A5000963571- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
- Fermentation and Sensory Analysis
- Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress
- Plant Gene Expression Analysis
- Pomegranate: compositions and health benefits
- Botanical Research and Applications
- Microbial Inactivation Methods
- Natural Antidiabetic Agents Studies
- Banana Cultivation and Research
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Seed and Plant Biochemistry
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Diverse academic and cultural studies
- Botanical Research and Chemistry
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies
- Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
- Fungal Plant Pathogen Control
- Plant and fungal interactions
Research Centre for Olive Growing and Olive Oil Industry
2020-2024
Citrus Research Institute
2022
Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria
2015-2021
Istituto Sperimentale per la Frutticoltura
2008-2021
Centro di Ricerca per l’Orticoltura
2015-2016
The beneficial effects of pomegranate are due to the ellagitannins and anthocyanins content, which protective toward a wide variety diseases including inflammatory diseases. Many investigators have reported that waste (peel seeds) extracts, made from product industrial processing, show free radical scavenger potent antioxidant capacity. Pomegranate extracts (PEs) were also possess noteworty antibacterial, antiviral, hypolipidemic, anti-inflammatory bioactivities thanks polyphenolic compounds...
Abstract BACKGROUND The phytotherapic treatment of overweight and/or moderate obesity is growing widely, thus there a great interest towards the phenolic compounds fruits and vegetables which may inhibit pancreatic lipase enzyme. In this study, we report chemical composition in vitro inhibitory activity 13 freeze‐dried anthocyanin‐containing extracts different Mediterranean plants: (blood orange, pomegranate, blackberry, mulberry sumac), citrus by‐products orange peel), vegetative tissues...
Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) peel and sumac (Rhus coriaria fruit leaf extracts were chemically characterized their ability to inhibit table grape (cv. Italia) rots caused by Botrytis cinerea was evaluated on artificially inoculated berries. Different extraction methods applied through Ultra Fast High Performance Liquid Chromatography coupled Photodiode array detector Electrospray ionization Mass spectrometer (UPLC-PDA-ESI/MSn) for phenol anthocyanin contents. The concentrated pomegranate...
Anthocyanins are water-soluble pigments belonging to the flavonoid family. They typically present in flesh and peel blood orange cultivars. Although young shoots flowers not anthocyanin-colored, lemon, citron, rangpur lime, Meyer lemon exhibit marked pigmentation as a result of anthocyanins, demonstrating that anthocyanin biosynthesis Citrus genus is both tissue- genotype-dependent. The study aimed examine qualitative quantitative profile fruit other tissues from different species.The...
Alkaloid profiles of 22 lupin genotypes belonging to three different cultivated species, Lupinus albus L., luteus and angustifolius collected from Italian regions grown in Sicily, were studied by gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) determine alkaloid composition. More than 30 alkaloids identified. The lowest concentration was observed the L. Luxor, Aster, Rosetta cultivars, all varieties angustifolius. highest content landraces albus. Surprisingly, white Lublanc variety commercial...
The study evaluated the application of a novel high-pressure microbial inactivation method combining dense carbon dioxide with modified atmosphere packaging on organic fresh-cut squash (Cucurbita moschata). Approximately 4 g or 32 was packed in plastic pouches filled CO2 to test two different gas-to-product ratios and treated at previously optimized process conditions (45 °C, 6.0 MPa 40 min). products were then stored for 21 days °C assessed enzymatic activity, product quality, sugar...
Food fraud is a matter of great interest, particularly when organic productions are involved. Therefore, policymakers and institutions asked to introduce new effective official control methods, not only based on documentary compliance EU regulations. Lately, an integrated approach the use isotopic, chemical biological data treated by chemometrics has been suggested authenticate products. The present research aims validate beforementioned for reliable classification organically conventionally...
The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect addition citrus fibers, from blood orange and lemon peels produce a functional durum wheat bread. Breads fortified in fiber were packaged under modified atmosphere (MAP) stored at 25°C up 120 days. No significant differences observed with respect specific volume weight, internal structure, pH titratable acidity among bread samples obtained using different types percentages fibers. Storage time, 30 90 days, affected significantly firmness caused...
Different research works have been carried out over the years to investigate new and reliable systems test authenticity of products obtained using organic cultivation methods. Based on a previously proposed integrated approach for discriminating from conventional through acquisition isotopic data other chemical biochemical parameters, we herein report results an open-field case study cauliflower crop. Experiments were soil, leaves, corymb samples cauliflowers grown six different nitrogen...
Background: The presence of ochratoxin A (OTA) in food and feed is a public health concern. OTA intoxication caused by several mechanisms, one which consists the alteration antioxidant activity cell due to oxidative stress (OS). In this context, use natural substances could be potential biological decontamination method mitigating negative outcomes induced OTA. Methods: we aimed investigate how red orange lemon extract (RLE), rich anthocyanins, would affect OTA-treated rats. current work...
To investigate the influence of different types fertilizers on quality parameters, N-containing compounds, and delta(15)N, delta(13)C, delta(2)H, delta (34)S, delta(18)O values citrus fruit, a study was performed orange fruit cv. 'Valencia late' (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck), which harvested in four plots (three organic one conventional) located same farm. The results demonstrated that containing amount nitrogen did not effect important changes parameters. levels total N compounds such as...
Tacle and Clara [Monreal clementine (Citrus clementina Hort. ex Tan) x Tarocco orange sinensis L. Osbeck)] are two new triploid citrus hybrids developed by the CRA-Istituto Sperimentale per l'Agrumicoltura (Acireale, Italy). The fruits easy-peeling juicy, have a pleasant taste like orange, sweet Monreal clementine. In addition, distinctively attractive characteristic of these mandarin-like is red-pigmented flesh caused presence anthocyanins. This study reports juice quality attributes fresh...
The major cause of end-stage renal disease is the diabetic nephropathy. Oxidative stress contributes to development type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM). In this study we have evaluated effect a diet with new standardized red orange and lemon extract (RLE) rich in anthocyanins (ANT) progression kidney on Zucker fatty rats. function were analyzed. rats, RLE restored blood glucose levels, body weight, normalized reactive oxygen species (ROS) total pathways. inflammation, has not shown significant...
Several natural products have been reported to be involved in the suppression of adipogenesis. In this study, we reveal that a bergamot extract (BE) decreased accumulation intracellular lipids murine pre-adipocytes 3T3-L1 cells during adipogenic differentiation. Both inhibition HMG-CoA reductase activity and differentiation proliferation adipocytes could used as strategy for treatment prevention obesity. The results study show reduction lipid droplet presence BE, suggesting potential BE an...
Sweet oranges are an important source of ascorbic acid (AsA). In this study, the content AsA in juice and leaves four orange clonal selections, different terms maturity time presence/absence anthocyanins, was correlated with transcription levels main genes involved biosynthesis, recycling, degradation pathways. Within each variety, differences above pathways amount were found between analysed tissues. Variations also observed at stages fruit development maturation. At beginning development,...