Antonio Montagnoli

Antonello is an Associate Professor of Environmental and Applied Botany at the University of Insubria.

His work is dedicated to the plant morpho-physiological responses to environmental and anthropogenic drivers such as soil erosion, drough, fire, and mechanical constraint.

He is interested in plant root development, including coarse and fine root traits as a function of plant stability, water and nutrient adsorption strategy, and genes, hormones, and proteins involved in root formation. He works at both the seedling and mature tree growth stages and the single plant or community level.

More recently, his studies have focused on phytoremediation, invasive species management, plant biomass utilization for energy production, indoor plant cultivation, automatic plant phenotyping, and laser scan analysis for remote biomass estimation, as well as the impact of biochar on plant performance.