Programme

• 23 September
• 24 September
• 25 September
• 26 September
• POSTERS

• Monday, 23 September
  9:00-13:00	Registration
  13:00-14:00	Light lunch
  14:00-14:30	Opening ceremony
  Session I: Natural and agricultural soil systems Chairs: Tommaso Chiti and Antonio Gelsomino
  14:30-15:15	Invited speaker Takashi Kosaki, President, International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS) Harmonization of natural and agricultural soil systems for sustaining society
  15:15-15:30	Antonello Bonfante, A. Basile, J. Bouma Exploring the effect of varying soil organic matter contents on current and future moisture supply capacities of six Italian soils
  15:30-15:45	Ronen C.A. Francis, M.N. Wuddivira, G.A. Gouveia, D. Bramble Structural and hydraulic feedbacks in humid tropical soils amended with aglime and organic residues
  15:45-16:00	G. Brunetti, Francesco De Mastro, A. Traversa, F. Nigro, C. Cocozza Impact of different soil management on soil microbial community
  16:00-16:30	Coffee break
  16:30-16:45	Andrea Ciurli, D. Sega, G. Renella, L. Giagnoni, R. Pastorelli, A. Zamboni, Z. Varanini FePO4 nanoparticles as a source of nutrients: effects on plant transcriptome and on soil microbial communities and functions
  16:45-17:00	Eleonora Grilli, M. Bastidas, M. Bijl, S. Carvalho, E. Coppola, T. La Mantia, C.A.R. Machado, M. Mastrocicco, M. Rossana, F. Pulido, M.J. Roxo, F.A. Rutigliano, P. Quatrini, A. Sarmento, S. Castaldi Drivers of soil quality in agro-ecosystems and managed forested lands of Mediterranean areas under increasing climatic risk
  17:00-17:15	Simone Priori, R. Barbetti, L. Meini, A. Morelli, A. Zampolli, L. D’Avino Field scale economic land evaluation based on spatial variability of soil functions
  17:15-18:00	Poster presentations (Session I)
  18:00-19:00	General Assembly (SISS)

• Tuesday, 24 September
  8:30-18:00	Pedological and cultural excursion
  18:30-19:30	General Assembly (SIPe)

• Wednesday, 25 September
  Session II: Soil pollution and food safety Chairs: Valeria Ancona and Paola Castaldi
  9:00-9:45	Invited speaker Fabio Terribile University of Naples "Federico II", Italy An operational tool to challenge land take at the European scale
  9:45-10:00	Antonio G. Caporale, P. Adamo In vitro bioaccessibility of potentially toxic elements in particle-size fractions from an industrial soil of south Italy
  10:00-10:15	Erika Di Iorio, L. Circelli, C. Colombo, A. Paltseva, M. Deeb, Z. Cheng Use of Vis-NIR Spectroscopy to predict the impact of different amendments on Pb and As bioaccessibility in urban soils
  10:15-10:30	Albert Kobina Mensah, B. Marschner, S.M. Shaheen, J. Rinklebe Arsenic in an abandoned gold mine spoil in Ghana: effects of pH, geochemical fractionation and potential mobilisation
  10:30-11:00	Coffee break
  11:00-11:15	Elio Padoan, A.H. Couto, F. Ajmone Marsan Potential release of zinc and cadmium in soils contaminated by heavy metals under flooding
  11:15-11:30	Giovanni Garau, A. Porceddu, B. Manunza, P. Castaldi Municipal solid wastes as gentle remediation options for the (bio)chemical recovery of As and trace metal-polluted soils
  11:30-11:45	Tommy Pepè Sciarria, S. Zangarini, L. Trombino, F. Adani, F. Tambone Phosphorus recovery from liquid fraction of digestates by struvite crystallization
  11:45-12:45	Poster presentations (Sessions II and III)
  12:45-14:00	Lunch
  Session III: Organic amendments and soil quality Chairs: Paloma Campos and Claudio Cocozza
  14:00-14:45	Invited speaker José María García-Mina Freire Vice President, International Humic Substances Society (IHSS) Discriminating the action of root applied-and foliar applied-humic acid on plant growth
  14:45-15:00	María Teresa Cieschi, M. Caballero-Molada, I.V. Perminova, J.J. Lucena Are iron humates slow iron release fertilizers?
  15:00-15:15	Massimo Zilio, F. Tambone, F. Bedussi, F. Adani Environmental impact of the use of digestates in agriculture: an open field approach
  15:15-15:30	Daniela Pezzolla, L. Regni, P. Proietti, E. Albertini, S. Ciancaleoni, G. Marozzi, G. Gigliotti Agronomic reuse of olive wastewater and changes on soil chemical properties and microbial community
  15:30-16:00	Coffee break
  16:00-16:15	A. Ioppolo, Armando V. Laudicina, L. Badalucco, A. Micalizzi, F. Saiano, E. Palazzolo Citrus hydrolates as natural biostimulants of soil microorganisms
  16:15-16:30	Beatrice Giannetta, R. Balint, D. Said-Pullicino, C. Plaza, M. Martin, C. Zaccone Redox-driven mineralogical changes in Fe (hydr)oxides across particle-size SOM fractions
  16:30-16:45	Mariia Pukalchik, O. Yakimenko, K. Kydralieva, V. Terekhova Artificial intelligence approach to predict changes in biological properties of the heavy metal polluted soils after organic-based amendments addition
  16:45-17:45	General Assembly (SICA)
  18:00	Transfer to the social dinner venue
  19:30	Social dinner

