranspiration of tomato simulated with the CRITERIA model. Italian Journal of Agronomy. 2014; 9 (2):93.

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Pasquale Campi; Francesca Modugno; Marcello Mastrorilli; Fausto Tomei; Giulia Villani; Vittorio Marletto. 2014. "Evapotranspiration of tomato simulated with the CRITERIA model." Italian Journal of Agronomy 9, no. 2: 93.

Reference entry
Published: 15 April 2014 in eLS
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Nader Katerji; Marcello Mastrorilli. Water Use Efficiency of Cultivated Crops. eLS 2014, 1 .

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Nader Katerji, Marcello Mastrorilli. Water Use Efficiency of Cultivated Crops. eLS. 2014; ():1.

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Nader Katerji; Marcello Mastrorilli. 2014. "Water Use Efficiency of Cultivated Crops." eLS , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 11 April 2014 in Trees
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The genotype ‘Neva’ under high plant density showed the highest biomass yield and optimal physiological strategies and could be the most suitable choice under semi-arid environment

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Alejandra Navarro; Gianni Facciotto; Pasquale Campi; Marcello Mastrorilli. Physiological adaptations of five poplar genotypes grown under SRC in the semi-arid Mediterranean environment. Trees 2014, 28, 983 -994.

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Alejandra Navarro, Gianni Facciotto, Pasquale Campi, Marcello Mastrorilli. Physiological adaptations of five poplar genotypes grown under SRC in the semi-arid Mediterranean environment. Trees. 2014; 28 (4):983-994.

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Alejandra Navarro; Gianni Facciotto; Pasquale Campi; Marcello Mastrorilli. 2014. "Physiological adaptations of five poplar genotypes grown under SRC in the semi-arid Mediterranean environment." Trees 28, no. 4: 983-994.

Journal article
Published: 01 December 2013 in Agricultural Water Management
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The FAO AquaCrop model has been conceived as a tool for simulating, on a daily scale, the canopy cover(CC), biomass and the actual evapotranspiration and for simulating, on a seasonal scale, the final biomass,the harvested yield, the cumulate actual evapotranspiration, and the crop water use efficiency. Thisperformance was analysed after a series of tests carried on 12 crop cycles, concerning corn and tomatogrown in the Mediterranean region, and having three levels of plant water stress: absence of plant waterstress (control), moderately stressed and severely stressed. The results highlight the effects of threefactors affecting the AquaCrop performances: the species, the level of plant water stress during the cropcycle and the output variable to simulate.The AquaCrop adequately simulates the daily canopy cover (CC) in control treatments of tomato andcorn, and in moderate stress treatment of corn. In the severe stressed treatment of corn, the simulatedvalues of CC were close to the measured values only from sowing to 60 days after sowing, after that thesimulated values do not fit the measurements.The AquaCrop model adequately simulates the daily biomass accumulation under all treatments intomato and under non-stressed and moderate stressed treatments in corn. However, the simulatedbiomass outputs were generally overestimated during the late stages of the crop cycles and, conse-quently, the yield also exhibited a tendency to be overestimated. Nevertheless, the yield overestimationcan be retained as acceptable because the normalised differences (D) between the simulations and mea-sured values were less than 15% on average. An exception was the tomato yield simulated in the severelystressed treatment, for which D was greater than 30%. In contrast, in the case of the severely stressedtreatment in corn, AquaCrop did not exhibit any aptitude for simulating the biomass or the grain yield.In fact, the model predicts the absence of any yield production, while 5 t ha−1of grain were actuallymeasured in the severely stressed treatment.The daily actual evapotranspiration simulated by AquaCrop was consistent with the observations onlyin the case of the control treatments of tomato, in all the three seasons. In contrast, for the other treatments(all treatments in corn and all stressed treatments in tomato), the quality of the evapotranspirationsimulation was poor.In general, AquaCrop underestimated the seasonal values of evapotranspiration. The normalised dif-ferences between the seasonal values of the observations and simulations are acceptable in the case ofthe tomato evapotranspiration (D = −7%). However, in the case of corn, the differences are related to thelevel of plant water stress, and they become unacceptable (D = −36%) in the severely stressed treatments.The overestimation of the yield and the underestimation of the seasonal evapotranspiration cause thesimulations of the water use efficiency to be overestimated. In the specific case of corn, due to the unac-ceptable performance of the model under severely stressed treatments, the linear regression betweenthe observations and measurements of water use efficiency is unsatisfactory.The potential uses of the AquaCrop model as a tool for research purposes aimed to enhance the waterefficiency and as a tool for managing irrigation have been deeply discussed. The paths that should befollowed in the future to improve the model simulations have also been suggeste

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Nader Katerji; Pasquale Campi; Marcello Mastrorilli. Productivity, evapotranspiration, and water use efficiency of corn and tomato crops simulated by AquaCrop under contrasting water stress conditions in the Mediterranean region. Agricultural Water Management 2013, 130, 14 -26.

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Nader Katerji, Pasquale Campi, Marcello Mastrorilli. Productivity, evapotranspiration, and water use efficiency of corn and tomato crops simulated by AquaCrop under contrasting water stress conditions in the Mediterranean region. Agricultural Water Management. 2013; 130 ():14-26.

