Iovane, Maurizio (2022) The role of pollen in plant resilience to climate change. [Tesi di dottorato]

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Item Type:	Tesi di dottorato
Resource language:	English
Title:	The role of pollen in plant resilience to climate change
Creators:	Creators Email Iovane, Maurizio maurizio.iovane@unina.it
Date:	10 March 2022
Number of Pages:	164
Institution:	Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Department:	Agraria
Dottorato:	Sustainable agricultural and forestry systems and food security
Ciclo di dottorato:	34
Coordinatore del Corso di dottorato:	nome email Maggio, Albino almaggio@unina.it
Tutor:	nome email Aronne, Giovanna UNSPECIFIED
Date:	10 March 2022
Number of Pages:	164
Keywords:	Pollen viability; Pollen germination; Heat-stress; Food security; Climate change
Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR:	Area 05 - Scienze biologiche > BIO/03 - Botanica ambientale e applicata
Date Deposited:	22 Mar 2022 11:03
Last Modified:	28 Feb 2024 10:46
URI:	http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/14448

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Pollen interaction with the environmental factors represents a potential bottleneck that can drastically limit reproductive success both in rare and in crop species. Among environmental constraints, high temperatures and humidity are well known to affect pollen viability, pollen germinability and fertilization success. Negative effects of high temperature before pollen development have been described on microsporogenesis of several species. Despite the general knowledge on the effect of temperature on plant reproduction, studies aimed at investigating possible implications of heat stress induced aberrations on the later gametogenesis phases have been generally neglected. All research activities carried out during the Ph.D. aimed to bridge this gap of knowledge deepening the effect of the main factors affecting pollen functionality. This approach was applied both to wild species threatened with extinction and to crop species. In the first case the main aim was to contribute at identifying the bottleneck limiting the generation turnover and the long-term conservation of the species. For crops the main goal was to analyse the species resilience to environmental factors in a scenario of climate changes. Additionally, the approach of analysing the interaction between plants and environmental factors was also extended to space factors, and more specifically to altered gravity conditions. These research activities were aimed at contributing to succeed in the long-term mission to Moon and Mars by using plants in Bioregenerative Life Support Systems.

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