• Thursday, 26 September
  Session IV: Plant responses to natural and human-induced drivers Chairs: Ivana Cavoski and Andrea Ertani
  9:00-9:45	Invited speaker Philip J. White, Programme Leader, The James Hutton Institute Improving nutrient acquisition by plants from the soil
  9:45-10:00	Fabrizio Araniti, M.R. Abenavoli Metabolic changes induced by Cuscuta campestris Yunck. on the host species Artemisia campestris subsp. variabilis (ten.) Greuter as a strategy to increase the parasitization success
  10:00-10:15	A. Mannucci, L. Mariotti, Antonella Castagna, M.F. Quartacci, A. Trivellini, A. Mensuali-Sodi, A. Ranieri Hormone responses to UV-B irradiation: what happens in leaves and roots of tomato plants?
  10:15-10:30	Emilia Dell’Aversana, M. van Oosten, A. Maggio, P. Woodrow, P. Carillo, G.M. Fusco Omeprazole enhances NUE through increased nitrogen uptake and assimilation in corn
  10:30-11:00	Coffee break
  11:00-11:15	Begoña Miras-Moreno, G. Colla, Y. Rouphael, M. Cardarelli, M. Trevisan, L. Lucini Defining the active biostimulant fractions of a plant-derived protein hydrolysate using an integrated molecular fractionation and metabolomics approach
  11:15-11:30	Bhakti Prinsi, L. Brancadoro, O. Failla, L. Espen Proteomic changes in the roots of three grapevine rootstocks in response to nitrate availability
  11:30-11:45	L. Zanin, S. Gottardi, W. Biała, R. de Brito Francisco, S. Venuti, F. Valentinuzzi, T. Mimmo, S. Cesco, B. Bassin, M. Jasiński, E. Martinoia, R. Pinton, Nicola Tomasi Identification of an isoflavonoid transporter required for the nodule establishment of the Rhizobium-Fabaceae symbiotic interaction
  11:45-12:45	Poster presentations (Sessions IV and V)
  12:45-14:00	Lunch
  Session V: Frontiers in plant and soil sciences Chairs: Silvia Celletti and Daniel Said Pullicino
  14:00-14:45	Invited speaker Yiannis Deligiannakis, President, International Humic Substances Society (IHSS) Humic-nanomaterials hybrids as fertiliser-delivery technology and antioxidants
  14:45-15:00	Pellegrino Conte Applications of fast field cycling NMR relaxometry in soil science
  15:00-15:15	Leonard Barnabas Ebinezer, G. Arrigoni, S. Trevisan, A. Manoli, P. Carletti, C. Francheschi, S. Quaggiotti, A. Masi Unravelling the stimulatory mechanism of APR - a novel Biostimulant: Leveraging transcriptomics and proteomics
  15:15-15:30	Ignazio Allegretta, S. Legrand, M. Alfeld, C.E. Gattullo, M. Spagnuolo, K. Janssens, R. Terzano Classification of soil aggregates using SEM-EDX hyperspectral data analysis
  15:30-16:00	Coffee break
  16:00-16:15	L. Beneduce, C. Plaza, Claudio Zaccone Does physical fractionation of SOM pools preserve information about microbial taxa distribution and ecological functions?
  16:15-16:30	Maria Chiara Guerrieri, M. Trevisan, E. Puglisi Isolation and phenotypic characterization of extracellular PGPR from tomato plant rhizosphere samples
  16:30-16:45	Simona Vingiani, P. Adamo, A.G. Caporale, S. De Pascale, L.G. Duri, M. Palladino, A. Pannico, Y. Rouphael Sustainable space agriculture using MMS1 Martian soil simulant and compost
  16:45	Closing ceremony

