Marco Esposito

marco.esposito@santannapisa.it
Non assegnato

Bio

Postdoctoral Associate at the Center of Plant Science, Group of Agroecology

Interests:

Agroecology
Plant-plant interaction
Weed ecology and management
Plant physiology

Contacts information:

E-mail: marco.esposito@santannapisa.it

Office’s Address: Via Francesco Crispi, Pisa (PI), 56125, Italy

Phone : (+39) 366 4141 211

WeChat ID: wxid_m53d6oqyt7xy22

Ricerca

I am interested in identifying new agroecological practices to reduce the application of pesticides and intensive soil tillage, increasing biodiversity, ecosystem services, soil health, and water availability to crops.

My research focuses on understanding the ecological and biological interactions between crops, weed communities, and the other biotic/abiotic components of the agroecosystem through a multidisciplinary approach.

One of my principal interests is to study lower-impact or Neutral Weed Communities that can coexist with crops without significantly reducing their yield and quality compared to weed-free conditions.

My research is also focused on understanding how to manipulate the composition of weed species to result in less or non-detrimental weed communities using new technologies such as artificial intelligence, weeder robots, and RNAi.

Pubblicazioni

Esposito, M., Westbrook, A., Maggio, A., Cirillo, V., & DiTommaso, A. (2023). Neutral weed communities: The intersection between crop productivity, biodiversity, and weed ecosystem services. Weed Science, 1-30. doi:10.1017/wsc.2023.27
Esposito, M., Cirillo, V., De Vita, P., Cozzolino, E., & Maggio, A. (2023). Soil nutrition management may preserve non-detrimental weed communities in rainfed winter wheat (T. aestivum). Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 355, 108596.
Esposito, M., Crimaldi, M., Cirillo, V., Sarghini, F., and Maggio, A. (2021). Drone and sensor technology for sustainable weed management: a review. Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture, 8(1), 1-11.
De Pascale, S., Rouphael, Y., Cirillo, V., Esposito, M., Maggio, A. (2021, September). Modular systems to foster circular economy in agriculture. In VIII South-Eastern Europe Symposium on Vegetables and Potatoes 1320 (pp. 205-210).
Cirillo, V., D’Amelia, V., Esposito, M., Amitrano, C., Carillo, P., Carputo, D., Maggio, A. (2021). Anthocyanins Are Key Regulators of Drought Stress Tolerance in Tobacco. Biology, 10(2), 139.
Di Stasio, E., Cirillo, V., Raimondi, G., Giordano, M., Esposito, M., Maggio, A. (2020). Osmo-priming with seaweed extracts enhances the yield of salt-stressed tomato plants. Agronomy, 10(10), 1559.

Corsi

Weed Science Society of America & Northeastern Weed Science Society Arlington (VA), USA. January 30 – February 2, 2023. Esposito, M.*, Cirillo V., Maggio A., DiTommaso A. Neutral weed communities: The junction point between Crop Productivity, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services * Speaker
XVII. Congress of the European Society for Agronomy Potsdam, Germany. August 29 - September 02, 2022 Cirillo V., Esposito M., Lentini M., Russo C., Maggio A. The effect of different weed communities on the growth and yield of tender wheat.
Proceedings of the 51st National Conference of the Italian Society for Agronomy, Agriculture, and Food Availability in 2050 University of Padova (Italy). 19 - 21 September 2022. Cirillo V., Esposito M., Lentini M., Russo C., Maggio A. The Effect of Different Weed Communities on Growth and Yield of Tender Wheat (T. aestivum): An Eco-Physiological Perspective.
Italian Society for Agronomy (SIA) “Sustainable management of cropping systems” Bari(BA), Italy. 16-18 September 2020. Esposito, M., Cirillo, V., Crimaldi, M., Sarghini, F., & Maggio, A. Sustainable Weed Management: Modern Approaches and New Perspectives
Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics (SIGA), Young Web Meeting 7 July 202. Molisso D., Lentini M., Natale R., Cirillo V., Esposito M., Maggio A., Rao R. Tomato systemin: a potential link between biotic and abiotic stresses.