My research activity mostly concerns the response mechanisms of plants to abiotic stressors. In detail I
study the role of secondary metabolites in countering photo-oxidative stress in plants challenged against
multiple stress agents. My background mostly regards the functional roles of polyphenols, particularly
flavonoids as antioxidants and signaling molecules. More recently, I also started study the role of volatile
and non-volatile isoprenoids as protective agents against oxidative stress.
JCR articles published over 2010-2014
Review Articles
Di Ferdinando M, Brunetti C, Agati G, Tattini M. 2014. Multiple functions of polyphenols in plants inhabiting
unfavorable Mediterranean areas. Environmental and Experimental Botany 103: 107-116.
Agati G, Brunetti C, Di Ferdinando M, Ferrini F, Pollastri S, Tattini M. 2013. Functional roles of flavonoids in
photoprotection: New evidence, lessons from the past. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 72: 35-45.
Brunetti C, George RM, Tattini M, Field K, Davey MP. 2013. Metabolomics in plant environmental physiology. Journal
of Experimental Botany 64: 4011-4020.
Brunetti C, Di Ferdinando M, Fini A, Pollastri S, Tattini M. 2013. Flavonoids as antioxidants and developmental
regulators: Relative significance in plants and humans. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 14: 35403555.
Agati G, Azzarello E, Pollastri S, Tattini M. 2012. Flavonoids as antioxidants in plants: location and functional
significance. Plant Science 196: 67-76.
Fini A, Brunetti C, Di Ferdinando M, Ferrini F, Tattini M. 2011. Stress-induced flavonoid biosynthesis and the
antioxidant machinery of plants. Plant Signaling & Behavior 6: 709-711.
Pollastri S, Tattini M. 2011. Flavonols: old compounds for old roles. Annals of Botany 108: 1225-1233.
Agati G, Tattini M. 2010. Multiple functional roles of flavonoids in photoprotection. New Phytologist 186: 786-793.
Cimato A, Castelli S, Traversi ML, Tattini M. 2010. An ecophysiological analysis of salinity tolerance in olive.
Environmental and Experimental Botany 68: 214-221.2
Research Articles
Torre S, Tattini M, Brunetti C, Fineschi S, Fini A, Ferrini F, Sebastiani F. 2014. RNA-seq analysis of Quercus pubescens
leaves: De novo transcriptome assembly, annotation and functional markers. PLoS ONE 9: e112487.
Fusaro L, Mereu S, Brunetti C, Di Ferdinando M, Ferrini F, Manes F, Salvatori E, Marzuoli R, Gerosa G, Tattini M. 2014.
Photosynthetic performance and biochemical adjustments in two co-occurring Mediterranean evergreens,
Quercus ilexb and Arbutus unedo, differing in salt-exclusion ability. Functional Plant Biology 41: 391-400
Tattini M, Velikova V, Vickers C, Brunetti C, Di Ferdinando M, Trivellini A, Fineschi S, Agati G, Ferrini F, Loreto F. 2014.
Isoprene production in transgenic tobacco alters isoprenoid, non-structural carbohydrate and phenylpropanoid
metabolism, and protects photosynthesis from drought stress. Plant Cell and Environment 37: 1950-1964.
Fini A, Guidi L, Giordano C, Baratto MC, Ferrini F, Brunetti C, Calamai L, Tattini M. 2014. Salinity stress constrains
photosynthesis in Fraxinus ornus more when growing in partial shading than in full sunlight: consequences for
the antioxidant defence system. Annals of Botany 114: 525-538.
Tattini M, Landi M, Brunetti C, Giordano C, Remorini D, Gould KS, Guidi L. 2014. Epidermal coumaroyl anthocyanins
protect sweet basil against excess light stress: multiple consequences of light attenuation. Physiologia
Plantarum 152: 585-598.
Tattini M, Di Ferdinando M, Brunetti C, Goti A, Pollastri S, Bellasio C, Giordano C, Fini A. Agati G. 2014. Esculetin and
esculin (esculetin 6-O-glucoside) occur as inclusions and are differentially distributed in the vacuole of palisade
cells in Fraxinus ornus leaves: A fluorescence microscopy analysis. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology
B: Biology 140: 28-35.
Landi M, Guidi L, Pardossi A, Tattini M, Gould KS. 2014. Photoprotection by foliar anthocyanins mitigates effects of
boron toxicity in sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum). Planta 240: 941-953.
Fini A, Ferrini F, Di Ferdinando M, Brunetti C, Giordano C, Gerini F, Tattini M. 2014. Acclimation to partial shading or
full sunlight determines the performance of container-grown Fraxinus ornus to subsequent drought stress.
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 13: 63-70.
Tattini M, Loreto F. 2014. Plants in Meditrranean areas: “Living in the sun”. Environmental and Experimental Botany
103: 1-2
Fini A, Bellasio C, Pollastri , Tattini M, Ferrini F. 2013. Water relations, growth and leaf gas exchnage as affected by
water stress in Jatropha curcas. Journal of Arid Environments 89: 21-29.
Beckett M, Loreto F, Velikova V, Brunetti C, Di Ferdinando M, Tattini M, Calfapietra C, Farrant JM. 2012.
Photosynthetic limitations and volatile and non-volatile isoprenoids in the poikilochlorophyllous resurrection
plant Xerophyta humilis during dehydration and rehydration. Plant Cell and Environment 35: 2061-2074.
Fini A, Guidi L, Ferrini F, Brunetti C, Di Ferdinando M, Biricolti S, Pollastri S, Calamai L, Tattini M. 2012. Drought stress
has contrasting effects on antioxidant enzymes activity and phenylpropanoid biosynthesis in Fraxinus ornus
leaves: An excess light stress affair? Journal of Plant Physiology 169: 929-939.
Agati G, Cerovic ZG, Pinelli P, Tattini M. 2011. Light-induced accumulation of ortho-dihydroxylated flavonoids as nondestructively monitored by chlorophyll fluorescence excitation techniques. Environmental and Experimental
Botany 73: 3-9.
Agati G, Biricolti S, Guidi L, Ferrini F, Fini A, Tattini M. 2011. The biosynthesis of flavonoids is enhanced similarly by UV
radiation and root zone salinity in L. vulgare leaves. Journal of Plant Physiology 168: 204-212.
Guidi L, Degl’Innocenti E, Remorini D, Biricolti D, Biricolti S, Fini A, Ferrini F, Nicese FP, Tattini M. 2010 .The impact of
UV-radiation on the physiology and biochemistry ofLigustrum vulgare exposed to different visible-light
irradiance. Environmental and Experimental Botany 70: 88-95.
Guidi L, Degl’Innocenti E, Giordano C, Biricolti S, Tattini M. 2010. Ozone tolerance in Phaseolus vulgaris depends on
more than one mechanisms. Environmental Pollution 158: 3164-3171.