A5071489890- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Heavy metals in environment
- Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
- Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
- Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Plant and animal studies
- Chromium effects and bioremediation
- Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
- Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Edible Oils Quality and Analysis
- Tea Polyphenols and Effects
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Coal and Its By-products
- Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
University of Florence
2016-2025
University of Palermo
2024
Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic environmental pollutant released from the smelting and refining of metals cigarette smoking. Oral exposure to cadmium may result in adverse effects on number tissues, including central nervous system (CNS). In fact, its toxicity has been related neurological disorders, as well neurodegenerative diseases such Alzheimer's Parkinson's diseases. Under normal conditions, Cd barely reaches brain adults because presence blood-brain barrier (BBB); however, it...
Solanum lycopersicum L., a crop grown worldwide with high nutritional value for the human diet, was used to test impact of microplastics on plant growth, productivity, and fruit quality. Two most represented in soils, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) polyvinyl chloride (PVC), were tested. Plants pots an environmentally realistic concentration and, during whole life cycle, photosynthetic parameters, number flowers fruits monitored. At end cultivation, biometry ionome evaluated, along...
The effects of polyethylene terephthalate micro-nanoplastics (PET-MNPs) were tested on the model freshwater species Spirodela polyrhiza (L.) Schleid., with focus possible particle-induced epigenetic (i.e. alteration DNA methylation status). MNPs (size ∼ 200-300 nm) produced as water dispersions from PET bottles through repeated cycles homogenization and used to prepare N-medium at two environmentally relevant concentrations (∼0.05 g L
Plants activate defense-related pathways in response to subtle abiotic or biotic disturbances, changing their volatile profile rapidly. How such perturbations reach and potentially affect neighboring plants is less understood. We evaluated whether brief light touching had a cascade effect on the of volatiles gene expression focal plant untouched plant. Within minutes after contact, Zea mays showed an up-regulation certain defense genes increased emission specific that primed plants, making...
Abstract A biochar from co-pyrolysis of a mixture sawdust and biological sludge (70/30, w/w), providing high environmental compatibility in terms water leachable polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons inorganic elements, together with remarkable surface area (389 m2/g), was integrated into laboratory-scale vertical-flow constructed wetlands (VF-CWs), planted Phragmites australis unplanted. Biochar-filled VF-CWs have been tested for 8 months the refining effluents tertiary clariflocculation stage...
Rice is one of the most important cereal crops worldwide. To boost its production in a sustainable manner, co-cultivation with Azolla species often used to supplement nitrogen (N) demands. However, beyond N nutrition, physiological and developmental effects azolla on rice remain unclear. This study investigates these mechanisms by analysing growth, inflorescence meristem transcriptomics, yield, grain ionomics plants grown alone (R) or (R + A) non-limiting conditions. During vegetative stage,...
Bornmuellera emarginata is a Balkan Ni-hyperaccumulator indicated as promising candidate for agromining practices. Here, two elevation-contrasting accessions (250 m, Low Elevation plants LE, and at 1600 High plants, HE) were compared in terms of growth, photosynthetic activity, Ni accumulation controlled conditions to assess possible differences exploitable practical applications. After months pot cultivation on garden serpentine soil, plant biomass, gas exchanges concentrations evaluated. A...
Due to the increasing evidence of widespread sub-micron pollutants in atmosphere, impact airborne nanoparticles is a subject great relevance. In particular, smallest particles are considered most active and dangerous, having higher surface/volume ratio. Here we tested effect iron oxide (Fe3O4) (IONPs) with different mean diameter size distribution on model plant Tillandsia usneoides. Strands were placed home-built closed boxes exposed levels IONPs reported for roadside air, i.e. order 107 -...
Cucurbita pepo L. presents a nonedible biomass potentially valuable for the synthesis of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). Searching environmental conditions which can affect AuNPs' yield and structure, extracts were obtained from plants treated with excess metal ions in culture medium. AuNPs one-pot was conducted at 40°C 30 min diluted HAuCl4. Shoot yielded high number spherical lower size than root extracts. Interestingly, grown presence Cu(II), Ag(I), or Au(III) gave treatment-dependent shape,...