A5084508967- Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
- Edible Oils Quality and Analysis
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Iron Metabolism and Disorders
- Fermentation and Sensory Analysis
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Saffron Plant Research Studies
- Medicinal Plant Pharmacodynamics Research
- HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
- DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
- Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety
- melanin and skin pigmentation
- Hemoglobin structure and function
- Biochemical and Molecular Research
- Microbial Metabolism and Applications
- Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
- Food Quality and Safety Studies
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Blood groups and transfusion
- Fungal and yeast genetics research
- Fungal Biology and Applications
- Insect Utilization and Effects
University of Sassari
2006-2024
University of Ferrara
2011
The production of saffron spice generates large quantities plant by-products: over 90% the material collected is discarded, and a consideration fraction this waste stamens. This work investigated chemical composition antimicrobial activities non-polar extracted from four different flower ethereal extracts stamens was qualitatively assessed by means gas–chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analyses. These analyses revealed to possess high polyunsaturated...
Bacterial diversity of 15 extra virgin olive oils, obtained from different Italian varieties, including Frantoio, Coratina, Bosana, and Semidana, was analyzed in this study. All bacterial isolates were genotyped using RAPD REP-PCR method grouped by means cluster analyses. Sequencing 16S rDNA 51 isolates, representative 36 clusters, led to the identification Bacillus spp., Brevibacillus Micrococcus Staphylococcus Pantoea Kocuria Lysinbacillus Lactobacillus most which reported for first time...
Red yeasts grow on food wastes, show antagonistic activity against food-spoilage microorganisms, produce supplements, and may be utilized as feed-supplements themselves to positively modulate the quali-quantitative composition of intestinal microbiota. Therefore, they a variety possible biotechnological applications in agri-food-related processes. Here, further explore potential red yeasts, eleven strains ascribed different species genera Rhodotorula Sporobolomyces, differing for biomass...
In this study, we investigated the sorption–desorption behavior of imazamox (IMZ) and 2,4-DB (DB) in two typical acidic Mediterranean agricultural soils impact these herbicides on culturable soil bacterial populations, enzyme activities functional diversity when applied at concentrations higher than recommended doses (10×, 50×, 500×). Herbicide sorption was similar both IMZ less retained compared to DB (~0.5 vs. 40 µg g−1 soil, respectively). desorption remarkable (70–100%) while that more...
Two healthy newborns, heterozygous for two different γ-globin chain mutations, were observed during an electrophoretic screening hemoglobinopathies in Sassari, North Sardinia (Italy). The variants characterized by reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and sequencing of amplified genes. One the abnormalities was a novel Aγchain variant tetramer named Hb F-Osilo [Aγ119(GH2)Gly→Ser]. other Gγ variant, F-Paulinia [Gγ80(EF4)Asp→Tyr], already described Brazilian baby African...
The antimicrobial function of citral, one the main compounds essential oils (EO) Citrus genus, and widely used by food industry toward spoilage yeast, was previously proven. In this study, possible mode action citral against yeast cells evaluated using a global deletome approach. Firstly, suitability Saccharomyces cerevisiae Σ1278b to serve as model assessed determining its sensitivity (MIC = 0.5 μL/mL). Subsequently, complete library haploid mutants deleted in 4019 non-essential genes...
In the last decades, biodiversity preservation has gained growing attention and many strategies, laws regulations have been enacted by governments with this purpose. The MicroBioDiverSar (MBDS) project, first one regarding microbiological resources, funded Italian Minister of Agricultural, Food Forestry Policies (Mipaaf) through Law 194/2015, was aimed at surveying, cataloguing, managing microbial resources related information three Sardinian collections (Agris BNSS, Uniss, Unica). While...