Francesca Rotondo

Francesca Rotondo studies plant diseases that affect vegetable and fruit crops, particularly tomatoes and peppers, focusing on bacterial and fungal pathogens, their diagnosis, and management strategies like biopesticides and resistance breeding. Her work also examines how agricultural practices such as manure application and antimicrobial use influence the spread of antimicrobial resistance in field environments. This research combines plant pathology, microbiology, and genomics to help understand and control crop diseases in real-world farming and greenhouse settings.

Publication output has been fairly steady over the last decade, fluctuating between roughly 2 and 7 papers per year without a clear long-term increase or decline.

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