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Nader Katerji; Pasquale Campi; Marcello Mastrorilli. 2013. "Productivity, evapotranspiration, and water use efficiency of corn and tomato crops simulated by AquaCrop under contrasting water stress conditions in the Mediterranean region." Agricultural Water Management 130, no. : 14-26.

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Published: 01 June 2012 in Scientia Horticulturae
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Alejandra Navarro; Antonio Elia; Giulia Conversa; Pasquale Campi; Marcello Mastrorilli. Potted mycorrhizal carnation plants and saline stress: Growth, quality and nutritional plant responses. Scientia Horticulturae 2012, 140, 131 -139.

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Alejandra Navarro, Antonio Elia, Giulia Conversa, Pasquale Campi, Marcello Mastrorilli. Potted mycorrhizal carnation plants and saline stress: Growth, quality and nutritional plant responses. Scientia Horticulturae. 2012; 140 ():131-139.

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Alejandra Navarro; Antonio Elia; Giulia Conversa; Pasquale Campi; Marcello Mastrorilli. 2012. "Potted mycorrhizal carnation plants and saline stress: Growth, quality and nutritional plant responses." Scientia Horticulturae 140, no. : 131-139.

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Published: 30 April 2012 in European Journal of Agronomy
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The current study aims to examine the hypothesis that the determination of the emergence rate is a possible indicator of the plant potential to tolerate soil salinity under field conditions. This hypothesis is analysed using specific experiments on salt-sensitive (chickpea and broad bean) and salt-tolerant (durum wheat and barley) species. For each of the four crops, two varieties that displayed a clear difference in yield production under a saline environment were subjected to two types of analysis. The first type of analysis was used to classify the salt-tolerance of different varieties using two criteria as follows: (1) the relationship between yield and soil salinity; (2) the water use efficiency. The second type of analysis determined the emergence rate as a function of the irrigation-water salinity. The criteria that were used in the current study for classifying the varietal salt-tolerance of each crop provided similar conclusions. However, the hypothesis that the emergence rate was associated with the varietal potential for salt-tolerance was not confirmed by the results of this analysis. On the contrary, the results demonstrated that some varieties combined poor emergence with a high crop salt-tolerance. These varieties included ILC 3279 of the chickpea and Cham-1 of the durum wheat. The current study does not support the hypothesis that postulated the existence of a correlation between the emergence rate and the potential of a variety to tolerate the soil salinity. Finally, practical applications of these conclusions are discussed

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N. Katerji; M. Mastrorilli; F.Z. Lahmer; T. Oweis. Emergence rate as a potential indicator of crop salt-tolerance. European Journal of Agronomy 2012, 38, 1 -9.

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N. Katerji, M. Mastrorilli, F.Z. Lahmer, T. Oweis. Emergence rate as a potential indicator of crop salt-tolerance. European Journal of Agronomy. 2012; 38 ():1-9.

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N. Katerji; M. Mastrorilli; F.Z. Lahmer; T. Oweis. 2012. "Emergence rate as a potential indicator of crop salt-tolerance." European Journal of Agronomy 38, no. : 1-9.

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Published: 28 March 2012 in Italian Journal of Agronomy
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The vulnerability of Mediterranean environment due to climatic changes makes necessary to define the effects of the increase of CO2 atmospheric concentration and the consequent alterations of temperature and precipitation variations upon the processes which regulate the plants’ water supply. The traditional research can not meet the needs of this information because of the difficulty of carrying out the experiments. Therefore, it is necessary to use models based upon mathematical representation of the processes and interactions between climatic scenarios, plant and soil, with which to simulate different agronomic situations. The integration of global circulation models with water balance models is a valid tool for studying the influence of climatic changes on water supply. This study took into account the influence of climatic changes on water supply of poly-annual (artichoke and asparagus) and annual (potato and broccoli) crops with the CRITERIA simulation model of water balance. The simulations were performed with two future climate scenarios (A2 and B1). The results of the simulations highlight how the A2 scenario gives a greater influence on cycle length of crops which develop in summer time determining a reduction of crop cycle from 15 to 20% compared to the observed data, and so, as a consequence in the future, the crops with a summer crop cycle will be subjected to reductions of water supply up to 25%.

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Pasquale Campi; Alejandra Navarro; Luisa Giglio; Angelo D. Palumbo; Marcello Mastrorilli. Modelling for water supply of irrigated cropping systems on climate change. Italian Journal of Agronomy 2012, 7, 14 .

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Pasquale Campi, Alejandra Navarro, Luisa Giglio, Angelo D. Palumbo, Marcello Mastrorilli. Modelling for water supply of irrigated cropping systems on climate change. Italian Journal of Agronomy. 2012; 7 (1):14.

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Pasquale Campi; Alejandra Navarro; Luisa Giglio; Angelo D. Palumbo; Marcello Mastrorilli. 2012. "Modelling for water supply of irrigated cropping systems on climate change." Italian Journal of Agronomy 7, no. 1: 14.