• POSTERS

  Session I: Natural and agricultural soil systems

  PI.1 Filiberto Altobelli (Rome)
  Increasing knowledge and awareness of farmers on the role of agriculture in soil protection: LIFE4Soil

  PI.2 Anna Benedetti (Rome)
  An Italian HUB to support the Global Soil Partnership and European Research Network Excellences on soil research: HUB SOIL

  PI.3 De Shorn Bramble (Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago)
  The impact of aglime on soil CO₂ emissions is mediated by organic residue addition

  PI.4 Fatima Ezzahra Chouyia (Portici (Naples))
  Isolation and characterization of phosphate solubilizing bacteria from different origins for potential use  in a lake  phosphate soils

  PI.5 Claudio Cocozza (Bari)
  Effects of Robinia pseudoacacia L. on two apulian soils

  PI.6 Lorenzo D'Avino (Florence)
  Assessing soil carbon trends in Italy through land use and management changes

  PI.7 Francesco De Mastro (Bari)
  Soil biochemical activities as affected by different tillage, fertilization and depth in a semiarid mediterranean agro-ecosystem

  PI.8 Daniele Del Buono (Perugia)
  Extraction of nanostructured starch from purified granules of waxy and nonwaxy barley cultivars

  PI.9 Erika Di Iorio (Campobasso)
  Soil organic carbon variation in organic farming in Molise (South-Central Italy) as evaluated by Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy

  PI.10 Sire Diedhiou (Ziguinchor, Senegal)
  Do arid agroecosystem shrubs enhance soil enzyme activities during the dry season?

  PI.11 Chiara Ferré (Milan)
  Land use change from vineyard to tree plantation in Piedmont hills: effects on soil organic carbon stock and other soil properties

  PI.12 Shadananan Nair Krishnapillai (Kochi, India)
  Climate change and degradation of land and water resources: impact on agriculture production in the dry zones of India

  PI.13 Edoardo Puglisi (Piacenza)
  Assessing the effects of African Neglected and Underutilized Species and soil tillage on belowground microbial diversity and activity

  PI.14 Edoardo Puglisi (Piacenza)
  Microbial insights to sustainability of family farmers of Mt. Meru Zone in Arusha, Tanzania; Neglected and Underutilized Species vs Maize / Food vs Cash

  PI.15 Pere Rovira (Solsona, Spain)
  Soil carbon sequestration upon shifting from conventional to ecological agriculture: do we miss something?

  PI.16 Andreina Traversa (Bari)
  Use of diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform (Drift) to study the composition of four size fractions of soils subjected to different management

  PI.17 Mohammad Yaghoubi Khanghahi (Bari)
  Influence of long-term tillage management on soil fertility level in a Mediterranean agro-ecosystem

  Session II: Soil pollution and food safety

  PII.1 Valeria Ancona (Bari)
  Application of a nature-based solution for recovering a multi-contaminated area in Southern Italy

  PII.2 Paloma Campos (Seville, Spain)
  Application of biochar from crop residues as ameliorant of trace element polluted soils

  PII.3 Arianna De Bernardi (Ancona)
  Phytoextraction ability of four plant species against nickel in carbonation lime coming from sugar industry

  PII.4 Stefania Diquattro (Sassari)
  Influence of biochar on trace metals mobility and leaching in contaminated mining soils

  PII.5 Ciro Galeone (Bari)
  Potential of vis-NIR reflectance spectroscopy for the prediction of soil PCBs content in a historically contaminated site of the SIN of Taranto (Southern Italy)

  PII.6 Concetta Eliana Gattullo (Bari)
   Testing synthetic zeolites obtained from recycled waste materials for oenological applications

  PII.7 Elisabetta Loffredo (Bari)
  Ochratoxin A removal from aqueous and aqueous ethanol solutions using low cost plant-derived adsorbents

  PII.8 Maria Martin (Grugliasco, TO)
  Decreasing arsenic content in Italian rice. Progresses and constraints

  PII.9 Giuseppe Picca (Bari)
  Potential of hemp to remove the emerging contaminants bisphenol A and metalaxyl-M from aqueous media

  PII.10 Edoardo Puglisi (Piacenza)
  Bioaugmentation and phytoremediation: an integrated approach for the remediation of soils with low pollution levels

  PII.11 Ida Rascio (Bari)
  Assessing the distribution and availability of potentially toxic metals (PTMs) in an agricultural soil after simulated fire events

