Publications by authors named "E Cozzolino"
Currently, sustainability plays a central role in the response to global challenges, strongly influencing decisions in various sectors. From this perspective, global efforts to explore inventive and eco-friendly solutions to address the demands of industrialization and large-scale production are being made. Bio-based composites needed for lightweight applications benefit from the integration of natural fibers, due to their lower specific weight compared to synthetic fibers, contributing to the overall reduction in the weight of such structures without compromising the mechanical performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWheat is one of the most cultivated cereals thanks to both its nutritional value and its versatility to technological transformation. Nevertheless, the growth and yield of wheat, as well as of the other food crops, can be strongly limited by many abiotic and biotic stress factors. To face this need, new methodological approaches are required to optimize wheat cultivation from both a qualitative and quantitative point of view.
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- The study explores the rising use of biostimulants and biofilms in agriculture, highlighting their potential to enhance plant growth, nutrient uptake, and resilience against stress while offering eco-friendly alternatives to chemical methods.
- Two commercial biostimulant products, Trianum P (microbial) and Phylgreen (seaweed extract), were tested on industrial tomato plants to assess their effects on plant metabolism under different biodegradable mulch films.
- Metabolomics analysis showed that different combinations and types of biostimulants significantly influenced the accumulation of various compounds in tomato leaves and berries, particularly alkaloids and flavonoids, with notable differences depending on the mulch used.
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- The study investigated how different light conditions (using diffuse vs. clear plastic covers) and nitrogen levels affect the yield and quality of cherry tomatoes grown in greenhouses.
- The results showed that a diffuse light film (Film1) generally led to higher yields compared to a clear film (Film2), particularly at reduced nitrogen doses, and the application of biostimulants enhanced fruit quality and yield.
- Overall, the combination of optimal light and biostimulants can significantly improve tomato production, suggesting a potential strategy for maximizing greenhouse yields.
Mulching is a common practice for improving crop yield and obtaining an out-of-season production, but when made using plastic materials it can bring environmental problems due to the management and the disposal of films at the end of the cropping seasons. To increase the sustainability of this practice, recently, mulching films made with biodegradable organic materials have become more widely used. Our aim was to evaluate the effect of a biodegradable mulching film on yield and qualitative traits of the San Marzano tomato fruits over two years (2014 and 2015).
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