Stefano Mancuso
Stefano Mancuso (born May 9, 1965 in Catanzaro) is an Italian biologist, professor of botany and author .
Life
Stefano Mancuso has been working as a professor (professore associato) at the University of Florence since 2001 and is a member of the Accademia dei Georgofili . Mancuso is a founding member of the "International Society for Plant Signaling & Behavior" and director of the "Laboratorio Internazionale di Neurobiologia Vegetale" (LINV, International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology) founded in 2015. He conducts research in the field of plant neurobiology and creates scientific controversy with the popular scientific publication of his research results. The book The Intelligence of Plants was a science book of the year in Austria in 2016 . Among the notable botanists he portrayed George Washington Carver , Ephraim Wales Bull and Charles Harrison Blackley , as well as the naturalists Charles Darwin and Gregor Johann Mendel . In a film by Thierry Berrod broadcast by Phönix on March 27, 2020, Mancuso shows that vines exposed to classical music grew taller and faster and were less infested by insects.
Fonts (selection)
- with František Baluška (ed.): Signaling in Plants . Springer, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-89227-4 .
- (Ed.): Waterlogging signaling and tolerance in plants . Springer, Heidelberg 2010.
- (Ed.): Measuring Roots: an updated approach . Springer, Heidelberg 2012.
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Uomini che amano le piante . Giunti, Florence 2014.
- For the love of plants: stories of explorers who changed the world . Christine Ammann in Romanian. Kunstmann, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-95614-170-6 .
- with Alessandra Viola: Verde brilliant . Giunti, Florence 2015.
- with Alessandra Viola: The intelligence of plants . Christine Ammann in Romanian. Kunstmann, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-95614-030-3 .
- with Carlo Petrini : Biodiversi . Giunti, Florence 2015.
- with Carlo Petrini: The roots of good taste: why cooks and farmers have to join forces . Christine Ammann in Romanian. Kunstmann, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-95614-096-9 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefano Mancuso in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Stefano Mancuso in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Stefano Mancuso at perlentaucher.de
- Chiara Valerio: Stefano Mancuso: “Ecco a cosa pensano le piante” , interview, in: Repubblica , December 4, 2016
- Stefano Mancuso , at Giunti's
- Stefano Mancuso , at the University of Florence
- Stefano Mancuso , at TED , 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mancuso, Stefano |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1971 |