**Rosario Muleo**

Rosario Muleo is a Full Professor at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo). His research interests are plant interactions with the environment. Particularly, he is studying the role of light and the photoperiod on juvenility, branching, apical dominance, propagation, and flowering induction, as well as the optogenetic regulation of PR genes. He developed genetic and epigenetic molecular markers (EpyHRMAssay). Other research topics include the biodiversity and identification of neutral and functional markers in olive trees; genes and the physiological regulation of the synthesis and accumulation of secondary metabolites in fruits; genetic and epigenetic woody fruit crop adaptation in extreme waterlogging and cold conditions; and the identification of functional olive miRNA capable of cross-kingdom interaction with human oncogenes in an active role in anti-tumoral response.

In 2014, Rosario Muleo became the director of the Master's program in Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. He participated in national and international projects. He is the author of several book chapters and an editor of scientific books. He is the author of a total of 301 publications.