  PII.12 Polina Tregubova (Moscow, Russian Federation)
  Potential for organic amendments to stabilise heavy metals in contaminated soils of technogenic barrens in Kola Peninsula

  PII.13 Hana Voca (Bari)
  Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) and canola (Brassica napus) plants development on Kosovo contaminated soils

  Session III: Organic amendments and soil quality

  PIII.1 Cristina Abbate (Catania)
  Trifolium subterraneum L.cover cropping as a sustainable management for mediterranean agro-ecosystem

  PIII.2 Enrica Allevato (Viterbo)
  Land use change in Fiuggi Basin affects soil humification process leading to different fulvic acids features: implications on ground/spring water quality

  PIII.3 Floriana Bedussi (Milan)
  LIFE DOP: an effective example of  nutrient recovery and use in the dairy sector

  PIII.4 Angelica Bruno (Bari)
  Evaluation of the biostimulant capacity of biomolecules isolated from vegetable biomasses of different origin

  PIII.5 Silvia Celletti (Bolzano)
  Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) of digestate and the potential of its by-products to be used in soilless culture systems

  PIII.6 Gretha Di Donato (Milan)
  Biostimulant activity from Chlorella sp culture

  PIII.7 Gretha Di Donato (Milan)
  Cultivation of microalgae on pig manure: nutrient recovery and biomass production in Chlorella and Scenedesmus

  PIII.8 Giuseppe Di Rauso Simeone (Portici, NA)
  Response of chemical and biochemical indicator of soil quality to OMW digestate disposal

  PIII.9 Giovanna Marta Fusco (Caserta)
  A tropical plant extract biostimulant favours growth and resource use efficiency in jute under sub-optimal nutrient regimens

  PIII.10 Antonio Ganga (Bari)
  Composted sewage with bagasse as commercial substrate for Eucalyptus urophylla x E grandis seedling production

  PIII.11 Antonio Gelsomino (Reggio Calabria)
  A green method to treat exhausted fire-extinguishing powders for reuse as agricultural fertilizer

  PIII.12 Amira Jouini (Palermo)
  Metabolic responses of microbial community in soil amended with fresh leaves and leaf extracts from eucalyptus spp

  PIII.13 Vito Armando Laudicina (Palermo)
  Chemical and biochemical characteristics of compost obtained from dairy and wine by-products

  PIII.14 Elisabetta Loffredo (Bari)
  Benefits of compost-based media for ornamental plants: growth enhancement and suppressive activity towards the phytopathogen Fusarium oxysporum

  PIII.15 Maria Martin (Grugliasco, TO)
  Acid-treatment of the solid separate of pig slurries for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving nutrient balance

  PIII.16 Martina Mazzon (Bologna)
  Management and tillage effects on soil enzyme activities in a long-term agricultural experiment

  PIII.17 Martina Mazzon (Bologna)
  QUABIO project: the agro-ecology strategy to maintain soil quality

  PIII.18 Donato Mondelli (Bari)
  Short-term effects of different organic amendments on soil chemical, biochemical and biological indicators

  PIII.19 Paolo Mulè (Sassari)
  Crop sustainable management in Mediterranean conditions focused on changes in the soil component. A preliminary study in Southern Sardinia

  PIII.20 Adele Muscolo (Reggio Calabria)
  Olive from a waste to a resource: benefits of the end products for agricultural purpose

  PIII.21 Pasquale Napoletano (Naples)
  Short- and long-term effects of a single compost addition on Technosols quality

  PIII.22 Chinyere Blessing Obika (Nsukka, Nigeria)
  Soil fertility and aggregate associated carbon and nitrogen with biochar amendment in relation to localized soil fertilization practice after a four-year intensive vegetable production in Burkina Faso

  PIII.23 Elio Padoan (Grugliasco, TO)
  Ozonization of fermented municipal biowaste to produce value added products

  PIII.24 Marco Parlavecchia (Bari)
  Sorption-desorption of the fungicide metalaxyl-M onto a silty soil not amended and amended with biochar and vermicompost

  PIII.25 Maria Vittoria Pinna (Sassari)
  Which is the biochar most effective in mitigating pollution due to Lumax®?

  PIII.26 Salvatore Rapisarda (Bologna)
  Effects of biodegradable plastic on soil functionality

  PIII.27 Pere Rovira (Solsona, Spain)
  Commercial humic products: do they act as activators of soil microbial activity?

