A5094013770- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Plant tissue culture and regeneration
- Cassava research and cyanide
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Agricultural Science and Fertilization
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Plant Gene Expression Analysis
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Medicinal Plants and Neuroprotection
University of Milan
2025
The ALOG (Arabidopsis LIGHT-DEPENDENT SHORT HYPOCOTYLS 1 (LSH1) and Oryza G1) proteins are conserved plant-specific Transcription Factors (TFs). They play critical roles in the development of various plant organs (meristems, inflorescences, floral organs, nodules) from bryophytes to higher flowering plants. Despite fact that first members this family were originally discovered Arabidopsis, their role model has remained poorly characterized. Moreover, how these transcriptional regulators work...
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,...
Strategies for increasing the yield of rice, staple food more than half global population, are needed to keep pace with expected worldwide population increase, and sustainably forefront challenges posed by climate change. In Southern-East Asian countries, rice farming benefits from use Azolla spp. nitrogen supply. virtue symbiosis nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Trichormus azollae, ferns that release into environment upon decomposition their biomass. However, if what extent actively growing...
Azolla spp. are floating ferns used for centuries as biofertilizers to enrich the soil with inorganic nitrogen and improve rice yields. In this study, plants were grown together by maintaining a low constant concentration of nitrogen. We employed combination non-targeted metabolomics, chemometrics, molecular networking dissect impact co-cultivation on metabolome roots- leaves. Our analyses revealed that releases broad range metabolites in culture medium, mainly comprising small peptides...