A5040031044- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
- Light effects on plants
- Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
- Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress
- Plant Gene Expression Analysis
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Potato Plant Research
- Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
- Growth and nutrition in plants
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Heavy metals in environment
- Plant responses to water stress
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
University of Pisa
2016-2025
Istituto delle Scienze Neurologiche di Bologna
2023-2025
Fondazione Stella Maris
2020
San Raffaele University of Rome
2018
Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia
2015
Agriculture and Food
2015
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
2014
University of Parma
2014
Istituto di Biologia e Biotecnologia Agraria
1999-2010
University of Naples Federico II
2009
A series of biochemical parameters, including the concentration total ascorbic acid (ASAtot) and activities phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL), polyphenol oxidase (PPO), peroxidases (PODs), was investigated during cold storage (72 h at 4 °C in dark) fresh-cut (minimally processed) leaves two lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. var. acephala) cultivars differing susceptibility to tissue browning: Green Salade Bowl (GSB), susceptible, Red (RSB), resistant. The showed differences also level. content...
Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) cv. Micro-Tom plants were transformed with the Arabidopsis thaliana (L.)Heyhn. MYB75/PAP1 (PRODUCTION OF ANTHOCYANIN PIGMENT 1) gene. This gene encodes for a well known transcription factor, which is involved in anthocyanin production and modulated by light sucrose. Transgenic tomato expressing AtMYB75 characterised significantly higher leaves, stems, roots flowers under normal growth conditions. Further, they also exhibited anthocyanins fruits. Anthocyanin...
Summary The hypothesis was tested that isoprenoids and phenylpropanoids play a prominent role in countering photooxidative stress, following the depletion of antioxidant enzyme activity plants exposed to severe drought stress under high solar irradiance temperatures. Platanus × acerifolia , isoprene‐emitting species, drought‐stressed during summer ( WS ) compared with unstressed controls WW ). Water relations photosynthetic parameters were measured mild, moderate, conditions. Volatile...
Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) is a plant well known in traditional medicine for its many beneficial properties, but the lack of standardization regarding product to offer consumers limits diffusion. To this end, drying appears be useful technique low-cost that can stored long time, different procedures may give rise end-products very quality as nutraceutical and antioxidant compounds. Nettle leaves have been dehydrated employing freeze-drying (FD), oven-drying (OD) or heat pump (HPD)...
Strawberry, a globally popular crop whose fruit are known for their taste and health benefits, were used to evaluate the effects of polyethylene microplastics (PE-MPs) on plant physiology quality. Plants grown in 2-L pots with natural soil mixed PE-MPs at two concentrations (0.2% 0.02%; w/w) sizes (⌀ 35 125 µm). Plant physiological responses, root histochemical anatomical analyses as well biometric quality features conducted. subjected ⌀ μm/0.2% exhibited most severe terms CO2 assimilation...
• The role of flavonoids in mechanisms acclimation to high solar radiation was analysed Ligustrum vulgare and Phillyrea latifolia, two Mediterranean shrubs that have the same flavonoid composition but differ strikingly their leaf morpho-anatomical traits. In plants exposed 12 or 100% radiation, measurements were made for surface morphology anatomy; optical properties, photosynthetic pigments, photosystem II efficiency; antioxidant enzymes, lipid peroxidation phenylalanine ammonia lyase;...
The putative photoprotective role of foliar anthocyanins continues to attract heated debate. Strikingly different experimental set-ups coupled with a poor knowledge anthocyanin identity have likely contributed such disparate opinions. Here, the photosynthetic responses 30 or 100% solar irradiance were compared in two cultivars basil, green-leafed Tigullio (TG) and purple-leafed Red Rubin (RR). Coumaroyl RR leaf epidermis significantly mitigated effects high light stress. In full sunlight,...