  Session IV: Plant responses to natural and human-induced drivers

  PIV.1 Francesco Bigaran (Rome)
  Characterization of heavy metal pollution in Rome, Italy

  PIV.2 Andrea Ertani (Legnaro, PD)
  Variation in metabolite production and physiological responses of Zea maysL. plants in response to application of commercial lignohumates

  PIV.3 Maria Martin (Grugliasco, TO)
  Effects of inorganic and organic P availability on N fixing capacity of Vicia villosa

  PIV.4 Mauro Maver (Bolzano)
  Characterization of the alkaloid hordenine and its precursors in roots of a modern barley cultivar

  PIV.5 Giuseppe Mezzapesa (Valenzano, BA)
  Ecological variability in 4 wild species of Lamiaceae in the Apulia Region: effects on chemical composition and biological activities of the essential oils

  PIV.6 Begoña Miras-Moreno (Piacenza)
  The impact of selective and non-selective herbicides on the metabolism of tomato plants

  PIV.7 Fabio Nocito (Milan)
  Sulfur isotope mass balance reveals ³²S/³⁴S fractionation during sulfate uptake and translocation in rice.

  PIV.8 Bhakti Prinsi (Milan)
  Variation in phenolic composition and antioxidant properties in leaves and flowers of green and red basil (Ocimum basilicum L.)

  PIV.9 Ivana Puglisi (Catania)
  Effect of microalgal extracts from Chlorella vulgaris and Scenedesmus quadricauda on germination of Beta vulgaris seeds

  PIV.10 Annamaria Ranieri (Pisa)
  Let the sunshine in! Post-harvest UV-B radiation is able to affect the secondary metabolism in flesh of peach fruit

  PIV.11 Gian Attilio Sacchi (Milan)
  The Trehalose-6-phosphate/SnRK1 system in the response to saline conditions during germination of two rice (O. sativa L., ssp. japonica) cultivars with different salt sensitivity

  PIV.12 Gian Attilio Sacchi (Milan)
  Transmembrane transporters and salt tolerance in temperate japonica rice

  PIV.13 Veronica Santoro (Grugliasco (Torino))
  Root exudates involvement in tomato plants response to low P levels

  PIV.14 Adriano Sofo (Matera)
  Soil quality and fertility in an olive orchard managed for 20 years with differential agronomic systems

  PIV.15 Nicola Tomasi (Udine)
  White lupin response to nitrogen and phosphorous deficiencies

  PIV.16 Maria Alessandra Zicari (Bari)
  Cerium a potential pollutant: effects on growth and metabolism in Lemna minor L.

  Session V: Frontiers in plant and soil sciences

  PV.1 Costanza Ceccanti (Pisa)
  Hydroponically-grown Rumex acetosa L. and Sanguisorba minor Scop. respond differently to mowing and the storage as fresh-cut produce

  PV.2 Patrizia De Nisi (Milan)
  Use of pigmented corn cob waste as a natural dye in environmental friendly textile processing (PASTEL)

  PV.3 Maria Luce Bartucca (Perugia)
  The treatment of duckweed with a plant biostimulant or a safener improves the plant capacity to clean water polluted by terbuthylazine

  PV.4 Maria Luce Bartucca (Perugia)
  Effect of light quality on gas exchange and leaf characteristics of Einkorn seedlings

  PV.5 Antonino Ioppolo (Palermo)
  Analysis of geochemical tracers in different systems soil-Citrus limon (L.) Osbeck

  PV.6 Antonino Ioppolo (Palermo)
  New chemiometric technique applied to traceability of Sicilian honey of Sulla (Hedysarum coronarium L.)

  PV.7 Yahya Kooch (Noor, Iran)
  The effect of land covers on soil microbial and enzyme activities

  PV.8 Antonio Masi (Legnaro, PD)
  Comprehensive multiphase NMR: a powerful technology to study the effects of PFASs on the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana

  PV.9 Antonio Masi (Legnaro, PD)
  THIOLOMICS: systematic identification of low-molecular-weight thiols by HPLC-MS/MS

  PV.10 Pasqua Murgese (Bari)
  Use of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria in agriculture

  PV.11 Carlo Porfido (Bari)
  Treatment by atmospheric-pressure plasma improves seed germination and plant development

  PV.12 Luigi Ruggiero (Portici, NA)
  Traceability of Sorrento lemon PGI by chemometric analysis of juice mineral composition: a mono- and multi-cultivar approach

  PV.13 Michela Schiavon (Legnaro, PD)
  Investigation of Se and Cr interactions in Se-hyperaccumulator Stanleya pinnata and non hyperaccumulator Brassica juncea for combining biofortification and phytoremediation technologies

  PV.14 Claudio Zaccone (Foggia)
  Testing natural Mn-todorikite as an efficient, low-cost and environmental-friendly catalyst